Overview of changes in EtherApe 0.9.18 (Sunday, June 3, 2018):
EtherApe now is a pure GTK 3 application, with canvas supplied by GooCanvas
(https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/GooCanvas).
While GooCanvas itself is in maintenance mode, is still the simpler canvas
library available and with an API almost identical to gnome-canvas, too!
Longer term, EtherApe ui should be completely redesigned and modernized,
but this is for another day.
Changes summary:
* EtherApe ported to GTK3 using GooCanvas instead of the obsolete
GnomeCanvas.
Overview of changes in EtherApe 0.9.17 (Thursday, April 5, 2018):
This is a bugfix release, because a bug made 0.9.16 still runtime-dependent
on gnomeui and other gnome 2 libraries.
Changes summary:
* EtherApe now requires Gtk 2.24
* fixed a bug making libglade load gnome2 libraries
* Sometimes node/links windows were freezing.
Overview of changes in EtherApe 0.9.16 (Sunday, January 14, 2018):
Several distributions are phasing out Gnome 2 libraries and EtherApe needs
to update as well.
Unfortunately, this mean dropping support for older distributions, for
example CENTOS 5 and 6. At this time the EtherApe executable can still be
built for those distributions, but not the project as a whole.
This is an interim release, where the only Gnome 2 component is
gnome-canvas. Apart of that, EtherApe is now a GTK2 application.
Work is underway to replace gnome-canvas with another component.
Documentation is now based on yelp-tools instead of Scroolkeeper/Rarian.
Many thanks to Patrick Matthäi for packaging EtherApe for Debian and
helping to keep this tool current.
Changes summary:
* require only gnome-canvas, not gnome-ui. Based on the work of
Arch Linux packager bgyorgy (Balló György). Thanks!
* migrate from deprecated gnome-doc-utils to yelp-tools.
Unfortunately this change rules out older distributions
* updated German translation, thanks to Chris Leick
Overview of changes in EtherApe 0.9.15 (Friday, February 10, 2017):
The central node ring setting now accepts multiple node specifiers
(separated by any combination of spaces and/or commas), and also
now understands glob syntax, so you can put for example
10.0.0.0/24, *.mydomain.tld, somehost.otherdomain.tld
and it will do what you'd expect.
There is now a compile-time configure option ('--with-c-ares',
disabled by default) to enable DNS resolution via the c-ares
library, supplanting EtherApe's built-in multithreaded
gethostbyaddr(3)-based resolver. This is a fully non-blocking DNS
library and thus has potential for better performance while using
only a single background resolver thread, but also means that
name-lookup is strictly DNS-based, and will thus not take
/etc/hosts, NIS, or other name services into account.
There is a slightly backwards-incompatible change in the syntax of
the node-position file used with the '-P' flag added in release
0.9.14. It now uses the same CIDR notation plus hostname-globbing
syntax used by the central node ring setting (instead of POSIX
regular expressions). This provides simpler and more consistent
syntax with essentially the same real-world utility, but may
require some small changes to existing node-position files. Some
examples:
Old (regex) New (CIDR+glob)
=============== ===============
172.16.2.[0-9]* 172.16.2.0/24
.*.mydomain.com *.mydomain.com
fe80:.* fe80::/16
Additionally, each line of the node-position file may now include
multiple such node-matching patterns (separated by spaces and/or
commas as with the central node ring setting), so a single line
might look like:
*.mydomain.com, 10.0.0.0/24 3
(to put all nodes matching the given domain or CIDR range into
column 3).
As a security feature (privilege separation), packet-capture
operations are now isolated in a separate background process. The
new '-Z' flag can be used to specify a user to run the main
(foreground) process as.
Changes summary:
* New option to use c-ares for DNS resolution.
* Multiple node/subnets and glob syntax now supported for central
node ring.
* Node-matching syntax for '-P' flag's file now uses CIDR
notation and hostname-globbing instead of regexes.
* Multiple patterns can now be given on a single line of the
node-position ('-P') file.
* The columnar-layout ('-P') code has been changed to re-adjust
the spacing of nodes within a column when the number of nodes
decreases. The 10-column limit has also been removed.
* The background-image feature introduced in 0.9.14 can now be
turned off via a preference check-box.
* The background of the protocol legend is now black so that
lighter colors (e.g. yellow) are more readable.
* There is now an option to display packet-capture statistics
from libpcap in the main window (hover the mouse over them for
an explanation in the status bar).
* The show/hide state of the toolbar, protocol legend, and status
bar are now preserved along with other preferences in the
user's config file.
* New '-Z' flag (or '--relinquish-privileges') can be used to run
most processing as an unprivileged user.
Overview of changes in EtherApe 0.9.14 (Saturday February 06, 2016):
EtherApe now users the system /etc/services file instead of its own.
While this change make some customizations a bit harder, it guarantees an
up-to-date services file.
Note to packagers: /etc/etherape is not needed anymore.
Central node option now undestands CIDR notation, allowing for a central
ring of nodes, thanks to Zev Weiss.
Static background image, courtesy of Glenn Feunteun.
Nodes can be optionally arranged as columns, thanks to David Goldfarb.
Changes summary:
* autoconf updated to 2.69
* fixed incorrect WLAN control frames decoding
* fix UTF-8 encoding of several files, thanks to StrPt.
* read system services file instead of EtherApe one, thanks to Zev Weiss.
* fix race condition on exit, thanks to Zev Weiss
* central ring option, thanks to Zev Weiss
* tweaks to preference windows to better work with tiling managers,
thanks to Zev Weiss.
* static background image (Glenn Feunteun)
* arrange nodes in 'columns' (David Goldfarb)
Overview of changes in EtherApe 0.9.13 (Sun May 05, 2013):
Central node option, useful for displaying routers or proxies.
Translations and documentation updates, plus some fixes.
Changes summary:
* Optional central node, based on work of Javier Fernandez-Sanguino
Peña.
* re-enabled full-screen mode, thanks to nrvale0
* Updated spanish translation, thanks to Javier Fernandez-Sanguino
Peña.
* Added German translation, and fixed typos, thanks to Chris Leick.
* Updated documentation.
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