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)
34 ** The About dialog has been added
35 ** The Capture Interfaces dialog has been added.
36 ** The Decode As dialog has been added. It managed to swallow up the
37 User Specified Decodes dialog as well.
38 ** The Export PDU dialog has been added.
39 ** Several SCTP dialogs have been added.
40 ** The statistics tree (the backend for many Statistics and Telephony menu
41 items) dialog has been added.
42 ** The I/O Graph dialog has been added.
43 ** French translation has updated.
45 The following features are new (or have been significantly updated)
48 * Mac OS X packaging has been improved.
50 The following features are new (or have been significantly updated)
53 * Dissector output may be encoded as UTF-8. This includes TShark output.
57 ** The Follow Stream dialog now supports packet and TCP stream selection.
58 ** A Flow Graph (sequence diagram) dialog has been added.
59 ** The main window now respects geometry preferences.
62 The following features are new (or have been significantly updated)
65 * Wireshark now uses the Qt application framework. The new UI should provide
66 a significantly better user experience, particularly on Mac OS X and Windows.
67 * The Windows installer now uninstalls the previous version of Wireshark
68 silently. You can still run the uninstaller manually beforehand if you wish
69 to run it interactively.
70 * Expert information is now filterable when the new API is in use.
71 * The "Number" column shows related packets and protocol conversation spans
73 * When manipulating packets with editcap using the -C <choplen> and/or
74 -s <snaplen> options, it is now possible to also adjust the original frame
75 length using the -L option.
76 * You can now pass the -C <choplen> option to editcap multiple times, which
77 allows you to chop bytes from the beginning of a packet as well as at the end
78 of a packet in a single step.
79 * You can now specify an optional offset to the -C option for editcap, which
80 allows you to start chopping from that offset instead of from the absolute
81 packet beginning or end.
82 * "malformed" display filter has been renamed to "_ws.malformed". A handful of
83 other filters have been given the "_ws." prefix to note they are Wireshark
84 application specific filters and not dissector filters.
85 * The Kerberos dissector has been replaced with an auto generated one from ASN1
86 protocol description, changing a lot of filter names.
88 === Removed dissectors
90 * The ASN1 plugin has been removed as it's deemed obsolete.
91 * The GNM dissector has been removed as it was never used.
92 * The Kerberos hand made dissector has been replaced by one generated from ASN1 code.
94 === New Protocol Support
110 Bluetooth Linux Monitor Transport
112 Bluetooth Low Energy RF Info
118 Ethernet Local Management Interface (E-LMI)
127 iWARP Direct Data Placement and Remote Direct Memory Access Protocol
130 Landis & Gyr Telegyr 8979
139 Lightweight Mesh (v1.1.1)
141 Linux netlink netfilter
142 Linux rtnetlink (route netlink)
143 Linux netlink sock diag
147 MP4 / ISOBMFF file format
148 MQ Telemetry Transport Protocol
149 Novell PKIS certificate extensions
155 Picture Transfer Protocol Over IP
158 QUIC (Quick UDP Internet Connections)
160 SEL RTAC (Real Time Automation Controller) EIA-232 Serial-Line Dissection
170 URL Encoded Form Data
171 USB Communications and CDC Control
172 USB Device Firmware Upgrade
176 ZigBee Green Power profile
180 === Updated Protocol Support
182 Too many protocols have been updated to list here.
184 === New and Updated Capture File Support
190 STANAG 5066 Data Transfer Sublayer
194 === Major API Changes
196 The libwireshark API has undergone some major changes:
198 * A more flexible, modular memory manager (wmem) has been added. It was
199 available experimentally in 1.10 but is now mature and has mostly
200 replaced the old emem API (which is deprecated).
201 * A new API for expert information has been added, replacing the old one.
202 * The tvbuff API has been cleaned up: tvb_length has been renamed to
203 tvb_captured_length for clarity, and tvb_get_string and tvb_get_stringz
204 have been deprecated in favour of tvb_get_string_enc and
209 Wireshark source code and installation packages are available from
210 http://www.wireshark.org/download.html.
212 === Vendor-supplied Packages
214 Most Linux and Unix vendors supply their own Wireshark packages. You can
215 usually install or upgrade Wireshark using the package management system
216 specific to that platform. A list of third-party packages can be found
217 on the http://www.wireshark.org/download.html#thirdparty[download page]
218 on the Wireshark web site.
222 Wireshark and TShark look in several different locations for preference
223 files, plugins, SNMP MIBS, and RADIUS dictionaries. These locations vary
224 from platform to platform. You can use About→Folders to find the default
225 locations on your system.
229 Dumpcap might not quit if Wireshark or TShark crashes.
232 The BER dissector might infinitely loop.
235 Capture filters aren't applied when capturing from named pipes.
238 Filtering tshark captures with read filters (-R) no longer works.
241 The 64-bit Windows installer does not support Kerberos decryption.
242 (https://wiki.wireshark.org/Development/Win64[Win64 development page])
244 Resolving (ws-buglink:9044[]) reopens (ws-buglink:3528[]) so that Wireshark
245 no longer automatically decodes gzip data when following a TCP stream.
247 Application crash when changing real-time option.
250 Hex pane display issue after startup.
253 Packet list rows are oversized.
256 Summary pane selected frame highlighting not maintained.
259 Wireshark and TShark will display incorrect delta times in some cases.
262 The 64-bit Mac OS X installer doesn't support Mac OS X 10.9 (ws-buglink:9242[])
266 Community support is available on http://ask.wireshark.org/[Wireshark's
267 Q&A site] and on the wireshark-users mailing list. Subscription
268 information and archives for all of Wireshark's mailing lists can be
269 found on http://www.wireshark.org/lists/[the web site].
271 Official Wireshark training and certification are available from
272 http://www.wiresharktraining.com/[Wireshark University].
274 == Frequently Asked Questions
276 A complete FAQ is available on the
277 http://www.wireshark.org/faq.html[Wireshark web site].