1 Wireshark 1.99.1 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 + Hovering over a byte-view field causes the field to be
26 highlighted and a description to be shown in the status bar.
27 + An Italian translation has been added.
29 The following features are new (or have been significantly updated)
31 * The I/O Graph in the Gtk+ UI now supports an unlimited number of
32 data points (up from 100k).
33 * TShark now resets its state when changing files in ring-buffer
35 * Expert Info severities can now be configured.
36 * Wireshark now supports external capture interfaces. External
37 capture interfaces can be anything from a tcpdump-over-ssh pipe to
38 a program that captures from proprietary or non-standard hardware.
39 This functionality is not available in the Qt UI yet.
41 + The Qt UI is now the default (program name is wireshark).
42 + A Polish translation has been added.
43 + The Interfaces dialog has been added.
44 + The interface list is now updated when interfaces appear or
46 + The Conversations and Endpoints dialogs have been added.
47 + A Japanese translation has been added.
48 + It is now possible to manage remote capture interfaces.
49 + Windows: taskbar progress support has been added.
50 + Most toolbar actions are in place and work.
51 + More command line options are now supported
55 (LISP) TCP Control Message, AllJoyn Reliable Datagram Protocol, Android
56 ADB, Android Logcat text, ceph, corosync/totemnet, corosync/totemsrp,
57 Couchbase, CP "Cooper" 2179, Dynamic Source Routing (RFC 4728), Generic
58 Network Virtualization Encapsulation (Geneve), GVSP, IPMI Trace, iSER,
59 KNXnetIP, MCPE (Minecraft Pocket Edition), OptoMMP, RakNet games
60 library, S7 Communication, Stateless Transport Tunneling and Elasticsearch,
61 Shared Memory Communications - RDMA
63 Updated Protocol Support
65 Too many protocols have been updated to list here.
67 New and Updated Capture File Support
69 Android Logcat text files, Colasoft Capsa files, and Wireshark now
70 supports nanosecond timestamp resolution in PCAP-NG files.
74 The libwireshark API has undergone some major changes:
75 * Many of the ep_ and se_ memory allocation routines have been
77 * The (long-since-broken) Python bindings support has been removed.
78 If you want to write dissectors in something other than C, use Lua.
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83 Wireshark source code and installation packages are available from
84 [1]https://www.wireshark.org/download.html.
86 Vendor-supplied Packages
88 Most Linux and Unix vendors supply their own Wireshark packages. You
89 can usually install or upgrade Wireshark using the package management
90 system specific to that platform. A list of third-party packages can be
91 found on the [2]download page on the Wireshark web site.
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96 Wireshark and TShark look in several different locations for preference
97 files, plugins, SNMP MIBS, and RADIUS dictionaries. These locations
98 vary from platform to platform. You can use About->Folders to find the
99 default locations on your system.
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104 Dumpcap might not quit if Wireshark or TShark crashes. ([3]Bug 1419)
106 The BER dissector might infinitely loop. ([4]Bug 1516)
108 Capture filters aren't applied when capturing from named pipes. ([5]Bug
111 Filtering tshark captures with read filters (-R) no longer works.
114 The 64-bit Windows installer does not support Kerberos decryption.
115 ([7]Win64 development page)
117 Resolving ([8]Bug 9044) reopens ([9]Bug 3528) so that Wireshark no
118 longer automatically decodes gzip data when following a TCP stream.
120 Application crash when changing real-time option. ([10]Bug 4035)
122 Hex pane display issue after startup. ([11]Bug 4056)
124 Packet list rows are oversized. ([12]Bug 4357)
126 Wireshark and TShark will display incorrect delta times in some cases.
129 The 64-bit version of Wireshark will leak memory on Windows when the
130 display depth is set to 16 bits ([14]Bug 9914)
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135 Community support is available on [15]Wireshark's Q&A site and on the
136 wireshark-users mailing list. Subscription information and archives for
137 all of Wireshark's mailing lists can be found on [16]the web site.
139 Official Wireshark training and certification are available from
140 [17]Wireshark University.
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143 Frequently Asked Questions
145 A complete FAQ is available on the [18]Wireshark web site.
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148 Last updated 2014-10-28 15:13:30 UTC
152 1. https://www.wireshark.org/download.html
153 2. https://www.wireshark.org/download.html#thirdparty
154 3. https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1419
155 4. https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1516
156 5. https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1814
157 6. https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=2234
158 7. http://wiki.wireshark.org/Development/Win64
159 8. https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=9044
160 9. https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3528
161 10. https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=4035
162 11. https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=4056
163 12. https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=4357
164 13. https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=4985
165 14. https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=9914
166 15. http://ask.wireshark.org/
167 16. https://www.wireshark.org/lists/
168 17. http://www.wiresharktraining.com/
169 18. https://www.wireshark.org/faq.html