1 $Id: NEWS,v 1.131 2003/07/23 02:06:24 gerald Exp $
5 Ethereal 0.9.14 has been released.
7 New and updated features
9 Tethereal, the text-mode version of Ethereal, can now be compiled
10 without capture support.
12 Service response time statistics have been enhanced.
14 The ringbuffer code has been (nearly) completely rewritten. It now
15 supports an unlimited number of files.
17 Ethereal now supports searching for arbitrary text and binary data in
76 Updated capture file support
82 Ethereal 0.9.13 has been released.
84 This release fixes a large number of security issues discovered by Timo
85 Sirainen and others. See
87 http://www.ethereal.com/appnotes/enpa-sa-00010.html
91 New and updated features
93 Ethereal now supports a system-wide color filter file.
95 Support for the GNU ADNS library has been added. ADNS allows
96 asynchronous DNS lookups.
98 "Decode As..." functionality has been added to Tethereal via the "-d"
101 The HTTP, FTP, POP, SMTP, IMAP, and ACAP requests and responses are now
102 shown in the protocol tree.
106 distcc, EtherNet/IP, MSRPC ATSVC, RTNET/TMDA
110 802.11, AIM, BGP, CLNP, COTP, CPHA, DCERPC, DNS, EAPOL, Ethernet, FDDI,
111 GSSAPI, IP, ISAKMP, ISIS, LDAP, LSP, M2PA, MAPI, Modbus, NDPS, NFS,
112 NTLMSSP, OSI, OSPF, OpenBSD pflog, PPTP, RMCP, RMI, RPC, RTP, SCSI,
113 SCTP, SIP, SMB, SMPP, SMTP, SNMP, SPNEGO, TACACS, TCP, TSP, WBXML, WSP,
116 Updated capture file support
118 HP-UX nettl, VMS UCX$TRACE
123 Ethereal 0.9.12 has been released.
125 This release fixes several off-by-one and integer overflow errors
126 discovered by Timo Sirainen. See
128 http://www.ethereal.com/appnotes/enpa-sa-00009.html
132 New and updated features
134 TCP sequence number analysis received a few improvements.
136 General packet reassembly has been improved.
138 The "Follow TCP Stream" window now allows you to filter out the current
141 The Vines code received significant updates.
143 Several enhancements were made to the text2pcap utility.
147 ArtNET, IPX WAN, Intel ANS, iSNS, NLSP, WKSSVC
151 802.11 ACAP, AFP, AIM, AJP, ASAP, BGP, CLNP, CPHA, DCE/RPC, DSI, EAP,
152 IP, IPMI, IPX, IPv6, ISIS, ISUP, IUA, Kerberos, LDAP, M2PA, M2TP, M2UA,
153 M3UA, MGCP, MTP2, MTP3, MTP3MG, Modbus/TCP, NDMP, NDPS, NFS, NLSP, PGM,
154 Q.931, RANAP, RPC, RSVP, SCCP, SCCPMG, SCTP, SMB, SNMP, SPX, SSH, SUA,
155 TCP, Telnet, Vines, WBXML, WSP, WTP
157 Updated capture file support
164 Ethereal 0.9.11 has been released.
166 The Ethereal 0.9.10 release was packaged improperly. This release fixes
167 the packaging, and adds minor updates and fixes for the following
170 AFS, OpenBSD enc(4), RTP, SCSI, SIP, SMPP, SSH
172 IA64 support has been improved.
177 Ethereal 0.9.10 has been released.
179 This release fixes a security hole discovered by Georgi Guninski in the
180 SOCKS dissector as well as problems with the NTLMSSP and Rsync code.
181 All users of previous versions are encouraged to upgrade. See
183 http://www.ethereal.com/appnotes/enpa-sa-00008.html
188 New and Updated Features
190 Many small updates were made to the user interface.
192 The "Help" menu now includes the FAQ.
194 The TCP dissector was enhanced. Many more fields are filterable.
196 Tethereal received more IO stats: TCP and UDP top talkers.
198 Packet reassembly has been improved.
200 The "Follow TCP Stream" feature can now export C byte arrays.
202 RTP streams can now be saved to a file.
207 A missing comma in a string array could cause Ethereal to crash when
208 opening the preferences dialog.
213 MSN Messenger, Rsync, SSH, Yahoo! Messenger
218 AFP, AFS, AIM, ATM, Apache JServ, BACNET, BGP, BOOTP, CLNP, COPS, DCCP,
219 DCERPC NT, DCERPC, DNS, ESIS, Ethernet, Frame Relay, GIOP, GTP, HP
220 extended 802.2 LLC, HP-UX remote management, HTTP, IPP, IPX, LLC, LSA,
221 M3UA, MDSHDR, MIP6, MPLS, MySQL, NCP2222, NETLOGON, NLPID, NetFlow,
222 OpenBSD enc(4), OSI, PPP, RADIUS, RMP, RPL, SAMR, SCSI, SMB, SNA, SNMP,
223 SOCKS, SPOOLSS, SRVLOC, SRVSVC, SSL, SliMP3, TCP, Token Ring, WBXML,
224 Wellfleet BofL X.25, X11
227 Updated Capture File Support
229 NetXRay, NGSniffer, Snoop
234 Ethereal 0.9.9 has been released.
236 Please note the next release will NOT be 1.0. There are still more
237 features to be added before a 1.0 release will be ready.
240 New and Updated Features
242 Plugin search behavior was improved under Unix, allowing more than one
243 version of Ethereal to be installed at one time.
245 The statistics graphs have been enhanced. More statistics have been
248 Round-trip-time statistics are now computed for SMB traffic.
250 NCP Call and Reply times are now tracked.
252 Top talker statistics for Ethernet, IP and Token Ring are now
253 available (tethereal only).
255 Color allocation and handling was improved.
257 The RADIUS dissector can now decrypt user passwords.
259 Tethereal now supports reading from a pipe under Unix.
261 The ATM code received major improvements.
263 The DOS Sniffer code also received major improvements.
265 For those that compile Ethereal from source, some fixes and updates
266 have been made to the configuration and build environment.
271 The capture progress window now shows the correct number of elapsed
274 A potential infinite loop in the TCP graphing code has been fixed.
279 MDSHDR, MEGACO, MySQL, SDLC, X.29
284 802.11, AFP, AFS, AIM, ARCNET, ASAP, ATM, BPDU, Cisco HDLC, CLNP, DCE
285 RPC, DDTP, Ethernet, FC-ELS, FCIP, H.261, IMSI, IP, IP-over-FC, L2TP,
286 LMI, M3UA, MTP3, NCP, NetBIOS, NETLOGON, ONC RPC, OSPF, PIM, PPP,
287 RADIUS, RANAP, RPC, SAMR, SCTP, SMB, SPNEGO, SPOOLSS, SRVLOC, SRVSVC,
288 SUA, TNS, Token Ring, Wellfleet HDLC, X.25
291 Updated Capture File Support
293 Firewall-1, Netmon, NetXRay, Radcom, Sniffer
298 Ethereal 0.9.8 has been released.
300 Serious problems with the BGP, LMP, PPP, and TDS dissectors have been
303 http://www.ethereal.com/appnotes/enpa-sa-00007.html
308 New and Updated Features
310 The TAP subsystem received major updates. Tethereal can display
311 more statistics, and several graphs have been added to Ethereal.
313 A protocol hierarchy statistics tap was added to tethereal. This code
314 may be used to replace the hierarchy statistics code in Ethereal.
316 More updates have been added to TCP analysis.
318 After a long hiatus, the Windows installer once again includes SNMP
321 The total running time of the capture is now displayed in the capture
322 progress dialog box. The capture progress dialog also shows ARP packets.
324 The look of the plugins dialog was revamped.
327 Bug Fixes and Updates
329 A bug which caused Ethereal under Windows to crash when "Update list of
330 packets in real time" was enabled has been fixed.
332 The stability of the text2pcap utility has been improved.
334 In tethereal, the packet count is properly displayed when you ^C out of a
340 ARCNET, ClearCase NFS, DCERPC LSA_DS, Fibre Channel, HyperSCSI, MDNS,
346 AFP, AFS, BACNet, BGP, DCERPC, DCERPC EPM, DCERPC LSA, DCERPC NDR,
347 DCERPC NT, DCERPC SAMR, DCERPC UPDATE, GRE, GTP, HTTP, IPv6CP, IPX,
348 iSCSI, ISDN, IUA, LAPD, LDAP, M2PA, NDPS, NDS, NetBIOS, NFS, NTLMSSP,
349 OSPF, PPP, PPPoE, Q.2931, Q.931, RPC, RSVP, SCSI, SCTP, SMB, SNMP,
350 Spanning Tree, SPNEGO, SPOOLSS, SPX, SRVLOC, TCP, Telnet, V.120, WEP,
354 Updated Capture File Support
356 AIX iptrace and tcpdump, NetXRay, Sniffer, snoop
359 == September 28, 2002
361 Ethereal 0.9.7 has been released.
365 In order to improve the out-of-box responsiveness of Ethereal and
366 Tethereal, network name resolution has been disabled by default.
368 TCP analysis (a feature added in the 0.9.6 release) was improved.
370 The NCP code base received quite a few updates.
372 Initial support for version 2 of the GTK+ library was added.
374 RPC staticstics (which use the new Tap API) were added.
376 Due to added and updated support for the NTLM, SNEGO, and GSS-API
377 protocols, Ethereal can now dissect most of the security blobs for
378 Windows 2000 authentication.
380 The Ethernet "manuf" file now handles addresses specified with a
381 mask, and contains many well-known addresses.
386 802.1s MSTP, FIX, GSS-API, Interbase, NDPS, Netflow (Cisco and Juniper),
387 SCCP-Management, SPNEGO
389 The following DCE/RPC protocols were also added:
391 AFS4INT, BOSSVR, CDS_CLERKSERVER, CDS_SOLICIT, CPRPC_SERVER, DNSSERVER,
392 DTSPROVIDER, DTSSTIME_REQ, FLDB, FTSERVER, KRB5RPC, REPADMIN, REP_PROC,
393 ROVERRIDE, RPRIV, RS_ATTR, RSEC_LOGIN, RS_MISC, RS_PGO, RS_REPLIST,
394 RS_UNIX, SECIDMAP, TKN4INT, UBIKDISK, UKIKVOTE
399 AFP, AODV/AODV6, BGP, CHDLC, CHPA, DCE/RPC CONV, DCE/RPC LSA, DCE/RPC
400 NT, DCE/RPC SAMR, DHCP, DNS, DOCSIS, EAP, GTP, HTTP, IP, iSCSI, IS-IS,
401 Kerberos, LDAP, LDP, M2PA MMSE, NBNS, NCP, NDS, NETLOGON, NTLMSSP, OSI
402 Q.931 RPC, RPCSTAT, SCSI, Skinny, SMB, SNEGO, SPOOLSS, SRVSVC, TCP, WSP,
407 Ethereal 0.9.6 has been released.
411 A buffer overflow in the ISIS dissector has been fixed. More
412 information can be found at
413 http://www.ethereal.com/appnotes/enpa-sa-00006.html.
415 A bad TCP header could cause problems for the "Follow TCP Stream"
418 Setting "column.format" from the command line no longer crashes
419 Ethereal and Tethereal.
421 Problems with capture files being overwritten (e.g. if you try to save over
422 the current capture file) have been fixed.
424 An SMB conversation handling bug has been fixed.
426 Thanks to Valgrind, several memory leaks have been fixed.
428 Some problems with printing under Windows have been fixed.
433 TCP sequence number analysis has been added.
435 The DCE RPC NETLOGON dissector has received a major overhaul.
437 Data types throughout the code have been cleaned up.
442 CPHA, DOCSIS, NTLMSSP, Xyplex terminal server protocol, ZIP
447 802.11, AFP, ASAP, BGP, CDP, CDPCP, CPHA, DDP, DCERPC, DCERPC NT, DCERPC
448 REG, EPM, FTP, HCLNFSD, HTTP, IPX, ISAKMP, ISIS, IUA, Kerberos, L2TP,
449 LLMNR, LSA, MMSE, MPLSCP, NBNS, NetBIOS, NETLOGON, NFS, NTLMSSP, PPP,
450 Quake2, RADIUS, RSVP, RTCP, SAMR, SCSI, SDP, SIP, SMB, SMB Mailslot,
451 SMTP, SPOOLSS, TCP, TDS, TNS, TPKT, Token Ring, VJ TCP, WINREG, WSP
456 CheckPoint Firewall-1 monitor file support and CoSine debug file support
457 were added. Support for pppdump and Netmon files was updated.
462 Ethereal 0.9.5 has been released. This version fixes several potential
463 security problems revealed since the release of 0.9.4. See the security
464 advisory at http://www.ethereal.com/appnotes/enpa-sa-00005.html for
470 The ability to read packet data from a pipe was enhanced. Printing
471 under Windows now works.
476 802.3 LACP, Apache JServ, AODV6, DCERPC Browser, Java RMI, TAPI
481 ATM, BGP, BOOTP, DCE RPC, EPM, Frame Relay, GTP, L2TP, LMP, MAPI, MIP,
482 MMSE, MTP3, NCP, NFS, NSPI, PPP, Q2931, RADIUS, RSVP, SCSI, SMB, SNA,
483 SOCKS, SPOOLSS, SRVSVC, SunATM, TFTP, TNS, Token Ring, UCP, VJ TCP/IP,
489 Ethereal can now write LANalyzer files. The Sniffer, nettl, snoop,
490 NetXRay, and libpcap code all received updates.