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PcapPlusPlus v18.08 Release Notes

Release Date: 2018-08-07 // over 5 years ago

  • 🚀 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