===== 20240905 ===== Released September 05, 2024 Mostly ping fixes release. * Notable changes (for details see below) - Allow to disable reverse DNS resolution (PTR lookup) with with environment variable IPUTILS_PING_PTR_LOOKUP=0 - Lower max allowed -s value to 65507 (IPv4) or 65527 (IPv6). That is the maximum the Linux kernel supports. - Include pre-generated man pages & HTML docs in dist tarballs. This allows to avoid libxslt, docbook, ... as a build dependencies. - require meson >= 0.44 - ping has new option -3 * ping - Allow to disable reverse DNS resolution (PTR lookup) with with environment variable IPUTILS_PING_PTR_LOOKUP=0 (commit: 6fc68b1, PR: #553, issue: #531) - Add option -3 (don't round up the RTT time) (commit: 48ae5c9, PR: #540) - fix: Fix IPv4 checksum check always succeeding once again (commit: bacf1b7, PR: #534) - fix: Lower max allowed -s value to 65507 (IPv4) or 65527 (IPv6) (commit: 1e24c5b, issue: #542, PR: #550) - fix: Fix node info exit code (commit: 3840637, issue: #528) - fix: Fix integer overflow for high -s values (commit: aaa3dc3, issue: #542, PR: #550) - fix: Fix EMSGSIZE on -s > 65527 on ICMP datagram socket (commit: aaa3dc3, issue: #542, PR: #550) - fix: Fix print time_t problem on 32 bits platform (commit: 0fd2db7, PR: #533) - fix: Fix exit code on missing target (commit: 294a65f, issue: #528) - fix: check return value of write() to avoid integer overflow (commit: 0f12e6d, PR: #545) - setcap-setuid.sh: Add cap_net_admin for ping (commit: 19718b0, issue: #515) - man: Document CAP_NET_ADMIN for -m (commit: 5b7ba7d, issue: #515) - reduce duplicity in warnings (commit: 0c08152, issue: #515) * arping - fix: Fix exit code if receive more replies than sent (commit: b589819, issue: #538, PR: #546) - fix: Fix unsolicited ARP regressions on -c > 1 (commit: 5de892d, issue: #536, PR: #543) - fix: Fix 1s delay on exit for unsolicited arpings (commit: 4db1de6, issue: #536, PR: #541) * clockdiff - fix: Fix print time_t problem on 32 bits musl (commit: f2c322a) - fix: Fix loading localization on clockdiff (commit: c1b0e28) * tracepath - fix: Fix print time_t problem on 32 bits musl (commit: 536d40e) * Meson build system - include pre-generated man pages & HTML docs in dist tarballs (commit: 535f6de, issue: #479, PR: #520, https://bugs.gentoo.org/908817 https://bugs.gentoo.org/920901) - require meson >= 0.44 (released 2017, commit: c4bed6d) * CI - test 'meson dist' (commit: 2e8b3b2, b698ef6) - add 32bit build (commit: 22debcf) - build.sh: Configure with meson properly (commit: 01434a6) - remove Centos 7 (EOL, commit: 8037de5) * Localization - 100% translated: Czech, Finnish, Georgian, German, Indonesian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese (Brazil), Turkish, Ukrainian - Mostly translated: Chinese (Simplified), French - Fix loading localization on clockdiff ===== 20240117 ===== Released January 17, 2024 * ping - fix: Restore -i0 (commit: 7a51494, PR: #519, regression from 2a63b94) * localization - Updated Turkish and Indonesian - 100% translated: Chinese (Simplified), Czech, French, Georgian, German, Korean, Portuguese (Brazil), Turkish, Ukrainian - > 90% translated: Finnish, Indonesian, Japanese ===== 20231222 ===== Released December 22, 2023 * arping - fix: Properly fix -Wpedantic warnings (commit: 80a580a, PR: #505) * clockdiff - fix: Set ppoll timeout minimum to 1ms (commit: 471942d, issue: #326, PR: #459) * ping - feature: Add option -H to force reverse DNS resolution (commit: dd5a81a, issue: #421, https://bugs.debian.org/650479, PR: #494) - feature: Decode unreachable codes added in RFC 4443 (commit: c4c7d52, PR: #447) - feature: Allow over-PMTU-sized packets with DF set using PMTUDISC_PROBE (commit: e123cab, PR: #448) - fix: Revert "ping: use random value for the identifier field" to use PID again (commit: d466aab, issue: #489, PR: #503, regression from s20200821) - fix: Fix support for DSCP (Traffic Class, option -Q) (commit: 425f711, PR: #468, broken since s20060425) - fix: Fix the errno handling for strtod (commit: 33e78be, PR: #450, regression from s20190324) - fix: Drop redundant setsockopt(IPV6_TCLASS) call (commit: d38519a, PR: #468, regression from s20150815) - fix: Fix overflow on negative -i (commit: 2a63b94, issue: #465) - fix: Fix sporadically missing DNS record on targets with multiple IP addresses (commit: 80a580a, PR: #505, regression from s20200821) - fix: Handle interval correctly in the first second after booting (commit: 7448c33, PR: #499) - fix: Fix presentation of IPv6 addresses with no reverse DNS (commit: bc3f2e3, issue: #455, PR: #478) - fix: Add missing whitespace in IPv6 output (commit: 14472fc, PR: #455) - fix: Allow to localize help (commit: e13508a) - fix: Use print target when empty ai_canonname (commit: c68afd5, issue: #421) - Improve interval error message (commit: fb75557, PR: #487) - man: Mention broadcast and multicast limit for non-root (commit: e7aafa7, PR: #486) - man: Document collisions and pid_max (commit: c515a0d, PR: #507) - man: Add missing parameter for -e (commit: 2400215) - man: Update TTL details (commit: 2beff77, issue: #488, PR: #497) - man: Describe the defaults for -n option, reword (commit: a6e6d24) * tracepath - fix: Restore the MTU probing behavior") (commit: a75feb0, PR: #448, regression from s20190709) - fix: Fix behavior during the first second after booting (commit: c64bcd8, PR: #499) - Add NULL pointer assert() check (commit: 065daad, PR: #498) - man: Fix output related docs (commit: 40c7bc3, issue: #469, PR: #470) - man: Document error messages (commit: 90371d2, issue: #463, PR: #495) * CI - Add Add CentOS Stream 9 and Rocky Linux 8 and 9 (commit: 26edb41, 0ce30ae, PR: #457, #476) * localization - 100% translated: Chinese (Simplified), Czech, French, Georgian, German, Korean, Portuguese (Brazil), Ukrainian - > 90% translated: Finnish, Turkish, Indonesian, Japanese ===== 20221126 ===== Released November 26, 2022 * removed tools (issue: #363) - ninfod (commit: 8f0d897, reason: experimental unused protocol) - rarpd (commit: fba7b62, reason: superseded by DHCP protocol) - rdisc (commit: 7447806, reason: superseded by DHCP protocol) * license - use SPDX identifiers for license names * tree - make _GNU_SOURCE mandatory (commit: 2410ed1, PR: #402) * arping - fix: exit 0 if running in deadline mode and we see replies (commit: 854873b, PR: #395) - fix: check correct variable (commit: 8a6a2ce, PR: #395) - man: Mention IPv4 only and ndisc6(8) (commit: 6becbb3) * clockdiff - setcap-setuid.sh: Add cap_sys_nice for clockdiff (commit: 9139397, issue: #326, #422) - document CAP_SYS_NICE requirement (PR: #416) * ping - feature: add option -C to call connect() before sending/receiving - useful when using Path MTU Discovery (commit: 07eca4a, PR: #391) - feature: add option -e to set Identifier field for ICMP ECHO_REQUEST (commit: 43e38f2, PR: #426) - feature: print various debug info on -v (issue: #411) - feature: print config options on -V (PR: #432) - fix: -m (SO_MARK) in 32-bit archs (commit: fecf335, PR: #394, more fixes will come next release) - fix: potential memory leakage on -p option (commit: 626ea66, PR: #409) - fix: socket error reporting (commit: bbe451f, issue: #406) - fix: make ping_rts struct static - fix occasional segfault (commit: 7861af9, issue: #423) - fix: add SA_RESTART to sa_flags - avoid missing output in write on aarch64 (commit: 09f1b37, issue: #424) - security: drop capabilities for IPv4 (commit: 5990843, PR: #400) - print warning on missing '%'-notation (commit: c4b8b44, issue: #398, PR: #405) - man: add "IPV6 LINK-LOCAL DESTINATIONS" section (PR: #405) - man: use "ICMP datagram socket" (PR: #405) * CI - Debian: unstable -> testing (stability) - Ubuntu: xenial -> bionic, groovy -> jammy (EOL) - remove CentOS 8 (EOL, commit: 931504a) * localization - new translations: Georgian (by Temuri Doghonadze) - many updates - 100% translated: Czech, Finnish, Georgian, Korean, Turkish, Ukrainian * tests - don't fail when ip binary missing (issue: #383, PR: #390) ===== 20211215 ===== Released December 15, 2021 * removed tools (issue: #363) - tftpd: removing commit: 341975a, PR: #369 replacement: - tftp-hpa (https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/network/tftp/tftp-hpa.git) - dnsmasq (https://thekelleys.org.uk/dnsmasq/doc.html) - traceroute6: removing commit: a139421, PR: #362 replacement: - mtr (https://www.bitwizard.nl/mtr/) - traceroute (http://traceroute.sourceforge.net/) - tracepath (https://github.com/iputils/iputils/blob/master/tracepath.c) WARNING: More tools (ninfod, rarpd, rdisc) are going to be removed in next release, see issue: #363 * Meson build system - require version 0.40 (due multiple install_dir for custom_target; commit: 65941ab) * arping - fix: ARP protocol field for AX.25 and NETROM (PR: #360) * clockdiff - fix man: remove duplicated word (PR: #384) * ninfod - fix: build with -DNINFOD_MESSAGES=false (commit: a0b3917) - systemd unit: add ProtectHostname, ProtectKernelLogs (PR: #375) * ping - fix: remove 'unsupported IPv6' warning on disabled IPv6 (issue: #293, PR: #370) - fix: ping6 binding to VRF and address (PR: #344) - fix: print reply from Subnet-Router anycast address (issue: #371) - fix: print reply with wrong source with warning (issue: #371) - fix: set mark (SO_MARK) on probe socket (PR: #340) - fix: man: update lowered minimum ping interval (issue: #367) - fix: mark is unsigned int, not signed (PR: #345) * rarpd - systemd unit: add ProtectHostname, ProtectKernelLogs (PR: #375) * rdisc - systemd unit: add ProtectHostname, ProtectKernelLogs (PR: #375) * localization - fix: add missing cs, id, ko languages (commit: be8f704) - new translations: Finnish, Korean - updated translations: German, Japanese, Turkish, Ukrainian * CI - add build with some non-default options (commit: c4a5373) - remove Tumbleweed (not only ocassional bugs: 086de3c, b19df68, but the way how repos are published often breaks using it) - add latest CentOS (currently CentOS 8, commit: 5f3711e) * tests - add -V test for all binaries (commit: 802fade) - make tests optional with -DSKIP_TESTS=true (PR: #359) ===== 20210722 ===== Released July 22, 2021 * Meson build system - enable NO_SETCAP_OR_SUID by default * clockdiff - fix missing new line * ping - lower minimal interval for flooding to 2 (issue: #317) - revert f7710a1 ("Add strict pattern matching on response when pattern was provided") to fix broken report of truncated packets (issue: #320, PR: #331) * rdisc - systemd unit: remove PrivateUsers=yes from systemd service file (issue: #314) - systemd unit: support /etc/default/rdisc environment file (for Debian, PR: #356) - systemd unit: Add DynamicUser=yes (PR: #358) - systemd unit: add CAP_NET_ADMIN capability (PR: #351) - Add support for capability/setuid (PR: #347, #348) NOTE: This is strongly discouraged as normal uses could possibly modify routing tables, recommended way is to run it as systemd service which does not require it to be enabled. It's added just for non-systemd users, which should run allow it to run just for dedicated user. - set correct caps in setcap-setuid.sh * traceroute6 - mention -V in usage() (PR: #323) * localization - new translations: Czech (100%), Indonesian (94%) - updated translations: Portuguese (Brazil, 95%), Indonesian (94%), French: (58%), Chinese (Simplified, 53%) - fully translated languages in this release: Czech, Turkish, Ukrainian * CI - migrate from Travis CI to GitHub Actions (PR: #336) - add very basic ping testing (issue: #338, PR: #243) - skip tests on Ubuntu Xenial (commit: 9833cae) - various build.sh improvements * tests - skip tests on disabled IPv6 (commit: f10bfd8) - fix: flood ping test should pass on root (commit: 3dff080) ===== 20210202 ===== Released February 2, 2021 * version scheme change: dropped leading 's' (issue: #269) * Meson build system - new variable INSTALL_SYSTEMD_UNITS forces installing systemd units even if systemd is not installed on build host (PR: #297) * all - fix infinite loop when getrandom fails (issue: #291) * arping - make update neighbours work again (issue: #298) * ping - fix dead loop problem (issue: #276) - process interrupts in ping*_receive_error_msg (commit: 2583fb7) - restore -W 0 as infinite timeout (issue: #290, PR: #306) - man: fix formatting (commit: b1ebe35) * tftpd: - fix: recvfile: avoid closing the file twice (PR: #311) - fix: install into sbindir: the xinet.d config expects the daemon to live in sbin (PR: #310) * localization - update POTFILES and iputils.pot (PR: #280) - updated translations: Portuguese (Brazil) (86%), French (55%), Japanese (rebased after PR: #280) * Travis CI - Use Ubuntu 20.10 groovy instead of Eoan ===== s20200821 ===== Released August 21, 2020 * incompatible changes Handling numeric options changed - ping: use '.' (dot) as a decimal separator regardless locale (for -i/-W options). Since s20121121 till s20190709 decimal separator for -i option depended on locales ($LC_NUMERIC), but only when compiled with USE_IDN=yes. (issue #290, commit: d865d4c, 1530bc9) - ping: temporarily allow -i option to contain trailing non-numeric characters. Previously only -W option allowed this (non-numeric characters were silently discharged), now both -i/-W print warning. This will become fatal error in the future. (issue: #236, #290, commit: 562e0d5) * arping - [security] disable setcap and setuid (prevent ARP Poisoning, issue: #203) - fix wrong exit code for -D option (issue: #209, originally reported: https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages/issues/13304) - fix -f quit on first reply (issue: #211, originally reported: https://bugs.debian.org/935946) - do not fail when unsolicited ARP mode destination does not answer when use -U or -A (issue: #247) * clockdiff - add timeformat options: -T/--time-format and -I (alias for --time-format=iso) - use strftime() instead of deprecated ctime_r() (commit: d6e1d77) * ninfod - fix build with libcap 2.29 (issue: #246) - fix struct qtypeinfo packing (commit: f0a6348) * ping - [security] use random value for the identifier field instead of PID when using SOCK_RAW socket - allow user to specify VRF and source IP (commit: 9e08707) - try next addrinfo on connect failure (fixes reachability when getaddrinfo() returns IPv6 results first on hosts with only IPv4 routes available, commit: 2705c82, c249e48) - fix IPv6 name resolution for hostnames with link-local addresses (commit: d217170) - fix print gateway IP on little endian architectures on IPPROTO_ICMP sockets (commit: e2e9a2d) - discard packets with wrong source address (comply RFC 1122, commit: 5e052ad) - suppress duplicate reply messages when ping multicast (issue: #195, originally reported: https://bugs.debian.org/498429) - allow any package size (-s) to be defined by user (issue: #210) - use C locale for parsing -i/-W options without IDN (commit: d865d4c) - yet another fix for round-trip time (RTT) (commit: 5b6c194, never ending story, see issue: #232) - reintroduce support of flow label for very old systems (issue: #268, regression: s20190324, originally reported: https://bugs.debian.org/682511, https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/iputils/blob/0bbd37701742cc6da0e91f6cc5ba6cf6a522fca2/f/iputils-20100418-flowlabel.patch, originally fixes in fed7e6306f37a18 from November 2012) - fix IPv6 error handling for old kernels without ping socket (regression: s20161105) - move sources subdirectory (affects built binary location) * rdisc - report in --version whether compiled with server support * tftpd - stop building by default (use dnsmasq instead) - add example xinetd file - move sources subdirectory (affects built binary location) * localization - new translations: Ukrainian (100%), Turkish (100%), German (53%), French (40%), Portuguese (Brazil) (43%), Chinese (Simplified, zh_CN) (38%) - updated: Japanese (84%) - starting to manage translations via Fedora's Weblate https://translate.fedoraproject.org/projects/iputils/iputils/ (issue: #271) * general cleanup (across code) - add md5 implementation to avoiding linking to crypto libraries, or expect kernel api to provide md5 functionality (issue: #239) - use clock_gettime() rather gettimeofday() (issue: #213, #214, #215) - use CLOCK_MONOTONIC instead of CLOCK_MONOTONIC_RAW - various fixes discovered via LGTM scan and clang-tidy (missing includes, incorrect types and declarations, etc) - man pages spelling fixes - refactoring * Meson build system - Allow to set using setcap-setuid.sh per application (commit: 054670a) - fix build for non-systemd builds - don't require xsltproc any more (instead skip building man and html) - fix static build with libidn2 * Travis CI - switch to docker based builds to tests on different distro releases, including cross-compilation and musl libc (issue: #169)