Changelog¶

1.11.0b28 (2026-01-26)¶

Upgrade to the latest libpcap API 1.11.0-PRE
Upgrade and addition of shared libraries for multiple platforms

(mostly from conda-forge, some from Debian package repository to

the version 1.10.6).
Making and mark the package typed.
Copyright year update.
Switched from tox to Nox for project automation.
The documentation has been moved from Read the Docs to GitHub Pages.
Added the nox’s ‘cleanup’ test environment.
Setup update (mainly dependencies) and bug fixes.

1.11.0b25 (2025-06-30)¶

Upgrade to the latest libpcap API 1.11.0-PRE
Setup update (mainly dependencies).

1.11.0b24 (2025-05-15)¶

The distribution is now built using ‘build’ instead of ‘setuptools’.
Setup update (mainly dependencies) (due to regressions in tox and setuptools).

1.11.0b23 (2025-05-04)¶

Minor fixes of tests.
Setup update (mainly dependencies).

1.11.0b22 (2025-04-28)¶

Added support for Python 3.14
Dropped support for Python 3.9 (due to compatibility issues).
Updated Read the Docs’ Python version to 3.13
Updated tox’s base_python to version 3.13
Upgrade to the latest libpcap API 1.11.0-PRE
Setup update (mainly dependencies).

1.11.0b16 (2025-02-14)¶

Upgrade to the latest libpcap API 1.11.0-PRE
Preliminary addition of (some) fuzz tests.
Copyright year update.
Setup update (mainly dependencies).

1.11.0b15 (2024-12-13)¶

Source distribution (*.tar.gz now) is compliant with PEP-0625.
100% code linting.
Tox configuration is now in native (toml) format.
Setup update (mainly dependencies).

1.11.0b14 (2024-10-20)¶

Fix improper dependiencies for docs testenv.

1.11.0b13 (2024-10-20)¶

Fix for improper use of ctypes.cdll.msvcrt._get_osfhandle.

Has been replaced by msvcrt.get_osfhandle.

Thank you very much crackevil@Github for the fix!
Setup unification and (dependencies) update.

1.11.0b12 (2024-10-09)¶

Setup update (mainly dependencies).

1.11.0b11 (2024-09-30)¶

Dropped support for Python 3.8
Upgrade to the latest libpcap API 1.11.0-PRE
Sync/upgrade of tests to the latest libpcap API 1.11.0-PRE
Setup update (mainly dependencies).

1.11.0b10 (2024-08-13)¶

Added support for Python 3.13
Improvements and cleanup for winapi.
Source code refactoring and cleanup.
Setup update (mainly dependencies).

1.11.0b8 (2024-01-30)¶

Upgrade to the latest libpcap API 1.11.0-PRE
Sync/upgrade of tests to the latest libpcap API 1.11.0-PRE
Setup update (now based on tox >= 4.0).
Added support for Python 3.12
Dropped support for Python 3.7
Added support for PyPy 3.10
Dropped support for PyPy 3.7 and 3.8
Copyright year update.
Cleanup.

1.11.0b7 (2022-09-10)¶

Upgrade to the latest libpcap API 1.11.0-PRE
Sync/upgrade of tests to the latest libpcap API 1.11.0-PRE
Add nonblocktest.py
The tox configuration has been moved to pyproject.toml

1.11.0b6 (2022-08-25)¶

Upgrade to the latest libpcap API 1.11.0-PRE
Setup fixes and update.

1.11.0b5 (2022-07-28)¶

Upgrade to the latest libpcap API 1.11.0-PRE
Added support for macOS x64 (thank you very much Erik Rainey emrainey@Github and lydia-hogan@Github!).
Added support for Python 3.10 and 3.11
Added support for PyPy 3.7, 3.8 and 3.9
Setup update (currently based mainly on pyproject.toml).

1.11.0b4 (2022-01-10)¶

Dropped support for Python 3.6.
Copyright year update.
Setup update.

1.11.0b2 (2021-11-10)¶

Upgrade to the latest libpcap API 1.11.0-PRE
Copyright year update.
backward incompatibility - libpcap.cfg is now a regular INI file.
Setup update.

1.10.0b15 (2020-10-18)¶

Added support for Python 3.9.
Dropped support for Python 3.5.
Removing dependence on atpublic.
Ability to specify the backend programmatically.
Establishing system’s libpcap as default backend.
Fixed a critical setup bug (thank you very much msrst@Github!).
General update and cleanup.
Fixed docs setup.

1.10.0b10 (2020-01-16)¶

Added support for Python 3.8.
Dropped support for Python 3.4.
Dropped support for Python 2.
Upgrade to the latest libpcap API 1.10.0-PRE
Establishing npcap as default backend.
Internal npcap’s dll-s have been removed due to ev. license problems.
Added support for Linux x64:

add internal tcpdump’s libpcap.so v.1.9.1 with remote capture support.

system’s tcpdump’s libpcap.so can also be used (via libpcap.libpcap.cfg).
Added ReadTheDocs config file.
Setup update and cleanup.

1.10.0b5 (2019-09-16)¶

Upgrade to the latest libpcap API 1.10.0-PRE
Upgrade npcap’s libpcap dll-s to the 0.996
Minor setup fixes and improvements.

1.10.0b3 (2019-02-15)¶

Upgrade to the latest libpcap API 1.10.0-PRE
Upgrade npcap’s libpcap dll-s to the 0.99rc9
Update required setuptools version.
Minor setup improvements.
Updates of tests.

1.10.0b1 (2018-11-08)¶

Upgrade to the latest libpcap API 1.10.0-PRE
Upgrade npcap’s libpcap dll-s to the 0.99rc7
Update required setuptools version.

1.0.0b14 (2018-05-09)¶

Update required setuptools version.

1.0.0b13 (2018-05-09)¶

Upgrade npcap’s libpcap dll-s to the 0.99rc5

1.0.0b12 (2018-05-08)¶

Upgrade to the latest libpcap.

1.0.0b10 (2018-03-31)¶

Upgrade to the latest libpcap.
Improve and simplify setup and packaging.
Improve and update tests.

1.0.0b9 (2018-02-26)¶

Improve and simplify setup and packaging.

1.0.0b8 (2018-02-25)¶

Upgrade to the latest libpcap API 1.9.0
Setup improvement.

1.0.0b7 (2017-12-18)¶

Fix the error of platform detecting (thanks to Dan ???).

1.0.0b6 (2017-10-11)¶

Upgrade to the libpcap API 1.9.0

1.0.0b5 (2017-10-08)¶

Upgrade to the libpcap API 1.8.1
Added support for libpcap from Npcap.

1.0.0b4 (2017-10-04)¶

Fourth beta release.

1.0.0b3 (2017-08-28)¶

Third beta release.

1.0.0b1 (2017-08-27)¶

First beta release.

1.0.0a16 (2017-08-26)¶

Next alpha release.

1.0.0a0 (2017-06-08)¶

First alpha release.

0.0.1 (2016-09-23)¶

Initial release.