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dpkt

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fast, simple packet creation / parsing, with definitions for the basic TCP/IP protocols

Last release 4 years ago
no release in 18 months
Release timing varies
gaps range from 2 weeks to 1.6 years
Some releases are documented
notes for 8 of 21 stable releases
Nothing withdrawn
no release was ever pulled
12 years old
21 releases · first in 2014

Release timeline

21 releases since 2014

20142016201820202022

Releases

1.9.818 Aug 20223 sources agree
Fixed endianness issues in PCAPNG, Loopback
Changelog 1.9.8 [2022-08-17]

Fixed endianness issues in PCAPNG, Loopback

Improved MPLS unpacking to include IPv6

Fixed unpacking of multiple records in TLS messages

Updated docstrings for multiples modules

Fixed a long-standing issue where serializing IP would change its length

Fixed IEEE 802.11 Beacon byte ordering

Graceful handling of PCAPNG option comment UTF-8 decoding errors

Added support for PCAPNG Packet Block

Added modpcap reader support
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1.9.7.230 Aug 2021
Fixed performance regression
Fixed performance regression (#611)
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Additional notes
Fixed performance regression (https://github.com/kbandla/dpkt/issues/611)

1.9.621 May 2021

Added in the TLS 1.3 Cipher Suite from the RFC 8446 dated August 2018

Change Log:

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

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Additional notes2 sources agree

[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.

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1.9.58 Feb 20213 sources agree

Released 1.9.5, thanks a bunch to all contributors but mostly to @crocogorical for doing most of the work :)

1.9.5 Changelog: - 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%.

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1.9.315 Jul 2020

fix netbios name encoding and decoding

drop python 2.6 support
add python 3.7, 3.8 support
fix netbios name encoding and decoding
properly set type of last vlan tag to type of eth.data layer
fix QinQ vlan tag parsing with miscellaneous data
add explicit iter to dpkt.Packet so dict() maps the fields nicely
fix ipv6 packet so that it can be used for generating IPv6 data
handle zero Eth type
python 3 compatibility fixes

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1.9.210 Dec 2018

It's been a while since we pushed new stuff to PyPI, so we're pushing the latest stuff. Please don't kill me but there's not really a nice feature/bug

Hi All,

It's been a while since we pushed new stuff to PyPI, so we're pushing the latest stuff. Please don't kill me but there's not really a nice feature/bug list we can give of what's been changed.... but at least PyPI will have a nicer/newer version :)

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1.9.023 Mar 2017

The DPKT code base now supports both Python2 and Python3 thanks to the efforts of @kylekeppler @jonathanslenders @sunhao2014 and many more.

Given the large amount of work that went into the Python3 support there's bound to be a few wrinkles that crop up.

Please submit an Issue if you find a problem The legacy/stable release is dpkt==1.8.8 (https://github.com/kbandla/dpkt/releases), please use this release if you have any troubles.

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1.8.818 Aug 2016Deprecated

You have a legacy script that uses a method that has been deprecated.

This release is the 'legacy stable' release of DPKT for Python 2. This version should be used for the following use cases:

You have a legacy script that uses a method that has been deprecated.
You have a legacy script and it has to be protected against possible regressions.

To install this version: $ pip install dpkt==1.8.8

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