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@seladb seladb released this 25 Aug 05:26
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v20.08
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August 2020 release of PcapPlusPlus (v20.08)

This package contains

  • Binaries compiled with Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, 18.04 LTS,16.04 LTS
  • Binaries compiled with CentOS 7
  • Binaries compiled with Fedora 29
  • Binaries compiled with MacOS 10.15 (Catalina) , 10.14 (Mojave), 10.13 (High Sierra), 10.12 (Sierra), and 10.11 (El Capitan) using Xcode ranging from 8.0 to 12.0
  • Binaries compiled with FreeBSD 11.3 and 12.1
  • Binaries compiled with Windows using MinGW32 9.2.0 (32bit) and MinGW-w64 8.1.0 (32bit)
  • Binaries compiled with Windows using Microsoft Visual Studio 2019, 2017, 2015 (32bit + 64bit, Debug + Release configurations)
  • 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/v2008/

Release notes (changes from v19.12)

  • Major security and quality improvements:
    • PcapPlusPlus was added to Google OSS-Fuzz which uses the Fuzz testing technique to discover security vulnerabilities and stability bugs (thank you @zlowram !)
    • Created a new regression test suite for OSS-Fuzz bugfixes under Tests/Fuzzers/RegressionTests (thank you @zlowram !)
    • Added LGTM integration to enable continuous code analysis and prevent critical vulnerabilities (thank you @alexey-tereshenkov-oxb !)
    • More than 60 issues were found by OSS-Fuzz and LGTM and fixed in this release
    • Revamped Packet++Test and Pcap++Test: tests are now more structured, divided into multiple files and use common and more intuitive test infrastructure
    • Added a new test suite (written in Python) for PcapPlusPlus examples under Tests/ExamplesTests
  • Added Npcap support for Windows (in parallel to WinPcap support)
  • Added DPDK 19.11 (LTS) support
  • New supported protocols:
    • BGP v4
    • IEEE 802.3 Ethernet
  • New platforms officially supported:
    • MacOS Catalina (10.15)
    • Ubuntu 20.04
  • A complete rewrite of the IP address classes IPv4Address, IPv6Address and IPAddress to make them more efficient and east to use (thank you @gx740 !)
  • In addition, new features were added to IP address classes:
    • Added "less than" comparison operator (thank you @maruu !)
    • Added subnet match for IPv6Address (thank you @DinoStray !)
  • Performance optimization, readability improvements and code cleanup in various parts of the code (thank you @maruu and @gx740 !)
  • Integrated streaming ZStd compression for pcapng files (thank you @Dysl3xik !)
  • Pcap/pcapng files:
    • Read and write in nanoseconds precision for pcapng files (thank you @Akvinikym !)
    • Enable flush for pcap and pcapng file writers (thank you @rickyzhang82 and @l-henken !)
  • TCP reassembly returns status in every call to TcpReassembly::reassemblePacket() (thank you @starliiit !)
  • Added port filter to HttpAnalyzer (thank you @makefriend8 !)
  • Support for setting snapshot length in PcapLiveDevice (thank you @wongsingfo !)
  • GeneralFilter::matchPacketWithFilter() can now match packet of any link type (thank you @skorup101 !)
  • Added user link types 147-162 to support custom protocols (thank you @l-henken !)
  • Tons of bug fixes (thank you everyone who reported issues and contributed bugfixes!)

Contributors

Thank you for everyone who contributed to this release:

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