1 $Id: NEWS,v 1.132 2003/07/23 23:14:57 gerald Exp $
5 Ethereal 0.9.14 has been released.
7 New and updated features
9 The ringbuffer code has been (nearly) completely rewritten. It now
10 supports an unlimited number of files.
12 Ethereal now supports searching for arbitrary text and binary data in
15 Service response time statistics have been enhanced.
17 Tethereal, the text-mode version of Ethereal, can now be compiled
18 without capture support.
23 Echo, eDonkey, Jabber, MS Messenger, sFlow
28 AODV, AODV6, Boardwalk, DCE-RPC, ENIP, Fibre Channel, FIX, FW1, H.245,
29 IGMP, IPsec, IS-IS, iSCSI, ISUP, LDAP, LDP, M2UA, MEGACO, MTP3, NDS,
30 NETLOGON, NTLMSSP, NTP, Q.2931, Q.931, SAMR, SCCP, SCSI, SMB, SMPP, SNA,
31 SNMP, SPNEGO, SPOOLSS, SRVLOC, UCP, Vines, VRRP, WBXML, WEP, WSP, WTP,
35 Updated capture file support
42 Ethereal 0.9.13 has been released.
44 This release fixes a large number of security issues discovered by Timo
45 Sirainen and others. See
47 http://www.ethereal.com/appnotes/enpa-sa-00010.html
51 New and updated features
53 Ethereal now supports a system-wide color filter file.
55 Support for the GNU ADNS library has been added. ADNS allows
56 asynchronous DNS lookups.
58 "Decode As..." functionality has been added to Tethereal via the "-d"
61 The HTTP, FTP, POP, SMTP, IMAP, and ACAP requests and responses are now
62 shown in the protocol tree.
66 distcc, EtherNet/IP, MSRPC ATSVC, RTNET/TMDA
70 802.11, AIM, BGP, CLNP, COTP, CPHA, DCERPC, DNS, EAPOL, Ethernet, FDDI,
71 GSSAPI, IP, ISAKMP, ISIS, LDAP, LSP, M2PA, MAPI, Modbus, NDPS, NFS,
72 NTLMSSP, OSI, OSPF, OpenBSD pflog, PPTP, RMCP, RMI, RPC, RTP, SCSI,
73 SCTP, SIP, SMB, SMPP, SMTP, SNMP, SPNEGO, TACACS, TCP, TSP, WBXML, WSP,
76 Updated capture file support
78 HP-UX nettl, VMS UCX$TRACE
83 Ethereal 0.9.12 has been released.
85 This release fixes several off-by-one and integer overflow errors
86 discovered by Timo Sirainen. See
88 http://www.ethereal.com/appnotes/enpa-sa-00009.html
92 New and updated features
94 TCP sequence number analysis received a few improvements.
96 General packet reassembly has been improved.
98 The "Follow TCP Stream" window now allows you to filter out the current
101 The Vines code received significant updates.
103 Several enhancements were made to the text2pcap utility.
107 ArtNET, IPX WAN, Intel ANS, iSNS, NLSP, WKSSVC
111 802.11 ACAP, AFP, AIM, AJP, ASAP, BGP, CLNP, CPHA, DCE/RPC, DSI, EAP,
112 IP, IPMI, IPX, IPv6, ISIS, ISUP, IUA, Kerberos, LDAP, M2PA, M2TP, M2UA,
113 M3UA, MGCP, MTP2, MTP3, MTP3MG, Modbus/TCP, NDMP, NDPS, NFS, NLSP, PGM,
114 Q.931, RANAP, RPC, RSVP, SCCP, SCCPMG, SCTP, SMB, SNMP, SPX, SSH, SUA,
115 TCP, Telnet, Vines, WBXML, WSP, WTP
117 Updated capture file support
124 Ethereal 0.9.11 has been released.
126 The Ethereal 0.9.10 release was packaged improperly. This release fixes
127 the packaging, and adds minor updates and fixes for the following
130 AFS, OpenBSD enc(4), RTP, SCSI, SIP, SMPP, SSH
132 IA64 support has been improved.
137 Ethereal 0.9.10 has been released.
139 This release fixes a security hole discovered by Georgi Guninski in the
140 SOCKS dissector as well as problems with the NTLMSSP and Rsync code.
141 All users of previous versions are encouraged to upgrade. See
143 http://www.ethereal.com/appnotes/enpa-sa-00008.html
148 New and Updated Features
150 Many small updates were made to the user interface.
152 The "Help" menu now includes the FAQ.
154 The TCP dissector was enhanced. Many more fields are filterable.
156 Tethereal received more IO stats: TCP and UDP top talkers.
158 Packet reassembly has been improved.
160 The "Follow TCP Stream" feature can now export C byte arrays.
162 RTP streams can now be saved to a file.
167 A missing comma in a string array could cause Ethereal to crash when
168 opening the preferences dialog.
173 MSN Messenger, Rsync, SSH, Yahoo! Messenger
178 AFP, AFS, AIM, ATM, Apache JServ, BACNET, BGP, BOOTP, CLNP, COPS, DCCP,
179 DCERPC NT, DCERPC, DNS, ESIS, Ethernet, Frame Relay, GIOP, GTP, HP
180 extended 802.2 LLC, HP-UX remote management, HTTP, IPP, IPX, LLC, LSA,
181 M3UA, MDSHDR, MIP6, MPLS, MySQL, NCP2222, NETLOGON, NLPID, NetFlow,
182 OpenBSD enc(4), OSI, PPP, RADIUS, RMP, RPL, SAMR, SCSI, SMB, SNA, SNMP,
183 SOCKS, SPOOLSS, SRVLOC, SRVSVC, SSL, SliMP3, TCP, Token Ring, WBXML,
184 Wellfleet BofL X.25, X11
187 Updated Capture File Support
189 NetXRay, NGSniffer, Snoop
194 Ethereal 0.9.9 has been released.
196 Please note the next release will NOT be 1.0. There are still more
197 features to be added before a 1.0 release will be ready.
200 New and Updated Features
202 Plugin search behavior was improved under Unix, allowing more than one
203 version of Ethereal to be installed at one time.
205 The statistics graphs have been enhanced. More statistics have been
208 Round-trip-time statistics are now computed for SMB traffic.
210 NCP Call and Reply times are now tracked.
212 Top talker statistics for Ethernet, IP and Token Ring are now
213 available (tethereal only).
215 Color allocation and handling was improved.
217 The RADIUS dissector can now decrypt user passwords.
219 Tethereal now supports reading from a pipe under Unix.
221 The ATM code received major improvements.
223 The DOS Sniffer code also received major improvements.
225 For those that compile Ethereal from source, some fixes and updates
226 have been made to the configuration and build environment.
231 The capture progress window now shows the correct number of elapsed
234 A potential infinite loop in the TCP graphing code has been fixed.
239 MDSHDR, MEGACO, MySQL, SDLC, X.29
244 802.11, AFP, AFS, AIM, ARCNET, ASAP, ATM, BPDU, Cisco HDLC, CLNP, DCE
245 RPC, DDTP, Ethernet, FC-ELS, FCIP, H.261, IMSI, IP, IP-over-FC, L2TP,
246 LMI, M3UA, MTP3, NCP, NetBIOS, NETLOGON, ONC RPC, OSPF, PIM, PPP,
247 RADIUS, RANAP, RPC, SAMR, SCTP, SMB, SPNEGO, SPOOLSS, SRVLOC, SRVSVC,
248 SUA, TNS, Token Ring, Wellfleet HDLC, X.25
251 Updated Capture File Support
253 Firewall-1, Netmon, NetXRay, Radcom, Sniffer
258 Ethereal 0.9.8 has been released.
260 Serious problems with the BGP, LMP, PPP, and TDS dissectors have been
263 http://www.ethereal.com/appnotes/enpa-sa-00007.html
268 New and Updated Features
270 The TAP subsystem received major updates. Tethereal can display
271 more statistics, and several graphs have been added to Ethereal.
273 A protocol hierarchy statistics tap was added to tethereal. This code
274 may be used to replace the hierarchy statistics code in Ethereal.
276 More updates have been added to TCP analysis.
278 After a long hiatus, the Windows installer once again includes SNMP
281 The total running time of the capture is now displayed in the capture
282 progress dialog box. The capture progress dialog also shows ARP packets.
284 The look of the plugins dialog was revamped.
287 Bug Fixes and Updates
289 A bug which caused Ethereal under Windows to crash when "Update list of
290 packets in real time" was enabled has been fixed.
292 The stability of the text2pcap utility has been improved.
294 In tethereal, the packet count is properly displayed when you ^C out of a
300 ARCNET, ClearCase NFS, DCERPC LSA_DS, Fibre Channel, HyperSCSI, MDNS,
306 AFP, AFS, BACNet, BGP, DCERPC, DCERPC EPM, DCERPC LSA, DCERPC NDR,
307 DCERPC NT, DCERPC SAMR, DCERPC UPDATE, GRE, GTP, HTTP, IPv6CP, IPX,
308 iSCSI, ISDN, IUA, LAPD, LDAP, M2PA, NDPS, NDS, NetBIOS, NFS, NTLMSSP,
309 OSPF, PPP, PPPoE, Q.2931, Q.931, RPC, RSVP, SCSI, SCTP, SMB, SNMP,
310 Spanning Tree, SPNEGO, SPOOLSS, SPX, SRVLOC, TCP, Telnet, V.120, WEP,
314 Updated Capture File Support
316 AIX iptrace and tcpdump, NetXRay, Sniffer, snoop
319 == September 28, 2002
321 Ethereal 0.9.7 has been released.
325 In order to improve the out-of-box responsiveness of Ethereal and
326 Tethereal, network name resolution has been disabled by default.
328 TCP analysis (a feature added in the 0.9.6 release) was improved.
330 The NCP code base received quite a few updates.
332 Initial support for version 2 of the GTK+ library was added.
334 RPC staticstics (which use the new Tap API) were added.
336 Due to added and updated support for the NTLM, SNEGO, and GSS-API
337 protocols, Ethereal can now dissect most of the security blobs for
338 Windows 2000 authentication.
340 The Ethernet "manuf" file now handles addresses specified with a
341 mask, and contains many well-known addresses.
346 802.1s MSTP, FIX, GSS-API, Interbase, NDPS, Netflow (Cisco and Juniper),
347 SCCP-Management, SPNEGO
349 The following DCE/RPC protocols were also added:
351 AFS4INT, BOSSVR, CDS_CLERKSERVER, CDS_SOLICIT, CPRPC_SERVER, DNSSERVER,
352 DTSPROVIDER, DTSSTIME_REQ, FLDB, FTSERVER, KRB5RPC, REPADMIN, REP_PROC,
353 ROVERRIDE, RPRIV, RS_ATTR, RSEC_LOGIN, RS_MISC, RS_PGO, RS_REPLIST,
354 RS_UNIX, SECIDMAP, TKN4INT, UBIKDISK, UKIKVOTE
359 AFP, AODV/AODV6, BGP, CHDLC, CHPA, DCE/RPC CONV, DCE/RPC LSA, DCE/RPC
360 NT, DCE/RPC SAMR, DHCP, DNS, DOCSIS, EAP, GTP, HTTP, IP, iSCSI, IS-IS,
361 Kerberos, LDAP, LDP, M2PA MMSE, NBNS, NCP, NDS, NETLOGON, NTLMSSP, OSI
362 Q.931 RPC, RPCSTAT, SCSI, Skinny, SMB, SNEGO, SPOOLSS, SRVSVC, TCP, WSP,
367 Ethereal 0.9.6 has been released.
371 A buffer overflow in the ISIS dissector has been fixed. More
372 information can be found at
373 http://www.ethereal.com/appnotes/enpa-sa-00006.html.
375 A bad TCP header could cause problems for the "Follow TCP Stream"
378 Setting "column.format" from the command line no longer crashes
379 Ethereal and Tethereal.
381 Problems with capture files being overwritten (e.g. if you try to save over
382 the current capture file) have been fixed.
384 An SMB conversation handling bug has been fixed.
386 Thanks to Valgrind, several memory leaks have been fixed.
388 Some problems with printing under Windows have been fixed.
393 TCP sequence number analysis has been added.
395 The DCE RPC NETLOGON dissector has received a major overhaul.
397 Data types throughout the code have been cleaned up.
402 CPHA, DOCSIS, NTLMSSP, Xyplex terminal server protocol, ZIP
407 802.11, AFP, ASAP, BGP, CDP, CDPCP, CPHA, DDP, DCERPC, DCERPC NT, DCERPC
408 REG, EPM, FTP, HCLNFSD, HTTP, IPX, ISAKMP, ISIS, IUA, Kerberos, L2TP,
409 LLMNR, LSA, MMSE, MPLSCP, NBNS, NetBIOS, NETLOGON, NFS, NTLMSSP, PPP,
410 Quake2, RADIUS, RSVP, RTCP, SAMR, SCSI, SDP, SIP, SMB, SMB Mailslot,
411 SMTP, SPOOLSS, TCP, TDS, TNS, TPKT, Token Ring, VJ TCP, WINREG, WSP
416 CheckPoint Firewall-1 monitor file support and CoSine debug file support
417 were added. Support for pppdump and Netmon files was updated.
422 Ethereal 0.9.5 has been released. This version fixes several potential
423 security problems revealed since the release of 0.9.4. See the security
424 advisory at http://www.ethereal.com/appnotes/enpa-sa-00005.html for
430 The ability to read packet data from a pipe was enhanced. Printing
431 under Windows now works.
436 802.3 LACP, Apache JServ, AODV6, DCERPC Browser, Java RMI, TAPI
441 ATM, BGP, BOOTP, DCE RPC, EPM, Frame Relay, GTP, L2TP, LMP, MAPI, MIP,
442 MMSE, MTP3, NCP, NFS, NSPI, PPP, Q2931, RADIUS, RSVP, SCSI, SMB, SNA,
443 SOCKS, SPOOLSS, SRVSVC, SunATM, TFTP, TNS, Token Ring, UCP, VJ TCP/IP,
449 Ethereal can now write LANalyzer files. The Sniffer, nettl, snoop,
450 NetXRay, and libpcap code all received updates.