August 2020 release of PcapPlusPlus (v20.08)
This package contains
- Binaries compiled with Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, 18.04 LTS,16.04 LTS
- Binaries compiled with CentOS 7
- Binaries compiled with Fedora 29
- Binaries compiled with MacOS 10.15 (Catalina) , 10.14 (Mojave), 10.13 (High Sierra), 10.12 (Sierra), and 10.11 (El Capitan) using Xcode ranging from 8.0 to 12.0
- Binaries compiled with FreeBSD 11.3 and 12.1
- Binaries compiled with Windows using MinGW32 9.2.0 (32bit) and MinGW-w64 8.1.0 (32bit)
- Binaries compiled with Windows using Microsoft Visual Studio 2019, 2017, 2015 (32bit + 64bit, Debug + Release configurations)
- 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/v2008/
Release notes (changes from v19.12)
- Major security and quality improvements:
- PcapPlusPlus was added to Google OSS-Fuzz which uses the Fuzz testing technique to discover security vulnerabilities and stability bugs (thank you @zlowram !)
- Created a new regression test suite for OSS-Fuzz bugfixes under
Tests/Fuzzers/RegressionTests(thank you @zlowram !) - Added LGTM integration to enable continuous code analysis and prevent critical vulnerabilities (thank you @alexey-tereshenkov-oxb !)
- More than 60 issues were found by OSS-Fuzz and LGTM and fixed in this release
- Revamped Packet++Test and Pcap++Test: tests are now more structured, divided into multiple files and use common and more intuitive test infrastructure
- Added a new test suite (written in Python) for PcapPlusPlus examples under
Tests/ExamplesTests
- Added Npcap support for Windows (in parallel to WinPcap support)
- Added DPDK 19.11 (LTS) support
- New supported protocols:
- BGP v4
- IEEE 802.3 Ethernet
- New platforms officially supported:
- MacOS Catalina (10.15)
- Ubuntu 20.04
- A complete rewrite of the IP address classes
IPv4Address,IPv6AddressandIPAddressto make them more efficient and east to use (thank you @gx740 !) - In addition, new features were added to IP address classes:
- Added "less than" comparison operator (thank you @maruu !)
- Added subnet match for
IPv6Address(thank you @DinoStray !)
- Performance optimization, readability improvements and code cleanup in various parts of the code (thank you @maruu and @gx740 !)
- Integrated streaming ZStd compression for pcapng files (thank you @Dysl3xik !)
- Pcap/pcapng files:
- Read and write in nanoseconds precision for pcapng files (thank you @Akvinikym !)
- Enable
flushfor pcap and pcapng file writers (thank you @rickyzhang82 and @l-henken !)
- TCP reassembly returns status in every call to
TcpReassembly::reassemblePacket()(thank you @starliiit !) - Added port filter to
HttpAnalyzer(thank you @makefriend8 !) - Support for setting snapshot length in
PcapLiveDevice(thank you @wongsingfo !) GeneralFilter::matchPacketWithFilter()can now match packet of any link type (thank you @skorup101 !)- Added user link types 147-162 to support custom protocols (thank you @l-henken !)
- Tons of bug fixes (thank you everyone who reported issues and contributed bugfixes!)
Contributors
Thank you for everyone who contributed to this release: