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58 <title>Ethereal &EtherealCurrentVersion; Release Notes</title>
60 <section id="WhatIs"><title>What is Ethereal?</title>
62 Ethereal is the world's most popular network protocol analyzer. It
63 is used for troubleshooting, analysis, development, and education.
67 <section id="WhatsNew"><title>What's New</title>
68 <section><title>Bug Fixes</title>
70 Three security vulnerabilities have been fixed since the
71 previous release. See the
72 <ulink url="http://www.ethereal.com/appnotes/enpa-sa-00022.html">application
73 advisory</ulink> for more details.
77 The H.248 dissector could crash.
78 <!-- Fixed in r16967 -->
80 Versions affected: 0.10.14.
83 The UMA dissector could go into an infinite loop.
84 <!-- Fixed in r17119, r17273 -->
86 Versions affected: ???.
89 Win32: Unicode characters in the users profile path causes problems
90 reading/writing the preferences (and alike) files.
91 <!-- Fixed in r17024 -->
93 Versions affected: 0.10.14.
96 Win32: Unicode characters in filenames given to the Ethereal command
97 line doesn't work (used e.g. when "double-clicking" in explorer).
98 <!-- Fixed in r17025 -->
100 Versions affected: 0.10.14.
103 <!-- FIX (17235), canary bugs -->
109 <section><title>New and Updated Features</title>
111 The following features are new (or have been significantly updated)
112 since the last release:
116 Win32: Catch hardware exceptions caused by buggy dissectors.
117 If e.g. a NULL pointer exceptions occurs, Ethereal won't crash now
118 but displays the exception and tries to continue decoding packets.
124 <section><title>New Protocol Support</title>
130 <section><title>Updated Protocol Support</title> <para>
135 <section><title>New and Updated Capture File Support</title>
143 <section id="GettingEthereal"><title>Getting Ethereal</title>
144 <section><title>Microsoft Windows</title>
146 Download ethereal-setup-&EtherealCurrentVersion;.exe from the
147 <ulink url="http://www.ethereal.com/distribution/win32/">Windows
148 download area</ulink> on the main web site. Double-click the
149 installer executable.
153 <section><title>Sun Solaris</title>
155 Download the appropriate package from the
156 <ulink url="http://www.ethereal.com/distribution/solaris/">Solaris
157 download area</ulink> on the main web site. Uncompress the package
158 using bzip2, and install it using pkgadd.
162 <section><title>Source Code</title>
164 Download ethereal-&EtherealCurrentVersion;.tar.gz from the
165 <ulink url="http://www.ethereal.com/distribution/">main
166 download area</ulink> on the web site. Extract the package
167 using tar and gzip. Run "configure ; make ; make install".
171 <section><title>Vendor-supplied Packages</title>
173 Most Linux and Unix vendors supply their own Ethereal packages.
174 You can install or upgrade Ethereal using the package management
175 system specific to that platform. A list of third-party packages
176 can be found on the <ulink url="http://www.ethereal.com/download.html#otherplat">download page</ulink> on the Ethereal web site.
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183 <section id="RemovingEthereal"><title>Removing Ethereal</title>
189 <section id="FileLocations"><title>File Locations</title>
191 Ethereal and Tethereal look in several different locations for
192 preference files, plugins, SNMP MIBS, and RADIUS dictionaries.
193 These locations vary from platform to platform. You can use
194 About->Folders to find the default locations on your system.
198 <section id="KnownProblems"><title>Known Problems</title>
200 On Windows systems the packet list scroll bar can sometimes disappear
201 or become unusable. Until the problem is fixed you can work around it
202 by resizing the packet list or the main window.
203 (<ulink url="http://bugs.ethereal.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=220">Bug
208 <section id="GettingHelp"><title>Getting Help</title>
210 Community support is available on the ethereal-users mailing list.
211 Subscription information and archives for all of Ethereal's mailing
212 lists can be found on <ulink url="http://www.ethereal.com/lists/">the
213 web site</ulink>. There is also an <ulink url="irc://irc.freenode.net/ethereal">IRC channel dedicated to Ethereal</ulink>.
216 Commercial support, training, and development services are available
217 from <ulink url="http://www.etherealsoft.com/">Ethereal Software</ulink>.
221 <section id="FAQ"><title>Frequently Asked Questions</title>
223 A complete FAQ is available on the
224 <ulink url="http://www.ethereal.com/faq.html">Ethereal web site</ulink>.