PcapPlusPlus is a multiplatform C++ library for capturing, parsing and crafting of network packets. It is designed to be efficient, powerful and easy to use. It provides C++ wrappers for the most popular packet processing engines such as libpcap, Npcap, WinPcap, DPDK, AF_XDP and PF_RING.
September 2023 release of PcapPlusPlus (v23.09)
arm64-v8a, armeabi-v7a, x86, x86_64
DpdkDevice
setup_dpdk.py
HttpResponseStatusCode (thanks @tigercosmos !)isRequest and isReply methods (thanks @tigercosmos !)nullptr instead of NULL (thanks @clementperon !)pcap_compile_nopcap() (thanks @yushijinhun !)cppcheck (thanks @egecetin !)DhcpLayer::getMesageType() -> replaced by DhcpLayer::getMessageType()
DhcpLayer::setMesageType() -> replaced by DhcpLayer::setMesasgeType()
SSLHandshakeMessage::createHandhakeMessage() -> replaced by SSLHandshakeMessage::createHandshakeMessage()
SSLClientHelloMessage::getExtensionsLenth() -> replaced by SSLClientHelloMessage::getExtensionsLength()
SSLServerHelloMessage::getExtensionsLenth() -> replaced by SSLServerHelloMessage::getExtensionsLength()
Full Changelog: https://github.com/seladb/PcapPlusPlus/compare/v22.11...v23.09
November 2022 release of PcapPlusPlus (v22.11)
arm64-v8a, armeabi-v7a, x86, x86_64
pthreads dependency and replace it with C++11 std::thread (thanks @clementperon !)std::thread. MinGW-w64 and Visual Studio support remains unchangedi40e NICsRTE_SDK from the command line or from an environment variable.zst file extension support for pcapng files compressed with ZstdFull Changelog: https://github.com/seladb/PcapPlusPlus/compare/v22.05...v22.11
May 2022 release of PcapPlusPlus (v22.05)
arm64-v8a, armeabi-v7a, x86, x86_64
initDpdk() (thanks @egecetin!)pkg-config during PcapPlusPlus configuration (thanks @szokovacs!)modprobe if insmod fails in DPDK setup script (thanks @szokovacs!)IPv4Layer, IPv6Layer and IPcapDevice
Full Changelog: https://github.com/seladb/PcapPlusPlus/compare/v21.11...v22.05
November 2021 release of PcapPlusPlus (v21.11)
arm64-v8a, armeabi-v7a, x86, x86_64
uio_pci_generic and vfio-pci kernel modules in DPDK setup script<< to IP address and MAC address classes<< to Packet and Layer
Packet constructor that uses a pre-allocated buffermusl support (thanks @adubovikov!)PfRingDeviceList
TLVRecord to a templated class that can represent records with any type and length sizestring and object assertsprintf with std::cout
VlanLayet::computeCalculateFields() to calculate the next EtherTypeVlanLayer
sprintf) with cpp-style string copy using sstreams
Big thank you for everyone who contributed to this release:
Full Changelog: https://github.com/seladb/PcapPlusPlus/compare/v21.05...v21.11
May 2021 release of PcapPlusPlus (v21.05)
arm64-v8a, armeabi-v7a, x86, x86_64
isMulticast() property to IPAddress, IPv4Address, IPv6Address
IPLayer interface to abstract IPv4Layer and IPv6Layer
pcap.h from PcapPlusPlus includes, remove redundant header files, replace c-str arguments with C++ std::string
PcapLiveDevice by IP address or name
LINKTYPE_IPV4 and LINKTYPE_IPV6 (thanks @miketruman !)hash5Tuple improvements (thanks @miketruman !)*.zstd file extension in IFileReaderDevice::getReader() (thanks @naugler !)Thank you to everyone who contributed to this release:
August 2020 release of PcapPlusPlus (v20.08)
Tests/Fuzzers/RegressionTests (thank you @zlowram !)Tests/ExamplesTests
IPv4Address, IPv6Address and IPAddress to make them more efficient and east to use (thank you @gx740 !)IPv6Address (thank you @DinoStray !)flush for pcap and pcapng file writers (thank you @rickyzhang82 and @l-henken !)TcpReassembly::reassemblePacket() (thank you @starliiit !)HttpAnalyzer (thank you @makefriend8 !)PcapLiveDevice (thank you @wongsingfo !)GeneralFilter::matchPacketWithFilter() can now match packet of any link type (thank you @skorup101 !)Thank you for everyone who contributed to this release:
December 2019 release of PcapPlusPlus (v19.12)
PcapLiveDevice (thanks @MrSiz !)BPFStringFilter pcap filter to handle raw BPF filter strings and deprecated the old IPcapDevice::matchPacketWithFilter() API (thanks @Dysl3xik !)IPv4Layer before parsing the next layers (thanks @gx740 !)Thank you for everyone who contributed to this release:
April 2019 release of PcapPlusPlus (v19.04)
DpdkBridge example which is a PcapPlusPlus implementation for DPDK's L2 forwarding example - Thanks @vicenterb !VlanLayer - thanks @Lapshin !RawSocketDevice)PcapLiveDevice - thanks @axasoft !PcapNgFileWriterDevice - thanks @vrobles-gee !DeviceConfiguration to PcapLiveDevice to provide an interface to set WinPcap/libpcap packet buffer size and buffer timeoutIDevice)August 2018 release of PcapPlusPlus (v18.08)
Master branch is always kept stable, so the latest code can always be considered as the newest stable version.
November 2017 release of PcapPlusPlus (v17.11)
Master branch is always kept stable, so the latest code can always be considered as the newest stable version.