Summary for 1.7.2 libpcap release
Support for filtering Geneve encapsulated packets.
Wednesday Nov. 12, 2014 guy@alum.mit.edu/mcr@sandelman.ca
Summary for 1.7.0 libpcap release
Fix handling of zones for BPF on Solaris
new DLT for ZWAVE
clarifications for read timeouts.
added bpf_filter1() with extensions
some fixes to compilation without stdint.h
EBUSY can now be returned by SNFv3 code.
Monday Aug. 12, 2014 guy@alum.mit.edu
Summary for 1.6.2 libpcap release
Don't crash on filters testing a non-existent link-layer type
field.
Fix sending in non-blocking mode on Linux with memory-mapped
capture.
Fix timestamps when reading pcap-ng files on big-endian
machines.
Saturday Jul. 19, 2014 mcr@sandelman.ca
Summary for 1.6.1 libpcap release
some fixes for the any device
changes for how --enable-XXX (--enable-sniffing, --enable-can) works
Wednesday Jul. 2, 2014 mcr@sandelman.ca
Summary for 1.6.0 libpcap release
Don't support D-Bus sniffing on OS X
fixes for byte order issues with NFLOG captures
Handle using cooked mode for DLT_NETLINK in activate_new().
on platforms where you can not capture on down interfaces, do not list them
but: do list interfaces which are down, if you can capture on them!
Wednesday December 18, 2013 guy@alum.mit.edu
Summary for 1.5.3 libpcap release
Don't let packets that don't match the current filter get to the
application when TPACKET_V3 is used. (GitHub issue #331)
Fix handling of pcap_loop()/pcap_dispatch() with a packet count
of 0 on some platforms (including Linux with TPACKET_V3).
(GitHub issue #333)
Work around TPACKET_V3 deficiency that causes packets to be lost
when a timeout of 0 is specified. (GitHub issue #335)
Man page formatting fixes.
Wednesday December 4, 2013 guy@alum.mit.edu
Summary for 1.5.2 libpcap release
Fix libpcap to work when compiled with TPACKET_V3 support and
running on a kernel without TPACKET_V3 support. (GitHub
issue #329)
Wednesday November 20, 2013 guy@alum.mit.edu
Summary for 1.5.1 libpcap release
Report an error, rather than crashing, if an IPv6 address is
used for link-layer filtering. (Wireshark bug 9376)
Wednesday October 30, 2013 guy@alum.mit.edu
Summary for 1.5.0 libpcap release
TPACKET_V3 support added for Linux
Point users to the the-tcpdump-group repository on GitHub rather
than the mcr repository
Checks added for malloc()/realloc()/etc. failures
Fixed build on Solaris 11
Support filtering filtering E1 SS7 traffic on MTP2 layer Annex A
Use "ln -s" to link man pages by default
Add support for getting nanosecond-resolution time stamps when
capturing and reading capture files
Many changes to autoconf to deal better with non-GCC compilers
added many new DLT types
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