- Update to version 20.08
* Major security and quality improvements:
+ PcapPlusPlus was added to Google OSS-Fuzz which uses the
Fuzz testing technique to discover security
vulnerabilities and stability bugs
+ Created a new regression test suite for OSS-Fuzz bugfixes
under Tests/Fuzzers/RegressionTests
+ Added LGTM integration to enable continuous code analysis
and prevent critical vulnerabilities
+ More than 60 issues were found by OSS-Fuzz and LGTM and
fixed in this release
+ Revamped Packet++Test and Pcap++Test: tests are now more
structured, divided into multiple files and use common and
more intuitive test infrastructure
+ Added a new test suite (written in Python) for
PcapPlusPlus examples under Tests/ExamplesTests
* Added DPDK 19.11 (LTS) support
* New supported protocols:
+ BGP v4
+ IEEE 802.3 Ethernet
* A complete rewrite of the IP address classes IPv4Address,
IPv6Address and IPAddress to make them more efficient and
easy to use
* In addition, new features were added to IP address classes:
+ Added "less than" comparison operator
+ Added subnet match for IPv6Address
* Performance optimization, readability improvements and code
cleanup in various parts of the code
* Integrated streaming ZStd compression for pcapng files
* Pcap/pcapng files:
+ Read and write in nanoseconds precision for pcapng files
+ Enable flush for pcap and pcapng file writers
* TCP reassembly returns status in every call to
TcpReassembly::reassemblePacket()
* Added port filter to HttpAnalyzer
* Support for setting snapshot length in PcapLiveDevice
* GeneralFilter::matchPacketWithFilter() can now match packet
of any link type
* Added user link types 147-162 to support custom protocols
* Tons of bug fixes