--columns now accepts also -C option: user can provide a string column and sqlmap will enumerate all columns of a specific table like '%provided_string%'.
Minor enhancements.
Minor bug fixes.
Changes:
* Major enhancement to the Microsoft SQL Server stored procedure
heap-based buffer overflow exploit (--os-bof) to automatically bypass
DEP memory protection.
* Added support for MySQL and PostgreSQL to execute Metasploit shellcode
via UDF 'sys_bineval' (in-memory, anti-forensics technique) as an
option instead of uploading the standalone payload stager executable.
* Added options for MySQL, PostgreSQL and Microsoft SQL Server to
read/add/delete Windows registry keys.
* Added options for MySQL and PostgreSQL to inject custom user-defined
functions.
* Added support for --first and --last so the user now has even more
granularity in what to enumerate in the query output.
* Minor enhancement to save the session by default in
'output/hostname/session' file if -s option is not specified.
* Minor improvement to automatically remove sqlmap created temporary
files from the DBMS underlying file system.
* Minor bugs fixed.
* Major code refactoring.
Added support internally to forge CASE statements, used only by
--is-dba query at the moment.
Allow DDL, DML (INSERT, UPDATE, etc.) from user in SQL query and
SQL shell.
Minor code adjustments.
by providing option --headers. By default Accept, Accept-Language and
Accept-Charset headers are set.
Added support to get the injection payload prefix and postfix from user.
Minor bug fix to exclude image files when parsing (-l) proxies log files.
Minor code adjustments.
Updated documentation.
Minor enhancement to be able to specify the number of seconds before
timeout the connection, default is set to 10 seconds.
Minor improvement to retry the HTTP request up to three times in case
an exception is raised during the connection to the target url.
Minor bug fix to correctly catch connection exceptions and notify to
the user also if they occur within a thread.
Minor code restyling.
Updated documentation.
implemented Time based blind SQL injection now is a single test file
within the lib/techniques/ folder.
Renamed lib/techniques/inference to lib/techniques/blind, it is more
approriate and adapted the rest of the libraries.
Updated ChangeLog file.
entries also if the database name is not provided by using the current
database on MySQL and MSSQL, the 'public' scheme on PostgreSQL and the
'USERS' TABLESPACE_NAME on Oracle.
Minor bug fix so that when the user provide as SELECT statement to be
processed an asterisk, now it also work if in the FROM there is no
database name specified.
Minor layout adjustments.
Added method to test for Time based blind SQL injection query stacking
on the affected parameter a SLEEP() or similar DBMS specific function.
Adapted libraries, plugins and XML with the above changes.
Minor layout adjustments.
* Minor enhancement to be able to specify the number of seconds to wait between each HTTP request.
* Minor bug fix to handle session.error and session.timeout in HTTP requests.
* Updated documentation.
Bernardo Damele