= Wireshark wireshark-version:[] Release Notes // $Id$ == What is Wireshark? Wireshark is the world's most popular network protocol analyzer. It is used for troubleshooting, analysis, development and education. == What's New === Bug Fixes The following bugs have been fixed: //* ws-buglink:5000[] //* ws-buglink:6000[Wireshark bug] //* cve-idlink:2013-2486[] //* Wireshark always manages to score tickets for Burning Man, Coachella, and SXSW while you end up working double shifts. (ws-buglink:0000[]) * "On-the-wire" packet lengths are limited to 65535 bytes. (ws-buglink:8808[], ws-buglink:9390) * "Follow TCP Stream" shows only the first HTTP req+res. (ws-buglink:9044[]) * Files with pcap-ng Simple Packet Blocks can't be read. (ws-buglink:9200[]) * MPLS-over-PPP isn't recognized. (ws-buglink:9492[]) === New and Updated Features The following features are new (or have been significantly updated) since version 1.11.2: * Qt port: ** The About dialog has been added ** The Capture Interfaces dialog has been added. ** The Decode As dialog has been added. ** Several SCTP dialogs have been added. ** The statistics tree (the backend for many Statistics and Telephony menu items) dialog has been added. The following features are new (or have been significantly updated) since version 1.11.1: * Mac OS X packaging has been improved. The following features are new (or have been significantly updated) since version 1.11.0: * Dissector output may be encoded as UTF-8. This includes TShark output. * Qt port: ** The Follow Stream dialog now supports packet and TCP stream selection. ** A Flow Graph (sequence diagram) dialog has been added. ** The main window now respects geometry preferences. The following features are new (or have been significantly updated) since version 1.10: * Wireshark now uses the Qt application framework. The new UI should provide a significantly better user experience, particularly on Mac OS X and Windows. * The Windows installer now uninstalls the previous version of Wireshark silently. You can still run the uninstaller manually beforehand if you wish to run it interactively. * Expert information is now filterable when the new API is in use. * The "Number" column shows related packets and protocol conversation spans (Qt only). * When manipulating packets with editcap using the -C and/or -s options, it is now possible to also adjust the original frame length using the -L option. * You can now pass the -C option to editcap multiple times, which allows you to chop bytes from the beginning of a packet as well as at the end of a packet in a single step. * You can now specify an optional offset to the -C option for editcap, which allows you to start chopping from that offset instead of from the absolute packet beginning or end. * "malformed" display filter has been renamed to "_ws.malformed". A handful of other filters have been given the "_ws." prefix to note they are Wireshark application specific filters and not dissector filters. === Removed dissectors * The ASN1 plugin has been removed as it's deemed obsolete. * The GNM dissector has been removed as it was never used. === New Protocol Support --sort-and-group-- 802.1AE Secure tag ACR122 ADB CS Aruba Instant AP ASTERIX ATN Bencode Bluetooth 3DS Bluetooth HSP Bluetooth Linux Monitor Transport Bluetooth Low Energy Bluetooth Low Energy RF Info CARP CFDP Cisco MetaData DeviceNet ELF file format EXPORTED PDU FINGER HDMI HTTP2 IDRP ILP Kafka Kyoto Tycoon Lightweight Mesh (v1.1.1) Linux netlink Linux netlink netfilter Linux rtnetlink (route netlink) Linux netlink sock diag Logcat MBIM MiNT MP4 / ISOBMFF file format Novell PKIS certificate extensions NXP PN532 HCI OpenFlow Open Sound Control Pathport Picture Transfer Protocol Over IP QUIC (Quick UDP Internet Connections) SAE J1939 SEL RTAC (Real Time Automation Controller) EIA-232 Serial-Line Dissection Sippy RTPproxy SMB-Direct STANAG 4607 STANAG 5066 DTS STANAG 5066 SIS Tinkerforge Ubertooth UDT URL Encoded Form Data USB Communications and CDC Control USB Device Firmware Upgrade VP8 WHOIS Wi-Fi Display --sort-and-group-- === Updated Protocol Support Too many protocols have been updated to list here. === New and Updated Capture File Support --sort-and-group-- Netscaler 2.6 STANAG 4607 STANAG 5066 Data Transfer Sublayer --sort-and-group-- === Major API Changes The libwireshark API has undergone some major changes: * A more flexible, modular memory manager (wmem) has been added. It was available experimentally in 1.10 but is now mature and has mostly replaced the old emem API (which is deprecated). * A new API for expert information has been added, replacing the old one. * The tvbuff API has been cleaned up: tvb_length has been renamed to tvb_captured_length for clarity, and tvb_get_string and tvb_get_stringz have been deprecated in favour of tvb_get_string_enc and tvb_get_stringz_enc. == Getting Wireshark Wireshark source code and installation packages are available from http://www.wireshark.org/download.html. === Vendor-supplied Packages Most Linux and Unix vendors supply their own Wireshark packages. You can usually install or upgrade Wireshark using the package management system specific to that platform. A list of third-party packages can be found on the http://www.wireshark.org/download.html#thirdparty[download page] on the Wireshark web site. == File Locations Wireshark and TShark look in several different locations for preference files, plugins, SNMP MIBS, and RADIUS dictionaries. These locations vary from platform to platform. You can use About→Folders to find the default locations on your system. == Known Problems Dumpcap might not quit if Wireshark or TShark crashes. (ws-buglink:1419[]) The BER dissector might infinitely loop. (ws-buglink:1516[]) Capture filters aren't applied when capturing from named pipes. (ws-buglink:1814) Filtering tshark captures with read filters (-R) no longer works. (ws-buglink:2234[]) The 64-bit Windows installer does not support Kerberos decryption. (https://wiki.wireshark.org/Development/Win64[Win64 development page]) Resolving (ws-buglink:9044[]) reopens (ws-buglink:3528[]) so that Wireshark no longer automatically decodes gzip data when following a TCP stream. Application crash when changing real-time option. (ws-buglink:4035[]) Hex pane display issue after startup. (ws-buglink:4056[]) Packet list rows are oversized. (ws-buglink:4357[]) Summary pane selected frame highlighting not maintained. (ws-buglink:4445[]) Wireshark and TShark will display incorrect delta times in some cases. (ws-buglink:4985[]) The 64-bit Mac OS X installer doesn't support Mac OS X 10.9 (ws-buglink:9242[]) == Getting Help Community support is available on http://ask.wireshark.org/[Wireshark's Q&A site] and on the wireshark-users mailing list. Subscription information and archives for all of Wireshark's mailing lists can be found on http://www.wireshark.org/lists/[the web site]. Official Wireshark training and certification are available from http://www.wiresharktraining.com/[Wireshark University]. == Frequently Asked Questions A complete FAQ is available on the http://www.wireshark.org/faq.html[Wireshark web site].