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 The initial preview version of jNetPcap v2 has been pushed to github from our private repository. This is a preview release, until java make the Foreign Function preview feature permanent. Here is a link to the github repo: https://github.com/slytechs-repos Alpha.1 version: This initial version has been tested with the main libpcap API calls. There is an extensive unit test files in the src/test/java directory. However, due to expediency, Windows WinPcap and Npcap have not been well tested yet, but should work. Also please check out the Wikipages on github as well. They've been updated with getting started and concept pages to get you going. Version 2 is much easier to setup than version 1 was, since there is no JNI libraries you have to compile. Maven artifact: I am still working on Maven repository setup. Its a bit more complex and requires various approvals, etc. But it will get there. Initial release will be jnetpcap-2.0.0-alpha.1

Before we begin, I tried an iPhone blogger app and it deleted the contents of the last post (September updates) as well as all the titles from all of the previous posts. Sorry about that, I couldn't get the full text of the Sept. update version back. Domain and package names I was unable to acquire the org.jnet.* domain name. So the project was refactored back to org.jnetpcap.* domain, which Sly Technologies owns. It never have been under the org.jnet domain in the first place, but this was a unpublished what if scenerio. Everything is back to normal. Maven pom.xml groupId is set to ' org.jnetpcap ' and artivactId ' jnetpcap '. It will be published under these settings to maven2 repository. Initial version is slated to be ' jnetpcap-2.0.0-preview.1 '. It will continue to be released as previews, until the foreign function features become permanent in java. This should hopefully be in Java 20 or in Java 21 LTS at the latest. API Progress The API impleme...