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Release 0.8.2 (2021-01-16)
- Fix version number (flowgrind -version)
- Fix minor groff issue in manual page
- Update debian packaging

Release 0.8.1 (2021-01-16)
- Fix compability with GCC10 (thanks to Jeroen Roovers <jer@gentoo.org>)
- lower loglevel of delay calculation error to prevent log overflow
- New website url: https://flowgrind.github.io (Closes #228)

Release 0.8.0 (2016-09-19)
- Happy Birthday Anna!
- Now uses UUID to uniquely identify daemons with same address (unfortunately that makes flowgrind incompatible with earlier releases)
- Includes a lot of bugfixes, to name a few:
- Closes github issue #211 (No cwnd column in output)
- Closes github issue #208 (buffer overlow in daemon with 2048 flows)
- Closes github issue #177 (segfault in argparser)
- Closes github issue #198 (DEBUG_MSG is not thread-safe)
- Closes github issue #182 (Time to string conversion seriously broken)
- Closes github issue #190 (-U option expects flow endpoint as argument)
- Closes github issue #187 (Traffic Generation: contradicting examples)

Release 0.7.5 (2014-10-23)
- (Re-)added Mac OS X support (Closes issue #96, #95, #43)
- Includes a lot of bugfixes, to name a few:
- Closes github issue #159 (flowgrind-stop does not complain, if there is no address given)
- Closes github issue #70 (flowgrind-stop does not accept IPv6 addresses)
- Closes github issue #154 (flowgrindd does not complain if it cannot bind socket
- Closes github issue #148 (tcp ca state in flowlog doesn't seem to work )
- Closes various pcap issues and crashes (thanks Marcel Nehring)

Release 0.7.1 (2014-05-27)
- Closes issue #80 reported and fixed by Felix Rietig
- Change license to GPL3
- Fix FreeBSD compilation issues
- Closes issue #67 fixed by Felix Rietig

Release 0.7 (2014-04-10)
- Output tcp_info kernel variables under FreeBSD
- Remove ADT code (was broken anyways)
- Display OS information in summary line
- Allow to set CPU affinity
- Set localhost as default flow target/source instead of 127.0.0.1
- Preliminary support for mixed (FreeBSD, Linux) flows
- Change timer management to achieve a nanosecond resolution
- Closes LP#1212680, LP#1218761 reported and fixed by Midori Kato
- Revised docu (help, manpage etc)
- Closes LP#1237447
- Add 1-way delay measurements
- Update usage (-h)
- A lot of other small fixes

Release 0.6.1 (2013-7-5)
- Closes LP#1196940, LP#1196972 (thanks Lars)

Release 0.6 (2013-4-24)
- Full IPv6 support (control and test connection)

Release 0.5.9 (2012-1-11)
- Support for pluggable congestion control modules in FreeBSD 9
- Minor compile and bugs fixes (thanks flameeyes)

Release 0.5.8 (2012-3-3)
- IPv6 works for test connections (not for control)
- FreeBSD Support
- Autoconf fixes to improve portability
- Small bug and coding style fixes

Release 0.5.7 (2011-4-27)
- Fix crash with newer xml-rpc version
- Output random seed in final report
- Indicate that random seed is actually a flow and not a global option
- Fix random seed handling with parallel flows
- Fix parameter parsing for uniform distribution

Release 0.5.6 (2011-1-8)
- Fix weird behavior if no connection could be established
- Ensure dump starts before test connection to catch the initial syn

Release 0.5.5.2 (2010-12-10)
- Don't slow down sender by only calling get_imtu for final report

Release 0.5.5.1 (2010-12-8)
- More updates to manpage and -h
- Fix rare bug which leads to receiver limitation in conjunction with multiple
  differently scheduled flows
- Fix pmtu/imtu/smss sometimes display -1

Release 0.5.5 (2010-12-5)
- Revised docu (help, manpage etc)
- Add transac column, disable blockcount by default
- Reworked timing for throughput calculation
- Reworked final report line
- Minor output improvements
- Dropped useless complete interval report line

Release 0.5 (2010-11-4)
- Removed obsolete fasttime and TSCI2 support
- Remove useless status column (only activated with --enable-debug)
- Nullify linux kernel state columns in final report, as they
  are not accumulated. (last interval has same information anyways)
- libpcap support for automatic traffic dumping (for analysis with tcptrace etc)
- libgsl support for advanced stochastic distributions
- Added sockopts TCP_NODELAY and non-standard MTCP
- Always print final report
- Bugfixes (oh-rly?)

Release 0.4.1 (2010-8-10)
- Bugfixes
- Block count column

Release 0.4 (2010-8-1)
- Traffic generation
- Symbolic numbers
- Reworked timer system
- Reworked rtt calculation
- Various bugfixes

Release 0.2.1 (2009-8-7)
- Fix -Q flow option
- Use bits/s as default for rate option, correct documentation on defaults
- Cleanup manpages and integrated usage
- Add description of output columns to manpage
- Make libpcap optional dependency, not enabled by default

Release 0.2 (2009-7-17)
- Using new RPC architecture
- New options syntax

Release 0.1 (2006-11-11)
- Initial Release