Burp through the ages
Summary: PortSwigger's Dafydd Stuttard published a retrospective marking over 10 years of Burp, tracing releases from Burp v1.0 in June 2003, which introduced the Intruder tool and unremovable sound effects, through Burp Proxy v1.0 in August 2003 with an intercepting proxy, text/hex views and history, and the Sock tool that became Repeater. The timeline runs through Burp Suite v1.0 in August 2005, which combined all four tools with extensibility, to v1.2 in December 2008 when Burp Scanner and a new site map arrived, and v1.5 in October 2012 with a new UI and in-tool documentation.
Why it matters: Burp Scanner, the capability that turned a manual tester's toolkit into an automated one, did not ship until version 1.2 in December 2008, five years after the first release, which is a reminder of how long the tools your pentesters depend on took to reach the form you now treat as standard.
Read the original at PortSwigger Research ↗
- Topics
- Vulnerabilities & Patching
- Related
- Attackers Exploit UnrealIRCd Flaw That Enables Server-Level Command Injection Cyber Risks · Nov 14, 2026U.S. CISA adds Check Point and UnrealIRCd flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog Cyber Risks · Nov 14, 2026PostgreSQL Patches 52 Flaws, Including 22-Year-Old Bug Enabling Authenticated RCE Cyber Risks · Nov 13, 2026