December 2019 Release
December 2019 release of PcapPlusPlus (v19.12)
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 10.11 (El Capitan), 10.12 (Sierra), 10.13 (High Sierra) and 10.14 (Mojave) using Xcode ranging from 7.3 to 11.2
- Binaries compiled with FreeBSD 11.2 and 12.0
- 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, 2017, 2019 (32bit + 64bit, Debug + 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/v1912/
Release notes (changes from v19.04)
- Added support for Visual Studio 2017 and 2019
- Added support for DPDK 19.08 (thanks @gx740 !)
- Major improvements in TCP reassembly (thanks @gx740 !):
- Reducing memory consumption by cleaning up old connections
- A lot of performance and code optimizations
- Added out-of-the-box support for MacOS 10.14 Mojave and later
- Added support for FreeBSD (thanks @rickyzhang82 !)
- Added support for GTP v1 protocol
- Added DPDK KNI support (thanks @echo-Mike !)
- Added KniPong example to demo the new KNI API (thanks @echo-Mike !)
- Lots of performance optimizations and code cleanups (special thanks to @gx740 !)
- Major revamp of reading/writing pcapng files - use streaming instead of memory copies and added support for compression (thanks @Dysl3xik !)
- Added support for pcap_setdirection in
PcapLiveDevice
(thanks @MrSiz !) - Performance optimization and fixes in IPReassembly (thanks @gx740, @silviucpp !)
- Added a new
BPFStringFilter
pcap filter to handle raw BPF filter strings and deprecated the oldIPcapDevice::matchPacketWithFilter()
API (thanks @Dysl3xik !) - Let the user add custom LDFLAGS to the main Makefile (thanks @rom1sqr !)
- Added data validations in
IPv4Layer
before parsing the next layers (thanks @gx740 !) - Created a new unit-test framework to make it easier to write unit-tests
- Replaced old 3rd-party debug-new with new homegrown MemPlumber
- Tons of bug fixes (special thanks to @gx740 , @echo-Mike , @Dysl3xik !)
Contributors
Thank you for everyone who contributed to this release: