1 Wireshark 1.99.2 Release Notes
3 This is an experimental release intended to test new features for
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9 Wireshark is the world's most popular network protocol analyzer. It is
10 used for troubleshooting, analysis, development and education.
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15 New and Updated Features
17 The following features are new (or have been significantly updated)
20 + You can now show and hide toolbars and major widgets using the
22 + You can now set the time display format and precision.
23 + The byte view widget is much faster, particularly when
24 selecting large reassembled packets.
25 + The byte view is explorable. Hovering over it highlights the
26 corresponding field and shows a description in the status bar.
27 + An Italian translation has been added.
28 + The Summary dialog has been updated and renamed to Capture
30 + The VoIP Calls and SIP Flows dialogs have been added.
31 + Support for HiDPI / Retina displays has been improved in the
34 The following features are new (or have been significantly updated)
36 * The I/O Graph in the Gtk+ UI now supports an unlimited number of
37 data points (up from 100k).
38 * TShark now resets its state when changing files in ring-buffer
40 * Expert Info severities can now be configured.
41 * Wireshark now supports external capture interfaces. External
42 capture interfaces can be anything from a tcpdump-over-ssh pipe to
43 a program that captures from proprietary or non-standard hardware.
44 This functionality is not available in the Qt UI yet.
46 + The Qt UI is now the default (program name is wireshark).
47 + A Polish translation has been added.
48 + The Interfaces dialog has been added.
49 + The interface list is now updated when interfaces appear or
51 + The Conversations and Endpoints dialogs have been added.
52 + A Japanese translation has been added.
53 + It is now possible to manage remote capture interfaces.
54 + Windows: taskbar progress support has been added.
55 + Most toolbar actions are in place and work.
56 + More command line options are now supported
60 (LISP) TCP Control Message, AllJoyn Reliable Datagram Protocol, Android
61 ADB, Android Logcat text, ceph, corosync/totemnet, corosync/totemsrp,
62 Couchbase, CP "Cooper" 2179, Dynamic Source Routing (RFC 4728),
63 Elasticsearch, Generic Network Virtualization Encapsulation (Geneve),
64 GVSP, HiQnet, IPMI Trace, iSER, KNXnetIP, MCPE (Minecraft Pocket
65 Edition), OptoMMP, RakNet games library, Riemann, S7 Communication,
66 Shared Memory Communications - RDMA, and Stateless Transport Tunneling
68 Updated Protocol Support
70 Too many protocols have been updated to list here.
72 New and Updated Capture File Support
74 Android Logcat text files, Colasoft Capsa files, and Wireshark now
75 supports nanosecond timestamp resolution in PCAP-NG files.
79 The libwireshark API has undergone some major changes:
80 * Many of the ep_ and se_ memory allocation routines have been
82 * The (long-since-broken) Python bindings support has been removed.
83 If you want to write dissectors in something other than C, use Lua.
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88 Wireshark source code and installation packages are available from
89 [1]https://www.wireshark.org/download.html.
91 Vendor-supplied Packages
93 Most Linux and Unix vendors supply their own Wireshark packages. You
94 can usually install or upgrade Wireshark using the package management
95 system specific to that platform. A list of third-party packages can be
96 found on the [2]download page on the Wireshark web site.
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101 Wireshark and TShark look in several different locations for preference
102 files, plugins, SNMP MIBS, and RADIUS dictionaries. These locations
103 vary from platform to platform. You can use About->Folders to find the
104 default locations on your system.
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109 Dumpcap might not quit if Wireshark or TShark crashes. ([3]Bug 1419)
111 The BER dissector might infinitely loop. ([4]Bug 1516)
113 Capture filters aren't applied when capturing from named pipes. ([5]Bug
116 Filtering tshark captures with read filters (-R) no longer works.
119 Resolving ([7]Bug 9044) reopens ([8]Bug 3528) so that Wireshark no
120 longer automatically decodes gzip data when following a TCP stream.
122 Application crash when changing real-time option. ([9]Bug 4035)
124 Hex pane display issue after startup. ([10]Bug 4056)
126 Packet list rows are oversized. ([11]Bug 4357)
128 Wireshark and TShark will display incorrect delta times in some cases.
131 The 64-bit version of Wireshark will leak memory on Windows when the
132 display depth is set to 16 bits ([13]Bug 9914)
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137 Community support is available on [14]Wireshark's Q&A site and on the
138 wireshark-users mailing list. Subscription information and archives for
139 all of Wireshark's mailing lists can be found on [15]the web site.
141 Official Wireshark training and certification are available from
142 [16]Wireshark University.
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145 Frequently Asked Questions
147 A complete FAQ is available on the [17]Wireshark web site.
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150 Last updated 2014-12-10 19:56:16 UTC
154 1. https://www.wireshark.org/download.html
155 2. https://www.wireshark.org/download.html#thirdparty
156 3. https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1419
157 4. https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1516
158 5. https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1814
159 6. https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=2234
160 7. https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=9044
161 8. https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3528
162 9. https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=4035
163 10. https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=4056
164 11. https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=4357
165 12. https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=4985
166 13. https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=9914
167 14. http://ask.wireshark.org/
168 15. https://www.wireshark.org/lists/
169 16. http://www.wiresharktraining.com/
170 17. https://www.wireshark.org/faq.html