Installer and debug symbols available from https://npcap.org/#download
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Fixed #513 which prevented Npcap 1.40 from installing.
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All PowerShell scripts installed or used during installation are now digitally signed.
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Npcap can now be installed on Windows 10 for ARM64 devices. Both ARM64 and
x86 DLLs will be installed, allowing existing x86 applications such as Nmap
or Wireshark to run without modification. -
Npcap SDK 1.10 release coincides with this release, providing updated
documentation and libs for ARM64. -
Npcap code now passes Microsoft's Static Driver Verifier for NDIS drivers and
Visual Studio's Code Analysis "AllRules" ruleset. A couple of minor and
extremely-improbable bugs were fixed in addition to general code cleanup and annotation. -
On Windows 8 and 8.1, the Npcap driver has been updated to NDIS 6.30,
supporting network stack improvements like RSC and QoS. Windows 10 still uses
NDIS 6.50 and Windows 7 uses NDIS 6.20. -
Npcap is no longer distributed with SHA-1 digital signatures. Windows 7 and
Server 2008 R2 will require KB4474419 in order to install Npcap. All other
platforms support SHA-2 digital signatures by default. -
Streamlined loopback packet injection to avoid using Winsock Kernel (WSK)
sockets. This removes a significant amount of complexity and overhead. -
Due to Microsoft's deprecation of cross-signed root certificates for kernel-mode code signing,
Npcap 1.40 may not install correctly on Windows versions prior to Windows 10.
Our testing did not show any issues, but users who experience installation
failures may use the/prior_driver=yesinstallation option to install the
Npcap 1.31 driver instead, which has no such issues. -
The "npcapwatchdog" scheduled task, which ensures the Npcap driver service is
configured to start at boot, is now installed with a description when
possible (Windows 7 does not support creating scheduled tasks via PowerShell).
Fixes #498. -
Fix an issue where installation under Citrix Remote Access or other
situations would fail with the message "Installer runtime error 255 at
76539962, Could not load SimpleSC.dll". Fixes #226. -
Ensure driver signature can be validated on systems without Internet access
by installing the entire certificate chain, including the chain for the
timestamp counter-signature. This should address #233. -
Fix an issue with comparing adapter names retrieved from the Registry. This
prevented Npcap 1.31 from being used for SendToRx and other less-used
features. Fixes #311. -
Npcap driver no longer excludes adapters based on media type, which may allow
capture on some devices that were previously unavailable.