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passt: new version 2026_01_20.386b5f5 available
by Stefano Brivio 21 Jan '26

21 Jan '26

The new version with tag 2026_01_20.386b5f5 includes the following changes: 386b5f5 flow: Remove EPOLLFD_ID_INVALID 90287c2 tcp: Register fds with epoll at flow creation 0fbd7af tcp_splice: Register fds with epoll at flow creation cee7eb0 conf, pasta: Add --splice-only option 4a0d507 flow, fwd: Optimise forwarding rule lookup using epoll ref when possible fe37028 fwd, tcp, udp: Add forwarding rule to listening socket epoll references 01bcdb9 fwd: Remap ports based directly on forwarding rule f56a822 flow, fwd: Consult rules table when forwarding a new flow from socket a0af19f fwd: Generate auto-forward exclusions from socket fd tables 03a9c4b conf, fwd: Check forwarding table for conflicting rules acb7a30 tcp, udp: Remove old auto-forwarding socket arrays b223bec fwd, tcp, udp: Set up listening sockets based on forward table 0c611bc ip: Add ipproto_name() function da49557 fwd: Make space to store listening sockets in forward table e2633b9 conf, fwd: Record "auto" port forwards in forwarding table 9323ab9 conf: Accurately record ifname and address for outbound forwards bd52f61 conf, fwd: Keep a table of our port forwarding configuration 016e3d7 inany: Extend inany_ntop() to treat NULL as a fully unspecified address https://passt.top/passt/log/?qt=range&q=2026_01_17.81c97f6..2026_01_20.386b… Packages: - Alpine Linux: https://pkgs.alpinelinux.org/packages?name=passt - Arch Linux: https://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/passt/ https://archlinuxarm.org/packages/aarch64/passt https://archlinuxarm.org/packages/armv7h/passt - Chimera: https://pkgs.chimera-linux.org/packages?name=passt - Clear Linux: https://github.com/clearlinux-pkgs/passt/ - Copr (CentOS Stream, EPEL, Fedora, Mageia): https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/sbrivio/passt/build/10039669/ permanent mirror: https://passt.top/builds/copr/0^20260120.g386b5f5/ - Debian tracker: https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/passt - Fedora updates: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/?packages=passt - Gentoo versions: https://packages.gentoo.org/packages/net-misc/passt - GNU Guix: https://packages.guix.gnu.org/packages/passt/ - Homebrew: https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/passt - NixOS: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/tree/nixos-unstable/pkgs/by-name/pa/passt - openSUSE: https://software.opensuse.org/package/passt - OpenMandriva: https://github.com/OpenMandrivaAssociation/passt/tree/master - PLD Linux: https://git.pld-linux.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=packages/passt.git - Solus: https://github.com/getsolus/packages/tree/main/packages/p/passt - Ubuntu tracker: https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/passt - Void Linux: https://voidlinux.org/packages/?q=passt - Static builds: - Package for other RPM-based distributions, x86_64 only: https://passt.top/builds/latest/x86_64/passt-g386b5f5-1.x86_64.rpm - x86_64 static binaries: https://passt.top/builds/latest/x86_64/ - Debian package, from x86_64 static build: https://passt.top/builds/latest/x86_64/passt_386b5f5-1_all.deb -- Stefano

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Passt bugzilla 403 error
by Han Han 19 Jan '26

19 Jan '26

Get 403 error when accessing passt bugzilla via web browser or curl: $ curl 'https://bugs.passt.top/show_bug.cgi?id=192' <html> <head><title>403 Forbidden</title></head> <body> <center><h1>403 Forbidden</h1></center> <hr><center>nginx</center> </body> </html>

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passt: new version 2026_01_17.81c97f6 available
by Stefano Brivio 18 Jan '26

18 Jan '26

The new version with tag 2026_01_17.81c97f6 includes the following changes: 81c97f6 hooks/pre-push: Use mandoc(1) to get HTML anchors to command-line options a6d92ca selinux: Enable open permissions on netns directory, operations on container_var_run_t 4296a59 igmp: Remove apparently unneeded suppression fa765d5 epoll_ctl: Move u64 variant first for safer initialisation 4af3d83 treewide: Fix more pointers which can be const a54274d tcp, udp: Make {tcp,udp}_listen() return socket fds d5fd945 tcp, udp, conf: Don't silently ignore listens on unsupported IP versions c0be730 flow: Introduce flow_epoll_set() to centralize epoll operations 23da651 tcp_splice: Refactor tcp_splice_conn_epoll_events() to per-side computation e0fdfcc udp_flow: Assign socket to flow inside udp_flow_sock() ab27852 udp_flow: remove unneeded epoll_ref indirection cce0470 tcp: cleanup timer creation 5614bdc tcp: remove timer update in tcp_epoll_ctl() faab79c apparmor: Upgrade ABI version to 4.0, explicitly enable user namespace creation 2be0e79 tcp: Fix rounding issue in check for approximating window to zero b973f4a treewide: Fix places where we incorrectly indented with spaces b98a2e8 tcp: Remove some no longer used includes 35f63d2 fwd: Minor cleanup to fwd_nat_from_splice() facc736 fwd: Remove now-unnecessary handling of unspecified oaddr from splice edac476 udp_vu: Discard datagrams when RX virtqueue is not usable 9ea9dde fwd, tcp, udp: Consolidate epoll refs for listening sockets 3b55ba8 epoll_ctl: Add missing description for flowside field of epoll_ref ad5670a tcp: Remove unused tcp_epoll_ref 9437fc2 test: Include sshd-auth in mbuto guest image ac77d0c test: Handle Operating System Command escapes in terminal output accc331 treewide: Don't rely on terminator records in ip[46].dns arrays 4a0c1a6 migrate: Don't use terminator element for versions[] array 0bd2e68 util: Be more defensive about buffer overruns in read_file() 2aa6323 apparmor: Allow reading TCP RTO sysctl parameters https://passt.top/passt/log/?qt=range&q=2025_12_23.2ba9fd5..2026_01_17.81c9… Packages: - Alpine Linux: https://pkgs.alpinelinux.org/packages?name=passt - Arch Linux: https://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/passt/ https://archlinuxarm.org/packages/aarch64/passt https://archlinuxarm.org/packages/armv7h/passt - Chimera: https://pkgs.chimera-linux.org/packages?name=passt - Clear Linux: https://github.com/clearlinux-pkgs/passt/ - Copr (CentOS Stream, EPEL, Fedora, Mageia): https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/sbrivio/passt/build/10031035/ permanent mirror: https://passt.top/builds/copr/0^20260117.g81c97f6/ - Debian tracker: https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/passt - Fedora updates: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/?packages=passt - Gentoo versions: https://packages.gentoo.org/packages/net-misc/passt - GNU Guix: https://packages.guix.gnu.org/packages/passt/ - Homebrew: https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/passt - NixOS: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/tree/nixos-unstable/pkgs/by-name/pa/passt - openSUSE: https://software.opensuse.org/package/passt - OpenMandriva: https://github.com/OpenMandrivaAssociation/passt/tree/master - PLD Linux: https://git.pld-linux.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=packages/passt.git - Solus: https://github.com/getsolus/packages/tree/main/packages/p/passt - Ubuntu tracker: https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/passt - Void Linux: https://voidlinux.org/packages/?q=passt - Static builds: - Package for other RPM-based distributions, x86_64 only: https://passt.top/builds/latest/x86_64/passt-g81c97f6-1.x86_64.rpm - x86_64 static binaries: https://passt.top/builds/latest/x86_64/ - Debian package, from x86_64 static build: https://passt.top/builds/latest/x86_64/passt_81c97f6-1_all.deb -- Stefano

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