The revision history for Net-Pcap
0.21 - 2023-01-19 - Max Maischein (CORION)
[Configure]
- Avoid implicit ints during feature probing
This is required for compatibility with future compilers as (for example)
Fedora is moving to stricter C compiler versions.
This is merely a cleanup of the C code probing for Pcap functionality,
no need to upgrade.
[Code]
- use "our" for global variable declaration
- Don't inherit from Exporter anymore
This might break modules that rely on Net::Pcap isa Exporter, but that
was never documented.
0.20 - 2021-12-17 - Max Maischein (CORION)
[Bugfixes]
- CPAN RT #118727 Spelling fixes
Reported by Gregor Herrmann
0.19 - 2021-11-27 - Max Maischein (CORION)
[Bugfixes]
- CPAN RT #127685 Restore compilation with libpcap 1.9+
This incorporates the RedHat patch from
https://www.cpan.org/authors/id/S/SR/SREZIC/patches/Net-Pcap-0.18-RT127685-RH1485429.patch
and guards it with the newly introduced version #define
- GH #9, CPAN RT #117831 , CPAN RT #125352 Too strict test for
error message from libpcap
Fix contributed by KENTNL
0.18 - 2016-05-15 - Sebastien Aperghis-Tramoni (SAPER)
[Bugfixes]
- CPAN RT #77807: Net::Pcap is no longer limited to one callback function,
thanks to a patch by James Rouzier.
[API]
- Added pcap_offline_filter() (Martijn Lievaart).
[Code]
- use warnings (David Farrell).
[Documentation]
- CPAN RT #55163: Typo in eg/pcapdump (Iain Arnell and Jose Pedro Oliveira).
- CPAN RT #83842: Typo in Net:Pcap (Xavier Guimard).
- Moved HISTORY from README to main documentation.
- Rewrote AUTHORS to acknowledge all contributors.
- Updated copyright years.
[Tests]
- Added timeouts to prevent tests from hanging (Patrice Auffret).
- t/17-lib_version.t: adjust regexp to match Apple builds (David Farrell).
- t/50-poe-component-pcap.t: small improvments.
- Added t/50-net-pcap-easy.t to test with Net::Pcap::Easy.
- Added t/50-anyevent-pcap.t to test with AnyEvent::Pcap.
- Make t/50-* pass with old versions of Test::More
[Distribution]
- Converted the Changes file to CPAN::Changes::Spec format.
- Makefile.PL: append CCFLAGS to $Config{ccflags} instead of overriding it.
- Makefile.PL: now dies when libpcap isn't found.
- Makefile.PL: declare minimum Perl version (David Farrell).
0.17 - 2012-11-28 - Sebastien Aperghis-Tramoni (SAPER)
[Bugfixes]
- CPAN RT #43308: Net::Pcap no longer enables immediate (unsafe)
signals delivery.
- Fix allocated size in pcap_open(), pcap_createsrcstr() and
pcap_parsesrcstr().
[API]
- Now made the C-like API available by default. Added the
pcap_perl_settings() function and UNSAFE_SIGNALS pseudo-bloc.
[Code]
- Replaced all occurrences of safemalloc() with Newx().
- Silenced some warnings.
[Documentation]
- Added a long note about Net::Pcap and signals delivery.
- Improved README.
- Mention Net::Pcap::Easy.
[Tests]
- Fixed t/17-lib_version.t to handle two digits versions.
- CPAN RT #44448: Fixed t/17-lib_version.t to handle versions from CVS,
thanks to Craig Davison.
- Refactored t/01-api.t and added checks for the new API.
- Replaced the fragile error check in t/03-openlive.t by a simpler and
more robust one.
0.16 - 2008-01-01 - Sebastien Aperghis-Tramoni (SAPER)
[Bugfixes]
- A typo prevented the new function names from working.
[Tests]
- Added new tests: 21-next_ex.t, 22-open.t, 23-srcstr.t,
50-poe-component-pcap.t
- Added support for user prefered device. See README.
- Improved small bits of the tests here and there.
0.15 - 2007-12-02 - Sebastien Aperghis-Tramoni (SAPER)
[Bugfixes]
- CPAN RT #30745: Fix WinPcap support.
- CPAN RT #25076: Fix next_ex().
[API]
- Now providing "pcap_"-prefixed aliases for all functions.
Documentation was changed to use these names instead of the old ones.
[Commands]
- pcapinfo(1) no longer need IO::Interface.
[Documentation]
- CPAN RT #27369: Several documentation fixes.
- CPAN RT #31111: Document that pcap_stats() does not work on savefiles.
[Tests]
- CPAN RT #30903: Fix t/03-openlive.t failure on Linux.
0.15_01 - 2006-09-11 - Sebastien Aperghis-Tramoni (SAPER)
[Documentation]
- Improved documentation.
[Tests]
- Fixed small typo in warning message from t/podcover.t. Thanks to "Ani"
on FreeNode.
[Distribution]
- Rewrote the functions detection code using DynaLoader.
- Added example script eg/pktdump.pl
0.14 - 2006-09-05 - Sebastien Aperghis-Tramoni (SAPER)
[Tests]
- Bumped the required version of Test::Pod::Coverage up to 1.08.
[Distribution]
- CPAN RT #21219: Now use a default flag.
0.13 - 2006-08-29 - Sebastien Aperghis-Tramoni (SAPER)
[Code]
- Cleaned the typemap. Thanks to "Ani" on FreeNode for pointing.
[Documentation]
- Fixed small typo in README. Thanks to "Ani" on FreeNode.
- Fixed small error in open_live() example. Thanks to Cindy Teel and
Doug Baker.
[Tests]
- Fixed 05-dump.t, 10-fileno.t. Thanks to "Ani" on FreeNode.
[Distribution]
- Fixed compile option to use -Wall only for gcc. Thanks to Wolf-Dietrich
Fromm for pointing.
- Detection code can now handle IBM compiler. Thanks to Wolf-Dietrich
Fromm for the help.
0.12 - 2006-03-19 - Sebastien Aperghis-Tramoni (SAPER)
[Bugfixes]
- Fixed stub for pcap_list_datalinks().
- Merged Jean-Louis Morel patch for Win32 and Cygwin.
[Features]
- Added wrappers for compile_nopcap(), get_selectable_fd(), next_ex()
- Merged wrappers from Net::Pcap 0.04.02 for WinPcap functions
createsrcstr(), parsesrcstr(), getevent(), open(), sendpacket(),
sendqueue_alloc(), sendqueue_queue(), sendqueue_transmit(), setbuff(),
setmintocopy(), setmode().
- Added wrapper for WinPcap function setuserbuffer().
[Code]
- Added missing short names for compile(), set_filter(), freecode()
[Tests]
- Rewrote t/20-constants.t because future versions of ExtUtils::Constant
will prevent the constant() function from being directly called.
- Added t/22-open.t, t/23-strsrc.t
- Updated t/03-openlive.t with diagnostics for FreeBSD and OpenBSD.
[Distribution]
- Fixed Makefile.PL so that pcapinfo is installed.
0.11 - 2005-11-28 - Sebastien Aperghis-Tramoni (SAPER)
[Commands]
- Added the pcapinfo command.
[Documentation]
- Corrected a few typos thanks to Test::Spelling.
- Small documentation nits.
[Tests]
- Improved the whole test suite to make it use the best device it can find
(was needed for Cygwin & Win32).
[Distribution]
- Cygwin installation was simplified and should now Just Work.
0.10 - 2005.11.01 - Sebastien Aperghis-Tramoni (SAPER)
[Bugfixes]
- lookupnet() wasn't exported by :functions.
- Fixed findalldevs() emulation.
- Replaced several newSViv() with newSVuv() to respect the actual unsigned
nature of several fields.
[Tests]
- Fixed 03-openlive.t for Darwin/Mac OS X.
- CPAN RT #15342: lookupnet() fails if the device returned by lookupdev()
has no IP configured. Thanks to
- CPAN RT #15343: warnings when running t/14-datalink.t
- Fixed another corner case in t/02-lookup.t thanks to Rafael Garcia-Suarez.
- t/Utils.pm now sets the environment locale to C. Thanks to Karl Y. Pradene.
0.09 - 2005-10-26 - Sebastien Aperghis-Tramoni (SAPER)
[Bugfixes]
- Restored compatibility with older versions of libpcap, namely the
traditional ones founds on BSD systems.
[Features]
- Added Microsoft Visual C++ 7 compatibility, thanks to Max Maischen
and Jean-Louis Morel.
[Code]
- Added new detection routines for looking which functions are actually
available on the host system.
- Upgraded to Devel::PPPort 3.06_03
[Tests]
- Renamed t/CheckAuth.pm to t/Utils.pm, added function is_available().
- Changed the way the test utility module is loaded.
- Updated several test files so they skip the tests that depend on a
function that may be unavailable.
- Fixes several corner cases thanks to the benevolent testing of
Philippe Bruhat, David Morel and Scott Lanning.
0.08 - 2005-10-05 - Sebastien Aperghis-Tramoni (SAPER)
[Bugfixes]
- CPAN RT #6320: loop() conflicts with alarm(). Thanks to Rafaël Garcia-Suarez
for the patch. Also applied to dispatch() and next().
- setnonblock() and getnonblock() now checks that $err is a reference.
- Merged Jean-Louis Morel patch: modification of the detection code in
Makefile.PL for Win32; fixes for compiling with Microsoft compiler;
simplification of lookupdev().
- Restored compatibility with Perl 5.6, 5.5 and 5.4
- Fixed memory leak in lookupdev().
- Some XS wrappers (compile(), dispatch(), stats()) now resets the error
string before calling the underlying functions.
[Features]
- Now tries to use XSLoader if available, then falls back to DynaLoader.
- Improved findalldevs(). See documentation.
- Added wrapper for freecode(), dump_flush(), dump_file().
[Tests]
- Updated t/05-dump.t, t/12-next.t in order to increase code coverage (94%).
What remains uncovered is cargo-cult defensive, hence untestable, code.
- Updated t/01-api.t, t/05-dump.t, t/08-filter.t, t/10-fileno.t,
t/13-dispatch.t, t/16-setnonblock.t
- Updated all test scripts in order to suppress warnings.
- Moved the the check whether pcap can be used in t/CheckAuth.pm and
added Win32 specific code, supplied by Jean-Louis Morel.
- Added t/rt-6320.t for checking the bugfix of CPAN RT #6320.
- Added t/distchk.t
[Distribution]
- Improved detection code in Makefile.PL.
0.07 - 2005-09-23 - Sebastien Aperghis-Tramoni (SAPER)
[Bugfixes]
- CPAN RT #7455: Memory corruption when using Net::Pcap::Compile()
- Merged Win32 fix to pcap_lookupdev() from JLM/0.04.02
[Features]
- Added wrappers for lib_version(), open_dead(), set_datalink(),
datalink_name_to_val(), datalink_val_to_name(), datalink_val_to_description()
- Added support for all DLT_*, MODE_*, PCAP_* and useful BPF_*
numeric macros using ExtUtils::Constant.
- Added const qualifiers when appropriate.
- Added ppport.h
[Tests]
- Fixed scripts t/10-fileno.t,
- Added t/17-lib_version.t, t/18-open_dead.t, 19-breakloop.t
- Updated t/14-datalink.t
[Documentation]
- Updated documentation.
[Distribution]
- Added libpcap detection using have_library() from XML::LibXML::Common
0.06 - 2005-09-15 - Sebastien Aperghis-Tramoni (SAPER)
[Features]
- CPAN RT #7594: added pcap_setnonblock() and pcap_getnonblock(). Thanks
to Ernesto Domat for the patch.
- Changed the warning returned by stats() in order to be uniform with
other similar warnings
[Documentation]
- CPAN RT #7671: documentation typo
- Updated the documentation.
[Tests]
- Completely rewrote the tests suite using Test::More and better
(and portable) methods to skip tests when appropriate.
- Added t/podcover.t, t/pod.t, t/portfs.t
- Added t/15-is_swapped.t, t/16-setnonblock.t
[Distribution]
- Updated Makefile.PL
0.04.02 - 2003-09-03 - Jean-Louis Morel (JLMOREL) [based on 0.04, not released on CPAN]
- includes fixes for WinPcap
- added wrappers for several new libpcap functions
- added several WinPcap specific functions
0.05 - 2003-06-16 - Marco Carnut (KCARNUT)
- includes fixes for Cygwin and WinPcap (see http://winpcap.polito.it/
and install the SDK)
- added wrapper for findalldevs()
- lookupdev() returns the first item from findalldevs()
- tests now pass under Cygwin by disabling the root user check
0.04 - 2000-05-17 - Tim Potter (TIMPOTTER)
- now compiles and works with Perl 5.6.0
0.03 - 1999.03.24 - Tim Potter (TIMPOTTER)
- complete rewrite using XS
- all pcap library functions fully implemented
- packet header and statistical information passed as Perl hashes
- added Pod documentation
0.02 - 1998.12.06 - Bo Adler (BOADLER) [NOT RELEASED ON CPAN]
- update to make it work with libpcap 0.4
- fixed problem in stats() method call
- changed the arguments of the loop()/dispatch() callback to include
the pcap_hdr struct
0.01 - 1997.08.27 - Peter Lister (PLISTER)
- initial implementation using SWIG