activities report for September 2026

[Denis Ovsienko <denis () ovsienko info>]

September 2026
==============
The accounted activities in September stand for 191:20 working hours
and 137 commits (79 in libpcap, 10 in tcpdump and 48 in
tcpdump-htdocs).  There are 323 new tests in libpcap.

One department of this work were releases.  tcpdump 4.99.7 has been
released to make a small number of buffered improvements available to
the end users.  A number of earlier prototypes for libpcap vulnerability
fixes have been completed and released with libpcap 1.10.7, which also
incurred promotion downstream and various follow-ups.  The same fixes in
the master branch have introduced associated tests using a new test
type, which takes a filter program as bytecode or bpf_dump() output.
libpcap 1.11.0 has been released with these and a large number of other
improvements.

Another department of this work was subsequent improvements in the
master branch of libpcap as follows:

* The build now fails if atexit(3) does not work.
* The build now fails if an unrelated config.h has been included.
* In pcap_compile(3PCAP) the "/", "%", "<<" and ">>" operators no
  longer produce false positives and false negatives when validating
  their second operand.
* pcap_compile(3PCAP) no longer fails to fail if it runs out of scratch
  memory registers whilst processing "proto[expr]".
* pcap_compile(3PCAP) no longer leaks a scratch memory register whilst
  processing proto-unqualified "protochain".
* pcap_findalldevs(3PCAP) now sets PCAP_IF_NO_CAPTURE and
  PCAP_IF_NO_INJECT flags for some capture devices.

Other accounted activities include:

* progressing of pull requests and bug reports,
* manual testing on DragonFly BSD, GNU/Hurd, Haiku, illumos,
  MidnightBSD, QNX and Solaris 11.4 CBE, as well as on Linux with
  Endace DAG and Myricom SNF,
* various updates to the web site,
* various updates to the man pages,
* progressing of various earlier prototypes (still requires more
  work),
* reporting of a bug in illumos, and
* reconfigurations, updates and other infrastructure upkeep work.
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-- 
    Denis Ovsienko
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