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v3.7.4 (2019-04-11)

  • ipv4 reassembly requires lru 0.3.0 now (#406 by @hannesm)

  • ICMP test maintenance (#405 by @yomimono @linse)

  • remove usage of Cstruct.set_len (use Cstruct.sub with offset 0 instead) (#403 by @hannesm)

v3.7.3 (2019-04-06)

  • fix ICMPv4 checksum calculation (#401 by @yomimono)

v3.7.2 (2019-03-29)

  • add Ipv4_packet.Unmarshal.header_of_cstruct (#397 by @linse)

  • require cstruct version 3.2.0 (#398 by @hannesm)

v3.7.1 (2019-02-25)

  • Adjust to mirage-protocols 2.0.0 changes (#394 by @hannesm)

  • Ethif is now Ethernet (#394 by @hannesm)

  • IPv4 write now fragments if payload exceeds MTU (and the optional labeled fragment argument is not false) (#394 by @hannesm)

v3.7.0 (2019-02-02)

  • Use Lwt_dllist instead of Lwt_sequence, due to the latter being deprecated upstream in Lwt (ocsigen/lwt#361) (#388 by @avsm).

  • Remove arpv4 and ethif sublibraries, now provided by ethernet and arp-mirage opam packages (#380 by @hannesm).

  • Upgrade from jbuilder to dune (#391 @avsm)

  • Switch from topkg to dune-release (#391 @avsm)

v3.6.0 (2019-01-04)

  • The IPv4 implementation now supports reassembly of IPv4 fragments (#375 by @hannesm)

    • using a LRU cache using up to 256KB memory

    • out of order fragments are supported

    • maximum number of fragments is 16

    • timeout between first and last fragment is 10s

    • overlapping fragments are dropped

  • IPv6: use correct timeout value after first NS message (#334 @djs55)

  • Use Ipaddr.pp instead of Ipaddr.pp_hum due to upstream interface changes (#385 @hannesm).

v3.5.1 (2018-11-16)

  • socket stack (tcp/udp): catch exception in recv_from and accept (#376 @hannesm)

  • use mirage-random-test for testing (Stdlibrandom got removed from mirage-random>1.2.0, #377 @hannesm)

v3.5.0 (2018-09-16)

  • Ipv4: require Mirage_random.C, used for generating IPv4 identifier instead of using OCaml's stdlib Random directly (#371 @hannesm)

  • Tcp: use entire 32 bits at random for the initial sequence number, thanks to Spencer Michaels and Jeff Dileo of NCC Group for reporting (#371 @hannesm)

  • adjust to mirage-protocols 1.4.0 and mirage-stack 1.3.0 changes (#371 @hannesm) Arp no longer contains the type alias ethif Ethif no longer contains the type alias netif Static_ipv4 no longer contains the type alias ethif and prefix Ipv6 no longer contains the type alias ethif and prefix Mirage_protocols_lwt.IPV4 no longer contains the type alias ethif Mirage_protocols_lwt.UDPV4 and TCPV4 no longer contain the type alias ip

  • remove unused types: 'a config, netif, and id from socket and direct stack (#371 @hannesm)

  • remove usage of Result, depending on OCaml >= 4.03.0 (#372 @hannesm)

v3.4.2 (2018-06-15)

Note the use of the new TCP keep-alive feature can cause excessive amounts of memory to be used in some circumstances, see https://github.com/mirage/mirage-tcpip/issues/367

  • Ensure a zero UDP checksum is sent as 0xffff, not 0x0000 (#359 @stedolan)

  • Avoid leaking a file descriptor in the socket stack if the connection fails (#363 @hannesm)

  • Avoid raising an exception with Lwt.fail when write fails in the socket stack (#363 @hannesm)

  • Ignore EBADF errors in close in the socket stack (#366 @hannesm)

  • Emit a warning when TCP keep-alives are used (#368 @djs55)

v3.4.1 (2018-03-09)

  • expose tcp_socket_options in the socket stack, fixing downstream builds (#356 @yomimono)

  • add missing dependencies and constraints (#354 @yomimono, #353 @rgrinberg)

  • remove leftover ocamlbuild files (#353 @rgrinberg)

v3.4.0 (2018-02-15)

  • Add support for TCP keepalives (#338 @djs55)

  • Fix TCP deadlock (#343 @mfp)

  • Update the CI to test OCaml 4.04, 4.05, 4.06 (#344 @yomimono)

v3.3.1 (2017-11-07)

  • Add an example for user-space ping, and some socket ICMPv4 fixes (#336 @djs55)

  • Make tcpip safe-string-safe (and buildable by default on OCaml 4.06.0) (#341 @djs55)

v3.3.0 (2017-08-08)

  • Test with current mirage-www master (#323 @yomimono)

  • Improve the Tcp.Wire API (#325 @samoht)

  • Add dependency from stack-unix to io-page-unix (@avsm)

  • Replace dependency on cstruct.lwt with cstruct-lwt (#322 @yomimono)

  • Update to lwt 3.0 (#326 @samoht)

  • Replace oUnit with alcotest (#329 @samoht)

  • Fix stub linking on Xen (#332 @djs55)

  • Add support for ICMP sockets on Windows (#333 @djs55)

v3.2.0 (2017-06-26)

  • port to jbuilder. Build time is now roughly 4-5x faster than the old oasis-based build system.

  • packs have been replaced by module aliases.

v3.1.4 (2017-06-12)

  • avoid linking to cstruct.ppx in the compiled library and only use it at build time (#316 @djs55)

  • use improved packet size support in mirage-vnetif>=0.4.0 to test the MTU fixes in #313.

v3.1.3 (2017-05-23)

  • involve the IP layer's MTU in the TCP MSS calculation (hopefully correctly) (#313, by @yomimono)

v3.1.2 (2017-05-14)

  • impose a maximum TCP MSS of 1460 to avoid sending over-large datagrams on 1500 MTU links (#309, by @hannesm)

v3.1.1 (2017-05-14)

  • fix parsing 20-byte cstructs as ipv4 packets (#307, by @yomimono)

  • udp: payload length parse fix (#307, by @yomimono)

  • support lwt >= 2.7.0 (#308, by @djs55)

v3.1.0 (2017-03-14)

  • implement MTU setting and querying in the Ethernet module (compatibility with mirage-protocols version 1.1.0), and use this value to inform TCP's MSS. (#288, by @djs55)

  • rename the ~payload argument of TCP/UDP marshallers to ~payload_len, in an attempt to clarify that the payload will not be copied to the Cstruct.t returned by these functions (#301, by @talex5)

  • functorize ipv6 over a random implementation (#298, by @olleolleolle and @hannesm)

  • add tests for sending and receiving UDP packets over IPv6 (#300, by @mattgray)

  • avoid float in TCP RTO calculations. (#295, by @olleolleolle and @mattgray)

  • numerous bugfixes in header marshallers and unmarshallers (#301, by @talex5 and @yomimono)

  • replace polymorphic equality in _packet.equals functions (#302, by @yomimono)

v3.0.0 (2017-02-23)

  • adapt to MirageOS 3 API changes (many PRs, from @hannesm, @samoht, and @yomimono):

    • replace error polyvars in many functions with result types

    • define and use error types

    • connect in various modules now returns the device directly or raises an exception

    • refer to mirage-protocols and mirage-stacks, rather than mirage-types

  • if no UDP source port is given to UDP.write, choose a random one (#272, by @hannesm)

  • remove Ipv4.Routing.No_route_to_destination_address exception; treat routing failures as normal packet loss in TCP (#269, by @yomimono)

  • Ipv6.connect takes a list of IPs (#268, by @yomimono)

  • remove exception "Refused" in TCP (#267, by @yomimono)

  • remove DHCP module. Users may be interested in the replacement charrua-core (#260, by @yomimono)

  • move Ipv4 to Static_ipv4, which can be used by other IPv4 modules with their own configuration logic (#260, by @yomimono)

  • remove mode from STACKV4 record and configuration; Ipv4.connect now requires address parameters and the module exposes no methods for modifying them. (#260, by @yomimono)

  • remove unused id types no longer required by mirage-types (#255, by @yomimono)

  • overhaul how random is used and handled (#254 and others, by @hannesm)

  • fix redundant memset that zeroed out options in Tcp_packet.Marshal.into_cstruct (#250, by @balrajsingh)

  • add vnetif backend for triggering fast retransmit in iperf tests (#248, by @magnuss)

  • fixes for incorrect timer values (#247, by @balrajsingh)

  • add vnetif backend that drops packets with no payload (#246, by @magnuss)

  • fix a race when closing test pcap files (#246, by @magnuss)

v2.8.1 (2016-09-12)

  • Set the TCP congestion window correctly when going into fast-recovery mode. (#244, by @balrajsingh)

  • When TCP packet loss is discovered by timeout, allow transition into fast-recovery mode. (#244, by @balrajsingh)

v2.8.0 (2016-04-04)

  • Provide an implementation for the ICMPV4 module type defined in mirage-types 2.8.0. Remove default ICMP handling from the IPv4 module, but preserve it in tcpip-stack-direct. (#195 by @yomimono)

  • Explicitly require the use of an OCaml compiler >= 4.02.3 . (#195 by @yomimono)

  • Explicitly depend on result. (#195 by @yomimono)

v2.7.0 (2016-03-20)

  • Raise Invalid_argument if given an invalid port number in listen_{tcp,udp}v4 (#173 by @matildah and #175 by @hannesm)

  • Improve TCP options marshalling/unmarshalling (#174 by @yomimono)

  • Add state tests and fixes for closure conditions (#177 #176 by @yomimono)

  • Remove bogus warning (#178 by @talex5)

  • Clean up IPv6 stack (#179 by @nojb)

  • RST checking from RFC5961 (#182 by @ppolv)

  • Transform EPIPE exceptions into `Eof (#183 by @djs55)

  • Improve error strings in IPv4 (#184 by @yomimono)

  • Replace use of cstruct.syntax with cstruct.ppx (#188 by @djs55)

  • Make the Unix subpackages optional, so the core builds on Win32 (#191 by @djs55)

v2.6.1 (2015-09-15)

  • Add optional arguments for settings in ip v6 and v4 connects (#170, by @Drup)

  • Expose Ipv4.Routing.No_route_to_destination_address (#166, by @yomimono)

v2.6.0 (2015-07-29)

  • ARP now handles ARP frames, not Ethernet frames with ARP payload (#164, by @hannesm)

  • Check length of received ethernet frame to avoid cstruct exceptions (#117, by @hannesm)

  • Pull arpv4 module out of ipv4. Also add unit-tests for the newly created ARP library (#155, by @yomimono)

v2.5.1 (2015-07-07)

  • Fix regression introduced in 2.5.0 where packet loss could lead to the connection to become very slow (#157, MagnusS, @talex5, @yomimono and @balrajsingh)

  • Improve the tests: more logging, more tracing and compile to native code when available, etc (@MagnusS and @talex5)

  • Do not raise Invalid_argument("Lwt.wakeup_result") everytime a connection is closed. Also now pass the raised exceptions to Lwt.async_exception_hook instead of ignoring them transparently, so the user can decide to shutdown its application if something wrong happens (#153, #156, @yomomino and @talex5)

  • The channel library now lives in a separate repository and is released separately (#159, @samoht)

v2.5.0 (2015-06-10)

  • The test runs now produce .pcap files (#141, by @MagnusS)

  • Strip trailing bytes from network packets (#145, by @talex5)

  • Add tests for uniform packet loss (#147, by @MagnusS)

  • fixed bug where in case of out of order packets the ack and window were set incorrectly (#140, #146)

  • Properly handle RST packets (#107, #148)

  • Add a Log module to control at runtime the debug statements which are displayed (#142)

  • Writing in a PCB which does not have the right state now returns an error instead of blocking (#150)

v2.4.3 (2015-05-05)

  • Fix infinite loop in Channel.read_line when the line does not contain a CRLF sequence (#131)

v2.4.2 (2015-04-29)

  • Fix a memory leak in Channel (#119, by @yomimono)

  • Add basic unit-test for channels (#119, by @yomimono)

  • Add alcotest testing templates

  • Modernize Travis CI scripts

v2.4.1 (2015-04-21)

  • Merge between 2.4.0 and 2.3.1

v2.4.0 (2015-03-24)

  • ARP improvements (#118)

v2.3.1 (2015-03-31)

  • Do not raise an assertion if an IP frame has extra trailing bytes (#221).

v2.3.0 (2015-03-09)

  • Fix STACKV4 for the DEVICE signature which has connect removed (in Mirage types 2.3+).

v2.2.3 (2015-03-09)

  • Add ICMPv6 error reporting functions (#101)

  • Add universal IP address converters (#108)

  • Add error_message functions for human-readable errors (#98)

  • Improve debug logging for ICMP Destination Unreachable packets.

  • Filter incoming frames by MAC address to stop sending unnecessary RSTs. (#114)

  • Unhook unused modules Sliding_window and Profiler from the build. (#112)

  • Add an explicit connect method to the signatures. (#100)

v2.2.2 (2015-01-11)

  • Readded tracing and ARP fixes which got accidentally reverted in the IPv6 merge. (#96)

v2.2.1 (2014-12-20)

  • Use Bytes instead of String to begin the -safe-string migration in OCaml 4.02.0 (#93).

  • Remove dependency on uint to avoid the need for a C stub (#92).

v2.2.0 (2014-12-18)

Add IPv6 support. This changeset minimises interface changes to the existing STACKV4 interfaces to faciliate a progressive merge. The only visible interface changes are:

  • IPV4.set_ipv4_* functions have been renamed IPV4.set_ip_* because they are shared between IPV4 and IPV6.

  • IPV4.get_ipv4 and get_ipv4_netmask now return a list of Ipaddr.V4.t (again because this is the common semantics with IPV6.)

  • Several types that had v4 in their names (like IPV4.ipv4addr) have lost that particle.

v2.1.1 (2014-12-12)

  • Improve console printing for the DHCP client to output line breaks properly on Xen consoles.

v2.1.0 (2014-12-07)

  • Build Xen stubs separately, with CFLAGS from mirage-xen 2.1.0+. This allows us to use the red zone under x86_64 Unix again.

  • Adding tracing labels and counters, which introduces a new dependency on the mirage-profile package.

v2.0.3 (2014-12-05)

  • Fixed race waiting for ARP response (#86).

  • Move the the code that configures IPv4 address, netmask and gateways after receiving a successful lease out of the Dhcp_clientv4 module and into Stackv4 (#87)

v2.0.2 (2014-12-01)

  • Add IPv4 multicast to MAC address mapping in IPv4 output processing (#81 from Luke Dunstan).

  • Improve formatting of DHCP console logging, including printing out options (#83).

  • Build with -mno-red-zone on x86_64 to avoid stack corruption on Xen (#80).

v2.0.1 (2014-11-04)

  • Fixed race condition in the signalling between the rx/tx threads under load.

  • Experimentally switch to immediate ACKs in TCPv4 by default instead of delayed ones.

v2.0.0 (2014-11-02)

  • Moved 1s complement checksum C code here from mirage-platform.

  • Depend on Console_unix and Console_xen instead of Console.

  • [socket] Do not return an Eof when writing 0-length buffer (#76).

  • [socket] Accept callbacks now run in async threads instead of being serialised (#75).

v1.1.6 (2014-07-20)

  • Quieten down the stack logging rate by not announcing IPv6 packet discards.

  • Raise exception Bad_option for unparseable or invalid TCPv4 options (#57).

  • Fix linking error with module Tcp_checksum by lifting it into top library (#60).

  • Add opam file to permit easier local pinning, and fix Travis to use this.

v1.1.5 (2014-06-18)

  • Ensure that DHCP completes before the application is started, so that unikernels that establish outgoing connections can do so without a race. (fix from Mindy Preston in #53, followup in #55)

  • Add echo, chargen and discard services into the examples/ directory. (from Mindy Preston in #52).

v1.1.4 (2014-06-03)

  • [tcp] Fully process the last ACK in a 3-way handshake for server connections. This ensures that a FIN is correctly transmitted upon application-initiated connection close. (fix from Mindy Preston in #51).

v1.1.3 (2014-03-01)

  • Expose IPV4 through the STACKV4 interface.

v1.1.2 (2014-03-27)

  • Fix DHCP variable length option parsing for MTU responses, which in turns improves robustness on Amazon EC2 (fix from @yomimono via mirage/mirage-tcpip#48)

v1.1.1 (2014-02-21)

  • Catch and ignore top-level socket exceptions (#219).

  • Set SO_REUSEADDR on listening sockets for Unix (#218).

  • Adapt the Stack interfaces to the v1.1.1 mirage-types interface (see mirage/mirage#226 for details).

v1.1.0 (2014-02-03)

  • Rewrite of the library as a set of functors that parameterize the stack across the V1_LWT module types from Mirage 1.1.x. This removes the need to compile separate Xen and Unix versions of the stack.

v0.9.5 (2013-12-08)

  • Build for either Xen or Unix, depending on the value of the OS envvar.

  • Shift to the mirage-types 0.5.0+ interfaces, which breaks the socket backend (temporarily).

  • Port the direct stack to the new interfaces.

  • Add Travis CI scripts.

v0.9.4 (2013-08-09)

  • Use the Ipaddr external library and remove the Homebrew equivalents in Nettypes.

v0.9.3 (2013-07-18)

  • Changes in module Manager: Removed some functions from the `.mli (plug/unplug) and added some modifications in the way the Manager interacts with the underlying module Netif. The Netif.create function does not take a callback anymore.

v0.9.2 (2013-07-09)

  • Improve TCP state machine for connection teardown.

  • Limit fragment number to 8, and coalesce buffers if it goes higher.

  • Adapt to mirage-platform-0.9.2 API changes.

v0.9.1 (2013-06-12)

  • Depend on mirage-platform-0.9.1 direct tuntap interfaces.

  • Version bump to catch up with mirage-platform.

v0.5.2 (2013-02-08)

  • Encourage scatter-gather I/O all the time, rather than playing tricks with packet header buffers. This simplifies the output path considerably and cuts minor heap allocations down.

  • Install the packed cmx along with the cmxa to ensure that the compiler can do cross-module optimization (this is not a fatal error, but will impact performance if the cmx file is not present).

v0.5.1 (2012-12-20)

  • Update socket stack to use Cstruct 0.6.0 API

v0.5.0 (2012-12-20)

  • Update Cstruct API to 0.6.0

  • [tcp] write now blocks if the write buffer and write window are full

v0.4.1 (2012-12-14)

  • Add iperf self-test that creates two VIFs and transmits across them. This is a useful local test which stresses the bridge code using just one VM.

  • Add support for attaching existing devices when initialising the network manager, via an optional attached parameter.

  • Constrain TCP connect to be a unit Lwt.t instead of a polymorphic return value.

  • Expose IPv4 netmask function.

  • Reduce ARP verbosity to the console.

  • Fix TCP fast recovery to wait until all in-flight packets are acked, rather then exiting early.

v0.4.0 (2012-12-11)

  • Require OCaml-4.00.0 or higher, and add relevant build fixes to deal with module packing.

v0.3.1 (2012-12-10)

  • Fix the DHCP client marshalling for IPv4 addresses.

  • Expose the interface MAC address in the Manager signature.

  • Tweak TCP ISN calculation to be more friendly on a 32-bit host.

  • Add Manager.create ?devs to control the number of Netif devices constructed by default.

  • Add Ethif.set/disable_promiscuous to permit directly tapping a network interface.

v0.3.0 (2012-09-04)

  • Initial public release.