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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 Several 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.
79 <section><title>New and Updated Features</title>
81 The following features are new (or have been significantly updated)
82 since the last release:
90 <section><title>New Protocol Support</title>
96 <section><title>Updated Protocol Support</title> <para>
101 <section><title>New and Updated Capture File Support</title>
109 <section id="GettingEthereal"><title>Getting Ethereal</title>
110 <section><title>Microsoft Windows</title>
112 Download ethereal-setup-&EtherealCurrentVersion;.exe from the
113 <ulink url="http://www.ethereal.com/docs/distribution/win32/">Windows
114 download area</ulink> on the main web site. Double-click the
115 installer executable.
119 <section><title>Sun Solaris</title>
121 Download the appropriate package from the
122 <ulink url="http://www.ethereal.com/docs/distribution/solaris/">Solaris
123 download area</ulink> on the main web site. Uncompress the package
124 using bzip2, and install it using pkgadd.
128 <section><title>Source Code</title>
130 Download ethereal-&EtherealCurrentVersion;.tar.gz from the
131 <ulink url="http://www.ethereal.com/docs/distribution/">main
132 download area</ulink> on the web site. Extract the package
133 using tar and gzip. Run "configure ; make ; make install".
137 <section><title>Vendor-supplied Packages</title>
139 Most Linux and Unix vendors supply their own Ethereal packages.
140 You can install or upgrade Ethereal using the package management
141 system specific to that platform. A list of third-party packages
142 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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149 <section id="RemovingEthereal"><title>Removing Ethereal</title>
155 <section id="FileLocations"><title>File Locations</title>
157 Ethereal and Tethereal look in several different locations for
158 preference files, plugins, SNMP MIBS, and RADIUS dictionaries.
159 These locations vary from platform to platform. You can use
160 About->Folders to find the default locations on your system.
164 <section id="KnownProblems"><title>Known Problems</title>
166 On Windows systems the packet list scroll bar can sometimes disappear
167 or become unusable. Until the problem is fixed you can work around it
168 by resizing the packet list or the main window.
169 (<ulink url="http://bugs.ethereal.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=220">Bug
174 <section id="GettingHelp"><title>Getting Help</title>
176 Community support is available on the ethereal-users mailing list.
177 Subscription information and archives for all of Ethereal's mailing
178 lists can be found on <ulink url="http://www.ethereal.com/lists/">the
179 web site</ulink>. There is also an <ulink url="irc://irc.freenode.net/ethereal">IRC channel dedicated to Ethereal</ulink>.
182 Commercial support, training, and development services are available
183 from <ulink url="http://www.etherealsoft.com/">Ethereal Software</ulink>.
187 <section id="FAQ"><title>Frequently Asked Questions</title>
189 A complete FAQ is available on the
190 <ulink url="http://www.ethereal.com/faq.html">Ethereal web site</ulink>.