The revision history for Net-Pcap
2012.11.28 - 0.17 - Sebastien Aperghis-Tramoni (SAPER)
- [BUGFIX] CPAN-RT#43308: Net::Pcap no longer enables immediate
(unsafe) signals delivery.
- [BUGFIX] Fix allocated size in pcap_open(), pcap_createsrcstr()
and pcap_parsesrcstr().
- [API] Now make 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().
- [CODE] Silenced some warnings.
- [DOC] Added a long note about Net::Pcap and signals delivery.
- [DOC] Improved README.
- [DOC] Mention Net::Pcap::Easy.
- [TESTS] Fixed t/17-lib_version.t to handle two digits versions.
- [TESTS] CPAN-RT#44448: Fixed t/17-lib_version.t to handle
versions from the CVS, thanks to Craig Davison.
- [TESTS] Refactored t/01-api.t and added checks for the new API.
2008.01.01 - 0.16 - Sebastien Aperghis-Tramoni (SAPER)
- [BUGFIX] 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
- [TESTS] Added support for user prefered device. See README.
- [TESTS] Improved small bits of the tests here and there.
2007.12.02 - 0.15 - Sebastien Aperghis-Tramoni (SAPER)
- [BUGFIX] CPAN-RT#30745: Fix WinPcap support.
- [BUGFIX] 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.
- [CMD] pcapinfo(1) no longer need IO::Interface.
- [TESTS] CPAN-RT#30903: Fix t/03-openlive.t failure on Linux.
- [DOC] CPAN-RT#27369: Several documentation fixes.
- [DOC] CPAN-RT#31111: Document that pcap_stats() does not work
on savefiles.
2006.09.11 - 0.15_01 - Sebastien Aperghis-Tramoni (SAPER)
- [DIST] Rewrote the functions detection code using DynaLoader.
- [TESTS] Fixed small typo in warning message from t/podcover.t. Thanks
to "Ani" on FreeNode.
- [DOC] Improved documentation.
- [EG] Added example script eg/pktdump.pl
2006.09.05 - 0.14 - Sebastien Aperghis-Tramoni (SAPER)
- [DIST] RT#21219: Now use a default flag.
- [TESTS] Bumped the required version of Test::Pod::Coverage up to 1.08.
2006.08.29 - 0.13 - Sebastien Aperghis-Tramoni (SAPER)
- [CODE] Cleaned the typemap. Thanks to "Ani" on FreeNode for pointing.
- [DIST] Fixed compile option to use -Wall only for gcc. Thanks to
Wolf-Dietrich Fromm for pointing.
- [DIST] Detection code can now handle IBM compiler. Thanks to Wolf-Dietrich
Fromm for the help.
- [TESTS] Fixed 05-dump.t, 10-fileno.t. Thanks to "Ani" on FreeNode.
- [DOC] Fixed small typo in README. Thanks to "Ani" on FreeNode.
- [DOC] Fixed small error in open_live() example. Thanks to Cindy Teel
and Doug Baker.
2006.03.19 - 0.12 - Sebastien Aperghis-Tramoni (SAPER)
- [BUGFIX] Fixed stub for pcap_list_datalinks().
- [BUGFIX] Merged Jean-Louis Morel patch for Win32 and Cygwin.
- [FEATURE] Added wrappers for compile_nopcap(), get_selectable_fd(), next_ex()
- [FEATURE] 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().
- [FEATURE] Added wrapper for WinPcap function setuserbuffer().
- [CODE] Added missing short names for compile(), set_filter(), freecode()
- [DIST] Fixed Makefile.PL so that pcapinfo is installed.
- [TESTS] Rewrote t/20-constants.t because future versions of ExtUtils::Constant
will prevent the constant() function from being directly called.
- [TESTS] Added t/22-open.t, t/23-strsrc.t
- [TESTS] Updated t/03-openlive.t with diagnostics for FreeBSD and OpenBSD.
2005.11.28 - 0.11 - Sebastien Aperghis-Tramoni (SAPER)
- [CMD] Added the pcapinfo command.
- [DIST] Cygwin installation was simplified and should now Just Work.
- [TESTS] Improved the whole test suite to make it use the best device
it can find (was needed for Cygwin & Win32).
- [DOC] Corrected a few typos thanks to Test::Spelling.
- [DOC] Small documentation nits.
2005.11.xx - 0.10 - Sebastien Aperghis-Tramoni (SAPER)
- [BUGFIX] lookupnet() wasn't exported by :functions.
- [BUGFIX] Fixed findalldevs() emulation.
- [BUGFIX] Replaced several newSViv() with newSVuv() to respect the actual
unsigned nature of several fields.
- [TESTS] Fixed 03-openlive.t for Darwin/Mac OS X.
- [TESTS] RT#15342: lookupnet() fails if the device returned by lookupdev()
has no IP configured. Thanks to
- [TESTS] RT#15343: warnings when running t/14-datalink.t
- [TESTS] Fixed another corner case in t/02-lookup.t thanks to Rafael Garcia-Suarez.
- [TESTS] t/Utils.pm now sets the environment locale to C. Thanks to Karl Y. Pradene.
2005.10.26 - 0.09 - Sebastien Aperghis-Tramoni (SAPER)
- [BUGFIX] Restored compatibility with older versions of libpcap, namely the
traditional ones founds on BSD systems.
- [FEATURE] 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.
- [CODE] Upgraded to Devel::PPPort 3.06_03
- [TESTS] Renamed t/CheckAuth.pm to t/Utils.pm, added function is_available().
- [TESTS] Changed the way the test utility module is loaded.
- [TESTS] Updated several test files so they skip the tests that depend on
a function that may be unavailable.
- [TESTS] Fixes several corner cases thanks to the benevolent testing of
Philippe Bruhat, David Morel and Scott Lanning.
2005.10.05 - 0.08 - Sebastien Aperghis-Tramoni (SAPER)
- [BUGFIX] RT#6320: loop() conflicts with alarm(). Thanks to Rafaël Garcia-Suarez
for the patch. Also applied to dispatch() and next().
- [BUGFIX] setnonblock() and getnonblock() now checks that $err is a reference.
- [BUGFIX] Merged Jean-Louis Morel patch: modification of the detection code in
Makefile.PL for Win32; fixes for compiling with Microsoft compiler;
simplification of lookupdev().
- [BUGFIX] Restored compatibility with Perl 5.6, 5.5 and 5.4
- [BUGFIX] Fixed memory leak in lookupdev().
- [BUGFIX] Some XS wrappers (compile(), dispatch(), stats()) now resets the error
string before calling the underlying functions.
- [FEATURE] Now tries to use XSLoader if available, then falls back to DynaLoader.
- [FEATURE] Improved findalldevs(). See documentation.
- [FEATURE] Added wrapper for freecode(), dump_flush(), dump_file().
- [DIST] Improved detection code in Makefile.PL.
- [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.
- [TESTS] 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
- [TESTS] Updated all test scripts in order to suppress warnings.
- [TESTS] Moved the the check whether pcap can be used in t/CheckAuth.pm and
added Win32 specific code, supplied by Jean-Louis Morel.
- [TESTS] Added t/rt-6320.t for checking the bugfix of RT#6320.
- [TESTS] Added t/distchk.t
2005.09.23 - 0.07 - Sebastien Aperghis-Tramoni (SAPER)
- [BUGFIX] RT#7455: Memory corruption when using Net::Pcap::Compile()
- [BUGFIX] Merged Win32 fix to pcap_lookupdev() from JLM/0.04.02
- [FEATURE] Added wrappers for lib_version(), open_dead(), set_datalink(),
datalink_name_to_val(), datalink_val_to_name(), datalink_val_to_description()
- [FEATURE] Added support for all DLT_*, MODE_*, PCAP_* and useful BPF_*
numeric macros using ExtUtils::Constant.
- [FEATURE] Added const qualifiers when appropriate.
- [FEATURE] Added ppport.h
- [DIST] Added libpcap detection using have_library() from XML::LibXML::Common
- [TESTS] Fixed scripts t/10-fileno.t,
- [TESTS] Added t/17-lib_version.t, t/18-open_dead.t, 19-breakloop.t
- [TESTS] Updated t/14-datalink.t
- [DOC] Updated documentation.
2005.09.15 - 0.06 - Sebastien Aperghis-Tramoni (SAPER)
- [FEATURE] RT#7594: added pcap_setnonblock() and pcap_getnonblock(). Thanks
to Ernesto Domat for the patch.
- [FEATURE] Changed the warning returned by stats() in order to be uniform
with other similar warnings
- [TESTS] Completely rewrote the tests suite using Test::More and better
(and portable) methods to skip tests when appropriate.
- [TESTS] Added t/podcover.t, t/pod.t, t/portfs.t
- [TESTS] Added t/15-is_swapped.t, t/16-setnonblock.t
- [DIST] Updated Makefile.PL
- [DOC] RT#7671: documentation typo
- [DOC] Updated the documentation.
2003.09.03 - 0.04.02 - 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
2003.06.16 - 0.05 - 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
2000.05.17 - 0.04 - Tim Potter (TIMPOTTER)
- now compiles and works with Perl 5.6.0
1999.03.24 - 0.03 - 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
1998.12.06 - 0.02 - 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
1997.08.27 - 0.01 - Peter Lister (PLISTER)
- initial implementation using SWIG