1 DayOfTheWeek, Month DD, YYYY / The Tcpdump Group
2 Summary for 1.11.0 libpcap release (so far!)
4 Use C99 fixed-width integer types, rather than self-defined
5 fixed-width integer types, in rpcap code.
6 Remove an always-false pointer test from snf_read().
7 Clean up DECnet address handling.
8 struct pcap: Update buffer type from "void *" to "u_char *".
9 Remove dead code that supported SITA ACN devices.
11 Merge four header files into gencode.c.
12 Remove DAG card support on Windows as Linux is the only
13 platform currently supported.
14 Remove code related to Riverbed TurboCap card.
15 Riverbed TurboCap hardware has reached EOA as of Jun 30 2014.
16 Remove dead code that supported Septel devices.
17 Remove outdated code related to AirPcap HW.
18 The Riverbed AirPcap Product has reached End of Availability
19 (EOA) as of December 31, 2017
20 Mind netmap support in pcap_lib_version().
22 Add LINKTYPE_ETW/DLT_ETW.
23 Add LINKTYPE_NETANALYZER_NG/DLT_NETANALYZER_NG (pull request
25 Add LINKTYPE_ZBOSS_NCP/DLT_ZBOSS_NCP.
26 Add LINKTYPE_USB_2_0_LOW_SPEED/DLT_USB_2_0_LOW_SPEED,
27 LINKTYPE_USB_2_0_FULL_SPEED/DLT_USB_2_0_FULL_SPEED,
28 LINKTYPE_USB_2_0_HIGH_SPEED/DLT_USB_2_0_HIGH_SPEED
29 Add LINKTYPE_AUERSWALD_LOG/DLT_AUERSWALD_LOG.
30 Add LINKTYPE_ZWAVE_TAP/DLT_ZWAVE_TAP.
31 Add LINKTYPE_SILABS_DEBUG_CHANNEL/DLT_SILABS_DEBUG_CHANNEL.
32 Add LINKTYPE_FIRA_UCI/DLT_FIRA_UCI.
33 Rename LINKTYPE_IPMB_LINUX/DLT_IPMB_LINUX to
34 LINKTYPE_I2C_LINUX/DLT_I2C_LINUX, as it's really just an
35 encapsulation of I2C, and is also being used for HDMI DDC.
36 Keep DLT_IPMB_LINUX around as a #define for backwards
39 Add support for Block Ack Req and Block Ack frame types (pull
41 Deprecate pcap_compile_nopcap().
42 Add support for filtering packets encapsulated with VXLAN (pull
44 Eliminate trailing space in bpf_image() result.
45 Fix DECnet packet filtering on big-endian hosts.
46 Require "vpi" and "vci" values to be within valid ranges.
47 Initialize the scratch memory store to 0.
48 Require "[wlan] dir" integer value to be within range.
49 Fix the != comparison for ATM and MTP field values.
50 Deprecate bpf_filter().
51 Require a live capture for all Linux BPF extensions.
53 Support user names and passwords in rpcap:// and rpcaps:// URLs.
54 Add a -t flag to rpcapd to specify the data channel port; from
55 another incorporate-remote-capture project. (issue #1120)
56 rpcapd: Refine SSL options in printusage().
57 Fix a possible buffer overflow (Coverity CID 1619148).
59 Document a standard format for writing out BPF filter programs.
60 Add a README.hurd.md file.
61 Explain "any" device better in pcap_create(3PCAP).
62 Cross-reference some man pages better.
63 Actualize README.dag and make it Markdown.
64 Add a README.snf.md file.
65 pcap-filter(7): Clarify Ethernet, IPv4 and IPv6.
66 pcap_lib_version(3PCAP): Add details and examples.
67 Discuss Linux BPF extensions in the man pages.
68 Note endianness in pcap_compile(3PCAP) and pcap_lookupnet(3PCAP).
70 Apply GNU Hurd support patch from the Debian package.
71 CI: Introduce and use LIBPCAP_CMAKE_TAINTED.
72 Remove all remaining support for AOS (4.3BSD Unix), BSD/OS, DOS,
73 HP-UX before 10.20, IRIX, {OSF/1, Digital Unix, Tru64 Unix}, SINIX,
74 SunOS 3.x, 4.x and 5.x before 5.3.2, and Ultrix.
75 Add a new test program for pcap_activate().
76 Make NetBSD build warning-free.
77 Make Sun C build warning-free.
78 Make FreeBSD, Linux and macOS builds warning-free.
79 Print MAC addresses in findalldevstest.
80 Parameterize the interface name in reactivatetest.
81 When necessary, trust the OS to implement ffs().
82 At build time require a proof of suitable snprintf(3) implementation in
83 libc (and document Solaris 9 and MinGW as unsupported because of that).
84 Makefile.in: Update the .c.o build rule (Remove hacks for old SunOS 4).
85 CMake: Skip snprintf(3) tests when cross-compiling; test whether
86 check_c_source_runs() with a trivial program and, if it doesn't
87 work, don't run tests that use it.
88 autogen.sh: Allow to configure Autoconf warnings.
89 autogen.sh: Delete all trailing blank lines at end of configure.
90 Autoconf: Add support for libnl-tiny with pkg-config.
91 Autoconf: Fix building of something-only libpcap.
92 CI: Implement "make check".
93 Fix autotools and CMake issues with snprintf test and sanitizers.
95 filtertest: Add "-l" flag to use Linux BPF extensions.
96 filtertest: Use ntohl() on the netmask to fix the -m option.
98 Support network capture devices too.
99 Fix a few device activation bugs.
100 Count and timestamp packets better.
101 Add kernel filtering, fix userland filtering.
103 Use getprotobyname_r() correctly on OpenBSD.
105 Always set PCAP_IF_CONNECTION_STATUS_NOT_APPLICABLE.
106 In dag_findalldevs() handle known errors better.
107 Trust dag_get_stream_erf_types() to be available.
108 Require the API to have 64-bit streams support.
109 Make device descriptions more useful, make dagN conditional.
110 Use PCAP_ERROR_NO_SUCH_DEVICE more in dag_activate().
111 Validate capture device names better.
112 Enumerate streams without trying to lock them.
113 If the environment variable ERF_FCS_BITS is set, require it to be either
114 0 or 16 or 32. Likewise for ERF_DONT_STRIP_FCS (either 0 or 1).
115 Remove FCS quirks specific to 4.2S and 4.23S.
116 Fix packet filtering with low snaplen.
117 Fix ps_drop for stream drop counters.
118 Add experimental packet transmit support.
120 Fix packet filtering with low snaplen.
121 Require SNF_VERSION_API >= 0x0003.
122 Improve device descriptions and flags.
123 Fill pcap_if_t in more consistently.
125 DayOfTheWeek, Month DD, YYYY / The Tcpdump Group
126 Summary for 1.10.6 libpcap release (so far!)
128 Fix "tcpdump -i <n>" for something-only libpcap builds.
129 Remove some unneeded includes.
130 pcapint_find_function() changed to return "void *" to avoid
132 gencode: Fix an undefined behavior in gen_mcode().
133 gencode: Add a missing free() in gen_scode().
135 Make the chunk allocator's alignment more general and
136 platform-independent.
137 IEEE 802.11: Fix three undefined behaviors in grammar.y.
139 Fix check for mac80211 phydev.
140 Don't create monitor-mode interface if we're capturing on one.
142 Fix detection and enablng of zero-copy supporrt.
143 Fix errors in the zero-copy code.
145 Fix not to ignore logical interfaces in fad-gifc.c and
149 Capture file writing:
150 Don't close the output stream if it's stdout, just flush it.
152 Explicitly document that closing a pcap_t for a savefile opened
153 with pcap_fopen_offline() will close the standard I/O stream.
154 Building and testing:
155 Makefile.in: Include instrument-functions.c in the release tarball.
156 CMake: Fix libnl usage with pkg-config.
157 CMake: Fix build with CMake 3.31.
158 CI: Report CMake version in builds.
159 CI: Visual Studio 2022 builds added, including ARM64 builds;
160 Visual Studio 2015 builds dropped.
161 Don't build with sslutils.c if we don't have a TLS library.
162 Build on Windows with a newer version of OpenSSL.
163 CMake: generalize handling of non-x86 Windows architectures.
164 CI: use the -A flag for all Visual Studio generators.
165 Remove the fuzzing props from the release tarball.
167 Friday, August 30, 2024 / The Tcpdump Group
168 Summary for 1.10.5 libpcap release
170 Spell WirelessHART details properly.
171 Mark pcap_vasprintf() as printf-like.
172 Finalize moving of bpf_filter.c. (GH #1166)
173 Remove an unneeded argument from gen_mcode6().
174 Don't do some Berkeley YACC workarounds with YACC releases not
176 Use correct data types rather than int in some cases.
177 Squelch compiler warning in grammar.c.
178 Fix findalldevtest compilation if IPv6 isn't enabled.
179 Rename helper routines for pcap modules to have names beginning with
180 pcapint_, to avoid namespace collisions for code linking statically
182 Avoid casting hack for the Windows cleanup-on-exit routine.
183 Use %zu format for one case of printing a size_t.
184 Fix some Coverity errors.
185 Fix availabilities of some functions to match reality.
186 pcap: make the seconds and microseconds/nanoseconds fields unsigned.
187 Remove the unused pcap-rpcap-int.h header file.
189 Make some static variables thread-local; fixes issue #1174.
191 Improve reporting of some invalid filter expressions.
192 Return an error from pcap_compile() if the scanner fails to initialize.
193 Optimizer fix from Archit Shah to recompute dominators after
194 moving code (#976); fixes #945 (although the resulting filter
196 Optimizer fix from Archit Shah to mark value as unknown when store
197 of that value is deleted (#972); fixes #143, #434, #436, #437,
200 Properly return warnings.
201 Don't use DLT_LINUX_SLL2 for anything other than the "any" device.
202 Avoid 32-bit unsigned integer overflow in USB captures. Fixes
203 issues #1134 and #1205.
204 Fix a file descriptor leak.
205 Properly report warnings about unknown ARPHRD_ types.
206 Fix DLT_CAN_SOCKETCAN handling of CAN FD.
207 Add CAN XL support to DLT_CAN_SOCKETCAN.
208 Clean up the code that sets the "real" ("original") length for
209 isochronous USB transfers.
210 Avoid unnecessary blocking on recvmsg() in the Bluetooth monitor and
213 Handle BPF returning ESRCH for unknown devices.
214 List the "any" device if it's supported.
215 Report {non-existent zone}/{interface} errors appropriately.
216 Allow attaching to links owned by a non-global zone. (Based on
218 Fix AF_LINK handling on illumos.
220 Redid the availability macros to be closer to what Apple's doing
221 in recent SDKs, including tagging pcap-namedb.h routines.
222 Fix the install name of the installed shared library to have a
223 full path when building with CMake.
224 Fix universal builds.
226 Convert the module to C. Fixes issue #1114.
227 Address a few compiler warnings. Fixes issue #1114.
228 Fix various build problems. Fixes issue #1114.
229 Report non-existent devices correctly.
230 Fix handling of packet statistics.
231 Fix packet timestamping.
232 Fix packet filtering with low snaplen.
233 Improve connection status reporting.
234 Add support for promiscuous mode.
235 Detect DLTs and loopback capture support at run time.
236 Report IEEE 802.11 as PCAP_IF_WIRELESS.
238 Fix internal handling of "not supported" error codes from NPF.
239 Work around a bug in Npcap 1.00 in case of driver version mismatch.
240 Don't call WSACleanup() when handling a failed WSAStartup().
241 BSD, macOS, AIX, Solaris 11, Linux:
242 Add a new error PCAP_ERROR_CAPTURE_NOTSUP, for use if a capture
243 mechanism is not present, in the hopes that, for example,
244 attempts to capture on Windows Services for Linux 1, in which
245 the NT kernel attempts to simulate Linux system calls but does
246 not support packet sockets, can get an error that better
247 indicates the underlying problem.
249 Format an error message if we run out of memory.
251 Fix count of dropped packets.
252 Make sure we don't overflow when rounding up the TLV length.
254 Handle routines removed in at least some OpenSSL libraries.
255 CVE-2023-7256: Clean up sock_initaddress() and its callers to avoid
256 double frees in some cases.
257 Don't define SOCKET ourselves; instead, define PCAP_SOCKET as int
258 on UN*Xes and as SOCKET on Windows.
259 CVE-2024-8006: Fix pcap_findalldevs_ex() not to crash if passed a
260 file:// URL with a path to a directory that cannot be opened.
262 Handle DLT_/LINKTYPE_ mapping better, to handle some
263 OpenBSD-specific link types better.
264 Treat if_tsoffset as signed in pcapng files, as the spec says.
265 Don't try to fix the "real" length for isochronous USB
266 transfers if the number of USB descriptors is too large.
267 Reject pcap files where one of the reserved fields in the
268 "link-layer type plus other stuff" is non-zero.
269 Building and testing:
270 Add a configure option to help debugging (--enable-instrument-functions).
271 Improved tests and error reporting for uses of pkg-config, and
272 improve help message.
274 With CMake, install headers in CMAKE_INSTALL_INCLUDEDIR rather
276 Build libpcap.a before building test programs.
277 Print address family numerically, as well as symbolically,
279 Fail with suggestions, rather than failing over to no capture
280 support, if no capture mechanism was found. Fixes issue #1016.
281 Don't indent comments in Make, as that may cause them not to be
282 recognized as comments.
283 Don't check for libssl if we aren't going to use it.
284 Better handle enabling and disabling of sanitizers. Fixes issue
286 CMakeLists.txt: Print "Symlinking: /some/path to ..." conditionally.
287 Evaluate CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX at install time.
288 cmake: Update the minimum required version to 2.8.12 (except Windows).
289 cmake: suppress CMP0042 OLD deprecated warning.
290 Makefile.in: Add the releasecheck target.
291 Cirrus CI: Add the "make releasecheck" command in the Linux task.
292 Makefile.in: Add the whitespacecheck target.
293 Cirrus CI: Run the "make whitespacecheck" command in the Linux task.
294 Autoconf: Update config.{guess,sub}, timestamps 2024-01-01.
295 Autoconf: Update the install-sh script to the 2020-11-14.01 version.
296 Compile with '-Wnull-pointer-subtraction',
297 '-Wunused-but-set-parameter', and '-Wunused-but-set-variable' in
298 devel mode if supported.
299 Don't ignore spaces between CMAKE_C_FLAGS and DPDK_C_FLAGS with
301 Use noreturn and __format__ with XL C 7.0 and later.
302 Check for the same -W flags in autotools and CMake.
303 Autoconf: Add autogen.sh, remove configure and config.h.in and put
304 these generated files in the release tarball.
305 Autoconf: Get the size of a time_t.
306 Fix propagation of cc_werr_cflags() output.
307 Makefile.in(s): Fix the depend target.
308 mkdep: Exit with a non-zero status if a command fails.
309 Fix HCI_CHANNEL_MONITOR detection with musl libc.
310 Extend "make shellcheck" onto mkdep too.
311 Add initial support for building with TinyCC.
312 Address all known compiler warnings specific to illumos, Linux, NetBSD,
313 Solaris and Sun C; in CI expect warnings specific to TinyCC only.
315 Update and fix pcap-filter man page.
316 Add a README.haiku.md file.
317 Document pcap-config better.
318 Man page formatting and prose fixes.
319 Rename doc/README.Win32.md to doc/README.windows.md.
320 Update pcap-savefile man page to match the Internet-Draft for
322 Fix CMake issues for target used by other projects.
323 Explain "any" device better in pcap_open_live(3PCAP).
325 Note in man pages that errbuf arguments must point to an error
327 Note that if pcap_findalldevs() fails it sets *alldevsp to NULL;
328 there's no devices list to free.
329 Explain "other addresses" in pcap_findalldevs(3PCAP).
330 Document pcap_lookupnet(3PCAP) a bit better.
332 Friday, April 7, 2023 / The Tcpdump Group
333 Summary for 1.10.4 libpcap release
335 Fix spaces before tabs in indentation.
337 Fix name of launchd service.
339 Document use of rpcapd with systemd, launchd, inetd, and xinetd.
340 Building and testing:
341 Require at least pkg-config 0.17.0, as we use --static.
342 Get rid of the remains of gnuc.h.
343 Require at least autoconf 2.69.
344 Update config.{guess,sub}, timestamps 2023-01-01,2023-01-21.
346 Thursday, January 12, 2023 / The Tcpdump Group
347 Summary for 1.10.3 libpcap release
349 Sort the PUBHDR variable in Makefile.in in "ls" order.
350 Fix typo in comment in pflog.h.
351 Remove two no-longer-present files from .gitignore.
352 Update code and comments for handling failure to set promiscuous
353 mode based on new information.
354 Building and testing:
355 install: Fixed not to install the non-public pcap-util.h header.
356 pcap-config: add a --version flag.
357 Makefile.in: Add some missing files in the distclean target.
359 Saturday, December 31, 2022 / The Tcpdump Group
360 Summary for 1.10.2 libpcap release
362 Use __builtin_unreachable() in PCAP_UNREACHABLE.
363 Use AS_HELP_STRING macro instead of AC_HELP_STRING in the
364 configure scripts, to avoid deprecation warnings.
365 Change availability tags in pcap.h to make it easier to
366 arrange for it to be used in Darwin releases.
367 Use AS_HELP_STRING for --enable-remote.
368 Fix some formatting string issues found by cppcheck.
369 Various small code and comment cleanups.
370 Use PCAP_ERROR (defined as -1) rather than explicit -1 for
371 functions the documentation says return PCAP_ERROR.
372 Remove unused code from the filter compiler.
373 Use _declspec(deprecated(msg)) rather than __pragma(deprecated)
374 for Windows deprecation warnings, so the message that was
376 diag-control.h: define PCAP_DO_PRAGMA() iff we're going to use it.
377 Use "%d" to print some signed ints.
378 Use the Wayback Machine for a removed document in a comment.
379 Add some const qualifiers.
380 RDMA: Use PRIu64 to print a uint64_t.
381 "Dead" pcap_ts from pcap_open_dead() and ..._with_tstamp_precision():
382 Don't crash if pcap_breakloop() is called.
384 Fix pcap_dispatch() to return number of packets processed, rather
386 If we get an error writing the packet header, don't write the
388 Put PFLOG UID and PID values in the header into host byte order
389 when reading a LINKTYPE_PFLOG file.
390 Put CAN ID field in CAN pseudo-headers for LINUX_SLL2, as we do
392 Fix incorrectly-computed "real" length for isochronous USB
393 transfers when reading savefiles.
394 Don't crash if pcap_can_set_rfmon() is called.
395 Fix pcap_offline_read() loop.
397 Never process more than INT_MAX packets in a pcap_dispatch() call,
398 to avoid integer overflow (issue #1087).
399 Improve error messages for "no such device" and "permission
401 SITA: Fix a typo in a variable name.
403 Get PFLOG header length from the length value in the header.
404 Support all the direction, reason, and action types supported by
405 all systems that support PFLOG.
406 Don't require PFLOG support on the target machine in order to
407 support PFLOG filtering (also fixes issue #1076).
408 Expand abbreviations into "proto X" properly.
409 gencode.c: Update a comment about the VLAN TPID test.
410 Add the minimum and maximum matching DLTs to an error message.
412 Fix memory leak in capture device open (pull request #1038).
413 Fix detection of CAN/CAN FD packets in direction check (issue
415 Fix double-free crashes on errors such as running on a kernel with
416 CONFIG_PACKET_MMAP not configured (issue #1054).
417 Use DLT_CAN_SOCKETCAN for CANbus interfaces (issue #1052; includes
418 changes from pull request #1035).
419 Make sure the CANFD_FDF can be relied on to indicate whether a
420 CANbus packet is a CAN frame or a CAN FD frame
421 Improve error message for "out of memory" errors for kernel
422 filters (see issue #1089).
423 Fix pcap_findalldevs() to find usbmon devices.
424 Fix handling of VLAN tagged packets if the link-layer type is
425 changed from DLT_LINUX_SLL to DLT_LINUX_SLL2 (see issue #1105).
426 Always turn on PACKET_AUXDATA (see issue #1105).
427 We require 2.6.27 or later, so PACKET_RESERVE is available.
428 Make sure there's reserved space for a DLT_LINUX_SLL2 header
430 Correctly compute the "real" length for isochronous USB transfers.
431 Don't have an eventfd descriptor open in non-blocking mode, so as
432 not to waste descriptors.
433 netfilter: Squelch a narrowing warning (To be look at before 2038).
434 BPF capture (*BSD, macOS, AIX, Solaris 11):
435 Fix case where a device open might fail, rather than falling back
436 to a smaller buffer size, when the initial buffer size is too
438 Use an unsigned device number to iterate over BPF devices, to
439 squelch a compiler warning.
441 Fix handling of LINKTYPE_HDLC/DLT_HDLC.
443 Fix unaligned accesses in rpcapd (pull request #1037).
444 Fix code to process port number.
445 Clean up findalldevs code in rpcapd.
446 Clean up bufferizing code.
447 Fix a file descriptor/handle leak in pcap_findalldevs_ex()
448 (Coverity CID 1507240).
449 Improve error messages for host and port resolution errors.
450 Fix connect code not to fail if both IPv4 and IPv6 addresses are
452 Improve connect failure error message.
453 Provide an error message for a bad authentication reply size.
454 For link-layer types with host-endian fields in the header, fix
455 those fields if capturing from a server with a different byte
457 Suppress temporarily the warnings with "enable remote packet capture".
459 Add support for NdisMediumIP (pull request #1027).
460 Don't require applications using pcap to be built with VS 2015 or
462 Use the correct string for the DLL VersionInfo.
463 Remove unnecessary DllMain() function.
464 Correctly handle ERROR_INVALID_FUNCTION from
465 PacketGetTimestampModes() (indicate that WinPcap or an older
466 version of Npcap is probably installed).
467 Fix use-after-free in some cases when a pcap_t is closed.
468 Make sure an error is returned by pcap_create_interface() if
469 PacketOpenAdapter() fails.
470 Return an error if the driver reports 0 timestamp modes supported.
471 Close the ADAPTER handle for some errors in
472 pcap_create_interface().
473 Get rid of old unmaintained VS project files.
474 Fix deprecation warning for pcap_handle().
475 Npcap is now at npcap.com, not npcap.org.
476 Make sure "no such device" and "no permission to open device"
477 errors show up in pcap_activate(), not pcap_create() (fixes,
478 among other things, tcpdump -i <interface-number>).
479 npcap: squelch deprecation warnings for kernel dump mode.
481 Implement pcap_lib_version(), as now required.
482 Handle negative or too-large snaplen values.
483 Fix various build issues and warnings.
484 Building and testing:
485 Update configure-time universal build checks for macOS.
486 Update config.guess and config.sub.
487 If we look for an SSL library with pkg-config in configure script,
488 try pkg-config first.
489 If we have pkg-config and Homebrew, try to set pkg-config up to
490 find Homebrew packages.
491 Handle some Autoconf/make errors better.
492 Use "git archive" for the "make releasetar" process.
493 Remove the release candidate rcX targets.
494 Fix compiling on Solaris 9/SPARC and 11/AMD64.
495 Address assorted compiler warnings.
496 Fix cross-building on Linux for Windows with mingw32 for Win64
497 (pull request #1031).
498 Properly set installation directory on Windows when not compiling
500 Fix configure script checks for compiler flags.
501 Give more details if check for usable (F)Lex fails.
502 Fix compiling with GCC 4.6.4.
503 Don't use add_compile_options() with CMake, as we currently don't
504 require 2.8.12, where it first appeared.
505 Don't provide -L/usr/lib for pkg-config --libs in pkg-config.
506 Fix error message for inadequate Bison/Berkeley YACC.
507 configure: correctly do some DPDK checks.
508 Only use pkg-config when checking for DPDK.
509 Allow the path in which DPDK is installed to be specified.
510 Use pkg-config first when checking for libibverbs.
511 CMake: fix check for libibverbs with Sun's C compiler.
512 Have CMake warn if no capture mechanism can be found.
513 Don't do stuff requiring 3.19 or later on earlier CMakes.
514 Squelch some CMake warnings.
515 Fix diag-control.h to handle compiling with clang-cl (issues
517 Cleanup various leftover cruft in the configure script.
518 Fix building without protochain support. (GH #852)
519 Check for a usable YACC (or Bison) and {F}lex in CMake, as we do
521 Only check for a C++ compiler on Haiku, as that's the only
522 platform with C++ code, and make sure they generate code for
523 the same instruction set bit-width (both 32-bit or both 64-bit)
525 On Solaris, check the target bit-width and set PKG_CONFIG_PATH
526 appropriately, to handle the mess that is the D-Bus library
527 package (issue #1112).
528 Fix generation of pcap-config and libpcap.pc files (issue #1062).
529 pcap-config: don't assume the system library directory is /usr/lib.
530 pcap-config: add a --static-pcap-only flag.
531 Cirrus CI: Use the same configuration as for the main branch.
532 Add four libpcap test files.
533 Update Npcap SDK to 1.13.
534 Makefile.in: Use TEST_DIST, like for tcpdump.
535 Remove awk code from mkdep.
536 Cirrus CI: Add the libssl-dev package in the Linux task.
537 Cirrus CI: Add the openssl@3 brew package in the macOS task.
538 Get "make shellcheck" to pass again.
539 CMake: Build valgrindtest only if Autoconf would.
540 CMake: use ${CMAKE_INSTALL_SBINDIR} rather than just sbin.
541 CMake: use NUL: as the null device on Windows.
542 autoconf: fix typo in test of macOS version.
543 Makefile.in: Add two missing files in EXTRA_DIST.
544 autotools, cmake: provide an rpath option if necessary.
545 configure: get rid of the attempt to auto-run PKG_PROG_PKG_CONFIG.
546 configure: use PKG_CHECK_MODULES to run pkg-config.
548 Add README.solaris.md.
549 Add SCTP to pcap-filter(7).
550 Note that = and == are the same operator in filters (issue #1044).
551 Update INSTALL.md, README.md, and README.solaris.md.
552 Update and clean up CONTRIBUTING.md.
553 Trim documentation of support for now-dead UN*Xe and older
554 versions of other UN*Xes.
555 Move the "how to allocate a LINKTYPE_/DLT_ value" documentation to
558 Move README.capture-module to the web site.
559 Improve some protocol details in pcap-filter(7).
560 Refine "relop" notes in pcap-filter(7).
561 In pcap-filter(7) "domain" is an id.
562 Discuss backward compatibility in pcap-filter(7).
563 Other improvements to pcap-filter(7).
564 Document pcap_breakloop(3PCAP) interaction with threads better.
565 Document PCAP_ERROR_NOT_ACTIVATED for more routines.
567 Wednesday, June 9, 2021:
568 Summary for 1.10.1 libpcap release:
570 Fix "type XXX subtype YYY" giving a parse error
572 Add PCAP_AVAILABLE_1_11.
573 Building and testing:
574 Rename struct bpf_aux_data to avoid NetBSD compile errors
575 Squelch some compiler warnings
576 Squelch some Bison warnings
577 Fix cross-builds with older kernels lacking BPF_MOD and BPF_XOR
578 Fix Bison detection for minor version 0.
579 Fix parallel build with FreeBSD make.
580 Get DLT_MATCHING_MAX right in gencode.c on NetBSD.
581 Define timeradd() and timersub() if necessary.
582 Fix Cygwin/MSYS target directories.
583 Fix symlinking with DESTDIR.
584 Fix generation of libpcap.pc with CMake when not building a shared
586 Check for Arm64 as well as x86-64 when looking for packet.lib on
589 Refine Markdown in README.md.
590 Improve the description of portrange in filters.
591 README.linux.md isn't Markdown, rename it just README.linux.
593 Support reading version 1.2, which some writers produce, and which
594 is the same as 1.0 (some new block types were added, but
595 that's not sufficient reason to bump the minor version number,
596 as code that understands those new block types can handle them
599 Drop support for text-mode USB captures, as we require a 2.6.27
600 or later kernel (credit to Chaoyuan Peng for noting the
601 sscanf vulnerabilities in the text-mode code that got me to
602 realize that we didn't need this code any more)
603 Bluetooth: fix non-blocking mode.
604 Don't assume that all compilers used to build for Linux support
605 the __atomic builtins
607 Add more information in "interface disappeared" error messages, in
608 the hopes of trying to figure out the cause.
609 Treat ERROR_DEVICE_REMOVED as "device was removed".
610 Indicate in the error message which "device was removed" error
612 Report the Windows error status if PacketSendPacket() fails.
613 Use %lu for ULONGs in error message formats.
614 Don't treat the inability to find airpcap.dll as an error.
615 Ignore spurious error reports by Microsoft Surface mobile
616 telephony modem driver
618 Clean up error checking and error messages for server address
621 Tuesday, December 29, 2020
622 Summary for 1.10.0 libpcap release
623 Add support for capturing on DPDK devices
624 Label most APIs by the first release in which they're available
625 Fix some memory leaks, including in pcap_compile()
626 Add pcap_datalink_val_to_description_or_dlt()
627 Handle the pcap private data in a fashion that makes fewer
628 assumptions about memory layouts (might fix GitHub issue #940
630 Fix some thread safety issues
631 pcap_findalldevs(): don't sort interfaces by unit number
632 Always return a list of supported time-stamp types, even if only
633 host time stamps are supported
634 Increase the maximum snaplen for LINKTYPE_USBPCAP/DLT_USBPCAP
635 Report the DLT description in error messages
636 Add pcap_init() for first-time initialization and global option
637 setting; it's not required, but may be used
638 Remove (unused) SITA support
639 Capture file reading:
640 Correctly handle pcapng captures with more than one IDB with a
641 snapshot length greater than the supported maximum
642 Capture file writing:
643 Create the file in pcap_dump_open_append() if it doesn't exist
645 Fix "unknown ether proto 'aarp'"
646 Add a new filter "ifindex" for DLT_LINUX_SLL2 files on all
647 platforms and live Linux captures
648 Add a hack to the optimizer to try to catch certain optimizer
649 loops (should prevent GitHub issue #112)
650 Show special Linux BPF offsets symbolically in bpf_image() and
652 Added support for ICMPv6 types 1-4 as tokens with names
653 Remove undocumented and rather old "ether proto" protocols
654 Catch invalid IPv4 addresses in filters
655 Don't assume ARM supports unaligned accesses
656 Security and other issues found by analysis:
657 Fix various security issues reported by Charles Smith at Tangible
659 Fix various security issues reported by Include Security
660 Fix some issues found by cppcheck.
661 Add some overflow checks in the optimizer
663 Support rpcap-over-TLS
664 Redo protocol version negotiation to avoid problems with old
665 servers (it still works with servers using the old negotiation,
666 as well as servers not supporting negotiation)
667 Error handling cleanups
668 Add some new authentication libpcap error codes for specific
670 Fix some inetd issues in rpcapd
671 Fix rpcapd core dumps with invalid configuration file
672 On UN*X, don't have rpcapd tell the client why authentication
673 failed, so a brute-force attacker can't distinguish between
674 "unknown user name" and "known user name, wrong password"
675 Allow rpcapd to rebind more rapidly (GitHub issue #765)
677 Improve man pages, including adding backward compatibility notes
678 Building and testing:
679 Require, and assume, some level of C99 support in the C compiler
680 Require Visual Studio 2015 or later if using Visual Studio
681 Fix configure script issues, including with libnl on Linux
683 Squelch complaints from Bison about "%define api.pure" being
685 Fix compilation of pcap-tc.c
687 Require PF_PACKET support, and kernel 2.6.27 or later
688 Handle systems without AF_INET or AF_UNIX socket support
689 Get rid of Wireless Extensions for turning monitor mode on
690 Proper memory sync for PACKET_MMAP (may prevent GitHub issue
692 Drop support for libnl 1 and 2.
693 Return error on interface going away, but not if it just went
694 down but is still present
695 Set socket protocol only after packet ring configured,
696 reducing bogus packet drop reports
697 Get ifdrop stats from sysfs.
698 When adjusting BPF programs, do not subtract the
699 SLL[2]_HDR_LEN if the location is negative (special metadata
700 offset), to preserve references to metadata; see
701 https://github.com/the-tcpdump-group/tcpdump/issues/480#issuecomment-486827278
702 Report a warning for unknown ARPHRD types
703 Have pcap_breakloop() forcibly break out of a sleeping
705 Add support for DSA data link types
706 For raw USB bus capture, use the snapshot length to set the
707 buffer size, and set the len field to reflect the length
708 in the URB (GitHub issue #808)
709 With a timeout of zero, wait indefinitely
710 Clean up support for some non-GNU libc C libraries
711 Add DLT_LINUX_SLL2 for cooked-mode captures
712 Probe CONFIGURATION descriptor of connected USB devices
713 Treat EPERM on ethtool ioctls as meaning "not supported", as
714 permissions checks are done before checking whether the
715 ioctl is supported at all
717 Cope with getting EPWROFF from SIOCGIFMEDIA
718 Treat EPERM on SIOCGIFMEDIA as meaning "not supported", as
719 permissions checks are done before checking whether the
720 ioctl is supported at all
721 Treat ENXIO when reading packets as meaning "the interface
723 Report "the interface disappeared", not "the interface went
724 down", if the interface was removed during a capture
726 Treat ENXIO as meaning "the interface was removed"
727 Report "the interface disappeared", not "the interface went
728 down", if the interface was removed during a capture
730 Treat ENXIO as meaning "the interface was removed"
731 Report "the interface disappeared", not "the interface went
732 down", if the interface was removed during a capture
734 Treat EIO as meaning "the interface was removed"
735 Report "the interface disappeared", not "the interface went
736 down", if the interface was removed during a capture
738 Treat ENXIO as meaning "the interface was removed"
739 Report "the interface disappeared", not "the interface went
740 down", if the interface was removed during a capture
742 Treat ENXIO as meaning "the interface was removed"
743 Report "the interface disappeared", not "the interface went
744 down", if the interface was removed during a capture
746 Fix loading of BPF kernel extension
747 Treat ENXIO as meaning "the interface was removed"
748 Report "the interface disappeared", not "the interface went
749 down", if the interface was removed during a capture
751 Make the snapshot length work even if pcap_setfilter()
753 Fix compilation on Cygwin/MSYS
754 Add pcap_handle(), and deprecate pcap_fileno()
755 Report PCAP_ERROR_NO_SUCH_DEVICE for a nonexistent device
756 Return an appropriate error message for device removed or
757 device unusable due to a suspend/resume
758 Report a warning for unknown NdisMedium types
759 Have pcap_breakloop() forcibly break out of a sleeping
761 Clean up building DLL
762 Handle CRT mismatch for pcap_dump_fopen()
763 Map NdisMediumWirelessWan to DLT_RAW
764 Add AirPcap support in a module, rather than using
765 WinPcap/Npcap's support for it
766 Report the system error for PacketSetHwFilter() failures
767 Add support for getting and setting packet time stamp types
769 Have pcap_init() allow selecting whether the API should use
770 local code page strings or UTF-8 strings (including error
775 Sunday, July 22, 2018
776 Summary for 1.9.1 libpcap release
777 Mention pcap_get_required_select_timeout() in the main pcap man page
778 Fix pcap-usb-linux.c build on systems with musl
779 Fix assorted man page and other documentation issues
780 Plug assorted memory leaks
781 Documentation changes to use https:
782 Changes to how time stamp calculations are done
783 Lots of tweaks to make newer compilers happier and warning-free and
784 to fix instances of C undefined behavior
785 Warn if AC_PROG_CC_C99 can't enable C99 support
786 Rename pcap_set_protocol() to pcap_set_protocol_linux().
787 Align pcap_t private data on an 8-byte boundary.
788 Fix various error messages
789 Use 64-bit clean API in dag_findalldevs()
790 Fix cleaning up after some errors
791 Work around some ethtool ioctl bugs in newer Linux kernels (GitHub
793 Add backwards compatibility sections to some man pages (GitHub issue
795 Fix autotool configuration on AIX and macOS
796 Don't export bpf_filter_with_aux_data() or struct bpf_aux_data;
797 they're internal-only and subject to change
798 Fix pcapng block size checking
799 On macOS, don't build rpcapd or test programs any fatter than they
801 Fix reading of capture statistics for Linux USB
802 Fix packet size values for Linux USB packets (GitHub issue #808)
803 Check only VID in VLAN test in filters (GitHub issue #461)
804 Fix pcap_list_datalinks on 802.11 devices on macOS
805 Fix overflows with very large snapshot length in pcap file
806 Improve parsing of rpcapd configuration file (GitHub issue #767)
807 Handle systems without strlcpy() or strlcat() better
808 Fix crashes and other errors with invalid filter expressions
809 Fix use of uninitialized file descriptor in remote capture
810 Fix some CMake issues
811 Fix some divide-by-zero issues with the filter compiler
812 Work around a GNU libc bug in pcap_nametonetaddr()
813 Add support for DLT_LINUX_SLL2
814 Fix handling of the packet-count argument for Myricom SNF devices
815 Fix --disable-rdma in configure script (GitHub issue #782)
816 Fix compilation of TurboCap support (GitHub issue #764)
817 Constify first argument to pcap_findalldevs_ex()
818 Fix a number of issues when running rpcapd as an inetd-style daemon
819 Fix CMake issues with D-Bus libraries
820 In rpcapd, clean up termination of a capture session
821 Redo remote capture protocol negotiation
822 In rpcapd, report the same error for "invalid user name" and
823 "invalid password", to make brute-forcing harder
824 For remote captures, add an error code for "the server requires TLS"
825 Fix pcap_dump_fopen() on Windows to avoid clashes between
826 {Win,N}Pcap and application C runtimes
827 Fix exporting of functions from Windows DLLs (GitHub issue #810)
828 Fix building as part of Npcap
829 Allow rpcapd to rebind more rapidly
830 Fix building shared libpcap library on midipix (midipix.org)
831 Fix hack to detect UTF-16LE adapter names on Windows not to go past
832 the end of the string
833 Fix handling of "wireless WAN" (mobile phone network modems) on
834 Windows with WinPcap/Npcap (GitHub issue #824)
835 Have pcap_dump_open_append() create the dump file if it doesn't
836 exists (GitHub issue #247)
837 Fix the maximum snapshot length for DLT_USBPCAP
838 Use -fPIC when building for 64-bit SPARC on Linux (GitHub issue #837)
839 Fix CMake 64-bit library installation directory on some Linux
841 Boost the TPACKET_V3 timeout to the maximum if a timeout of 0 was
843 Five CVE-2019-15161, CVE-2019-15162, CVE-2019-15163, CVE-2019-15164, CVE-2019-15165
844 PCAPNG reader applies some sanity checks before doing malloc().
846 Sunday, June 24, 2018, by mcr@sandelman.ca
847 Summary for 1.9.0 libpcap release
848 Added testing system to libpcap, independent of tcpdump
849 Changes to how pcap_t is activated
850 Adding support for Large stream buffers on Endace DAG cards
851 Changes to BSD 3-clause license to 2-clause license
852 Additions to TCP header parsing, per RFC3168
853 Add CMake build process (extensive number of changes)
854 Assign a value for OpenBSD DLT_OPENFLOW.
855 Support setting non-blocking mode before activating.
856 Extensive build support for Windows VS2010 and MINGW (many many changes, over many months)
857 Added RPCAPD support when --enable-remote (default no)
858 Add the rpcap daemon source and build instructions.
859 Put back the greasy "save the capture filter string so we can tweak it"
860 hack, that keeps libpcap from capturing rpcap traffic.
861 Fixes for captures on MacOS, utun0
862 fixes so that non-AF_INET addresses, are not ==AF_INET6 addresses.
863 Add a linktype for IBM SDLC frames containing SNA PDUs.
864 pcap_compile() in 1.8.0 and later is newly thread-safe.
865 bound snaplen for linux tpacket_v2 to ~64k
866 Make VLAN filter handle both metadata and inline tags
867 D-Bus captures can now be up to 128MB in size
868 Added LORATAP DLT value
869 Added DLT_VSOCK for https://qemu-project.org/Features/VirtioVsock
870 probe_devices() fixes not to overrun buffer for name of device
871 Add linux-specific pcap_set_protocol_linux() to allow specifying a specific capture protocol.
872 RDMA sniffing support for pcap
873 Add Nordic Semiconductor Bluetooth LE sniffer link-layer header type.
874 fixes for reading /etc/ethers
875 Make it possible to build on Windows without packet.dll.
876 Add tests for large file support on UN*X.
877 Solaris fixes to work with 2.8.6
878 configuration test now looks for header files, not capture devices present
879 Fix to work with Berkeley YACC.
880 fixes for DragonBSD compilation of pcap-netmap.c
881 Clean up the ether_hostton() stuff.
882 Add an option to disable Linux memory-mapped capture support.
883 Add DAG API support checks.
884 Add Septel, Myricom SNF, and Riverbed TurboCap checks.
885 Add checks for Linux USB, Linux Bluetooth, D-Bus, and RDMA sniffing support.
886 Add a check for hardware time stamping on Linux.
887 Don't bother supporting pre-2005 Visual Studio.
888 Increased minimum autoconf version requirement to 2.64
889 Add DLT value 273 for XRA-31 sniffer
890 Clean up handing of signal interrupts in pcap_read_nocb_remote().
891 Use the XPG 4.2 versions of the networking APIs in Solaris.
892 Fix, and better explain, the "IPv6 means IPv6, not IPv4" option setting.
893 Explicitly warn that negative packet buffer timeouts should not be used.
894 rpcapd: Add support inetd-likes, including xinetd.conf, and systemd units
895 Rename DLT_IEEE802_15_4 to DLT_IEEE802_15_4_WITHFCS.
896 Add DISPLAYPORT AUX link type
897 Remove the sunos4 kernel modules and all references to them.
898 Add more interface flags to pcap_findalldevs().
899 Summary for 1.9.0 libpcap release (to 2017-01-25 by guy@alum.mit.edu)
900 Man page improvements
901 Fix Linux cooked mode userspace filtering (GitHub pull request #429)
902 Fix compilation if IPv6 support not enabled
903 Fix some Linux memory-mapped capture buffer size issues
904 Don't fail if kernel filter can't be set on Linux (GitHub issue
906 Improve sorting of interfaces for pcap_findalldevs()
907 Don't list Linux usbmon devices if usbmon module isn't loaded
908 Report PCAP_ERROR_PERM_DENIED if no permission to open Linux usbmon
910 Fix DLT_ type for Solaris IPNET devices
911 Always return an error message for errors finding DAG or Myricom
913 If possible, don't require that a device be openable when
914 enumerating them for pcap_findalldevs()
915 Don't put incompletely-initialized addresses in the address list for
916 When finding Myricom devices, update description for regular
917 interfaces that are Myricom devices and handle SNF_FLAGS=0x2(port
919 Fix compilation error in DAG support
920 Fix issues with CMake configuration
921 Add support for stream buffers larger than 2GB on newer DAG cards
922 Remove support for building against DAG versions without STREAMS
923 support (before dag-3.0.0 2007)
925 Tuesday, Oct. 25, 2016 mcr@sandelman.ca
926 Summary for 1.8.1 libpcap release
927 Add a target in Makefile.in for Exuberant Ctags use: 'extags'.
928 Rename configure.in to configure.ac: autoconf 2.59
929 Clean up the name-to-DLT mapping table.
930 Add some newer DLT_ values: IPMI_HPM_2,ZWAVE_R1_R2,ZWAVE_R3,WATTSTOPPER_DLM,ISO_14443,RDS
931 Clarify what the return values are for both success and failure.
932 Many changes to build on windows
933 Check for the "break the loop" condition in the inner loop for TPACKET_V3.
934 Fix handling of packet count in the TPACKET_V3 inner loop: GitHub issue #493.
935 Filter out duplicate looped back CAN frames.
936 Fix the handling of loopback filters for IPv6 packets.
937 Add a link-layer header type for RDS (IEC 62106) groups.
938 Use different intermediate folders for x86 and x64 builds on Windows.
939 On Linux, handle all CAN captures with pcap-linux.c, in cooked mode.
940 Removes the need for the "host-endian" link-layer header type.
941 Compile with '-Wused-but-marked-unused' in devel mode if supported
942 Have separate DLTs for big-endian and host-endian SocketCAN headers.
943 Reflect version.h being renamed to pcap_version.h.
944 Require that version.h be generated: all build procedures we support generate version.h (autoconf, CMake, MSVC)!
945 Properly check for sock_recv() errors.
946 Re-impose some of Winsock's limitations on sock_recv().
947 Replace sprintf() with pcap_snprintf().
948 Fix signature of pcap_stats_ex_remote().
949 Initial cmake support for remote packet capture.
950 Have rpcap_remoteact_getsock() return a SOCKET and supply an "is active" flag.
951 Clean up {DAG, Septel, Myricom SNF}-only builds.
952 Do UTF-16-to-ASCII conversion into the right place.
953 pcap_create_interface() needs the interface name on Linux.
954 Clean up hardware time stamp support: the "any" device does not support any time stamp types.
955 Add support for capturing on FreeBSD usbusN interfaces.
956 Add a LINKTYPE/DLT_ value for FreeBSD USB.
957 Go back to using PCAP_API on Windows.
959 Add TurboCap support from WinPcap.
960 Recognize 802.1ad nested VLAN tag in vlan filter.
962 Thursday Sep. 3, 2015 guy@alum.mit.edu
963 Summary for 1.7.5 libpcap release
965 Add some allocation failure checks.
966 Fix a number of Linux/ucLinux configure/build issues.
967 Fix some memory leaks.
968 Recognize 802.1ad nested VLAN tag in vlan filter.
969 Fix building Bluetooth Linux Monitor support with BlueZ 5.1+
971 Saturday Jun. 27, 2015 mcr@sandelman.ca
972 Summary for 1.7.4 libpcap release
973 Include fix for GitHub issue #424 -- out of tree builds.
975 Friday Apr. 10, 2015 guy@alum.mit.edu
976 Summary for 1.7.3 libpcap release
977 Work around a Linux bonding driver bug.
979 Thursday Feb. 12, 2015 guy@alum.mit.edu/mcr@sandelman.ca
980 Summary for 1.7.2 libpcap release
981 Support for filtering Geneve encapsulated packets.
982 Generalize encapsulation handling, fixing some bugs.
983 Don't add null addresses to address lists.
984 Add pcap_dump_open_append() to open for appending.
985 Fix the swapping of isochronous descriptors in Linux USB.
986 Attempt to handle TPACKET_V1 with 32-bit userland and 64-bit kernel.
988 Wednesday Nov. 12, 2014 guy@alum.mit.edu/mcr@sandelman.ca
989 Summary for 1.7.0 libpcap release
990 Fix handling of zones for BPF on Solaris
992 clarifications for read timeouts.
993 Use BPF extensions in compiled filters, fixing VLAN filters
994 some fixes to compilation without stdint.h
995 EBUSY can now be returned by SNFv3 code.
996 Fix the range checks in BPF loads
1000 Monday Aug. 12, 2014 guy@alum.mit.edu
1001 Summary for 1.6.2 libpcap release
1002 Don't crash on filters testing a nonexistent link-layer type
1004 Fix sending in non-blocking mode on Linux with memory-mapped
1006 Fix timestamps when reading pcap-ng files on big-endian
1009 Saturday Jul. 19, 2014 mcr@sandelman.ca
1010 Summary for 1.6.1 libpcap release
1011 some fixes for the any device
1012 changes for how --enable-XXX (--enable-sniffing, --enable-can) works
1014 Wednesday Jul. 2, 2014 mcr@sandelman.ca
1015 Summary for 1.6.0 libpcap release
1016 Don't support D-Bus sniffing on OS X
1017 fixes for byte order issues with NFLOG captures
1018 Handle using cooked mode for DLT_NETLINK in activate_new().
1019 on platforms where you can not capture on down interfaces, do not list them
1020 but: do list interfaces which are down, if you can capture on them!
1022 Wednesday December 18, 2013 guy@alum.mit.edu
1023 Summary for 1.5.3 libpcap release
1024 Don't let packets that don't match the current filter get to the
1025 application when TPACKET_V3 is used. (GitHub issue #331)
1026 Fix handling of pcap_loop()/pcap_dispatch() with a packet count
1027 of 0 on some platforms (including Linux with TPACKET_V3).
1029 Work around TPACKET_V3 deficiency that causes packets to be lost
1030 when a timeout of 0 is specified. (GitHub issue #335)
1031 Man page formatting fixes.
1033 Wednesday December 4, 2013 guy@alum.mit.edu
1034 Summary for 1.5.2 libpcap release
1035 Fix libpcap to work when compiled with TPACKET_V3 support and
1036 running on a kernel without TPACKET_V3 support. (GitHub
1039 Wednesday November 20, 2013 guy@alum.mit.edu
1040 Summary for 1.5.1 libpcap release
1041 Report an error, rather than crashing, if an IPv6 address is
1042 used for link-layer filtering. (Wireshark bug 9376)
1044 Wednesday October 30, 2013 guy@alum.mit.edu
1045 Summary for 1.5.0 libpcap release
1046 TPACKET_V3 support added for Linux
1047 Point users to the the-tcpdump-group repository on GitHub rather
1048 than the mcr repository
1049 Checks added for malloc()/realloc()/etc. failures
1050 Fixed build on Solaris 11
1051 Support filtering E1 SS7 traffic on MTP2 layer Annex A
1052 Use "ln -s" to link man pages by default
1053 Add support for getting nanosecond-resolution time stamps when
1054 capturing and reading capture files
1055 Many changes to autoconf to deal better with non-GCC compilers
1056 added many new DLT types
1058 Saturday April 6, 2013 guy@alum.mit.edu
1059 Summary for 1.4.0 libpcap release
1060 Add netfilter/nfqueue interface.
1061 If we don't have support for IPv6 address resolution, support,
1062 in filter expressions, what IPv6 stuff we can.
1063 Fix pcap-config to include -lpthread if canusb support is
1065 Try to fix "pcap_parse not defined" problems when --without-flex
1066 and --without-bison are used when you have Flex and Bison
1067 Fix some issues with the pcap_loop man page.
1068 Fix pcap_getnonblock() and pcap_setnonblock() to fill in the
1069 supplied error message buffer
1070 Fix typo that, it appeared, would cause pcap-libdlpi.c not to
1071 compile (perhaps systems with libdlpi also have BPF and use
1073 Catch attempts to call pcap_compile() on a non-activated pcap_t
1074 Fix crash on Linux with CAN-USB support without usbfs
1075 Fix addition of VLAN tags for Linux cooked captures
1076 Check for both EOPNOTSUPP and EINVAL after SIOCETHTOOL ioctl, so
1077 that the driver can report either one if it doesn't support
1079 Add DLT_INFINIBAND and DLT_SCTP
1080 Describe "proto XXX" and "protochain XXX" in the pcap-filter man
1082 Handle either directories, or symlinks to directories, that
1083 correspond to interfaces in /sys/class/net
1084 Fix handling of VLAN tag insertion to check, on Linux 3.x
1085 kernels, for VLAN tag valid flag
1086 Clean up some man pages
1087 Support libnl3 as well as libnl1 and libnl2 on Linux
1088 Fix handling of Bluetooth devices on 3.x Linux kernels
1090 Friday March 30, 2012. mcr@sandelman.ca
1091 Summary for 1.3.0 libpcap release
1092 Handle DLT_PFSYNC in {FreeBSD, other *BSD+Mac OS X, other}.
1093 Linux: Don't fail if netfilter isn't enabled in the kernel.
1094 Add new link-layer type for NFC Forum LLCP.
1095 Put the CANUSB stuff into EXTRA_DIST, so it shows up in the release tarball.
1096 Add LINKTYPE_NG40/DLT_NG40.
1097 Add DLT_MPEG_2_TS/LINKTYPE_MPEG_2_TS for MPEG-2 transport streams.
1098 [PATCH] Fix AIX-3.5 crash with read failure during stress
1100 Introduce --disable-shared configure option.
1101 Added initial support for canusb devices.
1102 Include the pcap(3PCAP) additions as 1.2.1 changes.
1103 many updates to documentation: pcap.3pcap.in
1104 Improve 'inbound'/'outbound' capture filters under Linux.
1105 Note the cleanup of handling of new DLT_/LINKTYPE_ values.
1106 On Lion, don't build for PPC.
1107 For mac80211 devices we need to clean up monitor mode on exit.
1109 Friday December 9, 2011. guy@alum.mit.edu.
1110 Summary for 1.2.1 libpcap release
1112 Fix typos in README.linux file.
1113 Clean up some compiler warnings.
1114 Fix Linux compile problems and tests for ethtool.h.
1115 Treat Debian/kFreeBSD and GNU/Hurd as systems with GNU
1117 Support 802.1 QinQ as a form of VLAN in filters.
1118 Treat "carp" as equivalent to "vrrp" in filters.
1119 Fix code generated for "ip6 protochain".
1120 Add some new link-layer header types.
1121 Support capturing NetFilter log messages on Linux.
1122 Clean up some error messages.
1123 Turn off monitor mode on exit for mac80211 interfaces on Linux.
1124 Fix problems turning monitor mode on for non-mac80211 interfaces
1126 Properly fail if /sys/class/net or /proc/net/dev exist but can't
1128 Fail if pcap_activate() is called on an already-activated
1129 pcap_t, and add a test program for that.
1130 Fix filtering in pcap-ng files.
1131 Don't build for PowerPC on Mac OS X Lion.
1132 Simplify handling of new DLT_/LINKTYPE_ values.
1133 Expand pcap(3PCAP) man page.
1135 Sunday July 24, 2011. mcr@sandelman.ca.
1136 Summary for 1.2 libpcap release
1137 All of the changes listed below for 1.1.1 and 1.1.2.
1138 Changes to error handling for pcap_findalldevs().
1139 Fix the calculation of the frame size in memory-mapped captures.
1140 Add a link-layer header type for STANAG 5066 D_PDUs.
1141 Add a link-layer type for a variant of 3GPP TS 27.010.
1142 Noted real nature of LINKTYPE_ARCNET.
1143 Add a link-layer type for DVB-CI.
1144 Fix configure-script discovery of VLAN acceleration support.
1145 see https://netoptimizer.blogspot.com/2010/09/tcpdump-vs-vlan-tags.html
1146 Linux, HP-UX, AIX, NetBSD and OpenBSD compilation/conflict fixes.
1147 Protect against including AIX 5.x's <net/bpf.h> having been included.
1148 Add DLT_DBUS, for raw D-Bus messages.
1149 Treat either EPERM or EACCES as "no soup for you".
1150 Changes to permissions on DLPI systems.
1151 Add DLT_IEEE802_15_4_NOFCS for 802.15.4 interfaces.
1153 Fri. August 6, 2010. guy@alum.mit.edu.
1154 Summary for 1.1.2 libpcap release
1155 Return DLT_ values, not raw LINKTYPE_ values from
1156 pcap_datalink() when reading pcap-ng files
1157 Add support for "wlan ra" and "wlan ta", to check the RA and TA
1158 of WLAN frames that have them
1159 Don't crash if "wlan addr{1,2,3,4}" are used without 802.11
1161 Do filtering on USB and Bluetooth capturing
1162 On FreeBSD/SPARC64, use -fPIC - it's apparently necessary
1163 Check for valid port numbers (fit in a 16-bit unsigned field) in
1165 Reject attempts to put savefiles into non-blocking mode
1166 Check for "no such device" for the "get the media types" ioctl
1168 Improve error messages from bpf_open(), and let it do the error
1170 Return more specific errors from pcap_can_set_rfmon(); fix
1172 Update description fetching code for FreeBSD, fix code for
1174 Ignore /sys/net/dev files if we get ENODEV for them, not just
1175 ENXIO; fixes handling of bonding devices on Linux
1176 Fix check for a constant 0 argument to BPF_DIV
1177 Use the right version of ar when cross-building
1178 Free any filter set on a savefile when the savefile is closed
1179 Include the CFLAGS setting when configure was run in the
1181 Add support for 802.15.4 interfaces on Linux
1183 Thu. April 1, 2010. guy@alum.mit.edu.
1184 Summary for 1.1.1 libpcap release
1185 Update CHANGES to reflect more of the changes in 1.1.0.
1187 Fix shared library build on AIX.
1189 Thu. March 11, 2010. ken@netfunctional.ca/guy@alum.mit.edu.
1190 Summary for 1.1.0 libpcap release
1191 Add SocketCAN capture support
1192 Add Myricom SNF API support
1193 Update Endace DAG and ERF support
1194 Add support for shared libraries on Solaris, HP-UX, and AIX
1195 Build, install, and un-install shared libraries by default;
1196 don't build/install shared libraries on platforms we don't support
1197 Fix building from a directory other than the source directory
1198 Fix compiler warnings and builds on some platforms
1199 Update config.guess and config.sub
1200 Support monitor mode on mac80211 devices on Linux
1201 Fix USB memory-mapped capturing on Linux; it requires a new DLT_
1203 On Linux, scan /sys/class/net for devices if we have it; scan
1204 it, or /proc/net/dev if we don't have /sys/class/net, even if
1205 we have getifaddrs(), as it'll find interfaces with no
1207 Add limited support for reading pcap-ng files
1208 Fix BPF driver-loading error handling on AIX
1209 Support getting the full-length interface description on FreeBSD
1210 In the lexical analyzer, free up any addrinfo structure we got back
1212 Add support for BPF and libdlpi in OpenSolaris (and SXCE)
1213 Hyphenate "link-layer" everywhere
1214 Add /sys/kernel/debug/usb/usbmon to the list of usbmon locations
1215 In pcap_read_linux_mmap(), if there are no frames available, call
1216 poll() even if we're in non-blocking mode, so we pick up
1217 errors, and check for the errors in question.
1218 Note that poll() works on BPF devices is Snow Leopard
1219 If an ENXIO or ENETDOWN is received, it may mean the device has
1220 gone away. Deal with it.
1221 For BPF, raise the default capture buffer size to from 32k to 512k
1222 Support ps_ifdrop on Linux
1223 Added a bunch of #ifdef directives to make wpcap.dll (WinPcap) compile
1225 Changes to Linux mmapped captures.
1226 Fix bug where create_ring would fail for particular snaplen and
1227 buffer size combinations
1228 Update pcap-config so that it handles libpcap requiring
1229 additional libraries
1230 Add workaround for threadsafeness on Windows
1231 Add missing mapping for DLT_ENC <-> LINKTYPE_ENC
1232 DLT: Add DLT_CAN_SOCKETCAN
1233 DLT: Add Solaris ipnet
1234 Don't check for DLT_IPNET if it's not defined
1235 Add link-layer types for Fibre Channel FC-2
1236 Add link-layer types for Wireless HART
1237 Add link-layer types for AOS
1238 Add link-layer types for DECT
1239 Autoconf fixes (AIX, HP-UX, OSF/1, Tru64 cleanups)
1240 Install headers unconditionally, and include vlan.h/bluetooth.h if
1242 Autoconf fixes+cleanup
1243 Support enabling/disabling bluetooth (--{en,dis}able-bluetooth)
1244 Support disabling SITA support (--without-sita)
1245 Return -1 on failure to create packet ring (if supported but
1247 Fix handling of 'any' device, so that it can be opened, and no longer
1248 attempt to open it in Monitor mode
1249 Add support for snapshot length for USB Memory-Mapped Interface
1250 Fix configure and build on recent Linux kernels
1251 Fix memory-mapped Linux capture to support pcap_next() and
1253 Fixes for Linux USB capture
1254 DLT: Add DLT_LINUX_EVDEV
1255 DLT: Add DLT_GSMTAP_UM
1256 DLT: Add DLT_GSMTAP_ABIS
1258 Mon. October 27, 2008. ken@netfunctional.ca. Summary for 1.0.0 libpcap release
1259 Compile with IPv6 support by default
1260 Compile with large file support on by default
1261 Add pcap-config script, which deals with -I/-L flags for compiling
1264 DLT: Add AX25 (AX.25 w/KISS header)
1267 Variable length 802.11 header support
1268 X2E data type support
1269 SITA ACN Interface support - see README.sita
1270 Support for memory-mapped capture on Linux
1271 Support for zerocopy BPF on platforms that support it
1272 Support for setting buffer size when opening devices
1273 Support for setting monitor mode when opening 802.11 devices
1274 Better support for dealing with VLAN tagging/stripping on Linux
1275 Fix dynamic library support on OSX
1276 Return PCAP_ERROR_IFACE_NOT_UP if the interface isn't 'UP', so applications
1277 can print better diagnostic information
1278 Return PCAP_ERROR_PERM_DENIED if we don't have permission to open a device, so
1279 applications can tell the user they need to go play with permissions
1280 On Linux, ignore ENETDOWN so we can continue to capture packets if the
1281 interface goes down and comes back up again.
1282 On Linux, support new tpacket frame headers (2.6.27+)
1283 On Mac OS X, add scripts for changing permissions on /dev/bpf* and launchd plist
1284 On Solaris, support 'passive mode' on systems that support it
1285 Fixes to autoconf and general build environment
1286 Man page reorganization + cleanup
1287 Autogenerate VERSION numbers better
1289 Mon. September 10, 2007. ken@xelerance.com. Summary for 0.9.8 libpcap release
1290 Change build process to put public libpcap headers into pcap subdir
1291 DLT: Add value for IPMI IPMB packets
1292 DLT: Add value for u10 Networks boards
1293 Require <net/pfvar.h> for pf definitions - allows reading of pflog formatted
1294 libpcap files on an OS other than where the file was generated
1296 Wed. April 25, 2007. ken@xelerance.com. Summary for 0.9.6 libpcap release
1298 Put the public libpcap headers into a pcap subdirectory in both the
1299 source directory and the target include directory, and have include
1300 files at the top-level directory to include those headers, for
1301 backwards compatibility.
1302 Add Bluetooth support
1303 Add USB capturing support on Linux
1304 Add support for the binary USB sniffing interface in Linux
1305 Add support for new FreeBSD BIOCSDIRECTION ioctl
1306 Add additional filter operations for 802.11 frame types
1307 Add support for filtering on MTP2 frame types
1308 Propagate some changes from the main branch, so the x.9 branch has
1309 all the DLT_ and LINKTYPE_ values that the main branch does
1310 Reserved a DLT_ and SAVEFILE_ value for PPI (Per Packet Info)
1311 encapsulated packets
1312 Add LINKTYPE_ for IEEE 802.15.4, with address fields padded as done
1314 Add LINKTYPE_ value corresponding to DLT_IEEE802_16_MAC_CPS.
1315 Add DLT for IEEE 802.16 (WiMAX) MAC Common Part Sublayer
1316 Add DLT for Bluetooth HCI UART transport layer
1317 When building a shared library, build with "-fPIC" on Linux to support x86_64
1318 Link with "$(CC) -shared" rather than "ld -shared" when building a
1319 ".so" shared library
1320 Add support for autoconf 2.60
1321 Fixes to discard unread packets when changing filters
1322 Changes to handle name changes in the DAG library resulting from
1323 switching to libtool.
1324 Add support for new DAG ERF types.
1325 Add an explicit "-ldag" when building the shared library, so the DAG
1326 library dependency is explicit.
1327 Mac OSX fixes for dealing with "wlt" devices
1328 Fixes in add_or_find_if() & pcap_findalldevs() to optimize generating
1330 Fixed a bug in pcap_open_live(). The return value of PacketSetHwFilter
1333 Tue. September 19, 2006. ken@xelerance.com. Summary for 0.9.5 libpcap release
1335 Support for LAPD frames with vISDN
1336 Support for ERF on channelized T1/E1 cards via DAG API
1337 Fix capitalization that caused issues crossc compiling on Linux
1338 Better failure detection on PacketGetAdapterNames()
1339 Fixes for MPLS packet generation (link layer)
1340 OP_PACKET now matches the beginning of the packet, instead of
1341 beginning+link-layer
1342 Add DLT/LINKTYPE for carrying FRF.16 Multi-link Frame Relay
1343 Fix allocation of buffer for list of link-layer types
1344 Added a new DLT and LINKTYPE value for ARINC 653 Interpartition Communication Messages
1345 Fixed a typo in a DLT value: it should start with DLT_ and not LINKTYPE_
1346 Redefined DLT_CAN20B and LINKTYPE_CAN20B as #190 (as this is the right value for CAN).
1347 Added definition for DLT_A429 and LINKTYPE_A429 as #184.
1348 Added a new DLT and LINKTYPE value for CAN v2.0B frames.
1349 Add support for DLT_JUNIPER_VP.
1350 Don't double-count received packets on Linux systems that
1351 support the PACKET_STATISTICS getsockopt() argument on
1353 Add support for DLT_IEEE802_11 and DLT_IEEE802_11_RADIO link
1355 Add support to build libpcap.lib and wpcap.dll under Cygnus and
1358 Mon. September 5, 2005. ken@xelerance.com. Summary for 0.9.4 libpcap release
1360 Support for radiotap on Linux (Mike Kershaw)
1362 Support for additional Juniper link-layer types
1363 Fixes for filters on MPLS-encapsulated packets
1365 "pppoed" and "pppoes" filters added; the latter modifies later
1366 parts of the filter expression to look at the PPP headers and
1367 headers in the PPP payload
1369 Tue. July 5, 2005. ken@xelerance.com. Summary for 0.9.3 libpcap release
1371 Fixes for compiling on nearly every platform,
1372 including improved 64bit support
1374 Add support for sending packets
1375 OpenBSD pf format support
1376 IrDA capture (Linux only)
1378 Tue. March 30, 2004. mcr@sandelman.ottawa.on.ca. Summary for 3.8.3 release
1380 Fixed minor problem in gencode.c that would appear on 64-bit
1382 Version number is now sane.
1384 Mon. March 29, 2004. mcr@sandelman.ottawa.on.ca. Summary for 3.8.2 release
1386 updates for autoconf 2.5
1387 fixes for ppp interfaces for freebsd 4.1
1388 pcap gencode can generate code for 802.11, IEEE1394, and pflog.
1390 Wed. November 12, 2003. mcr@sandelman.ottawa.on.ca. Summary for 0.8 release
1392 added pcap_findalldevs()
1393 Win32 patches from NetGroup, Politecnico di Torino (Italy)
1394 OpenBSD pf, DLT_PFLOG added
1395 Many changes to ATM support.
1396 lookup pcap_lookupnet()
1397 Added DLT_ARCNET_LINUX, DLT_ENC, DLT_IEEE802_11_RADIO, DLT_SUNATM,
1398 DLT_IP_OVER_FC, DLT_FRELAY, others.
1399 Sigh. More AIX wonderfulness.
1401 Changes to API: pcap_next_ex(), pcap_breakloop(), pcap_dump_flush(),
1402 pcap_list_datalinks(), pcap_set_datalink(),
1403 pcap_lib_version(), pcap_datalink_val_to_name(),
1404 pcap_datalink_name_to_val(), new error returns.
1406 Tuesday, February 25, 2003. fenner@research.att.com. 0.7.2 release
1408 Support link types that use 802.2 always, never, and sometimes.
1409 Don't decrease the size of the BPF buffer from the default.
1410 Support frame relay.
1411 Handle 32-bit timestamps in DLPI, and pass the right buffer size.
1412 Handle Linux systems with modern kernel but without
1413 SOL_PACKET in the userland headers.
1414 Linux support for ARPHRD_RAWHDLC.
1415 Handle 32-bit timestamps in snoop.
1416 Support eg (Octane/O2xxx/O3xxx Gigabit) devices.
1417 Add new reserved DLT types.
1419 Monday October 23, 2001. mcr@sandelman.ottawa.on.ca. Summary for 0.7 release
1421 Added pcap_findalldevs() call to get list of interfaces in a MI way.
1423 pcap_stats() has been documented as to what its counters mean on
1426 Tuesday January 9, 2001. guy@alum.mit.edu. Summary for 0.6 release
1428 New Linux libpcap implementation, which, in 2.2 and later
1429 kernels, uses PF_PACKET sockets and supports kernel packet
1430 filtering (if compiled into the kernel), and supports the "any"
1431 device for capturing on all interfaces. Cleans up promiscuous
1432 mode better on pre-2.2 kernels, and has various other fixes
1433 (handles 2.4 ARPHRD_IEEE802_TR, handles ISDN devices better,
1434 doesn't show duplicate packets on loopback interface, etc.).
1436 Fixed HP-UX libpcap implementation to correctly get the PPA for
1437 an interface, to allow interfaces to be opened by interface name.
1439 libpcap savefiles have system-independent link-layer type values
1440 in the header, rather than sometimes platform-dependent DLT_
1441 values, to make it easier to exchange capture files between
1444 Non-standard capture files produced by some Linux tcpdumps, e.g.
1445 the one from Red Hat Linux 6.2 and later, can now be read.
1447 Updated autoconf stock files.
1449 Filter expressions can filter on VLAN IDs and various OSI
1450 protocols, and work on Token Ring (with non-source-routed
1453 "pcap_open_dead()" added to allow compiling filter expressions
1454 to pcap code without opening a capture device or capture file.
1456 Header files fixed to allow use in C++ programs.
1458 Removed dependency on native headers for packet layout.
1459 Removed Linux specific headers that were shipped.
1461 Security fixes: Strcpy replaced with strlcpy, sprintf replaced
1464 Fixed bug that could cause subsequent "pcap_compile()"s to fail
1465 erroneously after one compile failed.
1467 Assorted other bug fixes.
1469 README.aix and README.linux files added to describe
1470 platform-specific issues.
1472 "getifaddrs()" rather than SIOCGIFCONF used, if available.
1474 v0.5 Sat Jun 10 11:09:15 PDT 2000
1477 - Brought in KAME IPv6/IPsec bpf compiler.
1479 - Support added for OpenBSD DLT_LOOP and BSD/OS DLT_C_HDLC (Cisco HDLC),
1480 and changes to work around different BSDs having different DLT_ types
1481 with the same numeric value.
1483 Assar Westerlund <assar@sics.se>
1484 - Building outside the source code tree fixed.
1485 - Changed to write out time stamps with 32-bit seconds and microseconds
1486 fields, regardless of whether those fields are 32 bits or 64 bits in
1487 the OS's native "struct timeval".
1488 - Changed "pcap_lookupdev()" to dynamically grow the buffer into which
1489 the list of interfaces is read as necessary in order to hold the
1492 Greg Troxel <gdt@ir.bbn.com>
1493 - Added a new "pcap_compile_nopcap()", which lets you compile a filter
1494 expression into a BPF program without having an open live capture or
1497 v0.4 Sat Jul 25 12:40:09 PDT 1998
1499 - Fix endian problem with DLT_NULL devices. From FreeBSD via Bill
1500 Fenner (fenner@parc.xerox.com)
1502 - Fix alignment problem with FDDI under DLPI. This was causing core
1503 dumps under Solaris.
1505 - Added configure options to disable flex and bison. Resulted from a
1506 bug report by barnett@grymoire.crd.ge.com (Bruce Barnett). Also added
1507 options to disable gcc and to force a particular packet capture type.
1509 - Added support for Fore ATM interfaces (qaa and fa) under IRIX. Thanks
1510 to John Hawkinson (jhawk@mit.edu)
1512 - Change Linux PPP and SLIP to use DLT_RAW since the kernel does not
1513 supply any "link layer" data.
1515 - Change Linux to use SIOCGIFHWADDR ioctl to determine link layer type.
1516 Thanks to Thomas Sailer (sailer@ife.ee.ethz.ch)
1518 - Change IRIX PPP to use DLT_RAW since the kernel does not supply any
1521 - Modified to support the new BSD/OS 2.1 PPP and SLIP link layer header
1524 - Added some new SGI snoop interface types. Thanks to Steve Alexander
1525 (sca@refugee.engr.sgi.com)
1527 - Fixes for HP-UX 10.20 (which is similar to HP-UX 9). Thanks to
1528 Richard Allen (ra@hp.is) and Steinar Haug (sthaug@nethelp.no)
1530 - Fddi supports broadcast as reported by Jeff Macdonald
1531 (jeff@iacnet.com). Also correct ieee802 and arcnet.
1533 - Determine Linux pcap buffer size at run time or else it might not be
1534 big enough for some interface types (e.g. FDDI). Thanks to Jes
1535 Sorensen (Jes.Sorensen@cern.ch)
1537 - Fix some linux alignment problems.
1539 - Document promisc argument to pcap_open_live(). Reported by Ian Marsh
1542 - Support Metricom radio packets under Linux. Thanks to Kevin Lai
1543 (laik@gunpowder.stanford.edu)
1545 - Bind to interface name under Linux to avoid packets from multiple
1546 interfaces on multi-homed hosts. Thanks to Kevin Lai
1547 (laik@gunpowder.stanford.edu)
1549 - Change L_SET to SEEK_SET for HP-UX. Thanks to Roland Roberts
1550 (rroberts@muller.com)
1552 - Fixed an uninitialized memory reference found by Kent Vander Velden
1553 (graphix@iastate.edu)
1555 - Fixed lex pattern for IDs to allow leading digits. As reported by
1556 Theo de Raadt (deraadt@cvs.openbsd.org)
1558 - Fixed Linux include file problems when using GNU libc.
1560 - Ifdef ARPHRD_FDDI since not all versions of the Linux kernel have it.
1561 Reported reported by Eric Jacksch (jacksch@tenebris.ca)
1563 - Fixed bug in pcap_dispatch() that kept it from returning on packet
1566 - Changed ISLOOPBACK() macro when IFF_LOOPBACK isn't available to check
1567 for "lo" followed by an eos or digit (newer versions of Linux
1568 apparently call the loopback "lo" instead of "lo0").
1570 - Fixed Linux networking include files to use ints instead of longs to
1571 avoid problems with 64 bit longs on the alpha. Thanks to Cristian
1572 Gafton (gafton@redhat.com)
1574 v0.3 Sat Nov 30 20:56:27 PST 1996
1576 - Added Linux support.
1578 - Fixed savefile bugs.
1580 - Solaris x86 fix from Tim Rylance (t.rylance@elsevier.nl)
1582 - Add support for bpf kernel port filters.
1584 - Remove duplicate atalk protocol table entry. Thanks to Christian
1585 Hopps (chopps@water.emich.edu)
1587 - Fixed pcap_lookupdev() to ignore nonexistent devices. This was
1588 reported to happen under BSD/OS by David Vincenzetti
1589 (vince@cryptonet.it)
1591 - Avoid solaris compiler warnings. Thanks to Bruce Barnett
1592 (barnett@grymoire.crd.ge.com)
1594 v0.2.1 Sun Jul 14 03:02:26 PDT 1996
1596 - Fixes for HP-UX 10. Thanks in part to Thomas Wolfram
1597 (wolf@prz.tu-berlin.de) and Rick Jones (raj@hpisrdq.cup.hp.com)
1599 - Added support for SINIX. Thanks to Andrej Borsenkow
1600 (borsenkow.msk@sni.de)
1602 - Fixes for AIX (although this system is not yet supported). Thanks to
1603 John Hawkinson (jhawk@mit.edu)
1605 - Use autoconf's idea of the top level directory in install targets.
1606 Thanks to John Hawkinson.
1608 - Add missing autoconf packet capture result message. Thanks to Bill
1609 Fenner (fenner@parc.xerox.com)
1611 - Fixed padding problems in the pf module.
1613 - Fixed some more alignment problems on the alpha.
1615 - Added explicit netmask support. Thanks to Steve Nuchia
1616 (steve@research.oknet.com)
1618 - Fixed to handle raw ip addresses such as 0.0.0.1 without "left
1621 - Add "sca" keyword (for DEC cluster services) as suggested by Terry
1622 Kennedy (terry@spcvxa.spc.edu)
1624 - Add "atalk" keyword as suggested by John Hawkinson.
1626 - Add "igrp" keyword.
1628 - Fixed HID definition in grammar.y to be a string, not a value.
1630 - Use $CC when checking gcc version. Thanks to Carl Lindberg
1631 (carl_lindberg@blacksmith.com)
1633 - Removed obsolete reference to pcap_immediate() from the man page.
1634 Michael Stolarchuk (mts@terminator.rs.itd.umich.edu)
1636 - DLT_NULL has a 4 byte family header. Thanks to Jeffrey Honig
1639 v0.2 Sun Jun 23 02:28:42 PDT 1996
1641 - Add support for HP-UX. Resulted from code contributed by Tom Murray
1642 (tmurray@hpindck.cup.hp.com) and Philippe-Andri Prindeville
1643 (philipp@res.enst.fr)
1645 - Update INSTALL with a reminder to install include files. Thanks to
1646 Mark Andrews (mandrews@aw.sgi.com)
1648 - Fix bpf compiler alignment bug on the alpha.
1650 - Use autoconf to detect architectures that can't handle misaligned
1653 - Added loopback support for snoop. Resulted from report Steve
1654 Alexander (sca@engr.sgi.com)
1656 v0.1 Fri Apr 28 18:11:03 PDT 1995
1658 - Fixed compiler and optimizer bugs. The BPF filter engine uses unsigned
1659 comparison operators, while the code generator and optimizer assumed
1660 signed semantics in several places. Thanks to Charlie Slater
1661 (cslater@imatek.com) for pointing this out.
1663 - Removed FDDI ifdef's, they aren't really needed. Resulted from report
1664 by Gary Veum (veum@boa.gsfc.nasa.gov).
1666 - Add pcap-null.c which allows offline use of libpcap on systems that
1667 don't support live package capture. This feature resulting from a
1668 request from Jan van Oorschot (j.p.m.voorschot@et.tudelft.nl).
1670 - Make bpf_compile() reentrant. Fix thanks to Pascal Hennequin
1671 (Pascal.Hennequin@hugo.int-evry.fr).
1673 - Port to GNU autoconf.
1675 - Fix pcap-dlpi.c to work with isdn. Resulted from report by Flemming
1676 Johansen (fsj@csd.cri.dk).
1678 - Handle multi-digit interface unit numbers (aka ppa's) under dlpi.
1679 Resulted from report by Daniel Ehrlich (ehrlich@cse.psu.edu).
1681 - Fix pcap-dlpi.c to work in non-promiscuous mode. Resulted from report
1682 by Jeff Murphy (jcmurphy@acsu.buffalo.edu).
1684 - Add support for "long jumps". Thanks to Jeffrey Mogul
1687 - Fix minor problems when compiling with BDEBUG as noticed by Scott
1688 Bertilson (scott@unet.umn.edu).
1690 - Declare sys_errlist "const char *const" to avoid problems under
1691 FreeBSD. Resulted from report by jher@eden.com.
1693 v0.0.6 Fri Apr 28 04:07:13 PDT 1995
1695 - Add missing variable declaration missing from 0.0.6
1697 v0.0.5 Fri Apr 28 00:22:21 PDT 1995
1699 - Workaround for problems when pcap_read() returns 0 due to the timeout
1702 v0.0.4 Thu Apr 20 20:41:48 PDT 1995
1704 - Change configuration to not use gcc v2 flags with gcc v1.
1706 - Fixed a bug in pcap_next(); if pcap_dispatch() returns 0, pcap_next()
1707 should also return 0. Thanks to Richard Stevens (rstevens@noao.edu).
1709 - Fixed configure to test for snoop before dlpi to avoid problems under
1710 IRIX 5. Thanks to J. Eric Townsend (jet@abulafia.genmagic.com).
1712 - Hack around deficiency in Ultrix's make.
1714 - Fix two bugs related to the Solaris pre-5.3.2 bufmod bug; handle
1715 savefiles that have more than snapshot bytes of data in them (so we
1716 can read old savefiles) and avoid writing such files.
1718 - Added checkioctl which is used with gcc to check that the
1719 "fixincludes" script has been run.
1721 v0.0.3 Tue Oct 18 18:13:46 PDT 1994
1723 - Fixed configure to test for snoop before dlpi to avoid problems under
1724 IRIX 5. Thanks to J. Eric Townsend (jet@abulafia.genmagic.com).
1726 v0.0.2 Wed Oct 12 20:56:37 PDT 1994
1728 - Implement timeout in the dlpi pcap_open_live(). Thanks to Richard
1731 - Determine pcap link type from dlpi media type. Resulted from report
1732 by Mahesh Jethanandani (mahesh@npix.com).
1734 v0.0.1 Fri Jun 24 14:50:57 PDT 1994
1736 - Fixed bug in nit_setflags() in pcap-snit.c. The streams ioctl timeout
1737 wasn't being initialized sometimes resulting in an "NIOCSFLAGS:
1738 Invalid argument" error under OSF/1. Reported by Matt Day
1739 (mday@artisoft.com) and Danny Mitzel (dmitzel@whitney.hitc.com).
1741 - Turn on FDDI support by default.
1743 v0.0 Mon Jun 20 19:20:16 PDT 1994
1747 - Fixed bug with greater/less keywords, reported by Mark Andrews
1748 (mandrews@alias.com).
1750 - Fix bug where '|' was defined as BPF_AND instead of BPF_OR, reported
1751 by Elan Amir (elan@leeb.cs.berkeley.edu).
1753 - Machines with little-endian byte ordering are supported thanks to
1756 - Add hack for version 2.3 savefiles which don't have caplen and len
1757 swapped thanks to Vern Paxson.
1759 - Added "&&" and "||" aliases for "and" and "or" thanks to Vern Paxson.
1761 - Added length, inbound and outbound keywords.