revision history for NetPacket

1.8.0 2026-02-04
 [API CHANGES]
 [BUG FIXES]
 - Add a test for checksum calculation in ICMPv6 which also uses the same
   IPv6 pseudo-header as UDP and TCP (Grinnz, GH#17)
 - Fix IPv6 pseudo-header formation (fixes Wrong pseudoheader created for
   checksum calculation #16) (Grinnz, GH#17)
 - Fix ICMPv6 packet length used for checksum (Grinnz, GH#17)

 [DOCUMENTATION]
 [ENHANCEMENTS]
 - Add support for SLL and SLL2 (Linux cooked capture) (Grinnz, GH#18)

 [MISC]
 - Move to Test2 for the testing

 [NEW FEATURES]
 [STATISTICS]
 - code churn: 25 files changed, 749 insertions(+), 66 deletions(-)

1.7.2 2019-07-20
 [DOCUMENTATION]
 - fix typos. (GH#14)

 [STATISTICS]
 - code churn: 7 files changed, 121 insertions(+), 42 deletions(-)

1.7.1 2019-06-08
 [BUG FIXES]
 - fixes inverted ethernet ports (reported by sanyacomua)

 [STATISTICS]
 - code churn: 4 files changed, 140 insertions(+), 130 deletions(-)

1.7.0 2018-12-30
 [ENHANCEMENTS]
 - Setup aliases at compile time (Nicolas R, GH#11)
 - add recommended Net::Pcap{,Utils} from README (Zak B. Elep, GH#12)

 [NEW FEATURES]
 - adds back basic support for IPv6. (Dan Book, GH#10)

 [STATISTICS]
 - code churn: 16 files changed, 1177 insertions(+), 48 deletions(-)

1.6.0 2015-03-13
 [ENHANCEMENTS]
 - Clean up inheritance code (Philip Prindeville).
 - Add a truckload of constants (Philip Prindeville).

 [STATISTICS]
 - code churn: 12 files changed, 343 insertions(+), 220 deletions(-)

1.5.0 2014-06-15
 [ENHANCEMENTS]
 - Addition of NetPacket::IPX. (Daniel Collins)
 - NetPacket::Ethernet implements 'encode'. (RT#93928, Guido Hungerbuehler)

 [STATISTICS]
 - code churn: 7 files changed, 337 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)

1.4.4 2013-11-30
 [BUG FIXES]
 - NetPacket::USBMon: also handle big endian perl without quad type. (GH#5,
   Andreas Schwab)
 - Typo fix in comments. (GH#6, fschlich)

 [STATISTICS]
 - code churn: 3 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

1.4.3 2013-10-03
 [BUG FIXES]
 - Unpack data in LittleEndian format. (GH#4, k0da)

 [STATISTICS]
 - code churn: 3 files changed, 62 insertions(+), 27 deletions(-)

1.4.2 2013-09-25
 [BUG FIXES]
 - Dist::Zilla::Plugin::Test::Compile was causing test to potentially hang
   on Windows. (reported by Karen Etheridge)

 [MISC]
 - Tidy up the changelog. (GH#3, Neil Bowers)

 [STATISTICS]
 - code churn: 2 files changed, 46 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-)

1.4.1 2013-09-05
 [BUG FIXES]
 - Test was using Errno constant and failing on some platforms.

 [STATISTICS]
 - code churn: 2 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

1.4.0 2013-08-26
 [DOCUMENTATION]
 - Fixing NetPacked::UDP documentation. (RT#85361, Ben Magistro)

 [ENHANCEMENTS]
 - New NetPacket::USBMon. (GH#2, lkundrak)

 [STATISTICS]
 - code churn: 8 files changed, 595 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)

1.3.3 2013-05-15
 [BUG FIXES]
 - Parse SACK option and fix TSecr parsing. (GH#1, Robin Lee)

 [STATISTICS]
 - code churn: 5 files changed, 46 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

1.3.2 2013-05-03
 [BUG FIXES]
 - Fix NetPacket::UDP's strip. (RT#85038, reported by Stan Schwertly)

 [STATISTICS]
 - code churn: 12 files changed, 71 insertions(+), 21 deletions(-)

1.3.1 2011-11-23
 [BUG FIXES]
 - Use of constant withotu parenthesis made test fail under 5.6.2.

1.3.0 2011-11-13
 [ENHANCEMENTS]
 - 'parse_tcp_options()' method added to NetPacket::TCP (patch by Tom
   Linden) [RT#71320]

1.2.0 2011-07-26
 [ENHANCEMENTS]
 - Add support for Ethernet VLAN (thanks to Kai Chan)

1.1.2 2011-06-20
 [BUG FIXES]
 - Add a INSTALL file

1.1.1 2011-02-07
 - Add the new Ethernet types to the export list.  (thanks to Sergey, again
   :-) ) (RT#64799)

1.1.0 2011-01-15
 - Add a few Ethernet types. (thanks to Sergey) (RT#64799)

1.0.1 2010-10-19
 - Make the example verbatim in pod in NetPacket::UDP (rt#62097)

1.0.0 2010-10-17
 - Remove modules NetPacket::ICMPv6, NetPacket::IPv6 and NetPacket::PFLog
   as the license of the patch clashes with the license of the
   distribution. (RT#62197)

0.43.2 2010-10-11
 - Change the COPYRIGHT sections of the pods to match the Artistic 2.0
   license. (RT#60954)

0.43.1 2010-06-11
 - Change a test to use explicit number of tests instead of 'done_testing'.

0.43.0 2010-05-23
 - Fixed UDP checksum. Thanks to Hal Finkel. (RT#56235)
 - Added Joel Knight's code for IPv6 support from
   http://www.packetmischief.ca/code/netpacket/.  Thanks to Doug Farley for
   the bug report. (RT#57560)

0.42.0 2010-03-25
 - Updated license to Artistic 2.0
 - Fixed bad call to 'data()' in ICMP. Thanks to Ventz Petkov. (RT#52627)

0.41.1 2009-01-06
 - Fixed bug 37931: export of ICMP_MASKREQ
 - Fixed UDP and TCP checksums for odd-sized packets
 - Fixed import from NetPacket::UDP
 - Fixed bug 37931: export of ICMP_MASKREQ
 - Added git repo and bug tracking info to META.yml

0.41.0_0 2008-12-20
 - Fixed bug 18941 - NetPacket::IP includes trailing  trash bytes in
   $ip->{data}
 - Fixed bug 7010 - IP flags field lost in IP::encode()
 - Added Build.PL
 - Moved history off the README file into this one (Changes)
 - Moved module structure to /lib
 - Version now gathered from NetPacket.pm
 - META.yml added to MANIFEST
 - Added myself (Yanick) as author
 - Switched to major.minor.revision version notation

0.04 2003-05-21
 - Checksum offset fix, thanks to J. Hoagland for pointing this out.

0.03 2001-07-30

0.01 1999-04-24
 - First release by TIMPOTTER