v1.4.1

New features

• Enhanced traffic filtering capabilities: Berkeley Packet Filter (#937 — fixes #810)
• Added support for Linux SLL link type, enabling to monitor the any interface on Linux (#945)
• Added bits data representation (#936 — fixes #506)
• An AppImage of Sniffnet is now available (#859 — fixes #900)
• Added Dutch translation 🇳🇱 (#854)

Improvements

• Improved configurations persistence across different runs of the app (#938 — fixes #507)
• The Windows Installer is now signed with a code signing certificate provided by the SignPath Foundation (#897 — fixes #894)
• Updated some of the existing translations to v1.4:
  • German (#833)
  • Uzbek (#834)
  • Simplified Chinese (#838)
  • Japanese (#849)
  • French (#864)
  • Greek (#879)
  • Romanian (#890)
  • Traditional Chinese (Taiwan) (#904)
  • Indonesian (#909)

Fixes

• Fix live chart not being updated when packets aren't captured on Linux (#957 — fixes #951)
• Fix support for IPinfo's databases (the most recent version renamed the country field to country_code)

Thanks to:

• @ZEROF, @0x0177b11f, @Cthulu201, @wahn, @orhun, @ipinfo, @3kh0 for sponsoring Sniffnet 💖
• NLnet for supporting the development of this version via the NGI Zero Commons Fund
• @SignPath for providing a free code signing certificate for the Windows Installer
• @AlleM43 for packaging the AppImage of Sniffnet
• @vanharen07 for the new Dutch translation
• @luca3s, @lionrayonnant, @18601673727, @shu-kitamura, @Mkadir, @aris1009, @paco1127, @nubikripto, @MelcuGoa for updating the existing translations

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v1.4.0

New features

• Import PCAP files (#795 — fixes #283)

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• Enhanced notifications (#830 — fixes #637)

• Donut chart reporting overall traffic statistics (#756 — fixes #687)

• Added support for ARP protocol (#759 — fixes #680)
• Identify and tag unassigned/reserved "bogon" IP addresses (#678 — fixes #209)
• Show data agglomerates in Inspect page table (#684 — fixes #601)
• Added Traditional Chinese (Taiwan) translation 🇹🇼 (#774)
• Added Indonesian translation 🇮🇩 (#611)
• A Docker image of Sniffnet is now available (#735)

Improvements

• Added new themes A11y (Night) and A11y (Day) based on palettes optimized for Accessibility (#785 — fixes #786)
• Do not apply new notification thresholds while user is typing them (#777 — fixes #658)
• Show more information when domain name is short (#720 — fixes #696)
• Avoid directory traversal when selecting file name for PCAP exports (#776 — fixes #767)
• Add icon to window title bar (#719 — fixes #715)
• Update footer buttons and links (#755 — fixes #553)
• Handle errors to reduce the number of possible crash occurrences (#784)
• Updated some of the existing translations to v1.3:
  • Portuguese (#690)
  • Ukrainian (#692)
  • Spanish (#805)

Fixes

• Fix crates.io package for Windows (#718 — fixes #681)
• Fix crash when inserting characters longer than one byte in the text input for byte threshold notification setting (#747 — fixes #744)
• Remove pre-uninstall script on Linux (fixes #644)
• Fix typo in Russian translation (fixes #730)
• Minor fix to service determination algorithm in case of multicast and broadcast traffic

Thanks to:

• @ZEROF, @0x0177b11f, @Cthulu201, @wahn, @orhun, @ipinfo, @3kh0 for sponsoring Sniffnet 💖
• NLnet for supporting the development of this version via the NGI Zero Commons Fund
• @shu-kitamura for adding ARP support
• @PeterDaveHello for the new Traditional Chinese (Taiwan) translation
• @nubikripto for the new Indonesian translation
• @domcyrus for creating a Docker image of Sniffnet
• @vcrn for improving notification thresholds logic
• @guilherme-demarchi, @Kapelianovych, @aguacero7 for updating the existing translations

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v1.3.2

New features

• Dropdown menus for network host filters (#659 — fixes #354)
• Added CLI argument --adapter [<NAME>] to allow immediately starting the capture from a given network interface (#643 — fixes #636)
• Added Vietnamese translation 🇻🇳 (#577)

Improvements

• Ask for quit confirmation before stopping an ongoing analysis (#652 — fixes #570)
• Redirect stderr and stdout to file on Windows release builds (#645 — fixes #578)
• Added Wiki page describing command line arguments (fixes #642)
• Updated some of the existing translations to v1.3:
  • Chinese (#575)
  • Korean (#604)
  • Turkish (#608)
• Improve time values on the horizontal axis of the chart (#641 — fixes #619)
• Migrate to Iced 0.13 (#618)

Fixes

• Added support for Linux loongarch64 (fixes #592)
• Fix typos in German translation (#660)

Thanks to:

• @ZEROF, @0x0177b11f, @Cthulu201, @wahn, @orhun, @ipinfo, @3kh0 for sponsoring Sniffnet 💖
• NLnet for supporting the development of this version via the NGI Zero Commons Fund
• @HUNG-rushb for the new Vietnamese translation
• @Embers-of-the-Fire, @rkdud007, @Tahinli for updating the existing translations
• @BugsQuanti for fixing typos in German translation

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v1.3.1

Improvements

• Thumbnail mode improvements (#512)
• Support IPinfo ASN and Country databases (#558 — fixes #533)
• Added keyboard shortcuts to change zoom level (fixes #554)
• Increased the range of selectable zoom values (fixes #542)
• Updated some of the existing translations to v1.3:
  • French (#494)
  • German (#495)
  • Russian (#496)
  • Polish (#498)
  • Romanian (#499)
  • Japanese (#504)
  • Uzbek (#510)
  • Swedish (#522)
• Reduced String allocations in translation code (#524)

Fixes

• Fixed impossibility to exit thumbnail mode in some Linux distributions (fixes #505)

Thanks to:

• @ZEROF, @0x0177b11f, @Cthulu201, @wahn, @orhun, @ipinfo for sponsoring Sniffnet 💖
• @abdullahdevrel for helping with IPinfo database support
• @CosminPerRam for reducing the usage of String in translation code
• @Charpy, @luca3s, @Dinozavvvr, @Kiruyuto, @ervinpopescu, @hirotake111, @Mkadir, @vcrn for updating the existing translations

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v1.3.0

New features

• Thumbnail mode: keep an eye on Sniffnet while focusing on other tasks (#484)

• Added capability to identify 6000+ upper layer services, protocols, trojans, and worms (#450)
• Support ICMP connections and messages (#417)
• Export the analysis as a PCAP file with a custom path (#473)
• Totally customize the app's theme via styles defined in TOML files (#286 and #419)
• Upgraded inspect page table: multiple new search filters, and additional sorting options (#442)
• Support for more link types in addition to Ethernet, enabling correct monitoring of all the most common network adapters, including typical VPN interfaces (#421)
• Support changing sort strategy for network hosts and services in overview page, showing most recent items by default (#452)
• The application scale factor (zoom value) can now be customised (#365)
• Users can now provide custom paths for MMDB files to allow using the commercial versions of the country and ASN databases (#365)
• Added new command line option --restore-default to restore the default configurations of the app (settings, window properties, and device selected at startup)
• Added Japanese (#343) and Uzbek (#385) translations

Improvements

• Sniffnet has now a simpler and more recognisable logo! (#464)

• Huge enhancements to Sniffnet documentation: check out the new Sniffnet Wiki, a complete user manual of the app

• Window size and position are now remembered, so that Sniffnet can reopen with the same window properties
• Settings "Language" tab has been removed. Language selection and other options are now included in a new settings tab "General" (#365)
• Migrated to Iced 0.12 (#470)
• Made byte strings consistent across the app, and added support for Terabytes and Petabytes representations
• General aesthetic improvements (see #119 for more info)
• Updated Portuguese translation to v1.2 (#398)

Fixes

• Fixed bug causing the application's icon not to be visible in some Linux environments
• Fixed bug about not delivered favorite notifications in presence of old outgoing connections
• Fixed a build failure on powerpc64 (#356)
• Fixed a typo in Russian translation (#389)
• Minor fixes to Spanish translation (#454)

Thanks to:

• @ZEROF, @0x0177b11f, @Cthulu201, @wahn, @orhun, @ipinfo for sponsoring Sniffnet 💖
• @joshuamegnauth54 for the introduction of custom themes support
• @hirotake111 for the new Japanese translation
• @Mkadir for the new Uzbek translation
• @dutyrok for fixing a build failure on powerpc64
• @clr-cera for updates to Portuguese translation
• @marc-gav for fixes to Spanish translation
• @msaf94 for fixes to Russian translation

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v1.2.2

New features

• Added new application themes: Dracula, Gruvbox, Nord, and Solarized (#330)
  • Themes are based on well-known and established color palettes maintained by dedicated organisations
  • Each theme comes with a light and a dark variant, for a total of 8 new color schemes
• Added option to set different shades of color gradients for each of the available themes

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• Added Finnish translation 🇫🇮 (#310)
• Added support for --help and --version command line arguments (#272)

Improvements

• Migrated to Iced 0.10, that is now able to select the graphical renderer at runtime: a fallback one (tiny-skia) will be used in case the default one (wgpu) crashes (#324)
• General aesthetic improvements (see #119 for more info):
  • redesigned page tabs
  • highlighted headings with different colors
  • simplified scrollables' style
  • improvements to Deep Sea and Mon Amour color palettes
• Restructured issue templates to let users open issues in a more efficient and effective way (#285)
• Updated French translation to v1.2 (#279)
• Color palettes in settings page are now built as Rule widgets, without involving the use of external SVGs anymore

Fixes

• Fixed alt+tab shortcut issue (#298 — fixes #262)
• Added app id in order to correctly show the icon and app name on Linux Wayland (fixes #292)
• Fixed problem that didn't allow opening links and the report file on operating systems different from Windows, macOS, and Linux
• Use scrollable to make active filters visible when the selected adapter name is long (overview page)
• Ensure no colored pixel is shown if the respective packets or bytes number is zero
• Minor fix to Chinese translation (#271)

Thanks to:

• @ZEROF, @0x0177b11f, @Cthulu201, @wahn for sponsoring Sniffnet 💖
• @joshuamegnauth54 for having helped to set up the new themes
• @vtiinanen for Finnish translation
• @Aloso for having added --help and --version command line arguments
• @starccy for having fixed alt + tab shortcut issue
• @Digitalone1 for having helped to troubleshoot icon visibility problems on Wayland
• @Quetzal-coalt for updating French translation to v1.2
• @wangzishi for a fix to Chinese translation

Where is Sniffnet heading next? See the new roadmap of the project.

v1.2.1

New features

• Considerably refined the app packaging strategy, introducing support for more architectures and other advancements 📦 (see #246 for additional details)
• Added button to clear all the current search filters quickly in inspect page
• Added Swedish translation 🇸🇪 (#213)

Improvements

• Updated most of the existing translations to v1.2:
  • German 🇩🇪 (#191)
  • Spanish 🇪🇸 (#203)
  • Persian 🇮🇷 (#193)
  • Korean 🇰🇷 (#205)
  • Polish 🇵🇱 (#244)
  • Romanian 🇷🇴 (#241)
  • Russian 🇷🇺 (#187)
  • Turkish 🇹🇷 (#192)
  • Ukrainian 🇺🇦 (#216)
  • Chinese 🇨🇳 (#214)
• Renamed "Administrative entity" to "Autonomous System name" to avoid confusion
• Improved filter columns relative width to avoid the "Application protocol" label being cut when displayed in Swedish
• Footer URLs have been updated to include links to Sniffnet's official website and GitHub Sponsor page
• Updated docs including installation instruction for Arch Linux (#185)
• Minor improvements to packets and bytes number format
• Minor improvements to:
  • code readability (#248)
  • docs (#235)

Fixes

• Various issues have been fixed by the refined packaging strategy (#199, #220, #223, #224, #225, #242)
• Solved a minor problem that caused flags to be slightly misaligned in inspect page table

Thanks to:

• @ZEROF and @0x0177b11f for sponsoring Sniffnet 💖
• @4r7if3x for the awesome job fixing and upgrading the app packaging strategy
• @vcrn for the new Swedish translation
• @luca3s, @AmadeusGraves, @4r7if3x, @eatingdm, @Kiruyuto, @ervinpopescu, @amarao, @fuzunspm, @Br1ght0ne, @cxw620 for updating the existing translations
• @orhun for packaging and documenting Sniffnet installation on Arch Linux
• @LiChenG-P for minor readability improvements
• @mb720 for minor docs improvements

v1.2.0

New features

• Introduced host-based analysis: instead of just showing IP addresses, now host names and network providers are available for a quicker and more meaningful traffic interpretation
  • Added rDNS (reverse DNS) lookups to find out network host names
  • Added ASN (Autonomous System name and number) lookups to find out the entity managing a given IP address (fixes #62)

• A new page has been introduced to report the full list of individual connections identified by IP addresses, which can now be filtered and sorted according to various parameters

• Each connection can be now further inspected with a single click
  • Added data link layer MAC addresses
  • Included fully qualified domain name obtained from rDNS lookups

• Identification of addresses in the local network
• Full support for broadcast traffic recognition (added directed broadcast identification)
• Added dropped packets number (fixes #135)
• Changed favorites management: instead of referring to single IP addresses, favorites are now related to network hosts
• Added Persian translation 🇮🇷 (#158)
• Added Greek translation 🇬🇷 (#160)

Improvements

• Do not open terminal window when starting the application on Windows (fixes #85)
• Do not open terminal window when starting the application on macOS
• Changed macOS application icon to be consistent with standard icons dimension (fixes #177)
• Made available RPM package for Linux and automated packaging process for Windows, macOS, and Linux (#180 - fixes #20)
• Keep the active addresses of the selected network adapter up to date during analysis
• Changed shortcut to interrupt analysis from backspace to ctrl+backspace
• Images have been replaced with SVGs
• Added unit tests for chart and started unit tests for gui modules (#132)

Fixes

• Fixed problem that let users switch page pressing the tab key even if no packets were received

Thanks to:

• @4r7if3x for Persian translation (#158) and for setting up package automation (#180)
• @abousis for Greek translation (#160)

v1.1.4

New features

• The application has been translated in 4 new languages:
  • Portuguese 🇵🇹 (#134)
  • Russian 🇷🇺 (#151)
  • Korean 🇰🇷 (#128)
  • Turkish 🇹🇷 (#139)
  • ...the total number of supported languages is now 13 🎉

Improvements

• Changed adapter buttons format and improved volume slider layout (see #119 for more details or to give me further suggestions)
• Scrollbars are now highlighted when hovering on the respective scrollable area
• Set up iced_glow feature on branch glow-renderer to overcome unsupported graphics (#155)
• Modified dependabot configuration to update GitHub Actions as needed (#141)

Fixes

• Fixed problem causing a crash on macOS when starting Sniffnet's Homebrew package or building from source in release mode (#109 - #137)

Thanks to:

• @franciscoBSalgueiro for Portuguese translation (#134)
• @amarao for Russian translation (#151)
• @DocRAID for Korean translation (#128)
• @fuzunspm for Turkish translation (#139)
• @philclifford for setting up iced_glow renderer (#155)
• @jauderho for updating dependabot configuration (#141)

v1.1.3

New features

• Added feature to warn you when a newer version of Sniffnet is available on GitHub 🆕 (#118)
• Added badge on tab bar to show unread notifications count 🔉
• Added Romanian translation 🇷🇴 (#113)

Improvements

• Introduction of lazy widgets to improve the application efficiency (#122)
• Aesthetic improvements to create a more modern and minimal UI (use #119 to suggest me further improvements)
• Changed keyboard shortcut to open settings from ctrl+S to ctrl+,, as suggested in #97
• Refactored and cleaned code modules (#123)

Fixes

• Fixed problem that was causing a switch to the initial page when back button was pressed with settings opened on running page and with no packets received
• Fixed problem that was causing application logo to be partially hidden when resizing the window to a lower dimension
• Show - option in app protocol picklist only when a filter is active
• Fixed header alignment

Thanks to:

• @ervinpopescu for Romanian translation (#113)
• @0x0177b11f for being my first sponsor ever ❤️