April 2019 Release
April 2019 release of PcapPlusPlus (v19.04)
This package contains:
- Binaries compiled with Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, 16.04 LTS,14.04 LTS
- Binaries compiled with CentOS 7
- Binaries compiled with Fedora 29
- Binaries compiled with MacOS 10.10 (Yosemite), 10.11 (El Capitan), 10.12 (Sierra) and 10.13 (High Sierra) using Xcode ranging from 7.3 to 10.1
- Binaries compiled with Windows using MinGW32 5.3.0 (32bit) and MinGW-w64 6.3.0 (32bit)
- Binaries compiled with Windows using Microsoft Visual Studio 2015 (32bit and 64bit, Debug and Release configurations)
- Source code
- 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/v1904/
Release notes (changes from v18.08):
- DPDK support enhancements:
- Added support for the newest DPDK releases: 18.05, 18.08, 18.11, 19.02
- Added a new
DpdkBridge
example which is a PcapPlusPlus implementation for DPDK's L2 forwarding example - Thanks @vicenterb ! - Added a new tutorial for using PcapPlusPlus with DPDK which walks through building a simple version of DpdkBridge
- Packet parsing and crafting enhancements:
- Added RADIUS layer
- Revamped DNS record API and added support for DNS MX records
- Revamped remove layer from packet - removing a layer is more intuitive now + added an option to detach a layer from a packet
- Revamped TLV data handling - simplified the way IPv4 options, TCP options, DHCP options, RADIUS attributes and IPv6 extensions with options are handled. API is now more intuitive and shares a common infrastructure
- Fixed bugs in fetching VLAN properties in
VlanLayer
- thanks @Lapshin !
- Added support for raw sockets on Linux and Windows (
RawSocketDevice
) - Added support for link-types other than Ethernet in
PcapLiveDevice
- thanks @axasoft ! - Exposed start and end times in TCP reassembly - thanks @Lnk2past !
- PcapSplitter:
- Added pcapng support
- When splitting by connection, multiple flows with the same 5-tuple are now separated to different files
- Added filtering capabilities to
PcapNgFileWriterDevice
- thanks @vrobles-gee ! - Added more accurate time measurement for packet capture in blocking mode
- Added
DeviceConfiguration
toPcapLiveDevice
to provide an interface to set WinPcap/libpcap packet buffer size and buffer timeout - Refactored the devices class hierarchy (the new root class is now
IDevice
) - Build system improvements to provide better support for package managers - thanks @solvingj !
- Lots of bugfixes