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version 1.10.1 released on June 9, 2021

Tuesday, December 29, 2020
  Summary for 1.10.0 libpcap release
    Require, and assume, some level of C99 support in the C compiler
    Require Visual Studio 2015 or later if using Visual Studio
    Add support for capturing on DPDK devices
    rpcap: support rpcap-over-TLS
    Windows: report the system error for PacketSetHwFilter() failures
    Label most APIs by the first release in which they're available
    Add support for getting and setting packet time stamp types
        with Npcap
    Add pcap_init(), and add support for UTF-8 strings, including error
        messages, on Windows
    Improve man pages, including adding backward compatibility notes
    Fix configure script issues, including with libnl on Linux
    Fix CMake issues
    Squelch complaints from Bison about "%define api.pure" being
        deprecated
    Fix some memory leaks, including in pcap_compile()
    Linux: handle systems without AF_INET or AF_UNIX socket support
    Catch invalid IPv4 addresses in filters
    AIX: fix loading of BPF kernel extension
    rpcapd: fix core dumps with invalid configuration file
    Show special Linux BPF offsets symbolically in bpf_image() and
        bpf_dump()
    Add some overflow checks in the optimizer
    Add pcap_datalink_val_to_description_or_dlt()
    Windows: make the snapshot length work even if pcap_setfilter()
        isn't called
    Linux: get rid of Wireless Extensions for turning monitor mode on
    Handle the pcap private data in a fashion that makes fewer
       assumptions about memory layouts (might fix GitHub issue #940
       on ARM)
    Fix "unknown ether proto 'aarp'"
    Fix some issues found by cppcheck.
    Linux: proper memory sync for PACKET_MMAP (may prevent GitHub issue
        #898)
    Remove undocumented and rather old "ether proto" protocols
    Fix some thread safety issues
    Windows: add pcap_handle(), and deprecate pcap_fileno()
    AirPcap: add AirPcap support in a module, rather than using
        WinPcap/Npcap's support for it
    Linux: drop support for libnl 1 and 2.
    Linux: Require PF_PACKET support, and kernel 2.6.27 or later
    Add DLT_LINUX_SLL2
    Add a new filter "ifindex" for DLT_LINUX_SLL2 files and live
        Linux captures
    optimizer: add a hack to try to catch certain optimizer loops
        (should prevent GitHub issue #112)
    Probe CONFIGURATION descriptor of connected USB devices
    macOS: cope with getting EPWROFF from SIOCGIFMEDIA
    Linux: return error on interface going away, but not if it just went
        down
    Windows: fix compilation on Cygwin/MSYS
    Linux: set socket protocol only after packet ring configured,
        reducing bogus packet drop reports
    pcap_findalldevs(): don't sort interfaces by unit number
    Linux: get ifdrop stats from sysfs.
    Fix various security issues reported by Charles Smith at Tangible
        Security
    Fix various security issues reported by Include Security
    rpcapd: on UN*X, don't tell the client why authentication failed
    Linux: when adjusting BPF programs, do not subtract the
        SLL[2]_HDR_LEN if the location is negative (special metadata
        offset)
    Preserve references to metadata when adjusting the program;
        see https://github.com/the-tcpdump-group/tcpdump/issues/480#issuecomment-486827278
    Always return a list of supported time-stamp types, even if only
        host time stamps are supported
    Linux: with a timeout of zero, wait indefinitely
    Linux: clean up support for some non-GNU libc C libraries
    Increase the maximum snaplen for LINKTYPE_USBPCAP/DLT_USBPCAP
    Fix handling of some ioctls that fail with "permission denied" even
        when the ioctl isn't supported at all
    Added support for ICMPv6 types 1-4 as tokens in filters
    Windows: Report PCAP_ERROR_NO_SUCH_DEVICE for a non-existent device
    Windows: return an appropriate error message for device removed or
        device unusable due to a suspend/resume
    BPF: treat both ENXIO (everybody but OpenBSD) and EIO (OpenBSD) as
        meaning "the interface was removed"
    BPF: report "the interface disappeared", not "the interface went
        down", if the interface was removed during a capture
    Linux, Windows: report a warning for unknown link-layer header types
    Create the file in pcap_dump_open_append() if it doesn't exist
    Linux, NPF: have pcap_breakloop() forcibly break out of a sleeping
        capture loop
    Report the DLT description in error messages
    Linux: Add support for DSA data link types
    Linux USB: use the snapshot length to set the buffer size, and set
        the len field to reflect the length in the URB (GitHub issue
        #808)
    rpcapd: allow rpcapd to rebind more rapidly (GitHub issue #765)
    Windows: clean up building DLL
    Fix compilation of pcap-tc.c
    Add Haiku pcap implementation
    Windows: handle CRT mismatch for pcap_dump_fopen()
    Windows: map NdisMediumWirelessWan to DLT_RAW
    rpcap: add some new authentication libpcap error codes for
        specific errors
    rpcap: redo protocol version negotiation to avoid problems with old
        servers (it still works with servers using the old negotiation,
        as well as servers not supporting negotiation)
    rpcap: error handling cleanups
    rpcapd: fix some inetd issues
    Don't assume ARM supports unaligned accesses
    Remove (unused) SITA support here.
    Correctly handle pcapng captures with more than one IDB with a
        snspshot length greater than the supported maximum

version 1.9.1 release tar built

1.9.0 release: not identical to the 1.9.0rc2 release.

It includes a bunch of small typos/fixes found in the rc2 release,
including some missing files in the release tarball, and a
64-bit alignment fix.

Tuesday, Oct. 25, 2016 mcr@sandelman.ca
  Summary for 1.8.1 libpcap release
    Add a target in Makefile.in for Exuberant Ctags use: 'extags'.
    Rename configure.in to configure.ac: autoconf 2.59
    Clean up the name-to-DLT mapping table.
    Add some newer DLT_ values: IPMI_HPM_2,ZWAVE_R1_R2,ZWAVE_R3,WATTSTOPPER_DLM,ISO_14443,RDS
    Clarify what the return values are for both success and failure.
    Many changes to build on windows
    Check for the "break the loop" condition in the inner loop for TPACKET_V3.
    Fix handling of packet count in the TPACKET_V3 inner loop: GitHub issue #493.
    Filter out duplicate looped back CAN frames.
    Fix the handling of loopback filters for IPv6 packets.
    Add a link-layer header type for RDS (IEC 62106) groups.
    Use different intermediate folders for x86 and x64 builds on Windows.
    On Linux, handle all CAN captures with pcap-linux.c, in cooked mode.
    Removes the need for the "host-endian" link-layer header type.
    Compile with '-Wused-but-marked-unused' in devel mode if supported
    Have separate DLTs for big-endian and host-endian SocketCAN headers.
    Reflect version.h being renamed to pcap_version.h.
    Require that version.h be generated: all build procedures we support generate version.h (autoconf, CMake, MSVC)!
    Properly check for sock_recv() errors.
    Re-impose some of Winsock's limitations on sock_recv().
    Replace sprintf() with pcap_snprintf().
    Fix signature of pcap_stats_ex_remote().
    Initial cmake support for remote packet capture.
    Have rpcap_remoteact_getsock() return a SOCKET and supply an "is active" flag.
    Clean up {DAG, Septel, Myricom SNF}-only builds.
    Do UTF-16-to-ASCII conversion into the right place.
    pcap_create_interface() needs the interface name on Linux.
    Clean up hardware time stamp support: the "any" device does not support any time stamp types.
    Add support for capturing on FreeBSD usbusN interfaces.
    Add a LINKTYPE/DLT_ value for FreeBSD USB.
    Go back to using PCAP_API on Windows.
    CMake support
    Add TurboCap support from WinPcap.
    Recognize 802.1ad nested VLAN tag in vlan filter.

Saturday Jun. 27, 2015 mcr@sandelman.ca
  Summary for 1.7.4 libpcap release
	Include fix for GitHub issue #424 -- out of tree builds.

Friday Apr. 10, 2015 guy@alum.mit.edu
  Summary for 1.7.3 libpcap release
	Work around a Linux bonding driver bug.

Thursday Feb. 12, 2015 guy@alum.mit.edu/mcr@sandelman.ca
  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

Saturday April 6, 2013 guy@alum.mit.edu
Summary for 1.4.0 libpcap release
	Add netfilter/nfqueue interface.
	If we don't have support for IPv6 address resolution, support,
	    in filter expressions, what IPv6 stuff we can.
	Fix pcap-config to include -lpthread if canusb support is
	    present
	Try to fix "pcap_parse not defined" problems when --without-flex
	    and --without-bison are used when you have Flex and Bison
	Fix some issues with the pcap_loop man page.
	Fix pcap_getnonblock() and pcap_setnonblock() to fill in the
	    supplied error message buffer
	Fix typo that, it appeared, would cause pcap-libdlpi.c not to
	    compile (perhaps systems with libdlpi also have BPF and use
	    that instead)
	Catch attempts to call pcap_compile() on a non-activated pcap_t
	Fix crash on Linux with CAN-USB support without usbfs
	Fix addition of VLAN tags for Linux cooked captures
	Check for both EOPNOTSUPP and EINVAL after SIOCETHTOOL ioctl, so
	    that the driver can report either one if it doesn't support
	    SIOCETHTOOL
	Add DLT_INFINIBAND and DLT_SCTP
	Describe "proto XXX" and "protochain XXX" in the pcap-filter man
	    page
	Handle either directories, or symlinks to directories, that
	    correspond to interfaces in /sys/class/net
	Fix handling of VLAN tag insertion to check, on Linux 3.x
	    kernels, for VLAN tag valid flag
	Clean up some man pages
	Support libnl3 as well as libnl1 and libnl2 on Linux
	Fix handling of Bluetooth devices on 3.x Linux kernels

Friday  March 30, 2012.  mcr@sandelman.ca
Summary for 1.3.0 libpcap release
        Handle DLT_PFSYNC in {FreeBSD, other *BSD+Mac OS X, other}.
        Linux: Don't fail if netfilter isn't enabled in the kernel.
        Add new link-layer type for NFC Forum LLCP.
        Put the CANUSB stuff into EXTRA_DIST, so it shows up in the release tarball.
        Add LINKTYPE_NG40/DLT_NG40.
        Add DLT_MPEG_2_TS/LINKTYPE_MPEG_2_TS for MPEG-2 transport streams.
        [PATCH] Fix AIX-3.5 crash with read failure during stress
        AIX fixes.
        Introduce --disable-shared configure option.
        Added initial support for canusb devices.
        Include the pcap(3PCAP) additions as 1.2.1 changes.
        many updates to documentation: pcap.3pcap.in
        Improve 'inbound'/'outbound' capture filters under Linux.
        Note the cleanup of handling of new DLT_/LINKTYPE_ values.
        On Lion, don't build for PPC.
        For mac80211 devices we need to clean up monitor mode on exit.

Friday  December 9, 2011.  guy@alum.mit.edu.
Summary for 1.2.1 libpcap release
	Update README file.
	Fix typoes in README.linux file.
	Clean up some compiler warnings.
	Fix Linux compile problems and tests for ethtool.h.
	Treat Debian/kFreeBSD and GNU/Hurd as systems with GNU
	 toolchains.
	Support 802.1 QinQ as a form of VLAN in filters.
	Treat "carp" as equivalent to "vrrp" in filters.
	Fix code generated for "ip6 protochain".
	Add some new link-layer header types.
	Support capturing NetFilter log messages on Linux.
	Clean up some error messages.
	Turn off monitor mode on exit for mac80211 interfaces on Linux.
	Fix problems turning monitor mode on for non-mac80211 interfaces
	 on Linux.
	Properly fail if /sys/class/net or /proc/net/dev exist but can't
	 be opened.
	Fail if pcap_activate() is called on an already-activated
	 pcap_t, and add a test program for that.
	Fix filtering in pcap-ng files.
	Don't build for PowerPC on Mac OS X Lion.
	Simplify handling of new DLT_/LINKTYPE_ values.
	Expand pcap(3PCAP) man page.

Sunday  July 24, 2011.  mcr@sandelman.ca.
Summary for 1.2 libpcap release
        All of the changes listed below for 1.1.1 and 1.1.2.
        Changes to error handling for pcap_findalldevs().
        Fix the calculation of the frame size in memory-mapped captures.
        Add a link-layer header type for STANAG 5066 D_PDUs.
        Add a link-layer type for a variant of 3GPP TS 27.010.
        Noted real nature of LINKTYPE_ARCNET.
        Add a link-layer type for DVB-CI.
        Fix configure-script discovery of VLAN acceleration support.
         see http://netoptimizer.blogspot.com/2010/09/tcpdump-vs-vlan-tags.html
        Linux, HP-UX, AIX, NetBSD and OpenBSD compilation/conflict fixes.
        Protect against including AIX 5.x's <net/bpf.h> having been included.
        Add DLT_DBUS, for raw D-Bus messages.
        Treat either EPERM or EACCES as "no soup for you".
        Changes to permissions on DLPI systems.
        Add DLT_IEEE802_15_4_NOFCS for 802.15.4 interfaces.

Fri.    August 6, 2010.  guy@alum.mit.edu.
Summary for 1.1.2 libpcap release
	Return DLT_ values, not raw LINKTYPE_ values from
	  pcap_datalink() when reading pcap-ng files
	Add support for "wlan ra" and "wlan ta", to check the RA and TA
	  of WLAN frames that have them
	Don't crash if "wlan addr{1,2,3,4}" are used without 802.11
	  headers
	Do filtering on USB and Bluetooth capturing
	On FreeBSD/SPARC64, use -fPIC - it's apparently necessary
	Check for valid port numbers (fit in a 16-bit unsigned field) in
	  "port" filters
	Reject attempts to put savefiles into non-blocking mode
	Check for "no such device" for the "get the media types" ioctl
	  in *BSD
	Improve error messages from bpf_open(), and let it do the error
	  handling
	Return more specific errors from pcap_can_set_rfmon(); fix
	  documentation
	Update description fetching code for FreeBSD, fix code for
	  OpenBSD
	Ignore /sys/net/dev files if we get ENODEV for them, not just
	  ENXIO; fixes handling of bonding devices on Linux
	Fix check for a constant 0 argument to BPF_DIV
	Use the right version of ar when cross-building
	Free any filter set on a savefile when the savefile is closed
	Include the CFLAGS setting when configure was run in the
	  compiler flags
	Add support for 802.15.4 interfaces on Linux

Thu.    April 1, 2010.  guy@alum.mit.edu.
Summary for 1.1.1 libpcap release
	Update CHANGES to reflect more of the changes in 1.1.0.
	Fix build on RHEL5.
	Fix shared library build on AIX.

Thu.	March 11, 2010.  ken@netfunctional.ca/guy@alum.mit.edu.
Summary for 1.1.0 libpcap release
	Add SocketCAN capture support
	Add Myricom SNF API support
	Update Endace DAG and ERF support
	Add support for shared libraries on Solaris, HP-UX, and AIX
	Build, install, and un-install shared libraries by default;
	  don't build/install shared libraries on platforms we don't support
	Fix building from a directory other than the source directory
	Fix compiler warnings and builds on some platforms
	Update config.guess and config.sub
	Support monitor mode on mac80211 devices on Linux
	Fix USB memory-mapped capturing on Linux; it requires a new DLT_
	  value
	On Linux, scan /sys/class/net for devices if we have it; scan
	  it, or /proc/net/dev if we don't have /sys/class/net, even if
	  we have getifaddrs(), as it'll find interfaces with no
	  addresses
	Add limited support for reading pcap-ng files
	Fix BPF driver-loading error handling on AIX
	Support getting the full-length interface description on FreeBSD
	In the lexical analyzer, free up any addrinfo structure we got back
	  from getaddrinfo().
	Add support for BPF and libdlpi in OpenSolaris (and SXCE)
	Hyphenate "link-layer" everywhere
	Add /sys/kernel/debug/usb/usbmon to the list of usbmon locations
	In pcap_read_linux_mmap(), if there are no frames available, call
	  poll() even if we're in non-blocking mode, so we pick up
	  errors, and check for the errors in question.
	Note that poll() works on BPF devices is Snow Leopard
	If an ENXIO or ENETDOWN is received, it may mean the device has
	  gone away.  Deal with it.
	For BPF, raise the default capture buffer size to from 32k to 512k
	Support ps_ifdrop on Linux
	Added a bunch of #ifdef directives to make wpcap.dll (WinPcap) compile
	 under cygwin.
	Changes to Linux mmapped captures.
	Fix bug where create_ring would fail for particular snaplen and
	  buffer size combinations
	Update pcap-config so that it handles libpcap requiring
	  additional libraries
	Add workaround for threadsafeness on Windows
	Add missing mapping for DLT_ENC <-> LINKTYPE_ENC
	DLT: Add DLT_CAN_SOCKETCAN
	DLT: Add Solaris ipnet
	Don't check for DLT_IPNET if it's not defined
	Add link-layer types for Fibre Channel FC-2
	Add link-layer types for Wireless HART
	Add link-layer types for AOS
	Add link-layer types for DECT
	Autoconf fixes (AIX, HP-UX, OSF/1, Tru64 cleanups)
	Install headers unconditionally, and include vlan.h/bluetooth.h if
	  enabled
	Autoconf fixes+cleanup
	Support enabling/disabling bluetooth (--{en,dis}able-bluetooth)
	Support disabling SITA support (--without-sita)
	Return -1 on failure to create packet ring (if supported but
	  creation failed)
	Fix handling of 'any' device, so that it can be opened, and no longer
	  attempt to open it in Monitor mode
	Add support for snapshot length for USB Memory-Mapped Interface
	Fix configure and build on recent Linux kernels
	Fix memory-mapped Linux capture to support pcap_next() and
	  pcap_next_ex()
	Fixes for Linux USB capture
	DLT: Add DLT_LINUX_EVDEV
	DLT: Add DLT_GSMTAP_UM
	DLT: Add DLT_GSMTAP_ABIS

Mon.    October 27, 2008.  ken@netfunctional.ca.  Summary for 1.0.0 libpcap release
	Compile with IPv6 support by default
	Compile with large file support on by default
	Add pcap-config script, which deals with -I/-L flags for compiling
	DLT: Add IPMB
	DLT: Add LAPD
	DLT: Add AX25 (AX.25 w/KISS header)
	DLT: Add JUNIPER_ST
	802.15.4 support
	Variable length 802.11 header support
	X2E data type support
	SITA ACN Interface support - see README.sita
	Support for memory-mapped capture on Linux
	Support for zerocopy BPF on platforms that support it
	Support for setting buffer size when opening devices
	Support for setting monitor mode when opening 802.11 devices
	Better support for dealing with VLAN tagging/stripping on Linux
	Fix dynamic library support on OSX
	Return PCAP_ERROR_IFACE_NOT_UP if the interface isn't 'UP', so applications
	 can print better diagnostic information
	Return PCAP_ERROR_PERM_DENIED if we don't have permission to open a device, so
	 applications can tell the user they need to go play with permissions
	On Linux, ignore ENETDOWN so we can continue to capture packets if the
	 interface goes down and comes back up again.
	On Linux, support new tpacket frame headers (2.6.27+)
	On Mac OS X, add scripts for changing permissions on /dev/bpf* and launchd plist
	On Solaris, support 'passive mode' on systems that support it
	Fixes to autoconf and general build environment
	Man page reorganization + cleanup
	Autogenerate VERSION numbers better

Mon.    September 10, 2007.  ken@xelerance.com.  Summary for 0.9.8 libpcap release
        Change build process to put public libpcap headers into pcap subir
        DLT: Add value for IPMI IPMB packets
        DLT: Add value for u10 Networks boards
        Require <net/pfvar.h> for pf definitions - allows reading of pflog formatted
         libpcap files on an OS other than where the file was generated

Wed.	April 25, 2007.  ken@xelerance.com.  Summary for 0.9.6 libpcap release

	Put the public libpcap headers into a pcap subdirectory in both the
	 source directory and the target include directory, and have include
	 files at the top-level directory to include those headers, for
	 backwards compatibility.
	Add Bluetooth support
	Add USB capturing support on Linux
	Add support for the binary USB sniffing interface in Linux
	Add support for new FreeBSD BIOCSDIRECTION ioctl
	Add additional filter operations for 802.11 frame types
	Add support for filtering on MTP2 frame types
	Propagate some changes from the main branch, so the x.9 branch has
	 all the DLT_ and LINKTYPE_ values that the main branch does
	Reserved a DLT_ and SAVEFILE_ value for PPI (Per Packet Info)
	 encapsulated packets
	Add LINKTYPE_ for IEEE 802.15.4, with address fields padded as done
	 by Linux drivers
	Add LINKTYPE_ value corresponding to DLT_IEEE802_16_MAC_CPS.
	Add DLT for IEEE 802.16 (WiMAX) MAC Common Part Sublayer
	Add DLT for Bluetooth HCI UART transport layer
	When building a shared library, build with "-fPIC" on Linux to support x86_64
	Link with "$(CC) -shared" rather than "ld -shared" when building a
	 ".so" shared library
	Add support for autoconf 2.60
	Fixes to discard unread packets when changing filters
	Changes to handle name changes in the DAG library resulting from
	 switching to libtool.
	Add support for new DAG ERF types.
        Add an explicit "-ldag" when building the shared library, so the DAG
	 library dependency is explicit.
	Mac OSX fixes for dealing with "wlt" devices
	Fixes in add_or_find_if() & pcap_findalldevs() to optimize generating
	 device lists
	Fixed a bug in pcap_open_live(). The return value of PacketSetHwFilter
	 was not checked.

Tue.	September 19, 2006. ken@xelerance.com. Summary for 0.9.5 libpcap release

	Support for LAPD frames with vISDN
	Support for ERF on channelized T1/E1 cards via DAG API
	Fix capitalization that caused issues crossc compiling on Linux
	Better failure detection on PacketGetAdapterNames()
	Fixes for MPLS packet generation (link layer)
	OP_PACKET now matches the beginning of the packet, instead of
	 beginning+link-layer
	Add DLT/LINKTYPE for carrying FRF.16 Multi-link Frame Relay
	Fix allocation of buffer for list of link-layer types
	Added a new DLT and LINKTYPE value for ARINC 653 Interpartition Communcation Messages
	Fixed a typo in a DLT value: it should start with DLT_ and not LINKTYPE_
	Redefined DLT_CAN20B and LINKTYPE_CAN20B as #190 (as this is the right value for CAN).
	Added definition for DLT_A429 and LINKTYPE_A429 as #184.
	Added a new DLT and LINKTYPE value for CAN v2.0B frames.
	Add support for DLT_JUNIPER_VP.
	Don't double-count received packets on Linux systems that
	 support the PACKET_STATISTICS getsockopt() argument on
	 PF_PACKET sockets.
	Add support for DLT_IEEE802_11 and DLT_IEEE802_11_RADIO link
	 layers in Windows
	Add support to build libpcap.lib and wpcap.dll under Cygnus and
	 MingW32.

Mon. 	September 5, 2005.  ken@xelerance.com. Summary for 0.9.4 libpcap release

	Support for radiotap on Linux (Mike Kershaw)
	Fixes for HP-UX
	Support for additional Juniper link-layer types
	Fixes for filters on MPLS-encapsulated packets
	"vlan" filter fixed
	"pppoed" and "pppoes" filters added; the latter modifies later
	parts of the filter expression to look at the PPP headers and
	headers in the PPP payload

Tue. 	July 5, 2005.  ken@xelerance.com. Summary for 0.9.3 libpcap release

	Fixes for compiling on nearly every platform,
		including improved 64bit support
	MSDOS Support
	Add support for sending packets
	OpenBSD pf format support
	IrDA capture (Linux only)

Tue.   March 30, 2004. mcr@sandelman.ottawa.on.ca. Summary for 3.8.3 release

	Fixed minor problem in gencode.c that would appear on 64-bit
	platforms.
	Version number is now sane.

Mon.   March 29, 2004. mcr@sandelman.ottawa.on.ca. Summary for 3.8.2 release

	updates for autoconf 2.5
	fixes for ppp interfaces for freebsd 4.1
	pcap gencode can generate code for 802.11, IEEE1394, and pflog.

Wed.   November 12, 2003. mcr@sandelman.ottawa.on.ca. Summary for 0.8 release

	added pcap_findalldevs()
	Win32 patches from NetGroup, Politecnico di Torino (Italy)
	OpenBSD pf, DLT_PFLOG added
	Many changes to ATM support.
	lookup pcap_lookupnet()
	Added DLT_ARCNET_LINUX, DLT_ENC, DLT_IEEE802_11_RADIO, DLT_SUNATM,
		DLT_IP_OVER_FC, DLT_FRELAY, others.
	Sigh.  More AIX wonderfulness.
	Document updates.
	Changes to API: pcap_next_ex(), pcap_breakloop(), pcap_dump_flush(),
			pcap_list_datalinks(), pcap_set_datalink(),
			pcap_lib_version(), pcap_datalink_val_to_name(),
			pcap_datalink_name_to_val(), new error returns.

Tuesday, February 25, 2003. fenner@research.att.com.  0.7.2 release

 	Support link types that use 802.2 always, never, and sometimes.
 	Don't decrease the size of the BPF buffer from the default.
 	Support frame relay.
 	Handle 32-bit timestamps in DLPI, and pass the right buffer size.
 	Handle Linux systems with modern kernel but without
 	 SOL_PACKET in the userland headers.
 	Linux support for ARPHRD_RAWHDLC.
 	Handle 32-bit timestamps in snoop.
 	Support eg (Octane/O2xxx/O3xxx Gigabit) devices.
 	Add new reserved DLT types.

Monday October 23, 2001. mcr@sandelman.ottawa.on.ca. Summary for 0.7 release

	Added pcap_findalldevs() call to get list of interfaces in a MI way.

	pcap_stats() has been documented as to what its counters mean on
	each platform.

Tuesday January 9, 2001. guy@alum.mit.edu. Summary for 0.6 release

	New Linux libpcap implementation, which, in 2.2 and later
	kernels, uses PF_PACKET sockets and supports kernel packet
	filtering (if compiled into the kernel), and supports the "any"
	device for capturing on all interfaces.  Cleans up promiscuous
	mode better on pre-2.2 kernels, and has various other fixes
	(handles 2.4 ARPHRD_IEEE802_TR, handles ISDN devices better,
	doesn't show duplicate packets on loopback interface, etc.).

	Fixed HP-UX libpcap implementation to correctly get the PPA for
	an interface, to allow interfaces to be opened by interface name.

	libpcap savefiles have system-independent link-layer type values
	in the header, rather than sometimes platform-dependent DLT_
	values, to make it easier to exchange capture files between
	different OSes.

	Non-standard capture files produced by some Linux tcpdumps, e.g.
	the one from Red Hat Linux 6.2 and later, can now be read.

	Updated autoconf stock files.

	Filter expressions can filter on VLAN IDs and various OSI
	protocols, and work on Token Ring (with non-source-routed
	packets).

	"pcap_open_dead()" added to allow compiling filter expressions
	to pcap code without opening a capture device or capture file.

	Header files fixed to allow use in C++ programs.

	Removed dependancy on native headers for packet layout.
	Removed Linux specific headers that were shipped.

	Security fixes: Strcpy replaced with strlcpy, sprintf replaced
	with snprintf.

	Fixed bug that could cause subsequent "pcap_compile()"s to fail
	erroneously after one compile failed.

	Assorted other bug fixes.

	README.aix and README.linux files added to describe
	platform-specific issues.

	"getifaddrs()" rather than SIOCGIFCONF used, if available.

v0.5 Sat Jun 10 11:09:15 PDT 2000

itojun@iijlab.net
- Brought in KAME IPv6/IPsec bpf compiler.
- Fixes for NetBSD.
- Support added for OpenBSD DLT_LOOP and BSD/OS DLT_C_HDLC (Cisco HDLC),
  and changes to work around different BSDs having different DLT_ types
  with the same numeric value.

Assar Westerlund  <assar@sics.se>
- Building outside the source code tree fixed.
- Changed to write out time stamps with 32-bit seconds and microseconds
  fields, regardless of whether those fields are 32 bits or 64 bits in
  the OS's native "struct timeval".
- Changed "pcap_lookupdev()" to dynamically grow the buffer into which
  the list of interfaces is read as necessary in order to hold the
  entire list.

Greg Troxel <gdt@ir.bbn.com>
- Added a new "pcap_compile_nopcap()", which lets you compile a filter
  expression into a BPF program without having an open live capture or
  capture file.

v0.4 Sat Jul 25 12:40:09 PDT 1998

- Fix endian problem with DLT_NULL devices. From FreeBSD via Bill
  Fenner (fenner@parc.xerox.com)

- Fix alignment problem with FDDI under DLPI. This was causing core
  dumps under Solaris.

- Added configure options to disable flex and bison. Resulted from a
  bug report by barnett@grymoire.crd.ge.com (Bruce Barnett). Also added
  options to disable gcc and to force a particular packet capture type.

- Added support for Fore ATM interfaces (qaa and fa) under IRIX. Thanks
  to John Hawkinson (jhawk@mit.edu)

- Change Linux PPP and SLIP to use DLT_RAW since the kernel does not
  supply any "link layer" data.

- Change Linux to use SIOCGIFHWADDR ioctl to determine link layer type.
  Thanks to Thomas Sailer (sailer@ife.ee.ethz.ch)

- Change IRIX PPP to use DLT_RAW since the kernel does not supply any
  "link layer" data.

- Modified to support the new BSD/OS 2.1 PPP and SLIP link layer header
  formats.

- Added some new SGI snoop interface types. Thanks to Steve Alexander
  (sca@refugee.engr.sgi.com)

- Fixes for HP-UX 10.20 (which is similar to HP-UX 9). Thanks to
  Richard Allen (ra@hp.is) and Steinar Haug (sthaug@nethelp.no)

- Fddi supports broadcast as reported by Jeff Macdonald
  (jeff@iacnet.com). Also correct ieee802 and arcnet.

- Determine Linux pcap buffer size at run time or else it might not be
  big enough for some interface types (e.g. FDDI). Thanks to Jes
  Sorensen (Jes.Sorensen@cern.ch)

- Fix some linux alignment problems.

- Document promisc argument to pcap_open_live(). Reported by Ian Marsh
  (ianm@sics.se)

- Support Metricom radio packets under Linux. Thanks to Kevin Lai
  (laik@gunpowder.stanford.edu)

- Bind to interface name under Linux to avoid packets from multiple
  interfaces on multi-homed hosts. Thanks to Kevin Lai
  (laik@gunpowder.stanford.edu)

- Change L_SET to SEEK_SET for HP-UX. Thanks to Roland Roberts
  (rroberts@muller.com)

- Fixed an uninitialized memory reference found by Kent Vander Velden
  (graphix@iastate.edu)

- Fixed lex pattern for IDs to allow leading digits. As reported by
  Theo de Raadt (deraadt@cvs.openbsd.org)

- Fixed Linux include file problems when using GNU libc.

- Ifdef ARPHRD_FDDI since not all versions of the Linux kernel have it.
  Reported reported by Eric Jacksch (jacksch@tenebris.ca)

- Fixed bug in pcap_dispatch() that kept it from returning on packet
  timeouts.

- Changed ISLOOPBACK() macro when IFF_LOOPBACK isn't available to check
  for "lo" followed by an eos or digit (newer versions of Linux
  apparently call the loopback "lo" instead of "lo0").

- Fixed Linux networking include files to use ints instead of longs to
  avoid problems with 64 bit longs on the alpha. Thanks to Cristian
  Gafton (gafton@redhat.com)

v0.3 Sat Nov 30 20:56:27 PST 1996

- Added Linux support.

- Fixed savefile bugs.

- Solaris x86 fix from Tim Rylance (t.rylance@elsevier.nl)

- Add support for bpf kernel port filters.

- Remove duplicate atalk protocol table entry. Thanks to Christian
  Hopps (chopps@water.emich.edu)

- Fixed pcap_lookupdev() to ignore nonexistent devices. This was
  reported to happen under BSD/OS by David Vincenzetti
  (vince@cryptonet.it)

- Avoid solaris compiler warnings. Thanks to Bruce Barnett
  (barnett@grymoire.crd.ge.com)

v0.2.1 Sun Jul 14 03:02:26 PDT 1996

- Fixes for HP-UX 10. Thanks in part to to Thomas Wolfram
  (wolf@prz.tu-berlin.de) and Rick Jones (raj@hpisrdq.cup.hp.com)

- Added support for SINIX. Thanks to Andrej Borsenkow
  (borsenkow.msk@sni.de)

- Fixes for AIX (although this system is not yet supported). Thanks to
  John Hawkinson (jhawk@mit.edu)

- Use autoconf's idea of the top level directory in install targets.
  Thanks to John Hawkinson.

- Add missing autoconf packet capture result message. Thanks to Bill
  Fenner (fenner@parc.xerox.com)

- Fixed padding problems in the pf module.

- Fixed some more alignment problems on the alpha.

- Added explicit netmask support. Thanks to Steve Nuchia
  (steve@research.oknet.com)

- Fixed to handle raw ip addresses such as 0.0.0.1 without "left
  justifing"

- Add "sca" keyword (for DEC cluster services) as suggested by Terry
  Kennedy (terry@spcvxa.spc.edu)

- Add "atalk" keyword as suggested by John Hawkinson.

- Add "igrp" keyword.

- Fixed HID definition in grammar.y to be a string, not a value.

- Use $CC when checking gcc version. Thanks to Carl Lindberg
  (carl_lindberg@blacksmith.com)

- Removed obsolete reference to pcap_immediate() from the man page.
  Michael Stolarchuk (mts@terminator.rs.itd.umich.edu)

- DLT_NULL has a 4 byte family header. Thanks to Jeffrey Honig
  (jch@bsdi.com)

v0.2 Sun Jun 23 02:28:42 PDT 1996

- Add support for HP-UX. Resulted from code contributed by Tom Murray
  (tmurray@hpindck.cup.hp.com) and Philippe-Andri Prindeville
  (philipp@res.enst.fr)

- Update INSTALL with a reminder to install include files. Thanks to
  Mark Andrews (mandrews@aw.sgi.com)

- Fix bpf compiler alignment bug on the alpha.

- Use autoconf to detect architectures that can't handle misaligned
  accesses.

- Added loopback support for snoop. Resulted from report Steve
  Alexander (sca@engr.sgi.com)

v0.1 Fri Apr 28 18:11:03 PDT 1995

- Fixed compiler and optimizer bugs.  The BPF filter engine uses unsigned
  comparison operators, while the code generator and optimizer assumed
  signed semantics in several places.  Thanks to Charlie Slater
  (cslater@imatek.com) for pointing this out.

- Removed FDDI ifdef's, they aren't really needed. Resulted from report
  by Gary Veum (veum@boa.gsfc.nasa.gov).

- Add pcap-null.c which allows offline use of libpcap on systems that
  don't support live package capture. This feature resulting from a
  request from Jan van Oorschot (j.p.m.voorschot@et.tudelft.nl).

- Make bpf_compile() reentrant. Fix thanks to Pascal Hennequin
  (Pascal.Hennequin@hugo.int-evry.fr).

- Port to GNU autoconf.

- Fix pcap-dlpi.c to work with isdn. Resulted from report by Flemming
  Johansen (fsj@csd.cri.dk).

- Handle multi-digit interface unit numbers (aka ppa's) under dlpi.
  Resulted from report by Daniel Ehrlich (ehrlich@cse.psu.edu).

- Fix pcap-dlpi.c to work in non-promiscuous mode. Resulted from report
  by Jeff Murphy (jcmurphy@acsu.buffalo.edu).

- Add support for "long jumps". Thanks to Jeffrey Mogul
  (mogul@pa.dec.com).

- Fix minor problems when compiling with BDEBUG as noticed by Scott
  Bertilson (scott@unet.umn.edu).

- Declare sys_errlist "const char *const" to avoid problems under
  FreeBSD. Resulted from report by jher@eden.com.

v0.0.6 Fri Apr 28 04:07:13 PDT 1995

- Add missing variable declaration missing from 0.0.6

v0.0.5 Fri Apr 28 00:22:21 PDT 1995

- Workaround for problems when pcap_read() returns 0 due to the timeout
  expiring.

v0.0.4 Thu Apr 20 20:41:48 PDT 1995

- Change configuration to not use gcc v2 flags with gcc v1.

- Fixed a bug in pcap_next(); if pcap_dispatch() returns 0, pcap_next()
  should also return 0. Thanks to Richard Stevens (rstevens@noao.edu).

- Fixed configure to test for snoop before dlpi to avoid problems under
  IRIX 5. Thanks to J. Eric Townsend (jet@abulafia.genmagic.com).

- Hack around deficiency in Ultrix's make.

- Fix two bugs related to the Solaris pre-5.3.2 bufmod bug; handle
  savefiles that have more than snapshot bytes of data in them (so we
  can read old savefiles) and avoid writing such files.

- Added checkioctl which is used with gcc to check that the
  "fixincludes" script has been run.

v0.0.3 Tue Oct 18 18:13:46 PDT 1994

- Fixed configure to test for snoop before dlpi to avoid problems under
  IRIX 5. Thanks to J. Eric Townsend (jet@abulafia.genmagic.com).

v0.0.2 Wed Oct 12 20:56:37 PDT 1994

- Implement timeout in the dlpi pcap_open_live(). Thanks to Richard
  Stevens.

- Determine pcap link type from dlpi media type. Resulted from report
  by Mahesh Jethanandani (mahesh@npix.com).

v0.0.1 Fri Jun 24 14:50:57 PDT 1994

- Fixed bug in nit_setflags() in pcap-snit.c. The streams ioctl timeout
  wasn't being initialized sometimes resulting in an "NIOCSFLAGS:
  Invalid argument" error under OSF/1. Reported by Matt Day
  (mday@artisoft.com) and Danny Mitzel (dmitzel@whitney.hitc.com).

- Turn on FDDI support by default.

v0.0 Mon Jun 20 19:20:16 PDT 1994

- Initial release.

- Fixed bug with greater/less keywords, reported by Mark Andrews
  (mandrews@alias.com).

- Fix bug where '|' was defined as BPF_AND instead of BPF_OR, reported
  by Elan Amir (elan@leeb.cs.berkeley.edu).

- Machines with little-endian byte ordering are supported thanks to
  Jeff Mogul.

- Add hack for version 2.3 savefiles which don't have caplen and len
  swapped thanks to Vern Paxson.

- Added "&&" and "||" aliases for "and" and "or" thanks to Vern Paxson.

- Added length, inbound and outbound keywords.

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.

minor changes since 1.6.1

some fixes for --enable- options: headers do not always guarantee it can be compiled

various fixes for TPACKET_V3 processing

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