Changelog

1.9.7

[2021-08-16]

  • Moved the project documentation from Read the Docs(RST) to github.io(MarkDown)
  • Added a new mechanism for creating bit-sized field definitions in the protocol parsers (Packet.__bit_fields__)
  • Added pretty printing capability aka Packet.pprint(), Packet.__pprint_funcs__
  • Added documentation on developing protocol parsers in dpkt (creating_parsers.md)
  • Added a universal pcap+pcapng reader (dpkt.pcap.UniversalReader)
  • Improved TLS ClientHello and ServerHello parsing: return an “Unknown” ciphersuite instead of raising an exception, add codes for rfc8701, GREASE ciphersutes
  • Added function to get IP protocol name
  • Modified Packet.__getitem__() and added Packet.__contains__() to address the nested protocol layers
  • Fixed payload length interpretation in AH decoder
  • Improved handling of invalid chunks in HTTP and SCTP
  • Fixed decoding of IPv6 fragments after the 1st fragment
  • Support rfc3540 nonce sum flag in TCP

1.9.6

[2021-05-21]

  • Added in the TLS 1.3 Cipher Suite from the RFC 8446 dated August 2018
  • Added support for Linux cooked capture v2, SLL2.

1.9.5

[2021-02-07]

  • New example showing how to process truncated DNS packets (examples/print_dns_truncated.py).
  • Corrected typo in BGP.notification attribute.
  • BGP.Update.Attribute.MPReachNLRI.SNPA now inherits from dpkt.Packet.
  • Byteorder is now specified when packing GRE optional fields.
  • #517: Improvement to Radiotap class, supporting multi-byte and misaligned flags fields. Endianness is now enforced.
  • Github issue template added for bug reporting.
  • Compliance with flake8 formatting.
  • asn1.py::utctime method now returns time in UTC, instead of local.
  • Allow multiple InterfaceDescriptionBlocks with pcapng.Writer.
  • SCTP decoder DATA chunk padding aligned to 4-bytes, and improved handling of .data field.
  • IEEE80211 DELBA frame now works on big and little-endian architectures.
  • Introduce compat.ntole which converts from network byte order to little-endian byte order, regardless of host endianness.
  • Ethernet class now attempts to unpack the padding and trailer if present.
  • Added anonymous property to cipher suites, which returns True if the cipher suite starts with ‘anon’.
  • Added pfs (Perfect Forward Secrecy) and aead (Authenticated Encryption with Additional Data) properties to cipher suites.
  • Added old CHACHA20-POLY1305 related cipher suites to TLS CipherSuite list.
  • Remove redundant num_compression_methods from TLSClientHello
  • Testing improved from 90% coverage to over 99%.