2024    2023    2022    2021    2020    2019    2018    2017
2016    2015    2014    2013    2012    2011    2010

2024

May

• Ostinato 1.3.0 package for Ubuntu 24.04 LTS is now available

April

• Ostinato is no longer open-source

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

• 1.3.0 released ChangeLog

February

• Experimental in-browser Ostinato Demo

January

• Ostinato for Containerlab now available for use with Containerlab labbing and CI platform

2022

August

• 1.2.0 released ChangeLog

January

• Ostinato for CML now available for use with Cisco Modeling Labs

2021

August

• Ostinato for GNS3 is now available

July

• Ostinato Turbo 10G, 25G, 40G add-on launched for high-speed line rate traffic generation

April

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

February

• Talk at FOSDEM 2021, the European FOSS conference (video and slides)
• Ostinato for EVE-NG is now available

2020

October

• Talk at SharkFest 2020, the annual Wireshark user conference (video and slides)

August

• Winner - Elevate the EXA8 contest

June

• 1.1 released ChangeLog

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

• 1.0 released ChangeLog

January

• Ostinato awarded Best Product & Startup Demo at COMSNETS 2019

2017

December

• 0.9 released ChangeLog

2016

October

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

June

• 0.8 released ChangeLog

March

• Ostinato bundled with CloudRouter 3.0

January

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

2015

December

• Ostinato bundled with Cisco VIRL 1.0 [Video Tutorial]

June

• Packet Pushers’ podcast episode on Ostinato with Ethan Banks [PQ Show 52]
• 0.7.1 released ChangeLog
• 0.7 released ChangeLog

2014

December

• vDrone - drone only appliance published

August

• DPDK accelerated Ostinato - Solo Prize Winner of 6WIND: Speed Matters DPDK design contest

July

• 0.6 released ChangeLog

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

• Ostinato is now available in the FreeBSD ports collection

2012

August

• 0.5.1 released ChangeLog

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

• 0.5 released ChangeLog

May

• 0.4.1 released ChangeLog

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

• 0.2 released ChangeLog

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)