New release: 2020-09-R2

Kismet 2020-09-R2!

Kismet 2020-09-R1 is live. This is a relatively small release with a handful of bug fixes and optimizations on top of the significant improvements in 2020-09-R1.

• Save more RAM!

  Shave 7 bytes off every representation of a MAC address in Kismet (BSSID, device mac, manufacturer lookups, client associations, etc). Not as significant as some previous memory savings but not bad!

• Fix a very silly error in kismetdb_dump_devices

  The kismetdb_dump_devices tool was broken and printed out the JSON twice, generating an invalid JSON file.

• Tweak how IE221 manufacturers are derived

  Look for some specific AP manufacturers in the IE221 tags, and then fall back to using generic 221 manufacturers.

• Fix packet RRD in main device table

  Fix the packet RRD in the main device table not scrolling properly

• Squash a number of warnings

  Generally clean up compiling and squash a number of warnings during compiling

• Fix a bug classifying some devices as APs

  Some devices doing an inter-ds communication (like a chromecast and a phone) got flagged as APs when they’re not really.

Download

You can get the 2020-09-R2 release from the Kismet downloads page, where you can get both the source and packages for several distributions.

Packaging

If you’re looking to package Kismet, have a look at the packaging guidelines.

Thanks

And as always, a tremendous thank you to all the supporters on Github Sponsors and Patreon