The alerts tab shows alerts generated by Burp's tools. This information may be useful to troubleshoot network connection or other problems.
If the same alert is generated more than once in succession, the alerts are consolidated into a single entry in the table, with a counter showing the number of times the alert was generated.
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This release adds some new APIs that extensions can use to easily implement powerful scan checks and other logic that involves response diffing.
On Friday, to coincide with our Backslash Powered Scanning talk at Black Hat EU, we will be releasing an extension to the BApp Store that demonstrates how the new APIs can be used to create powerful new scanning capabilities.