Burp through the ages

Here is a brief tour of the major releases of Burp from over the years. I can't believe it's been over 10 years already!

Burp v1.0

• Released June 2003
• First incarnation of Intruder tool
• Includes burp sound effects you can't turn off

Burp Proxy v1.0 

• Released August 2003
• Basic intercepting proxy
• Text / hex views
• History feature

Sock

• Released August 2003
• First incarnation of Repeater tool
• So-called because it simply opens a socket and sends a request to it

Burp Proxy v1.1

• Released January 2004
• Tons more options!
• Supports chained proxy, authentication, match-and-replace
• Getting pretty sophisticated now

Burp Spider v1.0

• Released March 2004
• Application-aware spider
• Can follow links and submit forms

Burp Repeater v1.1

• Released July 2005
• New name for the sock tool
• Adds chained proxy and authentication options

Burp Suite v1.0

• Released August 2005
• All four Burp tools together
• Items can be easily sent between tools to speed up testing
• Supports passive spidering as you browse
• Extensibility
• A huge breakthrough!

Burp Suite v1.1

• Released November 2007
• New Sequencer, Decoder and Comparer tools
• New analysis of HTTP messages

Burp Suite v1.2

• Released December 2008
• Burp Scanner arrives
• New site map
• Tons of cool new features: scope control, view filters, search, invisible proxying
• The infamous Month of Burp Pr0n is published
• This is the big leap forwards!

Burp Suite v1.3

• Released January 2010
• Improved rendering and analysis of HTTP messages
• Content discovery
• Target analysis
• The crucial manual testing simulator

Burp Suite v1.4

• Released June 2011
• New logo (still home-made)
• Session handling rules and macros
• New ways to test access controls
• Works properly on OS X now

Burp Suite v1.5

• Released October 2012
• Another new logo (a proper one this time)
• New UI, with bells, whistles and capital letters.
• In-tool documentation
• Lots of cool new features

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Dafydd Stuttard

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