John The Ripper 1.7.7 Jumbo 5 released
John the Ripper is free and Open Source software, distributed primarily in source code form. If you would rather use a commercial product tailored for your specific operating system, please consider John the Ripper Pro, which is distributed primarily in the form of “native” packages for the target operating systems and in general is meant to be easier to install and use while delivering optimal performance.
About the jumbo patch
The jumbo patch, which has been applied to this source tree of John the Ripper, adds a lot of code, documentation, and data contributed by the user community. This is not “official” John the Ripper code. It is very easy for new code to be added to the jumbo patch: the quality requirements are low. This means that you get a lot of functionality that is not “mature” enough or is otherwise inappropriate for the official JtR, which in turn also means that bugs in this code are to be expected, etc.
