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Posted by Gordon Fyodor Lyon on Dec 08Hi Nmap (and Npcap) hackers! I hope you're enjoying the start of the holidays. For your first stocking stuffer, we're happy to release Npcap Version 1.60! We also released (but never actually announced) ... [More] Version 1.55 in September. We put out Versions 1.12 and 1.11 of the SDK too. None of these try to wow you with major new features. We're excited about a lot of those in the pipeline, but we focused the last few months on... [Less]

Posted by Gordon Fyodor Lyon on Dec 08Hi Nmap (and Npcap) hackers! I hope you're enjoying the start of the holidays. For your first stocking stuffer, we're happy to release Npcap Version 1.60! We also released (but never actually announced) ... [More] Version 1.55 in September. We put out Versions 1.12 and 1.11 of the SDK too. None of these try to wow you with major new features. We're excited about a lot of those in the pipeline, but we focused the last few months on... [Less]

Posted by Gordon Fyodor Lyon on Aug 07Hi folks. Many of us can't attend Defcon in person this year due to global pandemic, but we won't let that stop our traditional Defcon Nmap release! We just posted Nmap 7.92 to https://nmap.org/download.html. It ... [More] includes dozens of performance improvements, feature enhancements, and bug fixes that we've made over the last 10 months. The biggest improvement (at least for Windows users) is the inclusion of version 1.50 of Npcap (... [Less]

Posted by Gordon Fyodor Lyon on Aug 07Hi folks. Many of us can't attend Defcon in person this year due to global pandemic, but we won't let that stop our traditional Defcon Nmap release! We just posted Nmap 7.92 to https://nmap.org/download.html. It ... [More] includes dozens of performance improvements, feature enhancements, and bug fixes that we've made over the last 10 months. The biggest improvement (at least for Windows users) is the inclusion of version 1.50 of Npcap (... [Less]

Posted by Gordon Fyodor Lyon on Jun 28Hi folks. The Nmap Project is pleased to release Npcap version 1.50 at https://npcap.org. There are many improvements in this release, but the one we're most excited about is support for the ARM architecture! ... [More] This allows apps like Nmap and Wireshark to run for the first time on a newer generation of hardware which often includes all-day battery life and always-on LTE/5G capabilities. Devices vary from the $349 Samsung Galaxy Book Go... [Less]

Posted by Gordon Fyodor Lyon on Jun 28Hi folks. The Nmap Project is pleased to release Npcap version 1.50 at https://npcap.org. There are many improvements in this release, but the one we're most excited about is support for the ARM architecture! ... [More] This allows apps like Nmap and Wireshark to run for the first time on a newer generation of hardware which often includes all-day battery life and always-on LTE/5G capabilities. Devices vary from the $349 Samsung Galaxy Book Go... [Less]

Posted by Gordon Fyodor Lyon on Apr 12Hi folks. The Nmap Project is pleased to release Npcap Version 1.30 at https://npcap.org. We hope Nmap and Wireshark users will be especially happy with the raw WiFi improvements, since you tend to be ... [More] particularly savvy about low-level network inspection. It turns out that some of the issues we thought were caused by lower level hardware drivers were actually bugs in our driver. Oops! But at least that means we can fix them ourselves, and we did.... [Less]

Posted by Gordon Fyodor Lyon on Apr 12Hi folks. The Nmap Project is pleased to release Npcap Version 1.30 at https://npcap.org. We hope Nmap and Wireshark users will be especially happy with the raw WiFi improvements, since you tend to be ... [More] particularly savvy about low-level network inspection. It turns out that some of the issues we thought were caused by lower level hardware drivers were actually bugs in our driver. Oops! But at least that means we can fix them ourselves, and we did.... [Less]

Posted by Gordon Fyodor Lyon on Mar 16Nmap/Npcap Community: I'm happy to report the release of version 1.20 of the Npcap Windows packet capturing/sending driver! It's the first release of 2021 and includes better capabilities for selecting timestamp ... [More] methods as well as many other improvements and bug fixes. These include updating the underlying libpcap library to version 1.10 and building our installer now with NSIS 3. More details on all this are available from the... [Less]

Posted by Gordon Fyodor Lyon on Mar 16Nmap/Npcap Community: I'm happy to report the release of version 1.20 of the Npcap Windows packet capturing/sending driver! It's the first release of 2021 and includes better capabilities for selecting timestamp ... [More] methods as well as many other improvements and bug fixes. These include updating the underlying libpcap library to version 1.10 and building our installer now with NSIS 3. More details on all this are available from the... [Less]