Main Changes

Changelog

Core

• 354 commits to master since v2.4.4, from 73 contributors
• Python 3.9 support
• New interfaces system. conf.iface is now an object (retro-compatible as a string) which contains additional information about the interface and allows for an automatic selection of the socket type. conf.ifaces now lists all available interfaces.
• Fix *BSD support. Improve filters handling on Linux and libpcap
• Automaton: support for STOP event - allows to cleanly end an Automata. Implemented in all Scapy's automatons
• [Deprecated] Naming different fields with the same name will now raise a deprecation warning. This behavior has never properly worked and should never be necessary
• Enhance Net and Net6
• Improvements to scapy's logging, colored output and to UTscapy
• Fix edge-cases with ConditionalField and MultipleTypeField to make them more resilient
• [Doc] Enhancements: improved MultipleTypeField handling, add view source.
• [Internal] Move the test suite to GitHub Actions
• [Internal] Unit test housekeeping
• [Internal] Begin type hinting

Layers

• 6LoWPAN refactor
• TLS improvements (TLS 1.3 server downgrade, TLS 1.2 EXT MS...)
• HTTP improvements (http_request, support for zstd...)
• Refactor TunTap support
• Cleanup MACsec
• Many small bug fixes or improvements to layers (SMB2, BFD, DNS, Zigbee, EAP, HomeplugGP, DHCPv6, 802.11...)

Automotive

• Renaming of ENET to HSFZ
• Added XCP layer
• Added DoIP layer
• [Internal] Cleanup of interface preparation code in unit tests
• Renaming of ECU to Ecu
• Refactoring of EcuState class to be more versatile
• [Internal] Started with typing
• [Internal] Multiple minor cleanups
• Minor updates to the documentation