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Version 2.3 beta, 20 sept 01

• Upgrade to libpcap 0.6.2 from www.tcpdump.org
• Support for Windows XP
• Support for plug & play  under Windows 2000 and Windows XP
• The packet driver is now NDIS 5 compliant
• Improved dynamic installation: WinPcap can now work on systems without TCP/IP
• Bug fixing

Version 2.2, 30 jul 01

• Added the IPv6 patches by Jun-ya Kato, available at http://win6.goto.info.waseda.ac.jp/WinDump/.
• Bug fixing

Version 2.2 beta, 01 jun 01

• Support for cygwin. Thanks to the work of Nate Lawson, WinPcap and WinDump can now be compiled with cygwin
• The developer's pack contains all the necessary to develop WinPcap-based applications with gcc under cygwin
• Improved interaction with the driver using the shared event: asynchronous access is available again
• Unsupported network adapters are automatically hidden to the applications. This should provide  a more immediate interface to final users
• Bug fixing
  • Corrected the problems with the shared event
  • Support for Win2K Terminal Services
  • Various fixes to the developer's pack (thanks to Hernan Ochoa and Ale� Povalač)
  • others/minors

Version 2.1, 15 mar 01

• Dynamic driver loading. Thanks to Lew Perin for its billgPC that we used as a sample
• Wizard-based installation without the need of the control panel
• Support for Windows ME
• Upgrade to libpcap 0.5.2 (coming from www.tcpdump.org)
• The libpcap library is now in WPcap.dll and does not require to be statically linked to the applications
• Totally rewritten read architecture with higher performance in Windows NTx
• Asynchronous access to the packet driver is no longer supported
• Support for more network architectures: Token Ring (experimental)
• New source tree organization
• Bug fixes
  • pcap_lookupnet in Windows NTx now returns the correct netmask
  • out of order packets in Windows NTx
  • applied patches sent by Guy Harris and other ethereal guys
  • Windows 2000 support improved
  • several other minor bugs
  • PacketGetAdapterNames() improved to handle particular situations and registry messes
  • other/minor fixes 
• An adapter has now an associated event that can be used to perform a WaitForXXXObject(), obtaning a result similar to a select() in Unix

Version 2.02, 30 mar 00

• WinPcap development split from the WinDump one
• Added support for Windows 2000 (without ACPI compatibility)
• Support of multiple instances in Windows 95/98
• Statistics mode
• Fast multiple writes in Windows NT and Windows 2000
• Bug fixing
• New source code organization
• New documentation, new examples
• Changed license terms to Berkeley-style

Version 2.01, 11 oct 99

• Various performance optimizations in the filtering and capture processes
• Minor improvements to libpcap
• Bug fixing
• New documentation

Version 2.0, 21 aug 99

• BPF filtering implemented into the kernel
• Kernel buffering
• Synchronous access to the driver
• Variuos performance improvements
• First release of WinDump as a stand-alone tool

Version 1.0, 31 mar 99

• First working Release
• Asynchronous access to the driver
• BPF filtering at user level
• No kernel buffering