Aircrack-ng 1.2

It's been way too long since the last stable release.

Compared to the last stable, 1.1, almost 8 years ago, this release has a huge amount of improvements and fixes. The changelog since 1.1 is almost 300 lines long (1200+ commits). Code quality has improved, in parts thanks to Coverity Scan. We now switched to GitHub completely and have a few buildbots (including one for Windows) to test building and run the test suite on a different platforms.

The build system has switched to autotools, which fixes and improves building on a number of different platforms, CPUs and compilers (gcc, clang and Intel).
Aircrack-ng is now a lot faster on recent CPUs (up to 3 times) and a trampoline binary automatically chooses the best executable for your CPU instructions. There is no need to change any of the commands, it is done transparently. Both those changes will make distro package builder's task easier and they won't have to worry about how to build it to be compatible with the most CPUs.

Continuing with Aircrack-ng, it can also output WPA hashes to EWSA and hashcat format for processing with those tools.

There is 802.11 support in airodump-ng with HT40+/HT40- channels and it now displays the rate correctly for 802.11n or 802.11ac Access Points. For those using GPS, it now supports the recent version of GPSd with JSON.

Airmon-ng itself has a number of improvements in chipset/driver detection. The most notables improvements, on top of new chipset/driver detection, is the support for FreeBSD and on Linux, the support for Nexmon driver (monitor mode driver) on the Raspberry Pi 3 (and 0 Wireless) using Kali. Airtun-ng now supports WPA/2.

For the folks following our release candidates, this doesn't bring much compared to rc5, just a few small fixes and adds UTF8 ESSID support in airodump-ng and aireplay-ng. So, if you are already running 1.2rc5, update is merely advised, otherwise, it is highly recommended.


Changelog from rc5:

• General: Fixed compiling Windows binaries and updated README.md/INSTALLING.
• General: Fixed commands to install dependencies on Debian/Ubuntu and FreeBSD.
• General: Added command to install dependencies on Fedora/CentOS/RHEL.
• General: Removed packages/ directory.
• General: Added Alpine Linux and Kali Linux buildbots.
• General: Fixed configure with --with-libpcap-include=/somewhere/include and --with-libpcap-lib=/somewhere/lib.
• General: Fixed search for ethtool when running as a non-root user.
• General: Various fixes.
• Airmon-ng: Fixed mktemp on Alpine Linux.

Aircrack-ng 1.2 Release Candidate 5

On top of tons of fixes and improvements everywhere (and on multiple platforms), this release switched to autotools which allows compiling on more platforms. A trampoline binary has been added for Aircrack-ng to automatically select the fastest version for your CPU features. It will also help package maintainers greatly.

A few other notable mentions:

• Airodump-ng supports setting HT40+/HT40- channels and now displays 802.11n and 802.11ac rates.
• Created WPA Enterprise WPE patches for HostAPd and Freeradius
• Support to export to HCCAPx for Hashcat v3.6+
• Added Airventriloquist-ng, a tool from Caesurus.
• Airmon-ng supports setting Nexmon devices in/out of monitor mode on Kali

Changelog

• General: Switching to autotools which allows compiling on more plateforms.
• General: Updated README.md and INSTALLING files.
• General: Fixed compilation on a lot of platforms.
• General: Fixed compilation warnings across platforms and compilers.
• General: Fixed typos in the tools and in manpages.
• General: Replace %d/ld with %u/lu for unsigned printf parameters.
• General: Added option to disable stack protector.
• General: Improved makefile to get reproducible builds.
• General: Fixed compilation with OpenSSL 1.1.0.
• General: Updated radiotap parsing code.
• General: Updated all URLs to use HTTPS.
• General: Fixed compilation with libreSSL.
• General: Added WPS 2.0 test PCAP.
• General: Do not use stackguard on Windows.
• General: Fixed warnings on GCC7.
• General: Improved code quality using Coverity Scan.
• General: Added badges for Coverity scan and Intel compiler buildbot
• Aircrack-ng: Use trampoline binary to automatically select fastest executable depending on the CPU
• Aircrack-ng: Fixed missing include for linecount.
• Aircrack-ng: Fixed concurrency issues when reading multiple WEP PCAP.
• Aircrack-ng: Added support for creating HCCAPx file format.
• Airodump-ng: Get the channel from HT information.
• Airodump-ng: Detect WPS 2.x.
• Airodump-ng: Also check current directory for OUI file.
• Airodump-ng: Fixed writing ESSID to CSV, Kismet CSV and Kismet NetXML files when ESSID gets decloaked and cloaked length was 1.
• Aireplay-ng: Added deauthentication reason code option.
• Aireplay-ng: Increase amount of AP to test when running injection test.
• Airodump-ng: Fixed 802.11a channel hopping list.
• Airodump-ng: Fix creation of .xor files.
• Airodump-ng: Added support for HT channels (HT20/HT40-/HT40+).
• Airodump-ng: Now displaying correct rate for 802.11n or 802.11ac AP.
• Airmon-ng: Fixed checking for processes.
• Airmon-ng: Fixed display of "cannot access '/sys/class/ieee80211/': No such file or directory".
• Airmon-ng: Fixed bashisms.
• Airmon-ng: Fixed display of specific drivers.
• Airmon-ng: Fixed display of cards on the sdio bus.
• Airmon-ng: Now supports nexmon driver on RPi 3 (and 0 Wireless) using Kali Linux.
• Airmon-ng: Added identification for another realtek chipset and generic Ralink/MT.
• Airmon-ng: Handle 2 types of rfkill commands and updated unblock text.
• Airmon-ng: more portable modinfo usage.
• Airmon-ng: remove grep -P references upon request.
• Airmon-ng: Do not replace driver name by ?????? when driver is valid.
• Airgraph-ng: Removed irrelevant comment in README.
• Airgraph-ng: Handle SSID with double quotes.
• Airgraph-ng: Fixed parsing OUI file.
• Airdrop-ng: Updated lorcon2 installation instructions.
• Besside-ng: Fixed 'wi_read(): No child processes' error.
• Airdecloak-ng: Fixed segfault due to NULL pointer dereference.
• osdep: Remove wi_set_channel(1) on open wifi interface (cygwin).
• osdep: Fixed RAW socket resource leak.
• Patches: Created WPE patches and documentation for current HostAPd and Freeradius versions.
• Airodump-ng: Fix incorrect if conditions which always are false.
• Airodump-ng: Remove useless not NULL check.
• Airventriloquist: New tool from https://github.com/Caesurus/airventriloquist/
• dcrack: Fixed indentation.
• TravisCI: Fixed compilation on OSX.
• AppVeyor: Added support for AppVeyor, CI for cygwin builds.