Project News


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2024

January

  • 100G support - Ostinato Turbo extended to support 100Gbps line rate traffic generation
  • Ostinato Turbo multi-core support for high-speed traffic generation on cloud and on-prem VMs

2023

October

February

January

2022

August

January

2021

August

July

April

  • Private beta launch for Ostinato Turbo 10G add-on for full 10Gbps line rate for 64 byte packets

February

2020

October

August

June

2019

December

  • Ostinato 1.0 packages available for 🍓 Raspberry Pi (Raspbian Buster) - works on all models RPi 1 to 4

November

  • Ostinato 1.0 Appliance Bundle available as a limited time special for 🦃 Thanksgiving

October

  • Ostinato 1.0 packages available for CentOS/RedHat 8.x
  • Ostinato 1.0 packages available for Ubuntu 19.04, 19.10

September

January

2017

December

2016

October

  • Winners of the VIRL Giveaway 2016 announced - Shane S and Sooraj T

June

March

January

  • Winners of the VIRL Giveaway 2015 announced - Nolan and Anuj T

2015

December

June

2014

December

  • vDrone - drone only appliance published

August

July

June

  • Ostinato Python Bindings 0.6beta release available on PyPi Details

2013

May

  • Linux binary packages now available for recent distros - Debian 7.0, Fedora 18, openSUSE 12.3, Ubuntu 12.10, Ubuntu 13.04

March

2012

August

June

  • Linux binary packages available for Fedora 17 and Ubuntu 12.04

February

  • Linux Binary packages are now available for Ubuntu 11.10, Fedora 16, openSUSE 12.1, SLE11 SP2, Mandriva 2011

2011

November

  • Mac OSX Universal binaries available for Ostinato 0.5

October

May

April

  • Ostinato binary package available for xUbuntu 11.04
  • NextComputing launches Continuum - a cost-effective, portable 1/20/40GbE traffic generator based on Ostinato Press Release
  • 0.4 released ChangeLog

March

  • Ostinato package available for RedHat Enterprise Linux 6 and Scientific Linux 6

February

  • Ostinato package available for Debian Linux 6.0

January

  • Ostinato packages available for Fedora 14 and Ubuntu 10.10

2010

December

  • Ostinato 0.3 tagged “stable” on Gentoo Portage
  • Srivats P. delivered a talk on “Ostinato - open, scalable packet/traffic generator” at the FOSS.IN/2010 conference (slides)

November

  • Ostinato generates 20Gbps using Napatech NIC
  • 0.3 released ChangeLog
  • IGMP and MLD protocols implemented
  • HexDump protocol added
  • Ostinato Live - Live CD/USB images of Ostinato now available

October

  • Gentoo adds Ostinato to the official Portage tree

September

  • Intel 32-bit .dmg available for Mac OS X 10.5 or later
  • Linux Binary packages available for xUbuntu, Fedora, openSUSE and Mandriva

August

July

  • Save/Restore streams to/from disk support added
  • Ostinato gets a package on Gentoo (on the Sunrise overlay) - Thanks, Dane Smith!

June

  • 0.1.1 released ChangeLog
  • Confirmed that Ostinato works on BSD - verified on FreeBSD 8.0 i386
  • ICMPv6 protocol added
  • Build framework improvements - “make install” support; Qt Creator and other IDE support
  • Confirmed that Ostinato works on Apple Mac OS X - verified on OS X Leopard (10.5.8) with Qt 4.6.2

May

  • Added IP 6over4, IP 4over6, IP 6over6 protocols completing all the IP Tunneling protocols
  • IPv6 protocol added
  • IP 4over4 (aka IP-in-IP) protocol added
  • Generic Text protocol added - can be used for any text based protocol such as HTTP, SIP, NNTP, RTSP etc.
  • Stream Configuration Dialog “Protocol Framework” extended for L5 protocols
  • Removed all compiler warnings
  • “Preflight Check” added to Stream Configuration Dialog to identify and report potential problems such as truncated frames

Apr

  • Improved AbstractProtocol Doxygen documentation
  • Improved GUI handling in the Port Stats Filter Dialog
  • First public release 0.1 r120f (April 11, 2010)