activities report for October 2025

[Denis Ovsienko <denis () ovsienko info>]

October 2025
============

The accounted activities in October stand for 162:45 working hours and
59 commits (3 in tcpdump, 51 in libpcap and 5 in tcpdump-htdocs).  There
are 2 new tests in tcpdump and 5031 new tests in libpcap.

In tcpdump the main improvement is completing the earlier LWAPP work
from June.  In libpcap the main improvements besides testing are in
filtering:
* "(arp|rarp) host NAME" no longer fails to compile if the hostname
  resolves in both IPv4 and IPv6.
* For hostnames that resolve in both IPv4 and IPv6 in primitives that
  support both IPv4 and IPv6 the order of address families in the
  filter program code is now fixed to IPv4 before IPv6.
* The "==" and "!=" binary operators in arithmetic expressions now
  require one fewer instruction in the filter program code.
* Proto-unqualified “port” primitive now matches SCTP after TCP and UDP
  rather than before (suggested by Christopher Maynard).
* pcap_compile() now correctly rejects various invalid primitives that
  specify DECnet as the protocol.

Other accounted activities include:
* minor updates to a few man pages,
* minor improvements to error reporting,
* fixing of configuration file processing in rpcapd,
* various software and hardware maintenance work on the infrastructure,
* progressing of the bug report and pull request queues, and
* progressing of source code prototypes that are still pending merging
  or completion.

-- 
    Denis Ovsienko
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