Yesterday Openwall released an updated version of John the Ripper, a Open Source password-cracking for security auditing which supports Unix, Windows, DOS, BeOS, OpenVMS and also used and recommended combined with Aircrack-ng Suite for the creation/mangle the wordlist for dictionary or bruteforce attack using --stout.
Same the last release has been sponsored by Rapid7, a leading provider of unified vulnerability management and penetration testing solutions.
Changes in 1.8.0 release are:
More details about this release can be found on Openwall Official WebSite.
The latest downloadable version of JTR and Jumbo patches are available here:
Download John the Ripper.
Jumbo based on 1.8.x will be available at a later time, so for now I recommend to use the previus version/branches "john-1.7.9-jumbo-7".
This integrates lots of contributed patches: adding GPU support (CUDA and OpenCL), support for a hundred of additional hash and cipher types.