1 $Id: NEWS,v 1.122 2003/03/05 03:51:23 gerald Exp $
5 Ethereal 0.9.10 has been released.
7 This release fixes a security hole discovered by Georgi Guninski in
8 the SOCKS dissector. All users of previous versions are encouraged
11 http://www.ethereal.com/appnotes/enpa-sa-00008.html
15 New and Updated Features
20 A missing comma in a string array could cause Ethereal to crash when
21 opening the preferences dialog.
61 Updated Capture File Support
67 Ethereal 0.9.9 has been released.
69 Please note the next release will NOT be 1.0. There are still more
70 features to be added before a 1.0 release will be ready.
73 New and Updated Features
75 Plugin search behavior was improved under Unix, allowing more than one
76 version of Ethereal to be installed at one time.
78 The statistics graphs have been enhanced. More statistics have been
81 Round-trip-time statistics are now computed for SMB traffic.
83 NCP Call and Reply times are now tracked.
85 Top talker statistics for Ethernet, IP and Token Ring are now
86 available (tethereal only).
88 Color allocation and handling was improved.
90 The RADIUS dissector can now decrypt user passwords.
92 Tethereal now supports reading from a pipe under Unix.
94 The ATM code received major improvements.
96 The DOS Sniffer code also received major improvements.
98 For those that compile Ethereal from source, some fixes and updates
99 have been made to the configuration and build environment.
104 The capture progress window now shows the correct number of elapsed
107 A potential infinite loop in the TCP graphing code has been fixed.
112 MDSHDR, MEGACO, MySQL, SDLC, X.29
117 802.11, AFP, AFS, AIM, ARCNET, ASAP, ATM, BPDU, Cisco HDLC, CLNP, DCE
118 RPC, DDTP, Ethernet, FC-ELS, FCIP, H.261, IMSI, IP, IP-over-FC, L2TP,
119 LMI, M3UA, MTP3, NCP, NetBIOS, NETLOGON, ONC RPC, OSPF, PIM, PPP,
120 RADIUS, RANAP, RPC, SAMR, SCTP, SMB, SPNEGO, SPOOLSS, SRVLOC, SRVSVC,
121 SUA, TNS, Token Ring, Wellfleet HDLC, X.25
124 Updated Capture File Support
126 Firewall-1, Netmon, NetXRay, Radcom, Sniffer
131 Ethereal 0.9.8 has been released.
133 Serious problems with the BGP, LMP, PPP, and TDS dissectors have been
136 http://www.ethereal.com/appnotes/enpa-sa-00007.html
141 New and Updated Features
143 The TAP subsystem received major updates. Tethereal can display
144 more statistics, and several graphs have been added to Ethereal.
146 A protocol hierarchy statistics tap was added to tethereal. This code
147 may be used to replace the hierarchy statistics code in Ethereal.
149 More updates have been added to TCP analysis.
151 After a long hiatus, the Windows installer once again includes SNMP
154 The total running time of the capture is now displayed in the capture
155 progress dialog box. The capture progress dialog also shows ARP packets.
157 The look of the plugins dialog was revamped.
160 Bug Fixes and Updates
162 A bug which caused Ethereal under Windows to crash when "Update list of
163 packets in real time" was enabled has been fixed.
165 The stability of the text2pcap utility has been improved.
167 In tethereal, the packet count is properly displayed when you ^C out of a
173 ARCNET, ClearCase NFS, DCERPC LSA_DS, Fibre Channel, HyperSCSI, MDNS,
179 AFP, AFS, BACNet, BGP, DCERPC, DCERPC EPM, DCERPC LSA, DCERPC NDR,
180 DCERPC NT, DCERPC SAMR, DCERPC UPDATE, GRE, GTP, HTTP, IPv6CP, IPX,
181 iSCSI, ISDN, IUA, LAPD, LDAP, M2PA, NDPS, NDS, NetBIOS, NFS, NTLMSSP,
182 OSPF, PPP, PPPoE, Q.2931, Q.931, RPC, RSVP, SCSI, SCTP, SMB, SNMP,
183 Spanning Tree, SPNEGO, SPOOLSS, SPX, SRVLOC, TCP, Telnet, V.120, WEP,
187 Updated Capture File Support
189 AIX iptrace and tcpdump, NetXRay, Sniffer, snoop
192 == September 28, 2002
194 Ethereal 0.9.7 has been released.
198 In order to improve the out-of-box responsiveness of Ethereal and
199 Tethereal, network name resolution has been disabled by default.
201 TCP analysis (a feature added in the 0.9.6 release) was improved.
203 The NCP code base received quite a few updates.
205 Initial support for version 2 of the GTK+ library was added.
207 RPC staticstics (which use the new Tap API) were added.
209 Due to added and updated support for the NTLM, SNEGO, and GSS-API
210 protocols, Ethereal can now dissect most of the security blobs for
211 Windows 2000 authentication.
213 The Ethernet "manuf" file now handles addresses specified with a
214 mask, and contains many well-known addresses.
219 802.1s MSTP, FIX, GSS-API, Interbase, NDPS, Netflow (Cisco and Juniper),
220 SCCP-Management, SPNEGO
222 The following DCE/RPC protocols were also added:
224 AFS4INT, BOSSVR, CDS_CLERKSERVER, CDS_SOLICIT, CPRPC_SERVER, DNSSERVER,
225 DTSPROVIDER, DTSSTIME_REQ, FLDB, FTSERVER, KRB5RPC, REPADMIN, REP_PROC,
226 ROVERRIDE, RPRIV, RS_ATTR, RSEC_LOGIN, RS_MISC, RS_PGO, RS_REPLIST,
227 RS_UNIX, SECIDMAP, TKN4INT, UBIKDISK, UKIKVOTE
232 AFP, AODV/AODV6, BGP, CHDLC, CHPA, DCE/RPC CONV, DCE/RPC LSA, DCE/RPC
233 NT, DCE/RPC SAMR, DHCP, DNS, DOCSIS, EAP, GTP, HTTP, IP, iSCSI, IS-IS,
234 Kerberos, LDAP, LDP, M2PA MMSE, NBNS, NCP, NDS, NETLOGON, NTLMSSP, OSI
235 Q.931 RPC, RPCSTAT, SCSI, Skinny, SMB, SNEGO, SPOOLSS, SRVSVC, TCP, WSP,
240 Ethereal 0.9.6 has been released.
244 A buffer overflow in the ISIS dissector has been fixed. More
245 information can be found at
246 http://www.ethereal.com/appnotes/enpa-sa-00006.html.
248 A bad TCP header could cause problems for the "Follow TCP Stream"
251 Setting "column.format" from the command line no longer crashes
252 Ethereal and Tethereal.
254 Problems with capture files being overwritten (e.g. if you try to save over
255 the current capture file) have been fixed.
257 An SMB conversation handling bug has been fixed.
259 Thanks to Valgrind, several memory leaks have been fixed.
261 Some problems with printing under Windows have been fixed.
266 TCP sequence number analysis has been added.
268 The DCE RPC NETLOGON dissector has received a major overhaul.
270 Data types throughout the code have been cleaned up.
275 CPHA, DOCSIS, NTLMSSP, Xyplex terminal server protocol, ZIP
280 802.11, AFP, ASAP, BGP, CDP, CDPCP, CPHA, DDP, DCERPC, DCERPC NT, DCERPC
281 REG, EPM, FTP, HCLNFSD, HTTP, IPX, ISAKMP, ISIS, IUA, Kerberos, L2TP,
282 LLMNR, LSA, MMSE, MPLSCP, NBNS, NetBIOS, NETLOGON, NFS, NTLMSSP, PPP,
283 Quake2, RADIUS, RSVP, RTCP, SAMR, SCSI, SDP, SIP, SMB, SMB Mailslot,
284 SMTP, SPOOLSS, TCP, TDS, TNS, TPKT, Token Ring, VJ TCP, WINREG, WSP
289 CheckPoint Firewall-1 monitor file support and CoSine debug file support
290 were added. Support for pppdump and Netmon files was updated.
295 Ethereal 0.9.5 has been released. This version fixes several potential
296 security problems revealed since the release of 0.9.4. See the security
297 advisory at http://www.ethereal.com/appnotes/enpa-sa-00005.html for
303 The ability to read packet data from a pipe was enhanced. Printing
304 under Windows now works.
309 802.3 LACP, Apache JServ, AODV6, DCERPC Browser, Java RMI, TAPI
314 ATM, BGP, BOOTP, DCE RPC, EPM, Frame Relay, GTP, L2TP, LMP, MAPI, MIP,
315 MMSE, MTP3, NCP, NFS, NSPI, PPP, Q2931, RADIUS, RSVP, SCSI, SMB, SNA,
316 SOCKS, SPOOLSS, SRVSVC, SunATM, TFTP, TNS, Token Ring, UCP, VJ TCP/IP,
322 Ethereal can now write LANalyzer files. The Sniffer, nettl, snoop,
323 NetXRay, and libpcap code all received updates.