Also, incremental mode's length and character set limitations in default builds have been lifted. Meanwhile, magnum is regularly sync'ing the bleeding-jumbo branch on GitHub to be based on the latest core tree (which means 1.8.0 at the moment).Īs planned, John the Ripper 1.8 features a new revision of incremental mode with better efficiency in terms of passwords cracked per candidate passwords tested. chr files are available at this time (to be used mostly on Unix-like systems, where building from source is customary and convenient), we do intend to release Windows build(s) of JtR 1.8.x, a jumbo based on 1.8.x, and a Pro based on 1.8.x at a later time. ) (Seriously, though, I'd be happy to have released both 1.7 and 1.8 much sooner.)Īlthough only JtR 1.8.0 source code and.
Curiously, it's also been a little over 7 years between versions 1.6 (late 1998) and 1.7, so it was time for a 1.8. This version number reflects that we view this as a major release, considering that version 1.7 came out in early 2006 - more than 7 years ago - and there have been only (many) minor releases during those years (the latest of them being 1.7.9).
Concluding phase one of the Magnificent7 project, I've released John the Ripper 1.8.0 today.
