activities report for May 2025

[Denis Ovsienko via tcpdump-workers <tcpdump-workers () lists tcpdump org>]

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> From: Denis Ovsienko <denis () ovsienko info>
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> Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2025 22:25:41 +0100
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> May 2025
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> The accounted activities in May stand for 53:10 working hours and 14
> commits (6 in libpcap, 2 in tcpdump and 6 in tcpdump-htdocs).
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> One direction of this work was assisting a contributor (John Thacker)
> in the fixing of a previously reported libpcap bug (1508), which
> required a dedicated test rig and turned out more convoluted than
> originally expected, but eventually resolved as three related bug fixes.
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> Another direction was processing of a few unfinished prototypes from
> the previous months: changes that were ready for merging have been
> merged, potentially useful changes that require more work became three
> draft pull requests in order to gather comments and to be decided later.
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> One small, but notable development was the introduction of suitable
> ARCnet packet captures with the help from Burntisland Museum of
> Communication (the working hours above do not include any time spent at
> the museum).  This is expected to simplify debugging, maintenance and
> testing of the existing code specific to non-Ethernet-like networks
> that can carry IPv4 traffic.  The first results are two new detailed bug
> reports and a formal specification of LINKTYPE_ARCNET_LINUX.
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> Other accounted activities include:
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> * posting of root cause analysis and other comments to earlier open bug
>   reports,
> * re-opening of two old bug reports with comments,
> * updating of the man pages and the web site,
> * upgrading of openbsd-aarch64 and openbsd-amd64 OpenBSD from 7.6 to
>   7.7 (which upgraded Clang from 17.0 to 19.1),
> * installation of security and other routine updates on various hosts,
>   and
> * hardware maintenance and upgrade of linux-mips.
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>     Denis Ovsienko
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