1 $Id: NEWS,v 1.135 2003/09/09 03:34:26 gerald Exp $
5 Ethereal 0.9.15 has been released.
7 New and updated features
9 Many major features have been added with this release. If you're
10 running an older version of Ethereal, you may want to have a look.
12 Conversation List (aka "top talker") support has been added to Ethereal
13 and Tethereal. Protocol statistics in general have been updated.
15 Searching capture files has been improved even more -- a new "contains"
16 display filter operator that searches for strings in PDUs has been
17 added. The Find dialog now supports case-insensitive searches, hex data
20 An H.225 dissector has been added. It can automatically recognize RTP
21 and RTCP conversations.
23 A preference file has been added for disabled protocols.
25 Color filters may now be imported and exported from within Ethereal.
27 A new column type has been added for cumulative bytes.
84 Updated capture file support
86 Accellent 5Views, CheckPoint FW-1, Endace ERF, LANalyzer,
91 Ethereal 0.9.14 has been released.
93 New and updated features
95 The ringbuffer code has been (nearly) completely rewritten. It now
96 supports an unlimited number of files.
98 Ethereal now supports searching for arbitrary text and binary data in
101 Service response time statistics have been enhanced.
103 Tethereal, the text-mode version of Ethereal, can now be compiled
104 without capture support.
107 New and updated features
109 Echo, eDonkey, Jabber, MS Messenger, sFlow
114 AODV, AODV6, Boardwalk, DCE-RPC, ENIP, Fibre Channel, FIX, FW1, H.245,
115 IGMP, IPsec, IS-IS, iSCSI, ISUP, LDAP, LDP, M2UA, MEGACO, MTP3, NDS,
116 NETLOGON, NTLMSSP, NTP, Q.2931, Q.931, SAMR, SCCP, SCSI, SMB, SMPP, SNA,
117 SNMP, SPNEGO, SPOOLSS, SRVLOC, UCP, Vines, VRRP, WBXML, WEP, WSP, WTP,
121 Updated capture file support
128 Ethereal 0.9.13 has been released.
130 This release fixes a large number of security issues discovered by Timo
131 Sirainen and others. See
133 http://www.ethereal.com/appnotes/enpa-sa-00010.html
137 New and updated features
139 Ethereal now supports a system-wide color filter file.
141 Support for the GNU ADNS library has been added. ADNS allows
142 asynchronous DNS lookups.
144 "Decode As..." functionality has been added to Tethereal via the "-d"
147 The HTTP, FTP, POP, SMTP, IMAP, and ACAP requests and responses are now
148 shown in the protocol tree.
152 distcc, EtherNet/IP, MSRPC ATSVC, RTNET/TMDA
156 802.11, AIM, BGP, CLNP, COTP, CPHA, DCERPC, DNS, EAPOL, Ethernet, FDDI,
157 GSSAPI, IP, ISAKMP, ISIS, LDAP, LSP, M2PA, MAPI, Modbus, NDPS, NFS,
158 NTLMSSP, OSI, OSPF, OpenBSD pflog, PPTP, RMCP, RMI, RPC, RTP, SCSI,
159 SCTP, SIP, SMB, SMPP, SMTP, SNMP, SPNEGO, TACACS, TCP, TSP, WBXML, WSP,
162 Updated capture file support
164 HP-UX nettl, VMS UCX$TRACE
169 Ethereal 0.9.12 has been released.
171 This release fixes several off-by-one and integer overflow errors
172 discovered by Timo Sirainen. See
174 http://www.ethereal.com/appnotes/enpa-sa-00009.html
178 New and updated features
180 TCP sequence number analysis received a few improvements.
182 General packet reassembly has been improved.
184 The "Follow TCP Stream" window now allows you to filter out the current
187 The Vines code received significant updates.
189 Several enhancements were made to the text2pcap utility.
193 ArtNET, IPX WAN, Intel ANS, iSNS, NLSP, WKSSVC
197 802.11 ACAP, AFP, AIM, AJP, ASAP, BGP, CLNP, CPHA, DCE/RPC, DSI, EAP,
198 IP, IPMI, IPX, IPv6, ISIS, ISUP, IUA, Kerberos, LDAP, M2PA, M2TP, M2UA,
199 M3UA, MGCP, MTP2, MTP3, MTP3MG, Modbus/TCP, NDMP, NDPS, NFS, NLSP, PGM,
200 Q.931, RANAP, RPC, RSVP, SCCP, SCCPMG, SCTP, SMB, SNMP, SPX, SSH, SUA,
201 TCP, Telnet, Vines, WBXML, WSP, WTP
203 Updated capture file support
210 Ethereal 0.9.11 has been released.
212 The Ethereal 0.9.10 release was packaged improperly. This release fixes
213 the packaging, and adds minor updates and fixes for the following
216 AFS, OpenBSD enc(4), RTP, SCSI, SIP, SMPP, SSH
218 IA64 support has been improved.
223 Ethereal 0.9.10 has been released.
225 This release fixes a security hole discovered by Georgi Guninski in the
226 SOCKS dissector as well as problems with the NTLMSSP and Rsync code.
227 All users of previous versions are encouraged to upgrade. See
229 http://www.ethereal.com/appnotes/enpa-sa-00008.html
234 New and Updated Features
236 Many small updates were made to the user interface.
238 The "Help" menu now includes the FAQ.
240 The TCP dissector was enhanced. Many more fields are filterable.
242 Tethereal received more IO stats: TCP and UDP top talkers.
244 Packet reassembly has been improved.
246 The "Follow TCP Stream" feature can now export C byte arrays.
248 RTP streams can now be saved to a file.
253 A missing comma in a string array could cause Ethereal to crash when
254 opening the preferences dialog.
259 MSN Messenger, Rsync, SSH, Yahoo! Messenger
264 AFP, AFS, AIM, ATM, Apache JServ, BACNET, BGP, BOOTP, CLNP, COPS, DCCP,
265 DCERPC NT, DCERPC, DNS, ESIS, Ethernet, Frame Relay, GIOP, GTP, HP
266 extended 802.2 LLC, HP-UX remote management, HTTP, IPP, IPX, LLC, LSA,
267 M3UA, MDSHDR, MIP6, MPLS, MySQL, NCP2222, NETLOGON, NLPID, NetFlow,
268 OpenBSD enc(4), OSI, PPP, RADIUS, RMP, RPL, SAMR, SCSI, SMB, SNA, SNMP,
269 SOCKS, SPOOLSS, SRVLOC, SRVSVC, SSL, SliMP3, TCP, Token Ring, WBXML,
270 Wellfleet BofL X.25, X11
273 Updated Capture File Support
275 NetXRay, NGSniffer, Snoop
280 Ethereal 0.9.9 has been released.
282 Please note the next release will NOT be 1.0. There are still more
283 features to be added before a 1.0 release will be ready.
286 New and Updated Features
288 Plugin search behavior was improved under Unix, allowing more than one
289 version of Ethereal to be installed at one time.
291 The statistics graphs have been enhanced. More statistics have been
294 Round-trip-time statistics are now computed for SMB traffic.
296 NCP Call and Reply times are now tracked.
298 Top talker statistics for Ethernet, IP and Token Ring are now
299 available (tethereal only).
301 Color allocation and handling was improved.
303 The RADIUS dissector can now decrypt user passwords.
305 Tethereal now supports reading from a pipe under Unix.
307 The ATM code received major improvements.
309 The DOS Sniffer code also received major improvements.
311 For those that compile Ethereal from source, some fixes and updates
312 have been made to the configuration and build environment.
317 The capture progress window now shows the correct number of elapsed
320 A potential infinite loop in the TCP graphing code has been fixed.
325 MDSHDR, MEGACO, MySQL, SDLC, X.29
330 802.11, AFP, AFS, AIM, ARCNET, ASAP, ATM, BPDU, Cisco HDLC, CLNP, DCE
331 RPC, DDTP, Ethernet, FC-ELS, FCIP, H.261, IMSI, IP, IP-over-FC, L2TP,
332 LMI, M3UA, MTP3, NCP, NetBIOS, NETLOGON, ONC RPC, OSPF, PIM, PPP,
333 RADIUS, RANAP, RPC, SAMR, SCTP, SMB, SPNEGO, SPOOLSS, SRVLOC, SRVSVC,
334 SUA, TNS, Token Ring, Wellfleet HDLC, X.25
337 Updated Capture File Support
339 Firewall-1, Netmon, NetXRay, Radcom, Sniffer
344 Ethereal 0.9.8 has been released.
346 Serious problems with the BGP, LMP, PPP, and TDS dissectors have been
349 http://www.ethereal.com/appnotes/enpa-sa-00007.html
354 New and Updated Features
356 The TAP subsystem received major updates. Tethereal can display
357 more statistics, and several graphs have been added to Ethereal.
359 A protocol hierarchy statistics tap was added to tethereal. This code
360 may be used to replace the hierarchy statistics code in Ethereal.
362 More updates have been added to TCP analysis.
364 After a long hiatus, the Windows installer once again includes SNMP
367 The total running time of the capture is now displayed in the capture
368 progress dialog box. The capture progress dialog also shows ARP packets.
370 The look of the plugins dialog was revamped.
373 Bug Fixes and Updates
375 A bug which caused Ethereal under Windows to crash when "Update list of
376 packets in real time" was enabled has been fixed.
378 The stability of the text2pcap utility has been improved.
380 In tethereal, the packet count is properly displayed when you ^C out of a
386 ARCNET, ClearCase NFS, DCERPC LSA_DS, Fibre Channel, HyperSCSI, MDNS,
392 AFP, AFS, BACNet, BGP, DCERPC, DCERPC EPM, DCERPC LSA, DCERPC NDR,
393 DCERPC NT, DCERPC SAMR, DCERPC UPDATE, GRE, GTP, HTTP, IPv6CP, IPX,
394 iSCSI, ISDN, IUA, LAPD, LDAP, M2PA, NDPS, NDS, NetBIOS, NFS, NTLMSSP,
395 OSPF, PPP, PPPoE, Q.2931, Q.931, RPC, RSVP, SCSI, SCTP, SMB, SNMP,
396 Spanning Tree, SPNEGO, SPOOLSS, SPX, SRVLOC, TCP, Telnet, V.120, WEP,
400 Updated Capture File Support
402 AIX iptrace and tcpdump, NetXRay, Sniffer, snoop
405 == September 28, 2002
407 Ethereal 0.9.7 has been released.
411 In order to improve the out-of-box responsiveness of Ethereal and
412 Tethereal, network name resolution has been disabled by default.
414 TCP analysis (a feature added in the 0.9.6 release) was improved.
416 The NCP code base received quite a few updates.
418 Initial support for version 2 of the GTK+ library was added.
420 RPC staticstics (which use the new Tap API) were added.
422 Due to added and updated support for the NTLM, SNEGO, and GSS-API
423 protocols, Ethereal can now dissect most of the security blobs for
424 Windows 2000 authentication.
426 The Ethernet "manuf" file now handles addresses specified with a
427 mask, and contains many well-known addresses.
432 802.1s MSTP, FIX, GSS-API, Interbase, NDPS, Netflow (Cisco and Juniper),
433 SCCP-Management, SPNEGO
435 The following DCE/RPC protocols were also added:
437 AFS4INT, BOSSVR, CDS_CLERKSERVER, CDS_SOLICIT, CPRPC_SERVER, DNSSERVER,
438 DTSPROVIDER, DTSSTIME_REQ, FLDB, FTSERVER, KRB5RPC, REPADMIN, REP_PROC,
439 ROVERRIDE, RPRIV, RS_ATTR, RSEC_LOGIN, RS_MISC, RS_PGO, RS_REPLIST,
440 RS_UNIX, SECIDMAP, TKN4INT, UBIKDISK, UKIKVOTE
445 AFP, AODV/AODV6, BGP, CHDLC, CHPA, DCE/RPC CONV, DCE/RPC LSA, DCE/RPC
446 NT, DCE/RPC SAMR, DHCP, DNS, DOCSIS, EAP, GTP, HTTP, IP, iSCSI, IS-IS,
447 Kerberos, LDAP, LDP, M2PA MMSE, NBNS, NCP, NDS, NETLOGON, NTLMSSP, OSI
448 Q.931 RPC, RPCSTAT, SCSI, Skinny, SMB, SNEGO, SPOOLSS, SRVSVC, TCP, WSP,
453 Ethereal 0.9.6 has been released.
457 A buffer overflow in the ISIS dissector has been fixed. More
458 information can be found at
459 http://www.ethereal.com/appnotes/enpa-sa-00006.html.
461 A bad TCP header could cause problems for the "Follow TCP Stream"
464 Setting "column.format" from the command line no longer crashes
465 Ethereal and Tethereal.
467 Problems with capture files being overwritten (e.g. if you try to save over
468 the current capture file) have been fixed.
470 An SMB conversation handling bug has been fixed.
472 Thanks to Valgrind, several memory leaks have been fixed.
474 Some problems with printing under Windows have been fixed.
479 TCP sequence number analysis has been added.
481 The DCE RPC NETLOGON dissector has received a major overhaul.
483 Data types throughout the code have been cleaned up.
488 CPHA, DOCSIS, NTLMSSP, Xyplex terminal server protocol, ZIP
493 802.11, AFP, ASAP, BGP, CDP, CDPCP, CPHA, DDP, DCERPC, DCERPC NT, DCERPC
494 REG, EPM, FTP, HCLNFSD, HTTP, IPX, ISAKMP, ISIS, IUA, Kerberos, L2TP,
495 LLMNR, LSA, MMSE, MPLSCP, NBNS, NetBIOS, NETLOGON, NFS, NTLMSSP, PPP,
496 Quake2, RADIUS, RSVP, RTCP, SAMR, SCSI, SDP, SIP, SMB, SMB Mailslot,
497 SMTP, SPOOLSS, TCP, TDS, TNS, TPKT, Token Ring, VJ TCP, WINREG, WSP
502 CheckPoint Firewall-1 monitor file support and CoSine debug file support
503 were added. Support for pppdump and Netmon files was updated.
508 Ethereal 0.9.5 has been released. This version fixes several potential
509 security problems revealed since the release of 0.9.4. See the security
510 advisory at http://www.ethereal.com/appnotes/enpa-sa-00005.html for
516 The ability to read packet data from a pipe was enhanced. Printing
517 under Windows now works.
522 802.3 LACP, Apache JServ, AODV6, DCERPC Browser, Java RMI, TAPI
527 ATM, BGP, BOOTP, DCE RPC, EPM, Frame Relay, GTP, L2TP, LMP, MAPI, MIP,
528 MMSE, MTP3, NCP, NFS, NSPI, PPP, Q2931, RADIUS, RSVP, SCSI, SMB, SNA,
529 SOCKS, SPOOLSS, SRVSVC, SunATM, TFTP, TNS, Token Ring, UCP, VJ TCP/IP,
535 Ethereal can now write LANalyzer files. The Sniffer, nettl, snoop,
536 NetXRay, and libpcap code all received updates.