Roadmap
This is stale and no longer maintained/updated
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Planned Releases
Release 0.9
TBD
Release 0.8 (DONE)
Target Date: Dec 2015 (Released on June 28, 2016)
Device Emulation (ARP/ND and ping)Several bugfixes
Release 0.7 (DONE)
Target Date: June 2015 (Released on June 09, 2015)
Drone settings to specify include/exclude portlists (issue 122)Ostinato client GUI checks for version updates at startup64bit stats support for Linux (if supported by Kernel and Driver) (issue 70)Ostinato GUI can save configured streams as a python scriptPort Reservation (issue 144)Variable Fields (issue 31, issue 84, issue 110, issue 127)Bugfixes
Release 0.6 (DONE)
Target Date: May/June 2014 (Released on July 7, 2014)
Rearchitect/Refactor to remove GUI dependency from Drone (issue 34)CLI/Scripting/Automation Support (issue 11)IGMPv3 Query missing Group Address Field (issue 107)Multiple clients connecting simultaneously to a drone (issue 22)Error Statistics and Link State (issue 28)
Release 0.5 (DONE)
Target Date: August 2011 (Released on Oct 25, 2011)
Inter-mix streams (issue 12)Nano-second granularity (issue 30)Improve maximum send rate (pps/bps) (issue 33, issue 39)Change algo to reduce time taken for "apply" (issue 35)Configure packet rate for port instead of per stream (issue 41)Inter-packet gap in seconds (issue 42)Windows only: Transmit traffic is also counted in received statistics(issue 46)New version of QHexEdit widget supporting copy-paste
Release 0.4 (DONE)
Target Date: April 2011 (Released on Apr 19, 2011)
User Interface relatedMain Window and Stream Configuration Dialog - save/restore geometry (size)Auto reconnect to port group/droneIf port group has zero ports, offer troubleshooting tips to the user
Pcap/Pdml file format supportJumbo frames support (issue 27)
Release 0.3 (DONE)
Target Date: Nov 2010 (Released on Nov 11, 2010)
ProtocolsCustom HexdumpIGMPMLD
Release 0.2 (DONE)
Target Date: July 2010 (Released on August 12, 2010)
ProtocolsIPv6IP Tunneling aka IP-in-IP (4over4, 6over6, 4over6, 6over6)ICMPv6Text Protocol
Save/Restore streams to/from disk
Release 0.1 (DONE)
Target Date: April 2010 (Released on April 11, 2010)
First public release
Near Future
- Protocols
- Goto specified stream (not just the first stream) (issue 13)
Link Status for non-Windows platforms(DONE)- Exclusive Port Control for non-Windows platforms (issue 36)
Rate Stats for BSD/OSX(DONE)- Random Burst Rate/Size Transmission Mode (issue 32)
Allow multiple Ostinato clients to connect to one drone server (issue 22)(DONE)- Plugin architecture for drone to support non-pcap NIC interface - useful for PF_RING/DNA, accelerated/specialized NICs like Napatech, Endace, Turbocap etc.
"vDrone" - drone packaged as a virtual appliance(DONE)- Refactoring
- Cleaner separation of client side domain/model/view objects
- Privilege separation of drone for a better security architecture
Remove drone dependency on GUI/X (issue 34)(DONE)
- More accurate timing on Mac OS X