1 $Id: NEWS,v 1.136 2003/09/09 23:17:08 gerald Exp $
5 Ethereal 0.9.15 has been released.
7 New and updated features
9 Many often-requested features have been added with this release. If
10 you're running an older version of Ethereal you may want to have a look.
12 Conversation List (aka "top talker") support has been added to Ethereal
13 and Tethereal. Protocol statistics in general have been updated.
15 Searching capture files has been improved even more -- a new "contains"
16 display filter operator that searches for strings in PDUs has been
17 added. The Find dialog now supports case-insensitive searches, hex data
20 An H.225 dissector has been added. It can automatically recognize RTP
21 and RTCP conversations.
23 A preference file has been added for disabled protocols.
25 Color filters may now be imported and exported from within Ethereal.
27 A new column type has been added for cumulative bytes.
32 GPRS BSSGP, GPRS NS, H.225, H.263, LWAPP, Laplink, Q.933, STUN
37 ArtNet, BOOTP/DHCP, DCE/RPC, DCERPCSTAT, DHCPv6, DOCSIS, ENIP, Ethernet,
38 FCIP, Frame Relay, H.245, HTTP, IPsec, iSCSI, LDAP, LWRES, M2UA, M3UA,
39 MEGACO, MTP3, NCP, NDPS, NFS, NTLMSSP, PPTP, Q.931, RPC, SAMR, SCCP,
40 SCTP, SIP, SMB, SMPP, SNA, SNMP, SRVLOC, SUA, TCP, TDS, UCD, UDP, WSP,
43 Updated capture file support
45 Support for Accellent 5Views and Endace ERF capture files was added.
46 CheckPoint FW-1 and Novell LANalyzer support has been enhanced.
51 Ethereal 0.9.14 has been released.
53 New and updated features
55 The ringbuffer code has been (nearly) completely rewritten. It now
56 supports an unlimited number of files.
58 Ethereal now supports searching for arbitrary text and binary data in
61 Service response time statistics have been enhanced.
63 Tethereal, the text-mode version of Ethereal, can now be compiled
64 without capture support.
67 New and updated features
69 Echo, eDonkey, Jabber, MS Messenger, sFlow
74 AODV, AODV6, Boardwalk, DCE-RPC, ENIP, Fibre Channel, FIX, FW1, H.245,
75 IGMP, IPsec, IS-IS, iSCSI, ISUP, LDAP, LDP, M2UA, MEGACO, MTP3, NDS,
76 NETLOGON, NTLMSSP, NTP, Q.2931, Q.931, SAMR, SCCP, SCSI, SMB, SMPP, SNA,
77 SNMP, SPNEGO, SPOOLSS, SRVLOC, UCP, Vines, VRRP, WBXML, WEP, WSP, WTP,
81 Updated capture file support
88 Ethereal 0.9.13 has been released.
90 This release fixes a large number of security issues discovered by Timo
91 Sirainen and others. See
93 http://www.ethereal.com/appnotes/enpa-sa-00010.html
97 New and updated features
99 Ethereal now supports a system-wide color filter file.
101 Support for the GNU ADNS library has been added. ADNS allows
102 asynchronous DNS lookups.
104 "Decode As..." functionality has been added to Tethereal via the "-d"
107 The HTTP, FTP, POP, SMTP, IMAP, and ACAP requests and responses are now
108 shown in the protocol tree.
112 distcc, EtherNet/IP, MSRPC ATSVC, RTNET/TMDA
116 802.11, AIM, BGP, CLNP, COTP, CPHA, DCERPC, DNS, EAPOL, Ethernet, FDDI,
117 GSSAPI, IP, ISAKMP, ISIS, LDAP, LSP, M2PA, MAPI, Modbus, NDPS, NFS,
118 NTLMSSP, OSI, OSPF, OpenBSD pflog, PPTP, RMCP, RMI, RPC, RTP, SCSI,
119 SCTP, SIP, SMB, SMPP, SMTP, SNMP, SPNEGO, TACACS, TCP, TSP, WBXML, WSP,
122 Updated capture file support
124 HP-UX nettl, VMS UCX$TRACE
129 Ethereal 0.9.12 has been released.
131 This release fixes several off-by-one and integer overflow errors
132 discovered by Timo Sirainen. See
134 http://www.ethereal.com/appnotes/enpa-sa-00009.html
138 New and updated features
140 TCP sequence number analysis received a few improvements.
142 General packet reassembly has been improved.
144 The "Follow TCP Stream" window now allows you to filter out the current
147 The Vines code received significant updates.
149 Several enhancements were made to the text2pcap utility.
153 ArtNET, IPX WAN, Intel ANS, iSNS, NLSP, WKSSVC
157 802.11 ACAP, AFP, AIM, AJP, ASAP, BGP, CLNP, CPHA, DCE/RPC, DSI, EAP,
158 IP, IPMI, IPX, IPv6, ISIS, ISUP, IUA, Kerberos, LDAP, M2PA, M2TP, M2UA,
159 M3UA, MGCP, MTP2, MTP3, MTP3MG, Modbus/TCP, NDMP, NDPS, NFS, NLSP, PGM,
160 Q.931, RANAP, RPC, RSVP, SCCP, SCCPMG, SCTP, SMB, SNMP, SPX, SSH, SUA,
161 TCP, Telnet, Vines, WBXML, WSP, WTP
163 Updated capture file support
170 Ethereal 0.9.11 has been released.
172 The Ethereal 0.9.10 release was packaged improperly. This release fixes
173 the packaging, and adds minor updates and fixes for the following
176 AFS, OpenBSD enc(4), RTP, SCSI, SIP, SMPP, SSH
178 IA64 support has been improved.
183 Ethereal 0.9.10 has been released.
185 This release fixes a security hole discovered by Georgi Guninski in the
186 SOCKS dissector as well as problems with the NTLMSSP and Rsync code.
187 All users of previous versions are encouraged to upgrade. See
189 http://www.ethereal.com/appnotes/enpa-sa-00008.html
194 New and Updated Features
196 Many small updates were made to the user interface.
198 The "Help" menu now includes the FAQ.
200 The TCP dissector was enhanced. Many more fields are filterable.
202 Tethereal received more IO stats: TCP and UDP top talkers.
204 Packet reassembly has been improved.
206 The "Follow TCP Stream" feature can now export C byte arrays.
208 RTP streams can now be saved to a file.
213 A missing comma in a string array could cause Ethereal to crash when
214 opening the preferences dialog.
219 MSN Messenger, Rsync, SSH, Yahoo! Messenger
224 AFP, AFS, AIM, ATM, Apache JServ, BACNET, BGP, BOOTP, CLNP, COPS, DCCP,
225 DCERPC NT, DCERPC, DNS, ESIS, Ethernet, Frame Relay, GIOP, GTP, HP
226 extended 802.2 LLC, HP-UX remote management, HTTP, IPP, IPX, LLC, LSA,
227 M3UA, MDSHDR, MIP6, MPLS, MySQL, NCP2222, NETLOGON, NLPID, NetFlow,
228 OpenBSD enc(4), OSI, PPP, RADIUS, RMP, RPL, SAMR, SCSI, SMB, SNA, SNMP,
229 SOCKS, SPOOLSS, SRVLOC, SRVSVC, SSL, SliMP3, TCP, Token Ring, WBXML,
230 Wellfleet BofL X.25, X11
233 Updated Capture File Support
235 NetXRay, NGSniffer, Snoop
240 Ethereal 0.9.9 has been released.
242 Please note the next release will NOT be 1.0. There are still more
243 features to be added before a 1.0 release will be ready.
246 New and Updated Features
248 Plugin search behavior was improved under Unix, allowing more than one
249 version of Ethereal to be installed at one time.
251 The statistics graphs have been enhanced. More statistics have been
254 Round-trip-time statistics are now computed for SMB traffic.
256 NCP Call and Reply times are now tracked.
258 Top talker statistics for Ethernet, IP and Token Ring are now
259 available (tethereal only).
261 Color allocation and handling was improved.
263 The RADIUS dissector can now decrypt user passwords.
265 Tethereal now supports reading from a pipe under Unix.
267 The ATM code received major improvements.
269 The DOS Sniffer code also received major improvements.
271 For those that compile Ethereal from source, some fixes and updates
272 have been made to the configuration and build environment.
277 The capture progress window now shows the correct number of elapsed
280 A potential infinite loop in the TCP graphing code has been fixed.
285 MDSHDR, MEGACO, MySQL, SDLC, X.29
290 802.11, AFP, AFS, AIM, ARCNET, ASAP, ATM, BPDU, Cisco HDLC, CLNP, DCE
291 RPC, DDTP, Ethernet, FC-ELS, FCIP, H.261, IMSI, IP, IP-over-FC, L2TP,
292 LMI, M3UA, MTP3, NCP, NetBIOS, NETLOGON, ONC RPC, OSPF, PIM, PPP,
293 RADIUS, RANAP, RPC, SAMR, SCTP, SMB, SPNEGO, SPOOLSS, SRVLOC, SRVSVC,
294 SUA, TNS, Token Ring, Wellfleet HDLC, X.25
297 Updated Capture File Support
299 Firewall-1, Netmon, NetXRay, Radcom, Sniffer
304 Ethereal 0.9.8 has been released.
306 Serious problems with the BGP, LMP, PPP, and TDS dissectors have been
309 http://www.ethereal.com/appnotes/enpa-sa-00007.html
314 New and Updated Features
316 The TAP subsystem received major updates. Tethereal can display
317 more statistics, and several graphs have been added to Ethereal.
319 A protocol hierarchy statistics tap was added to tethereal. This code
320 may be used to replace the hierarchy statistics code in Ethereal.
322 More updates have been added to TCP analysis.
324 After a long hiatus, the Windows installer once again includes SNMP
327 The total running time of the capture is now displayed in the capture
328 progress dialog box. The capture progress dialog also shows ARP packets.
330 The look of the plugins dialog was revamped.
333 Bug Fixes and Updates
335 A bug which caused Ethereal under Windows to crash when "Update list of
336 packets in real time" was enabled has been fixed.
338 The stability of the text2pcap utility has been improved.
340 In tethereal, the packet count is properly displayed when you ^C out of a
346 ARCNET, ClearCase NFS, DCERPC LSA_DS, Fibre Channel, HyperSCSI, MDNS,
352 AFP, AFS, BACNet, BGP, DCERPC, DCERPC EPM, DCERPC LSA, DCERPC NDR,
353 DCERPC NT, DCERPC SAMR, DCERPC UPDATE, GRE, GTP, HTTP, IPv6CP, IPX,
354 iSCSI, ISDN, IUA, LAPD, LDAP, M2PA, NDPS, NDS, NetBIOS, NFS, NTLMSSP,
355 OSPF, PPP, PPPoE, Q.2931, Q.931, RPC, RSVP, SCSI, SCTP, SMB, SNMP,
356 Spanning Tree, SPNEGO, SPOOLSS, SPX, SRVLOC, TCP, Telnet, V.120, WEP,
360 Updated Capture File Support
362 AIX iptrace and tcpdump, NetXRay, Sniffer, snoop
365 == September 28, 2002
367 Ethereal 0.9.7 has been released.
371 In order to improve the out-of-box responsiveness of Ethereal and
372 Tethereal, network name resolution has been disabled by default.
374 TCP analysis (a feature added in the 0.9.6 release) was improved.
376 The NCP code base received quite a few updates.
378 Initial support for version 2 of the GTK+ library was added.
380 RPC staticstics (which use the new Tap API) were added.
382 Due to added and updated support for the NTLM, SNEGO, and GSS-API
383 protocols, Ethereal can now dissect most of the security blobs for
384 Windows 2000 authentication.
386 The Ethernet "manuf" file now handles addresses specified with a
387 mask, and contains many well-known addresses.
392 802.1s MSTP, FIX, GSS-API, Interbase, NDPS, Netflow (Cisco and Juniper),
393 SCCP-Management, SPNEGO
395 The following DCE/RPC protocols were also added:
397 AFS4INT, BOSSVR, CDS_CLERKSERVER, CDS_SOLICIT, CPRPC_SERVER, DNSSERVER,
398 DTSPROVIDER, DTSSTIME_REQ, FLDB, FTSERVER, KRB5RPC, REPADMIN, REP_PROC,
399 ROVERRIDE, RPRIV, RS_ATTR, RSEC_LOGIN, RS_MISC, RS_PGO, RS_REPLIST,
400 RS_UNIX, SECIDMAP, TKN4INT, UBIKDISK, UKIKVOTE
405 AFP, AODV/AODV6, BGP, CHDLC, CHPA, DCE/RPC CONV, DCE/RPC LSA, DCE/RPC
406 NT, DCE/RPC SAMR, DHCP, DNS, DOCSIS, EAP, GTP, HTTP, IP, iSCSI, IS-IS,
407 Kerberos, LDAP, LDP, M2PA MMSE, NBNS, NCP, NDS, NETLOGON, NTLMSSP, OSI
408 Q.931 RPC, RPCSTAT, SCSI, Skinny, SMB, SNEGO, SPOOLSS, SRVSVC, TCP, WSP,
413 Ethereal 0.9.6 has been released.
417 A buffer overflow in the ISIS dissector has been fixed. More
418 information can be found at
419 http://www.ethereal.com/appnotes/enpa-sa-00006.html.
421 A bad TCP header could cause problems for the "Follow TCP Stream"
424 Setting "column.format" from the command line no longer crashes
425 Ethereal and Tethereal.
427 Problems with capture files being overwritten (e.g. if you try to save over
428 the current capture file) have been fixed.
430 An SMB conversation handling bug has been fixed.
432 Thanks to Valgrind, several memory leaks have been fixed.
434 Some problems with printing under Windows have been fixed.
439 TCP sequence number analysis has been added.
441 The DCE RPC NETLOGON dissector has received a major overhaul.
443 Data types throughout the code have been cleaned up.
448 CPHA, DOCSIS, NTLMSSP, Xyplex terminal server protocol, ZIP
453 802.11, AFP, ASAP, BGP, CDP, CDPCP, CPHA, DDP, DCERPC, DCERPC NT, DCERPC
454 REG, EPM, FTP, HCLNFSD, HTTP, IPX, ISAKMP, ISIS, IUA, Kerberos, L2TP,
455 LLMNR, LSA, MMSE, MPLSCP, NBNS, NetBIOS, NETLOGON, NFS, NTLMSSP, PPP,
456 Quake2, RADIUS, RSVP, RTCP, SAMR, SCSI, SDP, SIP, SMB, SMB Mailslot,
457 SMTP, SPOOLSS, TCP, TDS, TNS, TPKT, Token Ring, VJ TCP, WINREG, WSP
462 CheckPoint Firewall-1 monitor file support and CoSine debug file support
463 were added. Support for pppdump and Netmon files was updated.
468 Ethereal 0.9.5 has been released. This version fixes several potential
469 security problems revealed since the release of 0.9.4. See the security
470 advisory at http://www.ethereal.com/appnotes/enpa-sa-00005.html for
476 The ability to read packet data from a pipe was enhanced. Printing
477 under Windows now works.
482 802.3 LACP, Apache JServ, AODV6, DCERPC Browser, Java RMI, TAPI
487 ATM, BGP, BOOTP, DCE RPC, EPM, Frame Relay, GTP, L2TP, LMP, MAPI, MIP,
488 MMSE, MTP3, NCP, NFS, NSPI, PPP, Q2931, RADIUS, RSVP, SCSI, SMB, SNA,
489 SOCKS, SPOOLSS, SRVSVC, SunATM, TFTP, TNS, Token Ring, UCP, VJ TCP/IP,
495 Ethereal can now write LANalyzer files. The Sniffer, nettl, snoop,
496 NetXRay, and libpcap code all received updates.