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Add a CHANGELOG entry for new traceroute.

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# Nmap Changelog ($Id$); -*-text-*-
o Nmap's --traceroute has been rewritten for better performance.
Probes are sent in parallel to individual hosts, not just across all
hosts as before. Trace consolidation is more sophisticated, allowing
common traces to be identified sooner and fewer probes to be sent.
The older traceroute could be very slow (taking minutes per target)
if the target did not respond to the trace probes, and this new
traceroute avoids that. In a trace of 110 hosts in a /24 over the
Internet, the number of probes sent dropped 50% from 1565 to 743,
and the time taken dropped 92% from 95 seconds to 7.6 seconds. [David]
o Added a script called http-malware-host.nse. Its future intention
is to discover hosts that are serving malware (for example, that
are compromised and have malicious code inserted). At the moment,