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@@ -1,10 +1,245 @@ +Sunday, July 22, 2018 + Summary for 1.9.1 libpcap release + Mention pcap_get_required_select_timeout() in the main pcap man page + Fix pcap-usb-linux.c build on systems with musl + Fix assorted man page and other documentation issues + Plug assorted memory leaks + Documentation changes to use https: + Changes to how time stamp calculations are done + Lots of tweaks to make newer compilers happier and warning-free and + to fix instances of C undefined behavior + Warn if AC_PROG_CC_C99 can't enable C99 support + Rename pcap_set_protocol() to pcap_set_protocol_linux(). + Align pcap_t private data on an 8-byte boundary. + Fix various error messages + Use 64-bit clean API in dag_findalldevs() + Fix cleaning up after some errors + Work around some ethtool ioctl bugs in newer Linux kernels (GitHub + issue #689) + Add backwards compatibility sections to some man pages (GitHub issue + #745) + Fix autotool configuration on AIX and macOS + Don't export bpf_filter_with_aux_data() or struct bpf_aux_data; + they're internal-only and subject to change + Fix pcapng block size checking + On macOS, don't build rpcapd or test programs any fatter than they + need to be + Fix reading of capture statistics for Linux USB + Fix packet size values for Linux USB packets (GitHub issue #808) + Check only VID in VLAN test in filterss (GitHub issue #461) + Fix pcap_list_datalinks on 802.11 devices on macOS + Fix overflows with very large snapshot length in pcap file + Improve parsing of rpcapd configuration file (GitHub issue #767) + Handle systems without strlcpy() or strlcat() better + Fix crashes and other errors with invalid filter expressions + Fix use of uninitialized file descriptor in remote capture + Fix some CMake issues + Fix some divide-by-zero issues with the filter compiler + Work around a GNU libc bug in pcap_nametonetaddr() + Add support for DLT_LINUX_SLL2 + Fix handling of the packet-count argument for Myricom SNF devices + Fix --disable-rdma in configure script (GitHub issue #782) + Fix compilation of TurboCap support (GitHub issue #764) + Constify first argument to pcap_findalldevs_ex() + Fix a number of issues when running rpcapd as an inetd-style daemon + Fix CMake issues with D-Bus libraries + In rpcapd, clean up termination of a capture session + Redo remote capture protocol negotiation + In rpcapd, report the same error for "invalid user name" and + "invalid password", to make brute-forcing harder + For remote captures, add an error code for "the server requires TLS" + Fix pcap_dump_fopen() on Windows to avoid clashes between + {Win,N}Pcap and application C runtimes + Fix exporting of functions from Windows DLLs (GitHub issue #810) + Fix building as part of Npcap + Allow rpcapd to rebind more rapidly + Fix building shared libpcap library on midipix (midipix.org) + Fix hack to detect UTF-16LE adapter names on Windows not to go past + the end of the string + Fix handling of "wireless WAN" (mobile phone network modems) on + Windows with WinPcap/Npcap (GitHub issue #824) + Have pcap_dump_open_append() create the dump file if it doesn't + exists (GitHub issue #247) + Fix the maxmum snapshot length for DLT_USBPCAP + Use -fPIC when building for 64-bit SPARC on Linux (GitHub issue #837) + Fix CMake 64-bit library installation directory on some Linux + distributions + Boost the TPACKET_V3 timeout to the maximum if a timeout of 0 was + specified + Five CVE-2019-15161, CVE-2019-15162, CVE-2019-15163, CVE-2019-15164, CVE-2019-15165 + Fixes for CVE-2018-16301, errors in pcapng reading. + PCAPNG reader applies some sanity checks before doing malloc(). + +Sunday, June 24, 2018, by mcr@sandelman.ca + Summary for 1.9.0 libpcap release + Added testing system to libpcap, independent of tcpdump + Changes to how pcap_t is activated + Adding support for Large stream buffers on Endace DAG cards + Changes to BSD 3-clause license to 2-clause licence + Additions to TCP header parsing, per RFC3168 + Add CMake build process (extensive number of changes) + Assign a value for OpenBSD DLT_OPENFLOW. + Support setting non-blocking mode before activating. + Extensive build support for Windows VS2010 and MINGW (many many changes, over many months) + Added RPCAPD support when --enable-remote (default no) + Add the rpcap daemon source and build instructions. + Put back the greasy "save the capture filter string so we can tweak it" + hack, that keeps libpcap from capturing rpcap traffic. + Fixes for captures on MacOS, utun0 + fixes so that non-AF_INET addresses, are not ==AF_INET6 addresses. + Add a linktype for IBM SDLC frames containing SNA PDUs. + pcap_compile() in 1.8.0 and later is newly thread-safe. + bound snaplen for linux tpacket_v2 to ~64k + Make VLAN filter handle both metadata and inline tags + D-Bus captures can now be up to 128MB in size + Added LORATAP DLT value + Added DLT_VSOCK for http://qemu-project.org/Features/VirtioVsock + probe_devices() fixes not to overrun buffer for name of device + Add linux-specific pcap_set_protocol_linux() to allow specifying a specific capture protocol. + RDMA sniffing support for pcap + Add Nordic Semiconductor Bluetooth LE sniffer link-layer header type. + fixes for reading /etc/ethers + Make it possible to build on Windows without packet.dll. + Add tests for large file support on UN*X. + Solaris fixes to work with 2.8.6 + configuration test now looks for header files, not capture devices present + Fix to work with Berkeley YACC. + fixes for DragonBSD compilation of pcap-netmap.c + Clean up the ether_hostton() stuff. + Add an option to disable Linux memory-mapped capture support. + Add DAG API support checks. + Add Septel, Myricom SNF, and Riverbed TurboCap checks. + Add checks for Linux USB, Linux Bluetooth, D-Bus, and RDMA sniffing support. + Add a check for hardware time stamping on Linux. + Don't bother supporting pre-2005 Visual Studio. + Increased minimum autoconf version requirement to 2.64 + Add DLT value 273 for XRA-31 sniffer + Clean up handing of signal interrupts in pcap_read_nocb_remote(). + Use the XPG 4.2 versions of the networking APIs in Solaris. + Fix, and better explain, the "IPv6 means IPv6, not IPv4" option setting. + Explicitly warn that negative packet buffer timeouts should not be used. + rpcapd: Add support inetd-likes, including xinetd.conf, and systemd units + Rename DLT_IEEE802_15_4 to DLT_IEEE802_15_4_WITHFCS. + Add DISPLAYPORT AUX link type + Remove the sunos4 kernel modules and all references to them. + Add more interface flags to pcap_findalldevs(). + Summary for 1.9.0 libpcap release (to 2017-01-25 by guy@alum.mit.edu) + Man page improvements + Fix Linux cooked mode userspace filtering (GitHub pull request #429) + Fix compilation if IPv6 support not enabled + Fix some Linux memory-mapped capture buffer size issues + Don't fail if kernel filter can't be set on Linux (GitHub issue + #549) + Improve sorting of interfaces for pcap_findalldevs() + Don't list Linux usbmon devices if usbmon module isn't loaded + Report PCAP_ERROR_PERM_DENIED if no permission to open Linux usbmon + devices + Fix DLT_ type for Solaris IPNET devices + Always return an error message for errors finding DAG or Myricom + devices + If possible, don't require that a device be openable when + enumerating them for pcap_findalldevs() + Don't put incompletely-initialized addresses in the address list for + When finding Myricom devices, update description for regular + interfaces that are Myricom devices and handle SNF_FLAGS=0x2(port + aggregation enabled) + Fix compilation error in DAG support + Fix issues with CMake configuration + Add support for stream buffers larger than 2GB on newer DAG cards + Remove support for building against DAG versions without STREAMS + support (before dag-3.0.0 2007) + +Tuesday, Oct. 25, 2016 mcr@sandelman.ca + Summary for 1.8.1 libpcap release + Add a target in Makefile.in for Exuberant Ctags use: 'extags'. + Rename configure.in to configure.ac: autoconf 2.59 + Clean up the name-to-DLT mapping table. + Add some newer DLT_ values: IPMI_HPM_2,ZWAVE_R1_R2,ZWAVE_R3,WATTSTOPPER_DLM,ISO_14443,RDS + Clarify what the return values are for both success and failure. + Many changes to build on windows + Check for the "break the loop" condition in the inner loop for TPACKET_V3. + Fix handling of packet count in the TPACKET_V3 inner loop: GitHub issue #493. + Filter out duplicate looped back CAN frames. + Fix the handling of loopback filters for IPv6 packets. + Add a link-layer header type for RDS (IEC 62106) groups. + Use different intermediate folders for x86 and x64 builds on Windows. + On Linux, handle all CAN captures with pcap-linux.c, in cooked mode. + Removes the need for the "host-endian" link-layer header type. + Compile with '-Wused-but-marked-unused' in devel mode if supported + Have separate DLTs for big-endian and host-endian SocketCAN headers. + Reflect version.h being renamed to pcap_version.h. + Require that version.h be generated: all build procedures we support generate version.h (autoconf, CMake, MSVC)! + Properly check for sock_recv() errors. + Re-impose some of Winsock's limitations on sock_recv(). + Replace sprintf() with pcap_snprintf(). + Fix signature of pcap_stats_ex_remote(). + Initial cmake support for remote packet capture. + Have rpcap_remoteact_getsock() return a SOCKET and supply an "is active" flag. + Clean up {DAG, Septel, Myricom SNF}-only builds. + Do UTF-16-to-ASCII conversion into the right place. + pcap_create_interface() needs the interface name on Linux. + Clean up hardware time stamp support: the "any" device does not support any time stamp types. + Add support for capturing on FreeBSD usbusN interfaces. + Add a LINKTYPE/DLT_ value for FreeBSD USB. + Go back to using PCAP_API on Windows. + CMake support + Add TurboCap support from WinPcap. + Recognize 802.1ad nested VLAN tag in vlan filter. + +Thursday Sep. 3, 2015 guy@alum.mit.edu + Summary for 1.7.5 libpcap release + Man page cleanups. + Add some allocation failure checks. + Fix a number of Linux/ucLinux configure/build issues. + Fix some memory leaks. + Recognize 802.1ad nested VLAN tag in vlan filter. + Fix building Bluetooth Linux Monitor support with BlueZ 5.1+ + +Saturday Jun. 27, 2015 mcr@sandelman.ca + Summary for 1.7.4 libpcap release + Include fix for GitHub issue #424 -- out of tree builds. + +Friday Apr. 10, 2015 guy@alum.mit.edu + Summary for 1.7.3 libpcap release + Work around a Linux bonding driver bug. + +Thursday Feb. 12, 2015 guy@alum.mit.edu/mcr@sandelman.ca + Summary for 1.7.2 libpcap release + Support for filtering Geneve encapsulated packets. + Generalize encapsulation handling, fixing some bugs. + Don't add null addresses to address lists. + Add pcap_dump_open_append() to open for appending. + Fix the swapping of isochronous descriptors in Linux USB. + Attempt to handle TPACKET_V1 with 32-bit userland and 64-bit kernel. + +Wednesday Nov. 12, 2014 guy@alum.mit.edu/mcr@sandelman.ca + Summary for 1.7.0 libpcap release + Fix handling of zones for BPF on Solaris + new DLT for ZWAVE + clarifications for read timeouts. + Use BPF extensions in compiled filters, fixing VLAN filters + some fixes to compilation without stdint.h + EBUSY can now be returned by SNFv3 code. + Fix the range checks in BPF loads + Various DAG fixes. + Various Linux fixes. + +Monday Aug. 12, 2014 guy@alum.mit.edu + Summary for 1.6.2 libpcap release + Don't crash on filters testing a non-existent link-layer type + field. + Fix sending in non-blocking mode on Linux with memory-mapped + capture. + Fix timestamps when reading pcap-ng files on big-endian + machines. + Saturday Jul. 19, 2014 mcr@sandelman.ca - Summary for 1.6.1 tcpdump release + Summary for 1.6.1 libpcap release some fixes for the any device - changes for how --enable-XXX works + changes for how --enable-XXX (--enable-sniffing, --enable-can) works Wednesday Jul. 2, 2014 mcr@sandelman.ca - Summary for 1.6.0 tcpdump release + Summary for 1.6.0 libpcap release Don't support D-Bus sniffing on OS X fixes for byte order issues with NFLOG captures Handle using cooked mode for DLT_NETLINK in activate_new(). |