1 Wireshark 2.5.1 Release Notes
3 This is a semi-experimental release intended to test new features
8 Wireshark is the world’s most popular network protocol analyzer.
9 It is used for troubleshooting, analysis, development and
14 Wireshark 2.6 is the last release that will support the legacy
15 (GTK+) user interface. It will not be supported or available in
18 Many user interface improvements have been made. See the “New
19 and Updated Features” section below for more details.
21 Dumpcap might not quit if Wireshark or TShark crashes. (Bug
24 New and Updated Features
26 The following features are new (or have been significantly
27 updated) since version 2.5.0:
29 • HTTP Referer statistics are now supported.
31 • Wireshark now supports MaxMind DB files. Support for GeoIP
32 and GeoLite Legacy databases has been removed.
34 • The Windows packages are now built using Microsoft Visual
37 • The IP map feature (the “Map” button in the “Endpoints”
38 dialog) has been removed.
40 The following features are new (or have been significantly
41 updated) since version 2.4.0:
43 • Display filter buttons can now be edited, disabled, and
44 removed via a context menu directly from the toolbar
46 • Drag & Drop filter fields to the display filter toolbar or
47 edit to create a button on the fly or apply the filter as a
50 • Application startup time has been reduced.
52 • Some keyboard shortcut mix-ups have been resolved by
53 assigning new shortcuts to Edit → Copy methods.
55 • TShark now supports color using the --color option.
57 • The "matches" display filter operator is now
60 • Display expression (button) preferences have been converted
61 to a UAT. This puts the display expressions in their own
62 file. Wireshark still supports preference files that
63 contain the old preferences, but new preference files will
64 be written without the old fields.
66 • SMI private enterprise numbers are now read from the
67 "enterprises.tsv" configuration file.
69 • The QUIC dissector has been renamed to Google QUIC (quic →
72 • The selected packet number can now be shown in the Status
73 Bar by enabling Preferences → Appearance → Layout → Show
74 selected packet number.
76 • File load time in the Status Bar is now disabled by default
77 and can be enabled in Preferences → Appearance → Layout →
80 • Support for the G.729A codec in the RTP Player is now added
81 via the bcg729 library.
83 • Support for hardware-timestamping of packets has been
86 • Improved NetMon .cap support with comments, event tracing,
87 network filter, network info types and some Message
88 Analyzer exported types.
90 • The personal plugins folder on Linux/Unix is now
91 ~/.local/lib/wireshark/plugins.
93 • TShark can print flow graphs using -z flow…
95 • Capinfos now prints SHA256 hashes in addition to RIPEMD160
96 and SHA1. MD5 output has been removed.
98 • The packet editor has been removed. (This was a GTK+ only
99 experimental feature.)
101 • Support BBC micro:bit Bluetooth profile
103 • The Linux and UNIX installation step for Wireshark will now
104 install headers required to build plugins. A pkg-config
105 file is provided to help with this (see doc/plugins.example
106 for details). Note you must still rebuild all plugins
107 between minor releases (X.Y).
109 • The Windows installers and packages now ship with Qt 5.9.4.
111 • The generic data dissector can now uncompress zlib
116 ActiveMQ Artemis Core Protocol, AMT (Automatic Multicast
117 Tunneling), Bluetooth Mesh, Broadcom tags (Broadcom Ethernet
118 switch management frames), CAN-ETH, CVS password server,
119 Excentis DOCSIS31 XRA header, F5ethtrailer, FP Mux, GRPC
120 (gRPC), IEEE 1905.1a, IEEE 802.11ax (High Efficiency WLAN
121 (HEW)), IEEE 802.15.9 IEEE Recommended Practice for Transport
122 of Key Management Protocol (KMP) Datagrams, IEEE 802.3br Frame
123 Preemption Protocol, ISOBUS, LoRaTap, LoRaWAN, Lustre
124 Filesystem, Lustre Network, Nano / RaiBlocks Cryptocurrency
125 Protocol (UDP), Network Functional Application Platform
126 Interface (NFAPI) Protocol, New Radio Radio Resource Control
127 protocol, NXP 802.15.4 Sniffer Protocol, PFCP (Packet
128 Forwarding Control Protocol), Protobuf (Protocol Buffers), QUIC
129 (IETF), RFC 4108 Using CMS to Protect Firmware Packages,
130 Session Multiplex Protocol, SolarEdge monitoring protocol,
131 Steam In-Home Streaming Discovery Protocol, Tibia, TWAMP and
132 OWAMP, Wi-Fi Device Provisioning Protocol, and Wi-SUN FAN
135 Updated Protocol Support
137 Too many protocols have been updated to list here.
139 New and Updated Capture File Support
141 Microsoft Network Monitor
143 New and Updated Capture Interfaces support
149 Wireshark source code and installation packages are available
150 from https://www.wireshark.org/download.html[2].
152 Vendor-supplied Packages
154 Most Linux and Unix vendors supply their own Wireshark
155 packages. You can usually install or upgrade Wireshark using
156 the package management system specific to that platform. A list
157 of third-party packages can be found on the download page[3] on
158 the Wireshark web site.
162 Wireshark and TShark look in several different locations for
163 preference files, plugins, SNMP MIBS, and RADIUS dictionaries.
164 These locations vary from platform to platform. You can use
165 About→Folders to find the default locations on your system.
169 The BER dissector might infinitely loop. (Bug 1516[4])
171 Capture filters aren’t applied when capturing from named pipes.
174 Filtering tshark captures with read filters (-R) no longer
177 Application crash when changing real-time option. (Bug 4035[7])
179 Wireshark and TShark will display incorrect delta times in some
182 Wireshark should let you work with multiple capture files. (Bug
187 Community support is available on Wireshark’s Q&A site[10] and
188 on the wireshark-users mailing list. Subscription information
189 and archives for all of Wireshark’s mailing lists can be found
192 Official Wireshark training and certification are available from
193 Wireshark University[12].
195 Frequently Asked Questions
197 A complete FAQ is available on the Wireshark web site[13].
199 Last updated 2018-03-13 19:13:27 UTC
203 1. https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1419
204 2. https://www.wireshark.org/download.html
205 3. https://www.wireshark.org/download.html#thirdparty
206 4. https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1516
207 5. https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1814
208 6. https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=2234
209 7. https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=4035
210 8. https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=4985
211 9. https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=10488
212 10. https://ask.wireshark.org/
213 11. https://www.wireshark.org/lists/
214 12. http://www.wiresharktraining.com/
215 13. https://www.wireshark.org/faq.html