WiFi security auditing tools suite
After more than 2 years, we are making a release with a decently large amount of fixes, improvements, and additions. We also broke the 4000 commits barrier, and this release has more than 400 commits.
Noticeable changes and fixes are present in a number of tools: airodump-ng, aircrack-ng, airdecap-ng, airmon-ng, aireplay-ng, airgraph-ng, besside-ng. And also osdep, our os-dependent interface for Wi-Fi capture and injection, as well as WPE patches for freeradius and hostapd.
On the less visible side, we get a number of improvements and fixes as well. We did code refactoring, deduplication, cleanup, code style fixes, as well as miscellaneous improvements. We also fixed a bunch of typos, spelling, and wording issues across the board. We fixed a number of issues reported by different static analysis tools we use, among others, PVS-Studio, Coverity Scan, Infer.
Read more in our detailed blog post.
This release brings a ton of improvements. Along with bug fixes for a lot of tools, we have huge improvements under the hood thanks to code cleanup, deduplication, and reorganization of the source code. Build system has been updated (and improved) and now requires autotools 1.14 or higher.
Visible changes and improvements:
Other notable changes:
This release keep improving the code quality and adds a few visible features compared to 1.4:
Other notable changes in this release:
Skip this version and use 1.5.2.
1.5.1 fixes a segfault found when running aircrack-ng without any arguments. 1.5.2 fixes version numbering (was still showing 1.5).
Skip this version and use 1.5.2.
1.5.1 fixes a segfault found when running aircrack-ng without any arguments. 1.5.2 fixes version numbering (was still showing 1.5).
This release focuses a lot on code quality and adds a few visible features:
Other notable changes in this release:
We're bringing more good stuff in this release. We've been busy fixing bugs left and right, some of them thanks to Coverity Scan, valgrind and other static code analyzers. We've also refactored some of the code and improved the code quality along the way. We can now successfully build across lot of platforms (Windows, Linux, BSD, OSX) and CPU architectures (x86 and 64 bit, ARM v7, ARM v8, PowerPC, etc).
The most notable changes are in Aircrack-ng. It gets a speed bump in most CPU architectures we support, the ability to pause/restore cracking session and using HCCAPx files.
Other tools also see improvements. All the details about them as well as pretty performance graphs, can be found in our blog post.
It's been way too long since the last stable release.
Compared to the last stable, 1.1, this release has a huge amount of improvements and fixes. The changelog since 1.1 is almost 300 lines long (1200+ commits). Code quality has improved, in parts thanks to Coverity Scan. We now switched to GitHub completely and have a few buildbots (including one for windows) to test building and run the test suite on a different platforms.
The build system has switched to autotools, which fixes and improves building on a number of different platforms, CPUs and compilers (gcc, clang and Intel). Aircrack-ng is now a lot faster on recent CPUs (up to 3 times) and a trampoline binary automatically chooses the best executable for your CPU instructions. There is no need to change any of the commands, it is done transparently. Both those changes will make distro package builder's task easier and they won't have to worry about how to build it to be compatible with the most CPUs. Continuing with Aircrack-ng, it can also output WPA hashes to EWSA and hashcat format for processing with those tools. There is 802.11 support in airodump-ng with HT40+/HT40- channels and it now displays the rate correctly for 802.11n or 802.11ac Access Points. For those using GPS, it now supports the recent version of GPSd with JSON. Airmon-ng itself has a number of improvements in chipset/driver detection. The most notables improvements, on top of new chipset/driver detection, is the support for FreeBSD and on Linux, the support for Nexmon driver (monitor mode driver) on the Raspberry Pi 3 (and 0 Wireless) using Kali. Airtun-ng now supports WPA/2.
For the folks following our release candidates, this doesn't bring much compared to rc5, just a few small fixes and adds UTF8 ESSID support in airodump-ng and aireplay-ng. So, if you are already running 1.2rc5, update is merely advised, otherwise, it is highly recommended.
On top of tons of fixes and improvements everywhere (and on multiple platforms), this release switched to autotools which allows compiling on more platforms. A trampoline binary has been added for Aircrack-ng to automatically select the fastest version for your CPU features. It will also help package maintainers greatly.
A few other notable mentions:
Check out our changelog for more details. Longest since 1.2-beta1.