It is our pleasure to announce the release of netsniff-ng 0.5.9!

Again, a lot has changed since the last major release. The summary of changes
and the shortlog since 0.5.9-rc5 are below. All other changelogs can can be
found on our Github releases page [1] (or just fire up `git shortlog
v0.5.8..v0.5.9').

  [1] https://github.com/netsniff-ng/netsniff-ng/releases

Thanks to everybody who contributed to this release:

  Daniel Borkmann, Vadim Kochan, Michał Purzyński, Jon Schipp, Kartik Mistry,
  Jesper Dangaard Brouer, wilson, Tillmann Karras, Mark Latimer, James McCoy,
  and Eric Dumazet.

Happy packet sniffing!

P.S. One for the number nerds: Note how nicely the release date corresponds to
the release number ;)

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netsniff-ng 0.5.9 has been released to the public (http://netsniff-ng.org/).

It can be fetched via Git:

   git clone git://github.com/netsniff-ng/netsniff-ng.git
   git checkout v0.5.9

Or via HTTP from one of our mirrors:

   http://pub.netsniff-ng.org/netsniff-ng/netsniff-ng-0.5.9.tar.gz
   http://mirror.distanz.ch/netsniff-ng/netsniff-ng-0.5.9.tar.gz
   http://github.com/netsniff-ng/netsniff-ng/archive/v0.5.9.tar.gz

The release can be verified via Git (see README):

   git tag -v v0.5.9

Major high-level changes since the last release (v0.5.9-rc5) are:

1) Build system rework to support cross-compiling. From Tobias Klauser.

2) Support pcap file rotation on SIGHUP (issue #140). From Tobias Klauser.

3) Dissector improvements for the netlink message and the mac80211 dissectors.
   From Vadim Kochan.

4) Various bug fixes, improvements and documentation updates to make netsniff-ng
   ready for release. From Daniel Borkmann, Vadim Kochan and Tobias Klauser.

Contributions since last release:

     17  Vadim Kochan
     17  Tobias Klauser
      4  Daniel Borkmann

Git changelog since last release:

Tobias Klauser (17):
      build: Remove DISTRO build flag, don't optimize by default
      build: Rename LD command variable to LDQ
      all: Fix libnl3 include path
      build: Restore support for cross-compiling the netsniff-ng toolkit
      conf: oui: update oui.conf
      netsniff-ng: Rotate pcap files prematurely on SIGHUP
      pkt_buff: Change type of link_type field
      netsniff-ng: nlmsg: Rename function and dissector field
      netsniff-ng: nlmsg: Make netlink family strings more descriptive
      netsniff-ng: Reorder packet number output
      build: Make module build also depend on header file
      netsniff-ng: Rename protocol dissector member of struct pkt_buff
      dissectors: ethernet: Display multicast/broadcast also in less mode
      docs: authors: Move Vadim to major contributors
      docs: REPORTING-BUGS: Mention the github issue tracker
      build: Explicitly mention last release in announcement message
      netsniff-ng 0.5.9

Vadim Kochan (17):
      iosched: Print error cause if setting io prio failed
      netsniff-ng: Store getgid() result in correct member of struct context
      netsniff-ng: Don't set IO prio when reading pcap file
      -ng mac80211: Print "HT Capabilities" more structurd
      netsniff-ng nlmsg: Print netlink protocol name
      netsniff-ng mac80211: Print probe request IEs info
      netsniff-ng: Show packet number
      netsniff-ng mac80211: Print IE prefix before param
      netsniff-ng nlmsg: Print type for NETLINK_ROUTE
      netsniff-ng mac80211: Print probe response frame
      trafgen: Delete rfmon mac80211 device on panic
      die: Rename *_panic_func to *_panic_handler
      tprintf: Fix color breaking in less mode
      netsniff-ng nlmsg: Print family & type in less mode
      sock: Fix capturing extra packets from other dev
      netsniff-ng: Open pcap w/o O_NOATIME on 2nd try
      authors: Fix Daniel's email

Daniel Borkmann (4):
      man: netsniff-ng: document fanout options
      zsh: netsniff-ng: add completions
      netsniff-ng: alias lb to rr as well
      netsniff-ng: add comment wrt NOATIME and fix whitespace

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