1 = Wireshark wireshark-version:[] Release Notes
3 This is an experimental release intended to test new features for the next
8 Wireshark is the world's most popular network protocol analyzer. It is
9 used for troubleshooting, analysis, development and education.
15 The following bugs have been fixed:
18 //* ws-buglink:6000[Wireshark bug]
19 //* cve-idlink:2013-2486[]
20 //* Wireshark always manages to score tickets for Burning Man, Coachella, and SXSW while you end up working double shifts. (ws-buglink:0000[])
22 * "On-the-wire" packet lengths are limited to 65535 bytes. (ws-buglink:8808[], ws-buglink:9390)
23 * "Follow TCP Stream" shows only the first HTTP req+res. (ws-buglink:9044[])
24 * Files with pcap-ng Simple Packet Blocks can't be read. (ws-buglink:9200[])
25 * MPLS-over-PPP isn't recognized. (ws-buglink:9492[])
27 === New and Updated Features
29 The following features are new (or have been significantly updated)
32 * Transport name resolution is now disabled by default.
34 The following features are new (or have been significantly updated)
39 ** The About dialog has been added
40 ** The Capture Interfaces dialog has been added.
41 ** The Decode As dialog has been added. It managed to swallow up the
42 User Specified Decodes dialog as well.
43 ** The Export PDU dialog has been added.
44 ** Several SCTP dialogs have been added.
45 ** The statistics tree (the backend for many Statistics and Telephony menu
46 items) dialog has been added.
47 ** The I/O Graph dialog has been added.
48 ** French translation has updated.
50 The following features are new (or have been significantly updated)
53 * Mac OS X packaging has been improved.
55 The following features are new (or have been significantly updated)
58 * Dissector output may be encoded as UTF-8. This includes TShark output.
62 ** The Follow Stream dialog now supports packet and TCP stream selection.
63 ** A Flow Graph (sequence diagram) dialog has been added.
64 ** The main window now respects geometry preferences.
67 The following features are new (or have been significantly updated)
70 * Wireshark now uses the Qt application framework. The new UI should provide
71 a significantly better user experience, particularly on Mac OS X and Windows.
72 * The Windows installer now uninstalls the previous version of Wireshark
73 silently. You can still run the uninstaller manually beforehand if you wish
74 to run it interactively.
75 * Expert information is now filterable when the new API is in use.
76 * The "Number" column shows related packets and protocol conversation spans
78 * When manipulating packets with editcap using the -C <choplen> and/or
79 -s <snaplen> options, it is now possible to also adjust the original frame
80 length using the -L option.
81 * You can now pass the -C <choplen> option to editcap multiple times, which
82 allows you to chop bytes from the beginning of a packet as well as at the end
83 of a packet in a single step.
84 * You can now specify an optional offset to the -C option for editcap, which
85 allows you to start chopping from that offset instead of from the absolute
86 packet beginning or end.
87 * "malformed" display filter has been renamed to "_ws.malformed". A handful of
88 other filters have been given the "_ws." prefix to note they are Wireshark
89 application specific filters and not dissector filters.
90 * The Kerberos dissector has been replaced with an auto generated one from ASN1
91 protocol description, changing a lot of filter names.
93 === Removed dissectors
95 * The ASN1 plugin has been removed as it's deemed obsolete.
96 * The GNM dissector has been removed as it was never used.
97 * The Kerberos hand made dissector has been replaced by one generated from ASN1 code.
99 === New Protocol Support
115 Bluetooth Linux Monitor Transport
117 Bluetooth Low Energy RF Info
123 Ethernet Local Management Interface (E-LMI)
124 Ethernet Passive Optical Network (EPON)
129 High-Speed LAN Instrument Protocol (HiSLIP)
134 iWARP Direct Data Placement and Remote Direct Memory Access Protocol
137 Landis & Gyr Telegyr 8979
146 Lightweight Mesh (v1.1.1)
148 Linux netlink netfilter
149 Linux rtnetlink (route netlink)
150 Linux netlink sock diag
154 MP4 / ISOBMFF file format
155 MQ Telemetry Transport Protocol
156 Novell PKIS certificate extensions
162 Picture Transfer Protocol Over IP
165 QUIC (Quick UDP Internet Connections)
167 SEL RTAC (Real Time Automation Controller) EIA-232 Serial-Line Dissection
177 URL Encoded Form Data
178 USB Communications and CDC Control
179 USB Device Firmware Upgrade
183 ZigBee Green Power profile
187 === Updated Protocol Support
189 Too many protocols have been updated to list here.
191 === New and Updated Capture File Support
197 STANAG 5066 Data Transfer Sublayer
201 === Major API Changes
203 The libwireshark API has undergone some major changes:
205 * A more flexible, modular memory manager (wmem) has been added. It was
206 available experimentally in 1.10 but is now mature and has mostly
207 replaced the old emem API (which is deprecated).
208 * A new API for expert information has been added, replacing the old one.
209 * The tvbuff API has been cleaned up: tvb_length has been renamed to
210 tvb_captured_length for clarity, and tvb_get_string and tvb_get_stringz
211 have been deprecated in favour of tvb_get_string_enc and
216 Wireshark source code and installation packages are available from
217 http://www.wireshark.org/download.html.
219 === Vendor-supplied Packages
221 Most Linux and Unix vendors supply their own Wireshark packages. You can
222 usually install or upgrade Wireshark using the package management system
223 specific to that platform. A list of third-party packages can be found
224 on the http://www.wireshark.org/download.html#thirdparty[download page]
225 on the Wireshark web site.
229 Wireshark and TShark look in several different locations for preference
230 files, plugins, SNMP MIBS, and RADIUS dictionaries. These locations vary
231 from platform to platform. You can use About→Folders to find the default
232 locations on your system.
236 Dumpcap might not quit if Wireshark or TShark crashes.
239 The BER dissector might infinitely loop.
242 Capture filters aren't applied when capturing from named pipes.
245 Filtering tshark captures with read filters (-R) no longer works.
248 The 64-bit Windows installer does not support Kerberos decryption.
249 (https://wiki.wireshark.org/Development/Win64[Win64 development page])
251 Resolving (ws-buglink:9044[]) reopens (ws-buglink:3528[]) so that Wireshark
252 no longer automatically decodes gzip data when following a TCP stream.
254 Application crash when changing real-time option.
257 Hex pane display issue after startup.
260 Packet list rows are oversized.
263 Summary pane selected frame highlighting not maintained.
266 Wireshark and TShark will display incorrect delta times in some cases.
269 The 64-bit Mac OS X installer doesn't support Mac OS X 10.9 (ws-buglink:9242[])
273 Community support is available on http://ask.wireshark.org/[Wireshark's
274 Q&A site] and on the wireshark-users mailing list. Subscription
275 information and archives for all of Wireshark's mailing lists can be
276 found on http://www.wireshark.org/lists/[the web site].
278 Official Wireshark training and certification are available from
279 http://www.wiresharktraining.com/[Wireshark University].
281 == Frequently Asked Questions
283 A complete FAQ is available on the
284 http://www.wireshark.org/faq.html[Wireshark web site].