[darkstat] / ChangeLog

v3.0.712 (November 2008)
        - Web: Add --no-macs option to hide mac addresses.
          Thanks Dennis!
        - Web: Make tables prettier.
        - Host detail view now triggers a DNS lookup.
        - Manpage tweaks, also move from section 1 to section 8.
        - Track and show how long ago a host was last seen.
          Suggested by: Prof A Olowofoyeku (The African Chief)
        - Show pcap_stats (like number of packets dropped) in the web
          interface and also upon exit.

v3.0.711 (August 2008)
        - Split --debug into --verbose and --no-daemon
        - Include launchd config and instructions for running darkstat
          on Mac OS X.  Contributed by Damien Clauzel.
        - Implement PPPoE decoding on ethernet iface. (--pppoe)
        - Web: Add automatic reload button.  Thanks Dennis!
        - Web: Add a graph legend with min/avg/max.
        - Web: Remove hashtable stats pages.

v3.0.708 (May 2008)

        - Implement limiting of number of ports tracked per host,
          configurable on the commandline (--ports-max)
        - Optionally don't track high ports (--highest-port)
          Thanks Dennis!
        - Fix rare use-after-free resulting from hosts table reduction.
        - Make hosts limit configurable (--hosts-max)
        - Option to read from capfile as alternative to live capture
          (really only useful for development, benchmarking)
        - Add the sniffed interface name to HTML reports.
          Thanks Chris!

v3.0.707 (Sep 2007)

        - Fix silly bug in formatting hex.
        - Check for pcap.h in include/pcap/ for old RedHat-a-likes.
        - New commandline parser.
        - To stay in foreground, pass --debug instead of -d.
        - We can now reset all statistics at runtime (send SIGUSR1)
        - Make chroot dir configurable on cmdline (--chroot)
        - Make privdrop user configurable on cmdline (--user)
        - Implement daylog (brings back a v2 feature)
        - Import and export hosts and graphs, this brings back a fairly
          major v2 feature.  Big ups to Ben for doing a lot of the
          design and implementation of this feature!
          Note that the v3 database format is, by design, incompatible
          with the v2 format.
        - Report average KB/s in and out on graphs.
          Thanks to Damian Lozinski for suggestion and first cut at the
          implementation.
        - Fix graph rotation when the delay between rotations is big
          enough to clear an entire graph.
        - Make ip_proto 8 bits wide, to match the IP header.
        - Implement pidfile functionality for people who prefer to
          handle daemons in this manner.

v3.0.619 (Apr 2007)

        - Decode DLT_PPP and DLT_PPP_SERIAL on NetBSD,
          patch courtesy of Bartosz Kuzma.
        - Don't use pcap_setnonblock(), with help from Colin Phipps.
        - Reduce the number of syscalls made.
        - Answer FAQ about graph axes / labels / scale.
        - Fix build on OpenBSD (thanks Chris!) and Solaris.
        - Commandline arg (-n) to disable promiscuous mode when
          sniffing, thanks to Chris Kuethe for the implementation.
        - Commandline arg (-r) to disable DNS resolver.
        - Track and report per-host last seen MAC address.
        - Move FAQ into manpage.
        - Implement display of start time and running time.
        - Web: implement sorting the hosts table by in/out/total.
        - Web: implement paging through the hosts table.
        - Web: implement full view of hosts table.
        - Don't die if the capture interface loses its IP address.
        - Make daemonize (previously -d) the default, and make -D the
          argument to suppress it.
        - Commandline arg (-l) to graph traffic entering/leaving the
          local network as opposed to just the local IP.  v2 had this.
        - Allow configure-time override of CHROOT_DIR and PRIVDROP_USER.
        - Web: new color scheme.

v3.0.540 (Aug 2006)

        - Fix build against old libpcap (thanks Claudio)
        - Fix build on AIX (thanks Andreas)
        - Fix build warnings on NetBSD (thanks Bartosz)
        - Deny writes to BPF socket (thanks Can)
        - Reverse-resolve IPs less aggressively.
        - Free up the DNS queue as we process it.
        - Fix dns_reply silliness.
        - Web: tweak the look of the top bar.
        - Web: update total packets and bytes as part of graph update.
        - Decode DLT_LINUX_SLL (ippp0 on Linux),
          patch courtesy of Ingo Bressler

v3.0.524 (Jul 2006)

        - Fix build on NetBSD.
        - Fix shutdown on Linux.
        - Performance improvements.
        - Free the mallocs.
        - Work around BPF being immediate on Linux.
          This improves performance.
        - Drop privileges when we don't need them.  Chroot.  Generally
          be more paranoid.  Thanks to Chris Kuethe for patches and
          inspiration.
        - Daemonize.  (run in the background)
        - Graphs: Make the entire bar have the same label (instead of
          different labels for in/out), add thousands separators for
          legibility, include the position/index (i.e. day 22)
        - Instead of reducing the hosts_db based on time, do it based on
          its size.
        - Implement somewhat better handling of time moving backwards -
          we assume that real time is monotonic and just renumber the
          graph bars.  (time is hard)
        - Greatly improve IPC with the DNS child, make it more efficient
          and much more robust.
        - Decode DLT_PPP_ETHER (pppoe0 on OpenBSD), patch courtesy of
          Claudio Leite.

v3.0.471 (Jun 2006)

        First public release of darkstat 3.  Almost a complete rewrite
        since v2.6.  Architecture much improved, better portability and
        stability.  Approximate feature parity with v2, missing
        loading/saving DB.

v2.6 (Nov 2003)

        End of the line for darkstat 2