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Hello list.
I almost typed "2021" into the subject of this e-mail, as 2022 still
feels futuristic, yet it is here.
Today is exactly 31 years from the first public release of tcpdump
(2.0 by LBL), which at the time was still the same program as libpcap.
As you can see on the "old releases" page [1], it was not until summer
1994 when libpcap 0.0 came into existence. Perhaps some people could
explain the timeline much better, feel free to make your input if you
can. In any case, it feels like a valid excuse to have a nice pizza.
Thanks to everyone who contributed, in one or another way, to this
project during this long time. Unfortunately, often contributions get
stuck in the long queue of pull requests. Please excuse the current
maintainers for not handling the incoming contribution stream fast
enough, as it takes time at the receiving end as well to proof-read and
merge changes safely. Sometimes this time is available, and sometimes
it is not.
The web site received many assorted updates and cleanups in recent
couple months. As far as the content goes, a number of things that
looked out of place and/or date have been put right. From the visual
aspect, the content now uses screen space more effectively and it uses
more consistent style, especially the man pages. Various documents now
link to each other better than before. The FAQ now has a few new
entries, but, as usual, it is never complete, so if you can suggest new
entries (ideally complete with answers), that would be welcome.
Finally, assorted maintenance work was done about the CI:
* openbsd-mips64 has been upgraded from 6.9 to 7.0, which upgraded
Clang from 10.0 to 11.0 and finally made ccache available. However,
the performance gain was offset with the addition of GCC 8.4.0, which
was not available before, so the end effect is that the full CI round
on this worker still takes about the same time, but now covers two
compilers instead of one.
* illumos-amd64 has reached OpenIndiana 2021.10 as the latter became
available.
* netbsd-aarch64 pkgsrc has been upgraded from 2021Q3 to 2021Q4, which
among other things has upgraded Clang from 12.0 to 13.0.
1: https://www.tcpdump.org/old_releases.html
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Denis Ovsienko
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