Main Changes

Changelog

Core

• 354 commits to master since v2.4.4, from 73 contributors
• Python 3.9 support
• New interfaces system. conf.iface is now an object (retro-compatible as a string) which contains additional information about the interface and allows for an automatic selection of the socket type. conf.ifaces now lists all available interfaces.
• Fix *BSD support. Improve filters handling on Linux and libpcap
• Automaton: support for STOP event - allows to cleanly end an Automata. Implemented in all Scapy's automatons
• [Deprecated] Naming different fields with the same name will now raise a deprecation warning. This behavior has never properly worked and should never be necessary
• Enhance Net and Net6
• Improvements to scapy's logging, colored output and to UTscapy
• Fix edge-cases with ConditionalField and MultipleTypeField to make them more resilient
• [Doc] Enhancements: improved MultipleTypeField handling, add view source.
• [Internal] Move the test suite to GitHub Actions
• [Internal] Unit test housekeeping
• [Internal] Begin type hinting

Layers

• 6LoWPAN refactor
• TLS improvements (TLS 1.3 server downgrade, TLS 1.2 EXT MS...)
• HTTP improvements (http_request, support for zstd...)
• Refactor TunTap support
• Cleanup MACsec
• Many small bug fixes or improvements to layers (SMB2, BFD, DNS, Zigbee, EAP, HomeplugGP, DHCPv6, 802.11...)

Automotive

• Renaming of ENET to HSFZ
• Added XCP layer
• Added DoIP layer
• [Internal] Cleanup of interface preparation code in unit tests
• Renaming of ECU to Ecu
• Refactoring of EcuState class to be more versatile
• [Internal] Started with typing
• [Internal] Multiple minor cleanups
• Minor updates to the documentation

Main Changes

Core

• 784 commits to master since this v2.4.3
• fix how timestamps are measured on layer 3 (broken since 2.4.1)
• drop DNET support (deprecated since 2.4.0)
• Scapy will now use libpcap instead of tcpdump to compile the filters (tcpdump is still used to filter pcaps)
• major changes to the online doc: add an automatically generated API reference with visual representation of each layer, move to Sphinx 3.0.0, new layer-specific doc...
• *BSD fixes
• more doc to many functions

Layers

• New layers (homeplug sg, smb2, NSH, RPL, ERSPAN, BFD, ROCE...)
• TLS: TLS 1.3 support & many fixes
• 802.11 improvements / WPA3 detection
• Netflow 9 fixes
• Major refactor & changes of the Automotive layers
• HTTP changes
• DHCPv6 fixes according to revision of the RFC
• Bluetooth improvements (+BLE)
• minor fixes to Radius, PPP, GTP, IPsec, CDP, VTP, HTTP/2, ...

Main Changes

Core

• 364 commits since v2.4.2
• better native support for FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD
• Windows: native RAW sockets support, load interfaces/routes using C calls, ...
• Solaris: fixed support
• latency improvements
• sniff() can be used to test BPF fiters on pcap files
• more unit tests and Python3 compatibility
• asynchronous sniffing
• UTScapy vim syntax highlighting
• drop distutils for setuptools
• Console / IPython integration improvements

Layers

Major changes

New

• HTTP (from the deprecated scapy-http module), TLS 1.3, ATA over Ethernet, OVD, IEC 60870-5-104, enip, ...

Improved

• NetflowV9, ISOTP, Zigbee, RTR, BLE, PPI, DNS, LLDP, ...
• Bluetooth/BTLE rework
• PPI / 802.11 improvements

Main changes

• Gabriel Potter is officially part of the Scapy maintainers team
• PEP08 compliance (see #1277)
• Speed improvements (see #642)

Core

• 253 merged pull requests since v2.4.0
• Python 3.7 support
• Enhanced Windows support
• unit testing is now 100% tox based

Layers

Major changes

• Many automotive related layers added (ISO-TP...)

New

• EtherCat
• OPCDA
• SOCKS
• USBpcap
• RPKI

Improved

• MACsec, MQTT, MPLS, DNS, ARP, Dot15d4, Zigbee, Bluetooth4LE, RadioTap ...
• Enhanced monitor mode support

Other

• addresses a v2.4.0 vulnerability

Main changes

• Python3 support
• 85% code coverage

Core

• Pcap/PcapNg improvements
• enhanced Windows support
• OpenBSD improvements
• OSX 802.11 monitor mode
• Krack AP module
• iPython support
• automatically tested on Linux, OSX & Windows
• ...

Layers

Major changes

TLS (including TLS1.3), X.509 ...

New

HTTP/2, EAP-TTLS, TACACS, MQTT ...

Improved

IPv6, SCTP, NTP, PPTP, CDP, BGP, ISIS ...

Note: all releases tags before 2.4.0 are imported from http://freshmeat.sourceforge.net/projects/scapy
This release adds a contrib section filled with old contributions that were not distributed with Scapy yet: CDP, IGMP, MPLS, CHDLC, SLARP, WPA EAPOL, DTP, EIGRP, VQP, BGP, OSPF, VTP RSVP, EtherIP, RIPng, and IKEv2. It fixes some bugs.

This release adds SCTP and VRRP protocols. It fixes some bugs.

The Windows branch has been merged. Many bugs have been fixed. Network automata gained new features like the ability to add breakpoints or tracepoints. Many new small features have been added. Last but not least, this release comes with documentation.

The code has been split since versions 1.x. Many bugs have been fixed. The IPv6 branch has been merged in.

This release adds the ability to transcribe ASN1-specified protocols easily, SNMP protocol support, MIB parsing, OID/DNS/OUI resolving, configurable field value resolution, a startup script, and srflood() and srpflood() to flood with packets while catching answers.