[Iperf-users] iperf-3.17 is available

[Sarah L. <swl...@es...>]

ESnet (Energy Sciences Network) is proud to announce the availability of
iperf-3.17. This release includes several important bug fixes, as well as a
correction for a possible side-channel timing vulnerability. To address
this issue, a change has been made to the padding applied to encrypted
strings. This change is not backwards compatible with older versions of
iperf3 (before 3.17). To restore older (vulnerable) behavior for backwards
compatibility, please use the --use-pkcs1-padding flag.

Special thanks to Hubert Kario from RedHat for reporting this issue and
providing feedback for the fix  (CVE-2024-26306).

This release also includes several other changes, including a new
--json-stream option, and it no longer changes its current working
directory in --daemon mode. It also includes bug fixes for UDP tests
operating between two different endian hosts, and the --fq-rate parameter
now works in reverse tests. Statistics reporting interval is now available
in the --json start test object, and a negative time duration is now
correctly reported as an error.

The 3.17 release also includes additional support for Android, VxWorks, and
now builds correctly on architectures without native support for 64-bit
atomic types.

iperf3 is a tool for measuring the maximum TCP, UDP, and SCTP throughput
along a path, allowing for the tuning of various parameters and reporting
measurements such as throughput, jitter, and datagram packet loss.  It is
fully supported on Linux, FreeBSD, and macOS.  It may run on other
platforms as well, although it has not received the same attention and
testing.  Note that iperf3 is not compatible with, and will not
interoperate with, version 2 or earlier of iperf, although the two versions
can co-exist on the same hosts and networks.

The source code for iperf 3.17 is available at:

https://downloads.es.net/pub/iperf/iperf-3.17.tar.gz
<https://downloads.es.net/pub/iperf/iperf-3.15.tar.gz>

SHA256 hash:

077ede831b11b733ecf8b273abd97f9630fd7448d3ec1eaa789f396d82c8c943

iperf3 is freely-redistributable under a 3-clause BSD license.  More
information can be found in the LICENSE file inside the source distribution.

Additional documentation for iperf3 can be found at:

https://software.es.net/iperf

More information about iperf3 (including the issue tracker, source code
repository access, and discussion forum) can be found on the iperf3 page on
GitHub at:

https://github.com/esnet/iperf

User questions can go to the iperf users list (which is more-or-less shared
between iperf2 and iperf3):

ipe...@li...

Mailing list information and archives can be found at:

https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/iperf-users

The mailing list for iperf3 development is:

ipe...@go...

To see the list archives or join the mailing list, visit:

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