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 0.9.2 (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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