Professional / Community 1.7.28
Summary: PortSwigger released Burp Suite 1.7.28 on 15 November 2017, introducing a simplified scope control mode that defines in- and out-of-scope targets using simple URL prefixes instead of the older per-component rules with wildcards and regular expressions. The release also stopped state files from saving and reloading project options, deprecated state files in favor of project files, and renamed the free edition to Burp Suite Community Edition.
Key Takeaway: The old scope rules were noted as computationally expensive to apply, so teams relying on them now default to prefix-based matching that does not support wildcard expressions - a narrower definition of scope that governs what the scanner tests.
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