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v1.3.1

22 Jul 09:32
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Improvements

  • Thumbnail mode improvements (#512)
  • Support IPinfo ASN and Country databases (#558 โ€” 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:
  • Reduced String allocations in translation code (#524)

Fixes

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

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v1.3.0

08 Apr 12:16
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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)

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v1.2.2

08 Aug 10:45
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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 ๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ฎ (#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 โ€” 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)

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

v1.2.1

08 Jun 14:36
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New features

  • Considerably refined the app packaging strategy, introducing support for more architectures and other advancements ๐Ÿ“ฆ (see #246 for additional details)
  • Added button to clear all the current search filters quickly in inspect page
  • Added Swedish translation ๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ช (#213)

Improvements

  • Updated most of the existing translations to v1.2:
    • German ๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ช (#191)
    • Spanish ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡ธ (#203)
    • Persian ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ท (#193)
    • Korean ๐Ÿ‡ฐ๐Ÿ‡ท (#205)
    • Polish ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ฑ (#244)
    • Romanian ๐Ÿ‡ท๐Ÿ‡ด (#241)
    • Russian ๐Ÿ‡ท๐Ÿ‡บ (#187)
    • Turkish ๐Ÿ‡น๐Ÿ‡ท (#192)
    • Ukrainian ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ฆ (#216)
    • Chinese ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ณ (#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
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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

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v1.2.0

18 May 12:09
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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 ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ท (#158)
  • Added Greek translation ๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ท (#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

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v1.1.4

18 Apr 08:25
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New features

  • The application has been translated in 4 new languages:
    • Portuguese ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡น (#134)
    • Russian ๐Ÿ‡ท๐Ÿ‡บ (#151)
    • Korean ๐Ÿ‡ฐ๐Ÿ‡ท (#128)
    • Turkish ๐Ÿ‡น๐Ÿ‡ท (#139)
    • ...the total number of supported languages is now 13 ๐ŸŽ‰

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)

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v1.1.3

04 Apr 15:12
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New features

  • Added feature to warn you when a newer version of Sniffnet is available on GitHub ๐Ÿ†• (#118)
  • Added badge on tab bar to show unread notifications count ๐Ÿ”‰
  • Added Romanian translation ๐Ÿ‡ท๐Ÿ‡ด (#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

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v1.1.2

18 Mar 18:50
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New features

  • Added new translations of the GUI, bringing the total number of supported languages to 8 ๐ŸŽ‰
    • German ๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ช (#87)
    • Simplified Chinese ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ณ (#89 - #93)
    • Ukrainian ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ฆ (#94)
  • Added keyboard shortcuts to make the whole experience more enjoyable and efficient:
    check out issue #97 to see all the available hotkeys or to suggest new ones!

Fixes

  • Changed GUI font to sarasa-gothic-mono to support the introduction of Simplified Chinese language
  • Minor improvements to Overview page proportions and paddings

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v1.1.1

25 Feb 16:52
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New features

  • Added new translations of the GUI!
    • French ๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ท (#64 - #67)
    • Spanish ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡ฆ (#70)
    • Polish ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ฑ (#78)
  • The last successfully sniffed network adapter is now remembered on application closure, so that users don't have to manually select it again when restarting Sniffnet (implementing a feature requested in #77)
  • Implemented possibility to quit the application pressing crtl+Q keys, as requested in #68
  • The last opened settings page is now remembered within a given session

Fixes

  • Fixed bug that caused settings configuration not to be permanently saved across different sessions when closing settings from the 'x' button on the top right corner (fixes #77)
  • Textual report is now saved in a fixed directory, instead of using the directory where the execution was started. The output is now saved in the same folder containing configuration files storing Sniffnet settings. The directory is automatically chosen by confy depending on your architecture, and can be seen hovering on the "Open full report" button. (fixes #51)
  • When multiple favorite connections are featured per time interval, now it's possible to receive more than one favorite notification referred to the same timestamp
  • Fixed problem that was causing the Application Protocol picklist placeholder not being translated

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v1.1.0

07 Feb 17:23
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What's new

  • ๐ŸŒ Added Geolocation of the remote IP addresses (consult the IP Geolocation section for more information)
  • โญ Implemented the possibility of marking a group of connections as favorites and added favorites view to the report
  • ๐Ÿ”‰ Added Custom Notifications to inform the user when defined network events occur:
    • data intensity exceeded a defined packets per second rate
    • data intensity exceeded a defined bytes per second rate
    • new data are exchanged from one of the favorite connections

  • โš™๏ธ Added Settings pages to configure the state of the application (persistently stored in a configuration file):
    • customise notifications
    • choose between 4 different application styles
    • set the application language (this release introduces the Italian language ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡น, and more languages will be supported soon)

If you are running on Windows or Linux, don't forget to install the required dependencies (you can find them here).

If you are interested in the complete list of changes, you can consult the changelog.