Update NEWS

This commit is contained in:
Jon Siwek 2020-12-03 16:33:07 -08:00
parent c643ed2fe4
commit 04385ab8b2

42
NEWS
View file

@ -86,6 +86,36 @@ New Functionality
- Added ``count_to_double()`` and ``int_to_double()`` type-conversion BIFs. - Added ``count_to_double()`` and ``int_to_double()`` type-conversion BIFs.
- Added these string-processing BIFs:
- count_substr
- find_str
- rfind_str
- starts_with
- ends_with
- is_num
- is_alpha
- is_alnum
- ljust
- rjust
- swap_case
- to_title
- zfill
- remove_prefix
- remove_suffix
- Added a new ``Weird::sampling_global_list`` option to configure global
rate-limiting of certain weirds instead of per connection/flow.
- Added a ``Pcap::findalldevs()`` for obtaining available network devices.
- Added ``enum_names()`` BIF to return names of an enum type's values
- Added ``type_aliases`` BIF for introspecting type-names of types/values
- Added composite-index support for ``&backend`` (Broker-backed tables).
An example of a set with composite index is ``set[string, count, count]``.
Changed Functionality Changed Functionality
--------------------- ---------------------
@ -138,6 +168,18 @@ Changed Functionality
Zeek upgrade anyway, so no part of the usual upgrade process is expected to Zeek upgrade anyway, so no part of the usual upgrade process is expected to
be complicated by this cleanup operation. be complicated by this cleanup operation.
- Continued renaming/namespacing of many classes into either ``zeek`` or
``zeek::detail`` namespaces as already explained in Zeek 3.2's release notes.
Deprecation warnings should generally help notify plugin developers of these
changes.
- Changed HTTP DPD signatures to trigger analyzer independent of peer state.
This is to avoid missing large sessions where a single side exceeds
the DPD buffer size. It comes with the trade-off that now the analyzer
can be triggered by anybody controlling one of the endpoints (instead
of both). For discussion, see https://github.com/zeek/zeek/issues/343.
Removed Functionality Removed Functionality
--------------------- ---------------------