github seladb/PcapPlusPlus v21.05
May 2021 Release

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May 2021 release of PcapPlusPlus (v21.05)

This package contains

  • Binaries compiled for Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, 18.04 LTS,16.04 LTS
  • Binaries compiled for CentOS 7
  • Binaries compiled for Fedora 29
  • Binaries compiled for macOS 11.1 (Big Sur), 10.15 (Catalina), 10.14 (Mojave), 10.13 (High Sierra), 10.12 (Sierra) using Xcode ranging from 9.2 to 12.3 with Intel processor
  • Binaries compiled for macOS 11.1 (Big Sur) with Apple Silicon (M1) processor,
  • Binaries compiled for Android with all 4 ABIs: arm64-v8a, armeabi-v7a, x86, x86_64
  • Binaries compiled for FreeBSD 11.4 and 12.2
  • Binaries compiled for Windows using MinGW32 9.2.0 (32bit) and MinGW-w64 8.1.0 (32bit)
  • Binaries compiled for 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/v2105/

Release notes (changes from v20.08)

  • Added official Android support!
  • TLS fingerprinting based on JA3
    • Extract TLS fingerprints from TLS ClientHello and ServerHello packets
    • TLS fingerprinting example app
  • TLS 1.3 support
  • A brand new DPDK setup script written in Python that makes it easier to setup DPDK
  • Apple silicon M1 support (thanks @szigetics !)
  • Significant size reduction of PcapPlusPlus compiled libraries
  • Calculate a packet's network data size before sending a packet and make sure it doesn't exceed the MTU (thanks @SamuelBailey !)
  • UDP multicast support (thanks @mmizi !)
    • Add isMulticast() property to IPAddress, IPv4Address, IPv6Address
    • PcapSplitter: take into consideration multicast packets when splitting by client/server IP/port
  • New protocol support:
    • SSH (parsing only)
    • IP Sec (AH + ESP, parsing only)
  • Existing protocol enhancement:
    • DNS over TCP
    • Parse 2 new TLS extensions: Supported Groups and EC Point Format
    • Added a new IPLayer interface to abstract IPv4Layer and IPv6Layer
    • Added convenient methods to fetch source and dest ports in TCP and UDP layers
    • GRE layer - add Transparent Ethernet Bridging support (thanks @justin-parus !)
  • Major header files cleanup: remove platform-specific includes, remove pcap.h from PcapPlusPlus includes, remove redundant header files, replace c-str arguments with C++ std::string
  • New API method to search PcapLiveDevice by IP address or name
  • Parse packets with link type of LINKTYPE_IPV4 and LINKTYPE_IPV6 (thanks @miketruman !)
  • TCP reassembly
    • Add configurable out-of-order packets per flow limit (thanks @LeonBuikstraFox !)
    • Expose missing bytes size on data loss (thanks @cryptocode !)
  • hash5Tuple improvements (thanks @miketruman !)
  • Fix Makefile dependencies - detect when header files are changed (thanks @amirgon !)
  • Recognize *.zstd file extension in IFileReaderDevice::getReader() (thanks @naugler !)
  • Moved a large portion of PcapPlusPlus CI to GitHub Actions
  • Tons of bug fixes (thank you to everyone who reported issues and contributed bugfixes!)

Contributors

Thank you to everyone who contributed to this release:

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