github matthart1983/netwatch v0.25.9

10 hours ago

Deeper protocol decoding, broader threat-detection coverage, and a round of reliability and documentation improvements.

Added

  • HTTP request path and response status in the Packets view and connection labels.
  • DNS response codes (NOERROR, NXDOMAIN, SERVFAIL, …) in DNS decode output.
  • Per-connection TCP handshake RTT (SYN→SYN-ACK), measured per flow.
  • Persistent-connection C2 detection — beaconing analysis now also covers long-lived single-connection heartbeats, in addition to new-connection patterns.
  • Fuzz coverage across the L7 protocol parsers.

Improved

  • More reliable DNS analytics — query/response latency, NXDOMAIN counts, and per-domain metrics.
  • Greater packet-capture resilience under worker-thread failure.
  • Quieter beaconing and DNS-tunnel alerting, with de-duplication and cooldowns.
  • Memory-bounded detection caches.
  • Sandbox support for a custom tls_keylog_path.
  • More accurate multi-label domain grouping (e.g. *.co.uk, *.com.au).

Documentation

  • Expanded and clarified the protocol-decoding, eBPF attribution, sandbox, and TLS decryption references — including TLS 1.2 decryption support.

Full Changelog: v0.25.8...v0.25.9

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