New release: 2020-04-R2
Kismet 2020-04-R2 is available! (2020-04-R1 was tagged for release but replaced to fix a Python bug)
This release has quite a few bugfixes plus some new features!
New features:
- Tabbed interface on the main UI panel
- New SSID view (to be expanded in future releases)
- ADSB view moved to a main tab
- Improved and expanded ADSB view with altitude coloring, plane view table, and some other fixes
- NOCLIENTMFP alert, for clients which do not support modern security standards
- More efficient web UI with automatic pausing when not in the foreground
- Example udev rules for serial capture sources
- Basic kismetdb to GPX export tool
- kismetdb_clean tool (runs SQL vacuum, but doesn’t require sqlite command line)
- Low-level pcap packet filtering on Linux wifi sources (filter_interface=…)
- New multi-key device lookup API
- Release and nightly packages for Kismet now include Ubuntu 20.04 Focal.
With bugfixes and enhancements including:
- Default to all phys in NXP capture
- Fix DEAUTHFLOOD alert
- Fix GPS speed handling in kph
- Fix DEVICELOST alerts for devices leaving sensor range
- Fix all_devices.ekjson not sending fully elk-formatted json
- Handle null objects in an ekjson vector
- Use device common name in alerts
- Add warning about using external map sources before connecting in ADSB view
- Fix association request parsing
- Fix GPS location on alerts
- Fixes for HTTP Proxytest demo plugin
- Fixes for Python 3.7 and 3.8 in python-kismetexternal (and rtl433, adsb, amr)
- Fix web GPS API
- Fix historical packet fetch API
- Initial support for nested SQL queries in API wrapper, to be used in the future
- Changes to how device errors are reported
- Return an error instead of a 404 on a HTTP GET for a HTTP POST-only endpoint
- Assorted other typos and small fixes
Download
You can get the 2020-04-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.