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Release notes for python-libtrace
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python-libtrace-1.6, June 2015
  Reworked ippmodule to use inet-ntop() and inet_pton(),
    with check to make sure we don't use :: where it should
    be :0:
  Fixed PV_free_self define in pv.h, plt builds properly for python3 now
  Made new py2 and py3 test *.res files for test programs whose
    output depended on string formas of IPv6 addresses

python-libtrace-1.5, April 2015
  Fixed memory leak reported by John Green.
  Made improvements to the documentation reported by Perry Lorier

python-libtrace-1.4, January 2015
  Improved the doc/*.html pages after feedback from NZNOF 2015
    python-libtrace workshop

python-libtrace-1.3, December 2015
  Small improvements prompted by Nevil's tcp-analyse program

python-libtrace-1.2, June 2014
  Added trace function pkt_accepts(),
    changed packet_drops() to pkt_drops()
  Re-worked packet trace read routines, now both read_packet()
    and next_packet() call get_packet(), which handles ethertype 
    0x8100 packets with vlan tags.
  Added new attributes and functions:
    packet.vlan_id    802.1Q vlan id, or zero for non-vlan packets
    packet.direction  libtrace direction, for interfaces that support it
    internet.test_l2_cksm()  test whether l3 (IPv4) checksum is correct
    internet.set_l2_cksm()   set l3 (IPv4) checksum
    internet.test_trans_cksm()  test whether transport checksum is correct
    internet.set_trans_cksm()   set l3 transport checksum
      Note: the cksm functions can be used for ip, ip6, tcp, udp, icmp
        and icmp6, i.e. all internet's child classes
      Note also: the cksm functions do not use the libtrace checksum
        routines; instead they compute the checksums in-place, so
	they don't call memcpy().

python-libtrace-1.1, April 2014
  Correct IPprefix module name in doc files; it's ipp, not IPprefix
  Fix transport layer get routines (e.g. ip6.tcp):
    They were returning None if there weren't enough bytes for
      most of the header
    Now they reurn as much of the header as they can get,
      i.e. at least the first field of the header
    Note that fields further along the header, e.g. tcp.checksum
      will return None if that field was beyond the packet's
      snap length!

python-libtrace-1.0, March 2014
  First release, development started July 2013

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