1 $Id: NEWS,v 1.138 2003/12/13 00:55:11 gerald Exp $
7 Ethereal 0.10.0 has been released.
9 This release fixes issues in the SMB and Q.931 dissectors that could
10 make Ethereal and Tethereal crash. See
12 http://www.ethereal.com/appnotes/enpa-sa-00012.html
16 New and updated features
18 Many performance improvements have been made to the code. Most users
19 should see a 2x to 3x performance increase when loading and working with
22 A "matches" display filter operator has been added. It is similar to
23 the "contains" operator, but supports Perl-compatible regular
26 Tethereal can now dump packet data in XML (PDML) format.
28 The main application menus have been rearranged and the help windows
29 have been revamped, along with a host of other UI enhancements.
31 The capture progress window now features bar graphs.
33 The GLib, GTK+, Net-SNMP, and zlib libraries that ship with the Windows
34 installer have been updated.
38 BFD, CCSDS, CPFI, DCE/RPC {BUDB, EPM4, ICL_RPC, RS_PLCY, RS_PROP_ACCT}
39 IGAP, ISO 8327-1 SES, MS Kpasswd, RTCFG, SEBEK,
41 Updated protocol support
43 ACN, AFP, ANSI A, ANSI MAP, ASN.1, BSMAP, BSSAP, CPFI, DCE/RPC {DCOM,
44 EPM, NDR, SRVSVC, STAT, WKSSVC}, DCE/RPC, DHCP, DNS, DOCSIS, DSI, DTAP,
45 ENTTEC, FC ELS, FC FZS, FC-SP, FC-SWILS, GIOP, GPRS NS, GSM A, GSM MAP,
46 H.225, H.450, HTTP, ICMP, IPv6, IS-IS, ISAKMP, ISUP, Kerberos, LDAP,
47 LDP, MIPv6, MMSE, MS Proxy, MTP3, NCP 2222, NTP, PIM, RADIUS, RANAP,
48 RDM, RSVP, RTCP, RTP, SCCP, SDP, SIP, SMB, SMPP, SOCKS, SONMP, SRVLOC,
49 SSL, TACACS, TCAP, TCP, TPKT, TZSP, UCP, WAP, WBXML, WLAN, WSP, WTP
52 Updated capture file support
54 AiroPeek v9 (2.x) support was added. Network Instruments Observer and
55 Snoop support was updated.
60 Ethereal 0.9.16 has been released.
62 This release fixes potential security issues with the GTP, ISAKMP,
63 MEGACO, and SOCKS dissectors. See
65 http://www.ethereal.com/appnotes/enpa-sa-00011.html
69 New and updated features
71 Ethereal has leapt forward into the 90's and added a toolbar.
73 Ethereal and Tethereal can now force the data link type of captured
76 RTP analysis has been enhanced.
78 Individual frames can now be marked as time references
80 Service response time and general I/O statistics have been enhanced. I/O
81 statistics can now calculate client load (experimental).
85 ACN, ALCAP, ANSI MAP, ASN.1 BER, BSSAP, DCE/RPC DRSUAPI, DCE/RPC
86 INITSHUTDOWN, DCE/RPC RS_BIND, FC-SP, FICON, GSM BSSMAP, GSM DTAP, GSM
87 SMS TPDU, GSM SMS, GSM SS, H.450, IOS 4.0.1 IS-637-A (SMS), IS-683-A
88 (OTA), T.38, TCAP, TPCP
90 Updated protocol support
92 AODV, ASN.1 PER, BSSGP, CDP, Cisco HDLC, COPS, DCE/RPC BROWSER, DCE/RPC
93 DNSSERVER, DCE/RPC EPM, DCE/RPC LSA, DCE/RPC Messenger, DCE/RPC REG,
94 DCE/RPC SVCCTL, DCE/RPC, DFS, DHCPv6, DOCSIS, EAPOL, ENIP, Frame Relay,
95 FTP, GPRS, Gryphon, GTP, H.225, H.245, HTTP, ICMP, IEEE 802.11, IPX,
96 ISAKMP, ISUP, LAPB, Laplink, LWAPP, MAPI, MDSHDR, MEGACO, MPLS, NCP,
97 NDPS, NETLOGON, NFS, NTLMSSP, OSPF, OXID, PPP, Q.931, Q.933, RANAP, RIP,
98 RTP, SAMR, SCCP, SCSI, SCTP, SDP, SIP, SMB, SMPP, SNMP, SOCKS, SONMP,
99 SPOOLSS SRVLOC, SRVSVC, T.35, TACACS+, TAPI, TCP, TZSP, WKSSVC, WSP,
100 X.25, Yahoo! Messenger
103 Updated capture file support
105 Linux Bluez Bluetooth hcidump support has been added.
107 Endace ERF and Network Instruments Observer, and NetXRay support has
113 Ethereal 0.9.15 has been released.
115 New and updated features
117 Many often-requested features have been added with this release. If
118 you're running an older version of Ethereal you may want to have a look.
120 Conversation List (aka "top talker") support has been added to Ethereal
121 and Tethereal. Protocol statistics in general have been updated.
123 Searching capture files has been improved even more -- a new "contains"
124 display filter operator that searches for strings in PDUs has been
125 added. The Find dialog now supports case-insensitive searches, hex data
128 An H.225 dissector has been added. It can automatically recognize RTP
129 and RTCP conversations.
131 A preference file has been added for disabled protocols.
133 Color filters may now be imported and exported from within Ethereal.
135 A new column type has been added for cumulative bytes.
140 GPRS BSSGP, GPRS NS, H.225, H.263, LWAPP, Laplink, Q.933, STUN
145 ArtNet, BOOTP/DHCP, DCE/RPC, DCERPCSTAT, DHCPv6, DOCSIS, ENIP, Ethernet,
146 FCIP, Frame Relay, H.245, HTTP, IPsec, iSCSI, LDAP, LWRES, M2UA, M3UA,
147 MEGACO, MTP3, NCP, NDPS, NFS, NTLMSSP, PPTP, Q.931, RPC, SAMR, SCCP,
148 SCTP, SIP, SMB, SMPP, SNA, SNMP, SRVLOC, SUA, TCP, TDS, UCD, UDP, WSP,
151 Updated capture file support
153 Support for Accellent 5Views and Endace ERF capture files was added.
154 CheckPoint FW-1 and Novell LANalyzer support has been enhanced.
159 Ethereal 0.9.14 has been released.
161 New and updated features
163 The ringbuffer code has been (nearly) completely rewritten. It now
164 supports an unlimited number of files.
166 Ethereal now supports searching for arbitrary text and binary data in
169 Service response time statistics have been enhanced.
171 Tethereal, the text-mode version of Ethereal, can now be compiled
172 without capture support.
175 New and updated features
177 Echo, eDonkey, Jabber, MS Messenger, sFlow
182 AODV, AODV6, Boardwalk, DCE-RPC, ENIP, Fibre Channel, FIX, FW1, H.245,
183 IGMP, IPsec, IS-IS, iSCSI, ISUP, LDAP, LDP, M2UA, MEGACO, MTP3, NDS,
184 NETLOGON, NTLMSSP, NTP, Q.2931, Q.931, SAMR, SCCP, SCSI, SMB, SMPP, SNA,
185 SNMP, SPNEGO, SPOOLSS, SRVLOC, UCP, Vines, VRRP, WBXML, WEP, WSP, WTP,
189 Updated capture file support
196 Ethereal 0.9.13 has been released.
198 This release fixes a large number of security issues discovered by Timo
199 Sirainen and others. See
201 http://www.ethereal.com/appnotes/enpa-sa-00010.html
205 New and updated features
207 Ethereal now supports a system-wide color filter file.
209 Support for the GNU ADNS library has been added. ADNS allows
210 asynchronous DNS lookups.
212 "Decode As..." functionality has been added to Tethereal via the "-d"
215 The HTTP, FTP, POP, SMTP, IMAP, and ACAP requests and responses are now
216 shown in the protocol tree.
220 distcc, EtherNet/IP, MSRPC ATSVC, RTNET/TMDA
224 802.11, AIM, BGP, CLNP, COTP, CPHA, DCERPC, DNS, EAPOL, Ethernet, FDDI,
225 GSSAPI, IP, ISAKMP, ISIS, LDAP, LSP, M2PA, MAPI, Modbus, NDPS, NFS,
226 NTLMSSP, OSI, OSPF, OpenBSD pflog, PPTP, RMCP, RMI, RPC, RTP, SCSI,
227 SCTP, SIP, SMB, SMPP, SMTP, SNMP, SPNEGO, TACACS, TCP, TSP, WBXML, WSP,
230 Updated capture file support
232 HP-UX nettl, VMS UCX$TRACE
237 Ethereal 0.9.12 has been released.
239 This release fixes several off-by-one and integer overflow errors
240 discovered by Timo Sirainen. See
242 http://www.ethereal.com/appnotes/enpa-sa-00009.html
246 New and updated features
248 TCP sequence number analysis received a few improvements.
250 General packet reassembly has been improved.
252 The "Follow TCP Stream" window now allows you to filter out the current
255 The Vines code received significant updates.
257 Several enhancements were made to the text2pcap utility.
261 ArtNET, IPX WAN, Intel ANS, iSNS, NLSP, WKSSVC
265 802.11 ACAP, AFP, AIM, AJP, ASAP, BGP, CLNP, CPHA, DCE/RPC, DSI, EAP,
266 IP, IPMI, IPX, IPv6, ISIS, ISUP, IUA, Kerberos, LDAP, M2PA, M2TP, M2UA,
267 M3UA, MGCP, MTP2, MTP3, MTP3MG, Modbus/TCP, NDMP, NDPS, NFS, NLSP, PGM,
268 Q.931, RANAP, RPC, RSVP, SCCP, SCCPMG, SCTP, SMB, SNMP, SPX, SSH, SUA,
269 TCP, Telnet, Vines, WBXML, WSP, WTP
271 Updated capture file support
278 Ethereal 0.9.11 has been released.
280 The Ethereal 0.9.10 release was packaged improperly. This release fixes
281 the packaging, and adds minor updates and fixes for the following
284 AFS, OpenBSD enc(4), RTP, SCSI, SIP, SMPP, SSH
286 IA64 support has been improved.
291 Ethereal 0.9.10 has been released.
293 This release fixes a security hole discovered by Georgi Guninski in the
294 SOCKS dissector as well as problems with the NTLMSSP and Rsync code.
295 All users of previous versions are encouraged to upgrade. See
297 http://www.ethereal.com/appnotes/enpa-sa-00008.html
302 New and Updated Features
304 Many small updates were made to the user interface.
306 The "Help" menu now includes the FAQ.
308 The TCP dissector was enhanced. Many more fields are filterable.
310 Tethereal received more IO stats: TCP and UDP top talkers.
312 Packet reassembly has been improved.
314 The "Follow TCP Stream" feature can now export C byte arrays.
316 RTP streams can now be saved to a file.
321 A missing comma in a string array could cause Ethereal to crash when
322 opening the preferences dialog.
327 MSN Messenger, Rsync, SSH, Yahoo! Messenger
332 AFP, AFS, AIM, ATM, Apache JServ, BACNET, BGP, BOOTP, CLNP, COPS, DCCP,
333 DCERPC NT, DCERPC, DNS, ESIS, Ethernet, Frame Relay, GIOP, GTP, HP
334 extended 802.2 LLC, HP-UX remote management, HTTP, IPP, IPX, LLC, LSA,
335 M3UA, MDSHDR, MIP6, MPLS, MySQL, NCP2222, NETLOGON, NLPID, NetFlow,
336 OpenBSD enc(4), OSI, PPP, RADIUS, RMP, RPL, SAMR, SCSI, SMB, SNA, SNMP,
337 SOCKS, SPOOLSS, SRVLOC, SRVSVC, SSL, SliMP3, TCP, Token Ring, WBXML,
338 Wellfleet BofL X.25, X11
341 Updated Capture File Support
343 NetXRay, NGSniffer, Snoop
348 Ethereal 0.9.9 has been released.
350 Please note the next release will NOT be 1.0. There are still more
351 features to be added before a 1.0 release will be ready.
354 New and Updated Features
356 Plugin search behavior was improved under Unix, allowing more than one
357 version of Ethereal to be installed at one time.
359 The statistics graphs have been enhanced. More statistics have been
362 Round-trip-time statistics are now computed for SMB traffic.
364 NCP Call and Reply times are now tracked.
366 Top talker statistics for Ethernet, IP and Token Ring are now
367 available (tethereal only).
369 Color allocation and handling was improved.
371 The RADIUS dissector can now decrypt user passwords.
373 Tethereal now supports reading from a pipe under Unix.
375 The ATM code received major improvements.
377 The DOS Sniffer code also received major improvements.
379 For those that compile Ethereal from source, some fixes and updates
380 have been made to the configuration and build environment.
385 The capture progress window now shows the correct number of elapsed
388 A potential infinite loop in the TCP graphing code has been fixed.
393 MDSHDR, MEGACO, MySQL, SDLC, X.29
398 802.11, AFP, AFS, AIM, ARCNET, ASAP, ATM, BPDU, Cisco HDLC, CLNP, DCE
399 RPC, DDTP, Ethernet, FC-ELS, FCIP, H.261, IMSI, IP, IP-over-FC, L2TP,
400 LMI, M3UA, MTP3, NCP, NetBIOS, NETLOGON, ONC RPC, OSPF, PIM, PPP,
401 RADIUS, RANAP, RPC, SAMR, SCTP, SMB, SPNEGO, SPOOLSS, SRVLOC, SRVSVC,
402 SUA, TNS, Token Ring, Wellfleet HDLC, X.25
405 Updated Capture File Support
407 Firewall-1, Netmon, NetXRay, Radcom, Sniffer
412 Ethereal 0.9.8 has been released.
414 Serious problems with the BGP, LMP, PPP, and TDS dissectors have been
417 http://www.ethereal.com/appnotes/enpa-sa-00007.html
422 New and Updated Features
424 The TAP subsystem received major updates. Tethereal can display
425 more statistics, and several graphs have been added to Ethereal.
427 A protocol hierarchy statistics tap was added to tethereal. This code
428 may be used to replace the hierarchy statistics code in Ethereal.
430 More updates have been added to TCP analysis.
432 After a long hiatus, the Windows installer once again includes SNMP
435 The total running time of the capture is now displayed in the capture
436 progress dialog box. The capture progress dialog also shows ARP packets.
438 The look of the plugins dialog was revamped.
441 Bug Fixes and Updates
443 A bug which caused Ethereal under Windows to crash when "Update list of
444 packets in real time" was enabled has been fixed.
446 The stability of the text2pcap utility has been improved.
448 In tethereal, the packet count is properly displayed when you ^C out of a
454 ARCNET, ClearCase NFS, DCERPC LSA_DS, Fibre Channel, HyperSCSI, MDNS,
460 AFP, AFS, BACNet, BGP, DCERPC, DCERPC EPM, DCERPC LSA, DCERPC NDR,
461 DCERPC NT, DCERPC SAMR, DCERPC UPDATE, GRE, GTP, HTTP, IPv6CP, IPX,
462 iSCSI, ISDN, IUA, LAPD, LDAP, M2PA, NDPS, NDS, NetBIOS, NFS, NTLMSSP,
463 OSPF, PPP, PPPoE, Q.2931, Q.931, RPC, RSVP, SCSI, SCTP, SMB, SNMP,
464 Spanning Tree, SPNEGO, SPOOLSS, SPX, SRVLOC, TCP, Telnet, V.120, WEP,
468 Updated Capture File Support
470 AIX iptrace and tcpdump, NetXRay, Sniffer, snoop
473 == September 28, 2002
475 Ethereal 0.9.7 has been released.
479 In order to improve the out-of-box responsiveness of Ethereal and
480 Tethereal, network name resolution has been disabled by default.
482 TCP analysis (a feature added in the 0.9.6 release) was improved.
484 The NCP code base received quite a few updates.
486 Initial support for version 2 of the GTK+ library was added.
488 RPC staticstics (which use the new Tap API) were added.
490 Due to added and updated support for the NTLM, SNEGO, and GSS-API
491 protocols, Ethereal can now dissect most of the security blobs for
492 Windows 2000 authentication.
494 The Ethernet "manuf" file now handles addresses specified with a
495 mask, and contains many well-known addresses.
500 802.1s MSTP, FIX, GSS-API, Interbase, NDPS, Netflow (Cisco and Juniper),
501 SCCP-Management, SPNEGO
503 The following DCE/RPC protocols were also added:
505 AFS4INT, BOSSVR, CDS_CLERKSERVER, CDS_SOLICIT, CPRPC_SERVER, DNSSERVER,
506 DTSPROVIDER, DTSSTIME_REQ, FLDB, FTSERVER, KRB5RPC, REPADMIN, REP_PROC,
507 ROVERRIDE, RPRIV, RS_ATTR, RSEC_LOGIN, RS_MISC, RS_PGO, RS_REPLIST,
508 RS_UNIX, SECIDMAP, TKN4INT, UBIKDISK, UKIKVOTE
513 AFP, AODV/AODV6, BGP, CHDLC, CHPA, DCE/RPC CONV, DCE/RPC LSA, DCE/RPC
514 NT, DCE/RPC SAMR, DHCP, DNS, DOCSIS, EAP, GTP, HTTP, IP, iSCSI, IS-IS,
515 Kerberos, LDAP, LDP, M2PA MMSE, NBNS, NCP, NDS, NETLOGON, NTLMSSP, OSI
516 Q.931 RPC, RPCSTAT, SCSI, Skinny, SMB, SNEGO, SPOOLSS, SRVSVC, TCP, WSP,
521 Ethereal 0.9.6 has been released.
525 A buffer overflow in the ISIS dissector has been fixed. More
526 information can be found at
527 http://www.ethereal.com/appnotes/enpa-sa-00006.html.
529 A bad TCP header could cause problems for the "Follow TCP Stream"
532 Setting "column.format" from the command line no longer crashes
533 Ethereal and Tethereal.
535 Problems with capture files being overwritten (e.g. if you try to save over
536 the current capture file) have been fixed.
538 An SMB conversation handling bug has been fixed.
540 Thanks to Valgrind, several memory leaks have been fixed.
542 Some problems with printing under Windows have been fixed.
547 TCP sequence number analysis has been added.
549 The DCE RPC NETLOGON dissector has received a major overhaul.
551 Data types throughout the code have been cleaned up.
556 CPHA, DOCSIS, NTLMSSP, Xyplex terminal server protocol, ZIP
561 802.11, AFP, ASAP, BGP, CDP, CDPCP, CPHA, DDP, DCERPC, DCERPC NT, DCERPC
562 REG, EPM, FTP, HCLNFSD, HTTP, IPX, ISAKMP, ISIS, IUA, Kerberos, L2TP,
563 LLMNR, LSA, MMSE, MPLSCP, NBNS, NetBIOS, NETLOGON, NFS, NTLMSSP, PPP,
564 Quake2, RADIUS, RSVP, RTCP, SAMR, SCSI, SDP, SIP, SMB, SMB Mailslot,
565 SMTP, SPOOLSS, TCP, TDS, TNS, TPKT, Token Ring, VJ TCP, WINREG, WSP
570 CheckPoint Firewall-1 monitor file support and CoSine debug file support
571 were added. Support for pppdump and Netmon files was updated.
576 Ethereal 0.9.5 has been released. This version fixes several potential
577 security problems revealed since the release of 0.9.4. See the security
578 advisory at http://www.ethereal.com/appnotes/enpa-sa-00005.html for
584 The ability to read packet data from a pipe was enhanced. Printing
585 under Windows now works.
590 802.3 LACP, Apache JServ, AODV6, DCERPC Browser, Java RMI, TAPI
595 ATM, BGP, BOOTP, DCE RPC, EPM, Frame Relay, GTP, L2TP, LMP, MAPI, MIP,
596 MMSE, MTP3, NCP, NFS, NSPI, PPP, Q2931, RADIUS, RSVP, SCSI, SMB, SNA,
597 SOCKS, SPOOLSS, SRVSVC, SunATM, TFTP, TNS, Token Ring, UCP, VJ TCP/IP,
603 Ethereal can now write LANalyzer files. The Sniffer, nettl, snoop,
604 NetXRay, and libpcap code all received updates.