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August 2018 release of PcapPlusPlus (v18.08)

Master branch is always kept stable, so the latest code can always be considered as the newest stable version.

This package contains:

  • Binaries compiled with Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and Ubuntu14.04 LTS
  • Binaries compiled with CentOS 7
  • Binaries compiled with Fedora 26
  • Binaries compiled with MacOS 10.10 (Yosemite), 10.11 (El Capitan), 10.12 (Sierra) and 10.13 (High Sierra) using Xcode ranging from 6.4 to 9.4
  • Binaries compiled with Windows using MinGW32 5.3.0 (32bit) and MinGW-w64 6.3.0 (32bit)
  • Binaries compiled with Windows using Microsoft Visual Studio 2015 (32bit and 64bit, Debug and Release configurations)
  • Source code
  • Source code + Linux installation scripts for DPDK, PF_RING and vanilla
  • Full documentation (both PcapPlusPlus web-site and API doxygen documentation) is available here: https://pcapplusplus.github.io/v1808/

Release notes (changes from v17.11):

  • Massive DPDK enhancements:
    • Major performance improvements
    • Fixed some mbuf leakages
    • DPDK 17.11 and 18.02 support (thanks @luigino !)
    • Re-designed some of DpdkDevice APIs to make them cleaner, faster and easier to use
    • Expose DPDK-specific stats
    • RSS (Receive Side Scaling) support
    • DPDK TX buffers support
    • Enable DPDK master core configuration
  • Added IP reassembly module (a.k.a IP de-fragmenetation). Supports both IPv4 and IPv6
  • Added IPv6 support for TCP reassembly
  • Install to custom directory on Linux and MacOS
  • Performance improvement in packet parsing
  • Fixed compatibility issues with C++17 (thanks @echo-Mike !)
  • Read multiple packets from pcap/pcapng files
  • Build system improvements (thanks @echo-Mike !)
  • New protocols:
    • Packet trailer (a.k.a footer or padding)
    • IPv6 extensions
  • New and updated utilities:
    • New IPFragUtil for splitting packets into IP fragments
    • New IPDefragUtil for reassembling IP fragments into packets
    • PcapSplitter now supports round-robin splitting
  • Many bugfixes
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