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@seladb seladb released this 04 Dec 06:20
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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 old IPcapDevice::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: