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Aircrack-ng Changelog

Version 1.2-rc1 (changes from aircrack-ng 1.2-beta3) - Released 31 October 2014:

Airodump-ng should be able to parse the canonical oui file.
Airodump-ng: Fixed GPS stack overflow.
Airodump-ng: Fixed stopping cleanly with Ctrl-C.
Airmon-zc: better handling for when modules are not available (incomplete)
Airmon-zc: users can now start the monitor interface again to change channels
Airmon-zc: update to use ip instead of ifconfig if available.
Airmon-zc: better handling of devices without pci bus
Aireplay-ng: Fixed tcp_test stack overflow.
OSdep: Fixed libnl detection. Also avoid detection on non Linux systems.
OSdep: Fixed segmentation fault that happens with a malicious server.
Besside-ng: Add regular expression matching for the SSID.
Buddy-ng: Fixed segmentation fault.
Makefile: Fixed 'commands commence before first target' error when building Aircrack-ng.
Fixed segfault when changing the optimization when compiling with gcc thanks to Ramiro Polla.
Removed airdriver-ng (outdated and not meant for today's kernels)
Added gitignore file.
Fixed build issues on other compilers by using stdint.h types.
Updating installation file and added pkg-config as a requirement.
Various small fixes and improvements.

Version 1.2-beta3 (changes from aircrack-ng 1.2-beta2) - Released 31 March 2014:

Finally properly fixed the buffer overflow.
Fixed channel parsing (eg 108, 125) and updated radiotap parser.
Various other small fixes.

Version 1.2-beta2 (changes from aircrack-ng 1.2-beta1) - Released 30 November 2013:

Airbase-ng: Fixed order of IE when creating soft Access Point.
Airbase-ng: Fixed Caffe Latte Attack not working for all clients.
Aircrack-ng: Improved PTW speed thanks to Ramiro Polla.
Airmon-zc: Fixed improper use of the interface.
Airdecap-ng: Fixed decoding captures with WMM enabled.
Various: Fixed memory leaks in Aircrack-ng, Aireplay-ng, OSdep.
Added support for static analysis using Coverity Scan.
Fixed compilation due to PIC unfriendly assembly on Gentoo hardened.
Fixed running tests using 'make check'.
Fixed building aircrack-ng with recent version of gcc and also on cygwin.
Various other small fixes.

Version 1.2-beta1 (changes from aircrack-ng 1.1) - Released 25 May 2013:

Airmon-ng: Added chipset information for ar9170usb, wl, rt2800usb, ar9271, wl12xx, RT3070STA, ath9k_htc, r871x_usb_drv, ath5k, carl9170 and various Intel drivers.
Airmon-ng: Fixed chipset information ipw2200.
Airmon-ng: Fixed output for r8187 driver.
Airmon-ng: Improved chipset information for a few drivers.
Airmon-ng: Support for displaying information about ath9k.
Airmon-ng: Added 'check kill' to automatically kill services that could interfere.
Airmon-ng: Fixed issues with Intel chipsets detection.
Airmon-ng: Updated iw download link.
Airmon-ng: Better mac80211 handling
Airmon-ng: Added detection for WiLink TI driver, rtl819xU, iwlwifi.
Airmon-zc: Improved version of Airmon-ng with more detailled information.
Airdecap-ng: Fixed decoding QoS frames (Closes: #667 and #858).
Airgraph-ng: Use Aircrack-ng Makefile instead of its own.
Airbase-ng: Fixed bug using clients list.
Airbase-ng: Fixed issue with QoS (ticket #760).
Airbase-ng: Fixed sending beacons with null SSID.
Airbase-ng: Allow non ASCII ESSID
Airodump-ng: Fixed buffer overflow (ticket #728).
Airodump-ng: Fixed channel parsing.
Airodump-ng: Fixed FreeBSD battery reading.
Airodump-ng: Renamed “Packets” column to “Frames” (“Packets” was not correct).
Airodump-ng: Fixed XML bugs when outputting NetXML: ESSID containing '&' or chinese characters, when multiple encryption are used.
Airodump-ng: Add alternative paths for Airodump-ng OUI file.
Airodump-ng: Added GPSd 2.92+ support (JSON).
Airodump-ng: Add option –manufacturer to display manufacturer column on airodump-ng.
Airodump-ng: Add feature to show APs uptime (–uptime) based on the timestamp.
Airodump-ng-OUI-update: Fixed OUI URL and allow CURL redirect (ticket #829).
Airdrop-ng: removed .py from file names.
Airdrop-ng: Fixed bug in installer.
Airdrop-ng: Fixed OUI lookup.
Airdrop-ng: Fixed bug when several BSSID have the same ESSID.
Airdrop-ng: Doesn't constantly parse anymore, wait 5 seconds each time it parses.
Airdrop-ng: Fixed crash when failing to get channel or when rules file didn't exist.
Airdrop-ng: Fixed to use lorcon.py/lorcon2 libs.
Airdrop-ng: Updated README.
Airdrop-ng: Fixed error preventing update to work.
Versuck-ng: New script to do the same thing as the kismet autowep plugin from the CLI.
Aircrack-ng: Fixed counter display error when cracking WPA.
Aircrack-ng: Added output of the WPA handshake to EWSA project file.
Aircrack-ng: Added output of the WPA handshake to oclhashcat+ project file.
Aircrack-ng: Added benchmark option, -S.
Aircrack-ng: Fixed -u option.
Aircrack-ng: PIC fix for hardened systems from Francisco Blas Izquierdo Riera (klondike)
Aircrack-ng: Allow dictionaries larger than 2Gb.
Aircrack-ng: Give a better message when there's an error with the dictionary.
Aircrack-ng: Prevent a buffer overflow from happening (Wojciech Waga).
Aireplay-ng: Added migration mode attack from Leandro Meiners and Diego Sor from Core Security (BlackHat Las Vegas 2010)
Aireplay-ng, Airodump-ng: Added option to ignore issue with -1 channel.
Airserv-ng: Fixed crash when clients disconnect.
Besside-ng-crawler: Added EAPOL Crawler.
Airdecloak-ng: Fixed bug when using pcap files with PPI headers.
dcrack: Distributed cracking server/client
wifi-detect.sh: reference script for testing wifi card detection using iwconfig vs ls /sys/class/net
WPA Clean: Tool to merge and clean WPA capture files.
Wireless Panda: C# Library to parse Airodump-ng output files (and added example project).
OSdep (Linux): Setting fixed bitrates on mac80211 2.6.31 and up.
OSdep (Linux): Added support for nl80211 thanks to impulse32. Use 'make libnl=true' to add netlink support (Ticket #1004).
Manpages: Improvement and fixes for Airgraph-ng, Airodump-ng, packetforge-ng, Aircrack-ng
Manpages: Fixed various spelling issues and single quote issues.
Makefiles: Added tests for the different tools.
Makefiles: Various fixes and improvements.
Makefiles: Added support for libgrypt instead of OpenSSL via parameter.
Patches: Added a few patches.
Removed useless script: patchchk.
Finally fixed licensing issues.
Fixed endianness issues in most of the tools.
Fixed cppcheck errors (Ticket #957).
Fixed various compilation issues on Linux and Cygwin, GNU/Hurd, Darwin (OSX) and Sparc.
Fixed compilation on recent gcc versions on Linux, Cygwin.
Added instructions for Travis CI: Free Hosted Continuous Integration Platform for the Open Source Community.
Added Readme.Md for GitHub. Aircrack-ng subversion repository is synced on GitHub: http://github.com/aircrack-ng/aircrack-ng
Various other small bug fixes.

Version 1.1 (changes from aircrack-ng 1.0) - Released 24 April 2010:

airdrop-ng: New tool by TheX1le.
airodump-ng, aircrack-ng, airdecap-ng, airbase-ng: Fixed buffer overflow in airodump-ng due to forged eapol frame.
aircrack-ng: Fixed multicast detection (WPA handshake detection).
airodump-ng: Added interaction (see wiki for the commands).
airodump-ng: Fixed client time in netxml file.
airtun-ng: Add WDS and bridge support.
airbase-ng: automatically set privacy bit to 1 if WPA or WPA2 is used (-Z or -z option).
airmon-ng: Updated iw URL for v0.9.19.
airdriver-ng: Fixed link for madwifi-ng.
aireplay-ng: Chopchop enhancement to not stop but wait on deauth packets.
tkiptun-ng: Fixed segfault.
wesside-ng: Fixed compilation bug with recent version of gcc.
cygwin: Compiling sqlite isn't necessary anymore, libsqlite3-devel package can be used.
osdep: Strict aliasing and x86_64 fix.
osdep: Add tap support for Darwin/OS X. Still require tuntaposx from sourceforge to work.
All: Fixed compilation on cygwin 1.7.
All: Fixed compilation on recent version of OSX.
manpages: Fixed aireplay-ng manpage for attack 0: not disassociation packets, deauth packets.
manpages: Added the keys for interaction in airodump-ng.
patches: Added regulatory domains override patches for atheros drivers (ath5k, ath9k and ar9170).
patches: Added 2.6.32 patch for r8187 driver (ieee80211).
Makefiles: Fixed make uninstall.

Version 1.0 (changes from aircrack-ng 1.0-rc4) - Released 08 September 2009:

airserv-ng: Now works fine between 32 and 64bit OSes.
wesside-ng: Fixed some endianness bugs
airodump-ng-oui-update: Make sure the user is root when updating the file.
airmon-ng: Updated iw download link (0.9.17).
All: Fixed compilation with some gcc.
patches: Added missing patches from patches.aircrack-ng.org: mac80211_2.6.28-rc4-wl_frag+ack_v3.patch
manpage: Updated aireplay-ng manpage.
INSTALLING: Removed (now) useless requirement for OSX installation.
GUI (windows): Fixed 2nd selection of a capture file.

Version 1.0-rc4 (changes from aircrack-ng 1.0-rc3) - Released 27 July 2009:

airodump-ng: Decreased time before writing text files to 5 sec (instead of 20).
airodump-ng: New option –output-format option (to replace –nocap): specify output files.
airodump-ng: Fixed encryption tag value in kismet netxml files.
airodump-ng: Sanitize essid before writing it into kismet netxml files.
airodump-ng: Log manufacturer into kismet netxml files.
aireplay-ng: Fake auth: reduce the number of ACKs to 2 per packet.
aireplay-ng: Added possibility to stop sending fake auth requests after n retry failures.
aircrack-ng: Fixed compilation on FreeBSD.
aircrack-ng: Fixed aircrack-ng –help on OSX.
airmon-ng: Updated iw download link (0.9.15).
airmon-ng: Fix chipset detection for iwlagn (show “Intel 4965/5xxx” instead of “Unknown”).
airmon-ng: Display a message when udev rename madwifi-ng VAPs.
airmon-ng: sleep 1s instead of 0.1 (0.1 is not supported by all distro).
airolib-ng: Fixed locked database counter.
airdriver-ng: Updated to rt2570 k2wrlz v1.6.3
airdriver-ng: Updated r8187 patch.
aircrack-ng, airdecap-ng, ivstools, airodump-ng, airbase-ng, aireplay-ng, airtun-ng, packetforge-ng, tkiptun-ng: Added support for PPI captures support (Thanks to dragorn).
airdecap-ng: Fixed segfault on some capture files.
wesside-ng, easside-ng: “ERROR: Packet length changed while transmitting (XX instead of YY)” should finaly be fixed.
All: Added compatibility file for functions like cpu_to_le32. That should fix compilation on a lot of OSes.
All: Temporary fix to allow compilation with recent gcc (Error message: “dereferencing type-punned pointer will break strict-aliasing rules”). I hope it doesn't break anything. A cleaner fix will be applied later.
INSTALLING: OSX patch for Intel CPU isn't required anymore
INSTALLING: Updated instructions to compile sqlite on cygwin for 3.6.16.
patches: Updated sqlite (v3.6.13) patch for cygwin.
patches: Updated wlanng patch for 2.6.28.
patches: Updated madwifi-ng patch to r4073
packages: Fixed spec (RPM) file.
GUI (windows): Use last used directory when selecting another file to crack.
GUI (windows): Allow .pcap files too (next to .cap, …).

Version 1.0-rc3 (changes from aircrack-ng 1.0-rc2) - Released 26 March 2009:

airodump-ng: Added Active Scanning Simulation.
airodump-ng: Added support for kismet-newcore netxml files (DTD v3.1.0)
airodump-ng: Changed file extensions for CSV (.csv instead of .txt) and for kismet CSV (.kismet.csv instead of .csv).
airodump-ng: Fixed WPA tag parsing and added QoS detection based on direction.
airodump-ng: Added option to only disable capture file; all other files (CSV, kismet CSV, kismet netxml, GPS) will be created.
aircrack-ng: Fixed -w with WEP.
aircrack-ng: Fixed useless memory allocation.
aircrack-ng: Fixed compilation with gcc 2.95.
aircrack-ng: Fixed compilation on 64 bit (SHA-SSE2).
aircrack-ng: Fixed errors when compiling on OS X 10.5.6 PPC.
aircrack-ng: Added an option to write the key to a file.
airolib-ng: Fixed a bug where database is created even if parameters are not correct.
airmon-ng: Added wifibox to the list of network manager.
airmon-ng: Updated iw download link (0.9.11).
airmon-ng and airdriver-ng: Move them in script/ directory.
airmon-ng: Bypass interface checks when ps command returns an error. Needed for BusyBox limited ps command.
airdriver-ng: Update legacy RT73 driver to use rt73-k2wrlz v3.0.2
tkiptun-ng: Allow padded arp packets to the client.
airserv-ng & osdep: Fixed compilation on FreeBSD 7.1
easside-ng & wesside-ng: Fixing again “Error Wrote 39 out of 30” error message.
manpages: Fixed manpages titles.
Makefile: Only compile and install wesside-ng, easside-ng, buddy-ng and tkiptun-ng with “make unstable=true”.
patches: Updated sqlite (v3.6.11) patch for cygwin.
patches: Added patch for aircrack-ng on MacOSX
scripts: Added a script to automatically patch and install SQLite in cygwin.

Version 1.0-rc2 (changes from aircrack-ng 1.0-rc1) - Released 22 Jan 2009:

aircrack-ng: Added SSE2 supports (WPA cracking speed is improved a lot) thanks to nx5.
aircrack-ng: Fixed detection of the number of CPU (especially with recent CPUs).
aircrack-ng: Fixed long lasting WPA bugs: cannot find the key with SMP computers, wasn't exiting correctly, …
aircrack-ng: Fixed usage of a dictionnary with WEP.
aircrack-ng: Now only display ASCII WEP keys when 100% of the hex key can be converted to ASCII.
aircrack-ng: You can now specify the number of threads for cracking even if you have a non-SMP computer.
aircrack-ng: Now output an error message if using -r and it wasn't compiled with sqlite support. It was a problem on some ubuntu.
airdecloak-ng: New tool to remove wep cloaked frames from a pcap file. For more details see http://www.aircrack-ng.org/doku.php?id=airdecloak-ng
airodump-ng: Added kismet csv output support.
airodump-ng: Fixed power value display (for ath interface with a high number, more than 99).
airodump-ng: Can work on the new frequencies (allowed by frequency Chaos patch).
airodump-ng: Now display if the network has QoS enabled.
aireplay-ng: Fixed crash with too short packets (seen with zd1211).
aireplay-ng: Fixed STP usage in fragmentation attack.
aireplay-ng: Fixed bug with deauth attack.
airtun-ng: Fixed STP conversion.
airolib-ng: Added sample database in test/ directory.
tkip-tun: New tool to inject on WPA1 with QoS enabled networks. Full description: decrypt packets comming from the AP in a TKIP network, which uses QoS (ieee802.11e). It also breaks the MIC Key for sending packets towards the Client correctly encrypted and signed. Stores plaintext packet and keystream in seperate files.
airbase-ng: Several improvments ( See http://trac.aircrack-ng.org/ticket/466 ).
airbase-ng: Added compatibility with some clients. added random source IPs and MACs for cfrag attack (-N) to evade simple flood protection.
airmon-ng: Fixed some 'unary operator expected' errors.
airmon-ng: Fixed channel number setting with mac80211 drivers.
airmon-ng: Recognition of 4 new chipsets: acx1xx, at76_usb, adm8211 and AR9001U (otus).
airmon-ng: Fixed some chipset naming inconsistencies between ieee80211 and mac80211 drivers.
airmon-ng: Fixed display of “airmon-ng check”.
airmon-ng: Improved mac80211 driver handling.
airdriver-ng: Fixed madwifi-ng driver download URL.
airdriver-ng: Updated openSuse information.
wesside-ng: Fixed open() with O_CREAT that needs 3 arguments.
osdep: Added TAP/TUN MTU getter.
manpages: Fixed misspelled airserv-ng manpage filename.
manpages: Added Airbase-ng, Tkiptun-ng manpages.
manpages: Updated description of all manpages.
Makefile: Fixed errors when compiling on OSX 10.5.
Makefile: Now ensure that make 3.81 or higher (mandatory) is used when compiling on OSX 10.4.
Makefile: Only install airolib-ng manpage if airolib-ng is installed.
Makefile: Added 'make check' that tests key cracking against files given in test/ directory.
general: Fixed 'evalrev' on Solaris.
general: Fixed compilation on Sun SPARC.
general: Fixed compilation on some distribution (with a recent version of gcc) due to warnings (because of not getting the return value of some functions).
general: Several compilation fixes.
patches: Updated ath5k patches
patches: Added rt2570 patch (kernel 2.6.24).
patches: Updated madwifi-ng patch for r3745.
patches: Updated mac80211 patches.
patches: Added zd1211rw patch for 2.6.26, b43/b43legacy for 2.6.26-wl.
patches: rt73, r8187 patches for fedora kernels (should work on 2.6.27).
patches: Added Defcon 16 patch (more frequencies than the usuals) for ath5k called frequency Chaos.
patches: Added injection patch for rtl8187 (mac80211).
patches: Added a universal mac80211 fragmentation and injection speed patch.
GUI (windows): Fixed: Windows GUI gives “please specify dictionnary”.

Version 1.0-rc1 (changes from aircrack-ng 1.0-beta2) - Released 09 Jun 2008:

airbase-ng: Multi-purpose tool aimed at attacking clients as opposed to the AP.
airbase-ng: Added replay tool for external packet processing feature.
aircrack-ng: Fixed: Displaying twice the wep key at the end and “Warning: Previous crack is still running”.
aircrack-ng: Fixed detection of WPA handshake (was not working correctly in previous release).
aircrack-ng: Fixed PTW attack against QoS and WDS packets.
aircrack-ng: Added oneshot option to try PTW only once.
airodump-ng: Fixed channel numbers (Fixed “fixed channel” messages).
airodump-ng: Added frequency selection (-C).
aireplay-ng: Fixed injection on OpenBSD.
aireplay-ng: Fixed a rtc bug which freezed aireplay-ng in case /dev/rtc0 is not available.
aireplay-ng: Fixed chopchop attack against QoS packets.
aireplay-ng: Added Caffe-Latte attack.
aireplay-ng: Added CFrag attack: Turns every IP and ARP packet into an ARP request against the client.
airtun-ng: Added support for fragmented packets.
airdriver-ng: Updated drivers.
airserv-ng: Various fixes.
airmon-ng: Added nl80211 usage.
airmon-ng: Use 'iw' when it is found.
airmon-ng: Fixed error with madwifi-ng when creating new VAP.
wesside-ng: Added option to ignore ACKs.
OSdep: Fixed endieanness bugs.
OSdep: Orinoco: attempt to bring interface down before switching to monitor mode.
All: Added copyright and GPL in missing files.
All: Fixed compilation on Mac OSX 10.5.2 (PPC).
GUI: Fixed “Choose” button (airdecap-ng).
Makefile: Fixed usage of iCC versions other than 9.0.
patches: Updated rtl8187 patch.
patches: Updated madwifi-ng patch.
patches: Updated sqlite patch (cygwin).
patches: Added mac80211 frag patch.
patches: Added b43 and updated bcm43xx patches.

Version 1.0-beta2 (changes from aircrack-ng 1.0-beta1) - Released 01 Feb 2008:

aircrack-ng: Cracking WPA now does only require 2 packets (instead of 4).
airodump-ng: Fixed (WEP) open system and shared key system detection.
airodump-ng (win): Battery status is now displayed.
airdriver-ng: Fixed module detection.
airdriver-ng: Updated drivers.
airdriver-ng: Added firmware support.
airdriver-ng: Added softmac installation.
airdecap-ng: Save packets with ICV error in a separate file.
airolib-ng: Automatically create a database if it does not exist. “init” option is not necessary anymore.
airolib-ng: Now uses getopts for options.
airdriver-ng: Updated some drivers download locations.
airdriver-ng: Fixed softmac installation
airmon-ng: Added detection of ipwraw-ng driver.
airmon-ng: When stopping an interface, it is in managed mode
Makefile: supports DESTDIR or destdir parameter.
Makefile: renamed ROOT (used by gentoo for other stuff) variable by AC_ROOT.
manpages: Fixes for whatis
patches: updated cygwin sqlite patch
patches: updated rtl8187 patch
Added instructions to compile airolib-ng and using '-r' option in aircrack-ng for cygwin.
Fixed compilation of aircrack-ng with some gcc versions

Version 1.0-beta1 (changes from aircrack-ng 0.9.2) - Released 01 October 2007:

airodump-ng: Added –berlin option (see code for more information).
airodump-ng: Fixed 100% cpu utilization while channelhopping on rtap interface
airodump-ng: Fixed frame length < 10bytes bug
airodump-ng: Added out-of-monitor-mode, channel hop and interface down detection
airodump-ng: Fixed debian bug #417388: airodump-ng doesn't restore terminal after error
airodump-ng: Fixed opening the same interface more than once
airodump-ng: Fixed PWR values for some drivers
airodump-ng: Fixed airodump sanity check (resulted in showing WPA networks without CIPHER & AUTH)
airodump-ng: Added “-f” to set the time in ms between hopping channels
airodump-ng: Added partial 40bit WEP detection
airodump-ng: Added “–showack” to print statistics about ack/cts and rts frames
airodump-ng: Added “-h” to hide the known stations in ack statistics
airodump-ng: Added “-r” to read packets from a pcap file
aircrack-ng: Added BSSID merge option
aircrack-ng: Added passive ptw attack (using also IP packets for cracking)
aircrack-ng: Made ptw attack default, for korek attack use -K
aircrack-ng: Fixed huge memory usage with ptw attack on hundreds of APs
aircrack-ng: Added -M paramteter for specifying maximum number of IVs to be read
aircrack-ng: Changed ptw testpackets from first to random (fixes invalidation of found keys)
aircrack-ng: Added –wep-decloak mode
aircrack-ng: Added –ptw-debug to allow klein or ptw disabling
aircrack-ng: PTW: Starts a new process group
aircrack-ng: Increased PTW key checking speed by 20%
aircrack-ng: Try 1000 40bit keys befor starting 104bit cracking, to get the key “instantly” without waiting for 104 bit to fail
aircrack-ng: Fixed not shown ascii keys, when found key was shorter than expected
aircrack-ng: Added visual inspection of the different keybytes (–visual-inspection).
airdecap-ng: Fixed bug in calc_pmk() function causes wrong PMK to be computed
aireplay-ng: Added usage of RTS/CTS, auth and ACK to –test (more stable and faster)
aireplay-ng: Added TCP connection test to –test
aireplay-ng: Changed injection rate to be more stable
aireplay-ng: Made essid argument optional - sniffs the essid if its broadcasted
aireplay-ng: Made src mac argument (-h) optional - uses default interface mac
aireplay-ng: Added bitrate test to –test (-B)
aireplay-ng: Fixed 100% cpu utilization in –test
aireplay-ng: Added –fast switch to use first available packet without interaction
aireplay-ng: chopchop now tries header recreation workaround if icv check failed
aireplay-ng: Fixed seq field for fragment attack
aireplay-ng: Now works with rtc_cmos
aireplay-ng: Added automatic channel changing in –test to AP channel
aireplay-ng: Added channel synchonisation for –test between cards
aireplay-ng: Added possibility to limit injection test to one AP “-a” or “-e”
aireplay-ng: Added BSSID/ESSID detection, so it can be enough to specify one option
makeivs-ng: Added parameters to set length, number and first IV of generated IVs
makeivs-ng: Added possibility to generate IVs sequentially or randomly
makeivs-ng: Added parameters to set percentage of false and dupe frames
makeivs-ng: Added 256bit wep support
packetforge-ng: Added support for generating more than on packet
patches: updated rtl8187 patch for 2.6.22
patches: updated zd1211rw patch for 2.6.22
New IVS format for storing all relevant data
Auto-creation of rtap interface if it doesn't exist (ipw2200)
Better acx, rtl8180, orinoco and madwifi-ng detection
Using OpenSSL instead of build-in crypto
Added library rx/tx support
Added airpcap rx/tx support
Added airdriver-ng script for installing and managing patched drivers
Added wesside-ng as an all in one tool for recovering the wep-key
Added easside-ng for realtime decryption (instant rx/tx) of wep frames
Added buddy-ng as loopback server for easside-ng
Added airserv-ng - server for rx/tx on another system
Added airolib-ng for using hash tables to crack wpa/wpa2 psk (supports cowpatty rainbow tables)
Fixed compilation of optimized binaries with icc
Fixed compilation on FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD and MacOSX
Better WDS handling and display
Added detection and removal of trailing fcs checksum
Fixed several memory leaks
Fixed being root when connecting to airserv-ng
Added OpenBSD sniffing support

Version 0.9.3 (changes from aircrack-ng 0.9.2) - Released 24 February 2008:

Fix endianness issues in airodump-ng, aireplay-ng.
Several small bug fixes.
Updated rtl8187 patch.

Version 0.9.2 (changes from aircrack-ng 0.9.1) - Released 05 February 2008:

aireplay-ng: Now works with rtc_cmos
aireplay-ng: Fixed compilation on Fedora Rawhide
airodump-ng: Fixed: Wrong information printed in CSV file (PSK for WEP with Shared key instead of SKA).
airodump-ng (airpcap): added support for 5Ghz channels.
airdecap-ng: Fixed bug in calc_pmk() function causes wrong PMK to be computed
airmon-ng: Fixed detection of N770 wireless interface
airmon-ng: Fixed Ralink rt73 detection
airmon-ng: Added driver detection through sysfs
airmon-ng: Added mac80211 support
airmon-ng: Added networkmanager detection - airmon-ng check
airmon-ng: Added detection of ipwraw-ng driver
GUI (win): Fixed file dialog for airdecap-ng
manpages: updated airodump-ng manpage
manpages: Fixes for whatis
Makefiles: Fixed OpenBSD makefile.

Version 0.9.1 (changes from aircrack-ng 0.9) - Released 25 june 2007:

airodump-ng: wlan-ng driver now works again.
airodump-ng: Fixed IP address when writing to CSV file
airodump-ng: Fixed debian bug #417388: it doesn't restore terminal after error
aircrack-ng: Fixed WPA cracking on SMP computers
aircrack-ng: Fixed bug in calc_pmk() function causes wrong PMK to be computed
airmon-ng: Fixed madwifi-ng wifiX detection (due to translation in ifconfig)
patches: Added ACX injection patch
patches: Updated rtl8187 patch for 2.6.21
GUI (win): Added PTW option to aircrack-ng tab.
GUI (win): Fixed a bug when cracking with a wordlist.

Version 0.9 (changes from aircrack-ng 0.8) - Released 13 May 2007:

aireplay-ng: Added new 'attack': injection test (–test)
aireplay-ng: disallow injection with wlanng & kernel > 2.6.11
airtun-ng: Fixed: an option wasn't shown in usage screen.
airodump-ng (win): Fixed version numbering.
airodump-ng (win): Changed first time messagebox
aircrack-ng: Fixed: –help make aircrack-ng crash
aircrack-ng: Added PTW attack (option: -z). It require full capture.
airdecap-ng: now decrypt IEEE802.11 header with 802.11e header
airmon-ng: Fixed orinoco card detection
patches: updated zd1211rw patch for kernel 2.6.21
patches: Added bcm43xx injection patch for kernel 2.6.20
patches: updated rtl8187 patch (for new driver version).
wzcook (win): now can work in silent mode (option: –silent)
Makefile: added make zip (cygwin only)
Makefile: fixed direct call to 'make install' or 'make strip' instead of 'make'
GUI (win): Updated aircrack-ng tab and added an about tab.

Version 0.8 (changes from aircrack-ng 0.7) - Released 25 April 2007:

aireplay-ng: Works on FreeBSD-CURRENT
aircrack-ng: Fixed stdin dictionary usage
aircrack-ng: Hardcode CPUs number to 1 in case detection fails
aircrack-ng: Fixed too low trashvalue
aireplay-ng: Fixed 384 bytes keystream output
aireplay-ng: Fixed IV index bug
aireplay-ng: Better error messages for -0 and -1
airtun-ng: Works on FreeBSD
airtun-ng: Fix compilation under FC6 (missing “linux/if.h” include).
airodump-ng: Works on FreeBSD.
airodump-ng: Added encryption filtering
airodump-ng: Fixed a SIGSEGV
airodump-ng: Added WPA handshake detection
airodump-ng: Added non associated stations filter
airodump-ng: Added support for zd1211rw
airodump-ng: Fixed 100% cpu utilisation
airmon-ng: Added support for zd1211rw driver
airmon-ng: Added support for at76c503a, rt61 and rt73
airmon-ng: Updated some device detection
airmon-ng: Added Nokia 770 and PrismGT softmac
airmon-ng: Fixed ACX driver monitor mode startup
airmon-ng: Fixed syntax error
airtun-ng: Works on FreeBSD
airtun-ng: Added pcap support to replay saved wlan sessions
airtun-ng: Added repeater mode, bssid and netmask filter
packetforge-ng: Added null packet support
packetforge-ng: Added packet selection for -9
Patches: Added hostap kernel 2.6.18 patch
Patches: Updated rtl8187 patch.
Patches: Updated madwifi-ng patch.
Patches: Added injection patch for zd1211 (does not work for all devices).
Added airoscript (from daouid)
Makefiles: Fixed: make uninstall did not remove all files
Updated spec file by David Bolt to be able to build RPM packages on FC, Mandriva and Suse distro
Added WEP authentication example capture
Fixed gcc 2.95 compilation
Fixed compilation on MacIntel

Version 0.7 (changes from aircrack-ng 0.6.2) - Released 20 January 2007:

Makefiles: Improved + added makefiles for other OS
Makefiles: Fixed make install on Windows and MacOSX
airtun-ng: Creates a tuntap interface, through which ordinary IP frames can be injected
aireplay-ng: Added fragmentation attack
aireplay-ng: Added shared key authentication
airmon-ng: Now detect the shell when installing
airmon-ng: Added support for rtl8187
aircrack-ng: Added WEP dictionnary attack
aircrack-ng: Works with 802.11e QoS packets
airodump-ng: Added MAC filtering
airodump-ng: Now use the flaw in shared-key authentication to generate a xor file containing the prga recovered from a shared-key authentication
airodump-ng: More information about encryption on the AP
airodump-ng: Receive quality indicator
airodump-ng: The way ESSID is given in the CSV file is more clear
packetforge-ng: Set the TTL value in the ip header
packetforge-ng: Close open file handles
Special handling of spanning tree packets
Added rtl8187 patch for injection
Other bug fixes

Version 0.6.2 (changes from aircrack-ng 0.6.1) - Released 1 October 2006:

aireplay-ng: Applied patch to inject packets with an ipw2200
aircrack-ng: Fixed: show_wpa_stats() 1 byte array overflow
aircrack-ng: Fixed a warning when compiling on 64bit inner_bruteforcer_thread()
aircrack-ng: Changed -d option. It's now a mask (use XX for unknown bytes).
arpforge-ng: removed. It's replaced by packetforge-ng
packetforge-ng: New tool to forge packets (by Martin Beck) + manpage written
aircrack-ng, aireplay-ng, packetforge-ng: new MAC decoding function
airmon-ng: Fixed a bug when using it with madwifi-ng
airmon-ng: Added ipw3945 detection
airodump-ng (windows): now automatically download peek.dll and peek5.sys if needed
airodump-ng: LLC null packets are skipped
makeivs: added manpage
Makefile: Fixed: make aircrack-ng-opt-prof_gen fails
updated madwifi-ng patch

Version 0.6.1 (changes from aircrack-ng 0.6) - Released 27 August 2006:

aircrack-ng: Fixed missing '-s' option
aircrack-ng: Fixed: Show a different ASCII key for a same hex key
airodump-ng: Using –band option instead of –bg, –abg, –ab, …
airodump-ng: Fixed: fails to put wlanng in monitor mode
airodump-ng: using rtap0 as interface should now work
airodump-ng and aireplay-ng: “Can't find wireless tools, exiting.” should be fixed if they exist
airodump-ng and airmon-ng: rt2570 now uses prismheader (use at least beta 2 driver)
airmon-ng: Fixed: discards ipw2200 v1.1.x
airmon-ng: Fixed: show newly created madwifi-ng VAP
airmon-ng: Should now works with 'ash' shell (Zaurus, OpenWRT, …)
INSTALL: Added a note about warnings when compiling sources
INSTALL: Added more informations about installing aircrack-ng on windows
updated spec file
some other bugfixes
cygwin1.dll and msvcr70.dll are now included in windows package

Version 0.6 (changes from aircrack-ng 0.5) - Released 23 June 2006:

aircrack-ng: Multithreaded keybytes bruteforcer
aircrack-ng: Now bruteforce only last keybyte by default (faster than last 2KB)
aircrack-ng: Added option to show ASCII version of the key
aircrack-ng: Fixed: bug with -d option. It adds a leading “0x00” to the key
aireplay-ng: fixed compilaton issues on some distro
aireplay-ng: fixed a bug when using 'ash'
aireplay-ng: You can change ring buffer size (-g option)
airodump-ng: Log by default only one beacon (added option to log all beacons)
airodump-ng: Dump prefix isn't mandatory anymore, not giving it won't store any data
airmon-ng: Ralink devices needs be put in ad-hoc prior to inject packets
manpages: Added kstat manpage
manpages: fixed airodump-ng manpage (hyphen used as minus sign)
Makefile: You can now compile aircrack-ng with Intel C Compiler (really faster)
Updated madwifi-ng patch to r1545 (and up; can be applied on madwifi v0.9.0 and v0.9.1)
Added instructions to compile on different plateforms/OS
Added a WPA2 capture file in test directory
Some other fixes

Version 0.5 (changes from aircrack-ng 0.4.4) - Released 05 may 2006:

airodump-ng: Hop on 2.4Ghz channels by default
airodump-ng: Added support for OpenWrt devices (use prism0 as capture interface)
aircrack-ng and aireplay-ng: korek chopchop optimisation (Thanks to ASPj)
airodump-ng: Fixed: when starting, it captured data on channel 10
aircrack-ng: Fixed: Not using all CPU on SMP systems

Version 0.4.4 (changes from aircrack-ng 0.4.3) - Released 24 april 2006:

aircrack-ng: fixed a stupid bug that prevent cracking
sha1-mmx.S: GNU_STACK ELF marking
updated patch for madwifi-ng r1526 and upper

Version 0.4.3 (changes from aircrack-ng 0.4.2) - Released 24 april 2006:

airmon-ng: fixed madwifi-ng (VAP creation-destruction and a cosmetic fix)
aircrack-ng: fixed compilation under OSX
airodump-ng: added elapsed time
Makefile : added a MacOSX makefile (Makefile.osx)
updated patch for madwifi-ng r1520 and upper

Version 0.4.2 (changes from aircrack-ng 0.4.1) - Released 20 april 2006:

airodump-ng: Fixed: dumpfile prefix took the name of the second argument
airodump-ng: Fixed: .gps file creation if GPSd isn't used
version.c removed (the content was moved to common.c)

Version 0.4.1 (changes from aircrack-ng 0.4) - Released 19 april 2006:

airodump-ng: use of parameters like aircrack-ng, aireplay-ng, …
airodump-ng: more sanity checks
airodump-ng & aireplay-ng: forbid the use of ndiswrapper
airodump-ng & aireplay-ng: check of iwpriv existence
manpages: updated and fixed typos
Makefile: fixed “make doc”
airmon-ng: fixed and improved madwifi detection

Version 0.4 (changes from aircrack-ng 0.3) - Released 16 april 2006:

Typos fixed and cosmetic changes in sources and in manpages
manpages: updated airodump-ng screenshot
manpages and aireplay-ng: renamed attack names
airodump-ng: fixed some compile warnings
airodump-ng: hopping also on .11a channels if available
airodump-ng: fixed: GPS coordinates were never shown
airmon-ng: fixed ipw2100 (Thx to OverThere) and madwifi-ng detection
aircrack-ng: speed optimizations
aircrack-ng: -x option disable last 2 keybytes bruteforce (WEP cracking is faster)
aircrack-ng: with -a option, you can use “wep” or “wpa” instead of numbers
ivstools: –merge option fixed
Makefiles: improvements
Lots of little changes
added aircrack-ng.spec for building RPM
added slack-desc for building slackware packages

Version 0.3 (changes from aircrack-ng 0.2.1) - Released 30 march 2006:

aireplay-ng: typo fixed
aireplay-ng: Madwifi-ng is now supported
airodump-ng: disabled GPS coordinates if connection to gpsd fail
airodump-ng: Battery informations fixed (hacked kismet code)
airodump-ng: Madwifi-ng is now supported
aircrack-ng: corrrected title (when cracking a key)
aircrack-ng: uses by default all CPU for cracking (Debian bug report #352877)
manpages: Fixed some errors (Debian bug report #356551)
manpages: created ivstools manpage
Makefiles: cleaning and improvement
fixed pcap2ivs bug (it wasn't using the good MAC for bssid)
Merged mergeivs and pcap2ivs into ivstools
airmon.sh: Fixed (hopefully) detection of ipw2100 and ipw2200 (Debian bug report #340057)
airmon.sh: renamed to airmon-ng
Updated madwifi-ng patch to r1486

Version 0.2.1 (changes from aircrack-ng 0.2) - Released 20 march 2006:

Corrected 2 bugs in airmon.sh and changed another little thing
One word missing for option -j in aireplay
Updated madwifi-old patch to SVN r1475
Makefile cleaning
Typo corrected in pcap2ivs

Version 0.2 (changes from aircrack-ng 0.1) - Released 19 march 2006:

updated version number and program name
updated airmon.sh (added detection of acx, madwifi-ng and bcm43xx)
added manpages (Thanks to Adam Cecile)
added madwifi-ng patches
re-added missing drivers patches
added uninstall rule in makefile
added Sharp Zaurus binaries (Thanks to Rick Farina aka Zero_Chaos)
added a cygwin makefile

Version 0.1 (changes from aircrack 2.41):

updated windows binaries
compiled some files for windows
Separated in multiple packages

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