1 Wireshark 2.9.1 Release Notes
3 This is an experimental release intended to test new features for
8 Wireshark is the world’s most popular network protocol analyzer. It is
9 used for troubleshooting, analysis, development and education.
13 Many user interface improvements have been made. See the “New and
14 Updated Features” section below for more details.
18 The following bugs have been fixed:
20 Dumpcap might not quit if Wireshark or TShark crashes. (Bug 1419[1])
22 New and Updated Features
24 The following features are new (or have been significantly updated)
27 • Wireshark now supports the Swedish and Ukrainian language.
29 • Initial support for using PKCS #11 tokens for RSA decryption in
30 TLS. A configuration user interface is still in development.
32 The following features are new (or have been significantly updated)
35 • The Windows .exe installers now ship with Npcap instead of
38 • Conversation timestamps are supported for UDP/UDP-Lite protocols
40 • TShark now supports the -G elastic-mapping option which generates
41 an ElasticSearch mapping file.
43 • The “Capture Information” dialog has been added back (Bug
46 • The Ethernet and IEEE 802.11 dissectors no longer validate the
47 frame check sequence (checksum) by default.
49 • The TCP dissector gained a new “Reassemble out-of-order segments”
50 preference to fix dissection and decryption issues in case TCP
51 segments are received out-of-order. See the User’s Guide, chapter
52 TCP Reassembly for details.
54 • Decryption support for the new WireGuard dissector (Bug 15011[3],
55 requires Libgcrypt 1.8).
57 • The BOOTP dissector has been renamed to DHCP. With the exception
58 of “bootp.dhcp”, the old “bootp.*” display filter fields are
59 still supported but may be removed in a future release.
61 • The SSL dissector has been renamed to TLS. As with BOOTP the old
62 “ssl.*” display filter fields are supported but may be removed in
65 • Coloring rules, IO graphs, Filter Buttons and protocol preference
66 tables can now be copied from other profiles using a button in
67 the corresponding configuration dialogs.
69 • APT-X has been renamed to aptX.
71 • When importing from hex dump, it’s now possible to add an
72 ExportPDU header with a payload name. This calls the specific
73 dissector directly without lower protocols.
75 • The sshdump and ciscodump extcap interfaces can now use a proxy
76 for the SSH connection.
78 • Dumpcap now supports the -a packets:NUM and -b packets:NUM
81 • Wireshark now includes a “No Reassembly” configuration profile.
83 • Wireshark now supports the Russian language.
85 • The build system now supports AppImage packages.
87 • The Windows installers now ship with Qt 5.12.0. Previously they
88 shipped with Qt 5.9.7.
90 • Support for decrypting TLS streams in pcapng files that embedded
91 a Decryption Secrets Block (DSB) containing a TLS Key Log (Bug
94 • The editcap utility gained a new --inject-secrets option to
95 inject an existing TLS Key Log file into a pcapng file.
97 Removed Features and Support
99 • The legacy (GTK+) user interface has been removed and is no
102 • Wireshark requires Qt 5.2 or later. Qt 4 is no longer supported.
104 • Wireshark requires GLib 2.32 or later.
106 • Wireshark requires GnuTLS 3.2 or later as optional dependency.
108 • Building Wireshark requires Python 3.4 or newer, Python 2.7 is
111 • Building Wireshark requires CMake. Autotools is no longer
114 • TShark’s -z compare option was removed.
116 New File Format Decoding Support
122 Apple Wireless Direct Link (AWDL), Basic Transport Protocol (BTP),
123 BLIP Couchbase Mobile (BLIP), CDMA 2000, Circuit Emulation Service
124 over Ethernet (CESoETH), Cisco Meraki Discovery Protocol (MDP),
125 Distributed Ruby (DRb), DXL, E1AP (5G), EVS (3GPP TS 26.445 A.2 EVS
126 RTP), Exablaze trailers, General Circuit Services Notification
127 Application Protocol (GCSNA), GeoNetworking (GeoNw), GLOW Lawo
128 Emberplus Data format, Great Britain Companion Specification (GBCS)
129 used in the Smart Metering Equipment Technical Specifications
130 (SMETS), GSM-R (User-to-User Information Element usage),
131 HI3CCLinkData, Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) application level,
132 ISO 13400-2 Diagnostic communication over Internet Protocol (DoIP),
133 ITU-t X.696 Octet Encoding Rules (OER), Local Number Portability
134 Database Query Protocol (ANSI), MsgPack, NGAP (5G), NR (5G) PDCP,
135 Osmocom Generic Subscriber Update Protocol (GSUP), PCOM protocol,
136 PKCS#10 (RFC2986 Certification Request Syntax), PROXY (v2), S101 Lawo
137 Emberplus transport frame, Secure Reliable Transport Protocol (SRT),
138 Spirent Test Center Signature decoding for Ethernet and FibreChannel
139 (STCSIG, disabled by default), Sybase-specific portions of TDS,
140 systemd Journal Export, TeamSpeak 3 DNS, TPM 2.0, Ubiquiti Discovery
141 Protocol (UBDP), WireGuard, XnAP (5G), and Z39.50 Information
144 Updated Protocol Support
146 Too many protocols have been updated to list here.
148 New and Updated Capture File Support
150 RFC 7468 (PEM), Ruby marshal object files, systemd Journal Export,
151 and Unigraf DPA-400 DisplayPort AUX channel monitor
153 New and Updated Capture Interfaces support
155 dpauxmon, an external capture interface (extcap) that captures
156 DisplayPort AUX channel data from linux kernel drivers.
158 sdjournal, an extcap that captures systemd journal entries.
162 • Lua: the various logging functions (debug, info, message, warn
163 and critical) have been removed. Use the print function instead
164 for debugging purposes.
166 • Lua: on Windows, file-related functions such as dofile now assume
167 UTF-8 paths instead of the local code page. This is consistent
168 with Linux and macOS and improves compatibility on non-English
169 systems. (Bug 15118[5])
173 Wireshark source code and installation packages are available from
174 https://www.wireshark.org/download.html[6].
176 Vendor-supplied Packages
178 Most Linux and Unix vendors supply their own Wireshark packages. You
179 can usually install or upgrade Wireshark using the package management
180 system specific to that platform. A list of third-party packages can
181 be found on the download page[7] on the Wireshark web site.
185 Wireshark and TShark look in several different locations for
186 preference files, plugins, SNMP MIBS, and RADIUS dictionaries. These
187 locations vary from platform to platform. You can use About→Folders to
188 find the default locations on your system.
192 The User’s Guide, manual pages and various other documentation can be
193 found at https://www.wireshark.org/docs/[8]
195 Community support is available on Wireshark’s Q&A site[9] and on the
196 wireshark-users mailing list. Subscription information and archives
197 for all of Wireshark’s mailing lists can be found on the web site[10].
199 Bugs and feature requests can be reported on the bug tracker[11].
201 Official Wireshark training and certification are available from
202 Wireshark University[12].
204 Frequently Asked Questions
206 A complete FAQ is available on the Wireshark web site[13].
208 Last updated 2019-01-06 08:14:13 UTC