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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 Many 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 <!-- FIX (17235), canary bugs -->
94 Under a grant funded by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security,
95 <ulink url="http://www.coverity.com">Coverity</ulink> has uncovered
96 a number of vulnerabilities in Ethereal:
100 The GSM SMS dissector could crash Ethereal.
101 <!-- Fixed in r17506 -->
102 <!-- Bug IDs: None -->
103 <!-- Coverity run 12, CID 104 -->
104 Versions affected: ???.
111 Win32: Unicode characters in the users profile path causes problems
112 reading/writing the preferences (and alike) files.
113 <!-- Fixed in r17024,r17025 -->
114 <!-- Bug IDs: 648 -->
115 Versions affected: 0.10.14.
120 <section><title>New and Updated Features</title>
122 The following features are new (or have been significantly updated)
123 since the last release:
127 Win32: Catch hardware exceptions caused by buggy dissectors.
128 If e.g. a NULL pointer exceptions occurs, Ethereal won't crash now
129 but displays the exception and tries to continue decoding packets.
135 <section><title>New Protocol Support</title>
141 <section><title>Updated Protocol Support</title> <para>
146 <section><title>New and Updated Capture File Support</title>
154 <section id="GettingEthereal"><title>Getting Ethereal</title>
155 <section><title>Microsoft Windows</title>
157 Download ethereal-setup-&EtherealCurrentVersion;.exe from the
158 <ulink url="http://www.ethereal.com/distribution/win32/">Windows
159 download area</ulink> on the main web site. Double-click the
160 installer executable.
164 <section><title>Sun Solaris</title>
166 Download the appropriate package from the
167 <ulink url="http://www.ethereal.com/distribution/solaris/">Solaris
168 download area</ulink> on the main web site. Uncompress the package
169 using bzip2, and install it using pkgadd.
173 <section><title>Source Code</title>
175 Download ethereal-&EtherealCurrentVersion;.tar.gz from the
176 <ulink url="http://www.ethereal.com/distribution/">main
177 download area</ulink> on the web site. Extract the package
178 using tar and gzip. Run "configure ; make ; make install".
182 <section><title>Vendor-supplied Packages</title>
184 Most Linux and Unix vendors supply their own Ethereal packages.
185 You can install or upgrade Ethereal using the package management
186 system specific to that platform. A list of third-party packages
187 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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194 <section id="RemovingEthereal"><title>Removing Ethereal</title>
200 <section id="FileLocations"><title>File Locations</title>
202 Ethereal and Tethereal look in several different locations for
203 preference files, plugins, SNMP MIBS, and RADIUS dictionaries.
204 These locations vary from platform to platform. You can use
205 About->Folders to find the default locations on your system.
209 <section id="KnownProblems"><title>Known Problems</title>
211 On Windows systems the packet list scroll bar can sometimes disappear
212 or become unusable. Until the problem is fixed you can work around it
213 by resizing the packet list or the main window.
214 (<ulink url="http://bugs.ethereal.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=220">Bug
219 <section id="GettingHelp"><title>Getting Help</title>
221 Community support is available on the ethereal-users mailing list.
222 Subscription information and archives for all of Ethereal's mailing
223 lists can be found on <ulink url="http://www.ethereal.com/lists/">the
224 web site</ulink>. There is also an <ulink url="irc://irc.freenode.net/ethereal">IRC channel dedicated to Ethereal</ulink>.
227 Commercial support, training, and development services are available
228 from <ulink url="http://www.etherealsoft.com/">Ethereal Software</ulink>.
232 <section id="FAQ"><title>Frequently Asked Questions</title>
234 A complete FAQ is available on the
235 <ulink url="http://www.ethereal.com/faq.html">Ethereal web site</ulink>.