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PcapPlusPlus v19.04 Release Notes

Release Date: 2019-04-02 // about 5 years ago

  • 🚀 April 2019 release of PcapPlusPlus (v19.04)

    📦 This package contains:

    • Binaries compiled with Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, 16.04 LTS,14.04 LTS
    • Binaries compiled with CentOS 7
    • Binaries compiled with Fedora 29
    • 🍎 Binaries compiled with MacOS 10.10 (Yosemite), 10.11 (El Capitan), 10.12 (Sierra) and 10.13 (High Sierra) using Xcode ranging from 7.3 to 10.1
    • 🏁 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/v1904/

    🚀 Release notes (changes from v18.08):

    • 👍 DPDK support enhancements:
      • Added support for the newest DPDK releases: 18.05, 18.08, 18.11, 19.02
      • Added a new DpdkBridge example which is a PcapPlusPlus implementation for DPDK's L2 forwarding example - Thanks @vicenterb !
      • Added a new tutorial for using PcapPlusPlus with DPDK which walks through building a simple version of DpdkBridge
    • 📜 Packet parsing and crafting enhancements:
      • Added RADIUS layer
      • Revamped DNS record API and added support for DNS MX records
      • Revamped remove layer from packet - removing a layer is more intuitive now + added an option to detach a layer from a packet
      • Revamped TLV data handling - simplified the way IPv4 options, TCP options, DHCP options, RADIUS attributes and IPv6 extensions with options are handled. API is now more intuitive and shares a common infrastructure
      • Fixed bugs in fetching VLAN properties in VlanLayer - thanks @Lapshin !
    • ➕ Added support for raw sockets on Linux and Windows (RawSocketDevice)
    • ➕ Added support for link-types other than Ethernet in PcapLiveDevice - thanks @axasoft !
    • 🔦 Exposed start and end times in TCP reassembly - thanks @Lnk2past !
    • PcapSplitter:
      • Added pcapng support
      • When splitting by connection, multiple flows with the same 5-tuple are now separated to different files
    • ➕ Added filtering capabilities to PcapNgFileWriterDevice - thanks @vrobles-gee !
    • ➕ Added more accurate time measurement for packet capture in blocking mode
    • ➕ Added DeviceConfiguration to PcapLiveDevice to provide an interface to set WinPcap/libpcap packet buffer size and buffer timeout
    • 🔨 Refactored the devices class hierarchy (the new root class is now IDevice)
    • 👷 Build system improvements to provide better support for package managers - thanks @solvingj !
    • 🛠 Lots of bugfixes