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)
christos