0.16.0 – 2022-05-31

A project-wide revision, and the last release of the pre-1.0 design.

  • Changed – type annotations throughout, and linter compliance (pylint, mypy, bandit, vermin) across every module.

  • Changed – protocol classes were separated from their data models, which moved to pcapkit.protocols.data; a single Protocol class handles both parsing and construction, and subclassing it to add a protocol is far less work.

  • Added – pcapkit.foundation.registry, so protocols can be subscribed by name; Protocol.analyze for analysing a payload directly, used by the reassembly classes; pcapkit.corekit.multidict, adapted from Werkzeug.

  • Changed – reassembly became a package (IP, IPv4, IPv6, TCP) with revised data models; PCAP and the auxiliary protocols moved under pcapkit.misc.

  • Removed – the validators module, several decorators from pcapkit.utilities, and multiprocessing support in Extractor.

  • Fixed – the DPKT toolkit (#101), IP reassembly, and missing id methods on subclassed protocols.

The PyPCAPKit Enhancement Proposals discussion channel was opened with this release (#106).