5 Ethereal 0.10.9 has been released.
7 This release fixes the following security-related issues:
9 The COPS dissector could go into an infinite loop.
11 The DLSw dissector could cause an assertion.
13 The DNP dissector could cause memory corruption.
15 The Gnutella dissector could cause an assertion.
17 The MMSE dissector could free static memory.
19 The X11 protocol dissector is vulnerable to a string buffer overflow.
21 Please see the following advisory for more information:
23 http://www.ethereal.com/appnotes/enpa-sa-00017.html
25 Everyone is encouraged to upgrade.
28 New and updated features
30 Ethereal will now detect and flag weak 802.11 WEP IVs.
32 Windows Sniffer timestamp handling has been greatly improved.
34 A bug which made Ethereal crash at startup on Windows 98 and Windows ME
35 systems has been fixed.
37 Ethereal and Tethereal now support a personal "hosts" file.
39 Invalid field length handling has been greatly improved.
41 The capture progress window title now shows the interface name.
46 AMR, CRMF, JXTA, PKIXCMP, PROFINET CBA,
48 Updated protocol support
50 AIM, ARP, BGP, BOOTP/DHCP, COPS, DAAP, DCERPC EPM, DCERPC, DCOM,
51 DHCPv6, DLSw, DNP, DNS, EAPOL, FC-FCS, FC-SWILS, FC-dNS, FCIP, FCSB3,
52 FIX, GIOP, GSM A, GSM SMS, GTP, Gnutella, H.225, H.245, HTTP, ICMP,
53 IEEE 802.11, IEEE 802a, Kerberos, L2TP, LDAP, LLC, LMP, MGCP, MIME
54 Multipart, MMSE, MPLS, MTP2, NBNS, NDMP, NMAS, NSIP, OLSR, PER, PGM,
55 PPP, PRES, PostgreSQL, Q.931, RADIUS, RMT ALC, RMT NORM, RTCP, RTP,
56 SDP, SEBEK, SIGCOMP, SIP, SLSK, SMB, SMPP, SRVLOC, SSL/TLS, T.38,
57 TACACS, TCAP, TCP, X11, eDonkey, image/GIF, image/JFIF, pflog,
60 New and updated capture file support
66 Ethereal 0.10.8 has been released.
68 This release fixes the following security-related issues:
70 Matthew Bing discovered a bug in DICOM dissection that could make
71 Ethereal crash. (CAN-2004-1139)
73 An invalid RTP timestamp could make Ethereal hang and create a large
74 temporary file, possibly filling available disk space. (CAN-2004-1140)
76 The HTTP dissector could access previously-freed memory, causing a
77 crash. (CAN-2004-1141)
79 Brian Caswell discovered that an improperly formatted SMB packet could
80 make Ethereal hang, maximizing CPU utilization. (CAN-2004-1142)
82 Please see the following advisory for more information:
84 http://www.ethereal.com/appnotes/enpa-sa-00016.html
86 Everyone is encouraged to upgrade.
89 New and updated features
91 Ethereal now has a packet history, similar to most web browsers.
93 Ethereal now supports custom window titles.
95 Minor performance enhancements have been added.
97 RTP analysis has been enhanced.
99 Host name resolution has been improved.
101 Ethereal can now track TCP PDU times. See
102 http://wiki.ethereal.com/TcpPduTime for more details.
104 Ethereal now ships with netscreen2dump.py, a utility which converts
105 netscreen packet-trace hex dumps to hex dumps that can be read by
111 AoE (ATA over Ethernet), Bittorrent, CMIP, GPRS Mobility Management
112 and Session Management, GSM MAP, Extended Security Services, Logotype
113 Certificate Extensions, MAP Dialogue, Network Service Over IP, Online
114 Certificate Status Protocol, PKIX Certificate, PKIX Qualified, PROFINET
115 DCP, IO, Real-Time, Short Message Relaying Service, SSCF-NNI,
118 Updated protocol support
120 3GPP2 A11, ACSE, AIM, AODV, ASN.1 BER, ASN.1 PER, BOOTP, BSSGP, BVLC,
121 CMS, COPS, DCERPC, DCERPC ISystemActivator, DICOM, DHCPv6, DNS, eDonkey,
122 ENTTEC, Etheric, Frame Relay, FTAM, FW1, GIOP, GPRS LLC, GRE, GSM A,
123 GSM SMS, H.225, H.245, H.450, HTTP, IPAddress, IPDC, IPMI, IPsec,
124 ISAKMP, ISUP, JFIF, Kerberos, MQ, MTP3, NMAS, OPSI, PKIX1EXPLICIT,
125 PKIX1IMPLICIT, PKIXProxy, PPP, PRES, Radiotap, RADIUS, ONC RPC, RTnet,
126 RTP, SAP, SDP, SIGCOMP, SIGCOMP UDVM, SIP, SMB, SNMP, SONMP, SSCOP,
127 SSL, Symantec Firewall, T.38, TCP, TDS, TSP, UDP, WSP, WTP, X.25,
128 X.509af, X.509ce, X.509if, X.509sat,
131 New and updated capture file support
138 Ethereal 0.10.7 has been released.
140 The Windows installer features new GLib/GTK+, Net-SNMP and ADNS
141 libraries which fix several known bugs. Unfortunately, a few known
142 GLib/GTK+ bugs remain.
144 In order to avoid a naming conflict with the tcpreplay project, the
145 "capinfo" utility has been renamed to "capinfos".
148 New and updated features
150 Search wrapping is now a configurable option.
152 A lot of material has been added to the Developer's Guide. The User's Guide
153 has been updated as well.
155 The "Decode As..." dialog now supports DCERPC and SCTP.
157 The "Help" menu now includes a link to the wiki.
159 H.323 call analysis is now supported.
164 Cisco PAgP, DAAP, Etheric, Ethernet Configuration Testing Protocol,
165 Ethernet MAC Control Frame, ICE, Kerberos v4, Netscape certificate
166 extensions, PKINIT, PKIX1EXPLICIT, PKIX1IMPLICIT,
169 Updated protocol support
171 AIM, ARTNET, ASN.1 BER, ASN.1 PER, ASN.1, BGP, BOOTP, CIP, CLNP, COPS,
172 DCERPC MAPI, DCERPC SAMR, DCERPC, DCOM, DHCP, DHCPv6, DIAMETER, DNS,
173 EAP, ENIP, EPM, GRE, GSM A, GSM MAP, H.225, H.245, H.248 MEGACO, H.450,
174 ISAKMP, iSCSI, iSNS, ISUP, JFIF, Kerberos, LDAP, LDP, LLC, LWAPP, M2PA,
175 MEGACO, MPLS, NCP 2222, NCP, NDMP, NetFlow, NTLMSSP, OSCAR-ICQ, OSPF,
176 RADIUS, RSVP, RTCP, RTP, RTSP, SCTP, SDP, SES, SIP, Skinny, SMB, SNMP,
177 SUA, T.38, TALI, TCAP, TCP, TDS, Teredo, Time, X.509, X11,
180 New and updated capture file support
182 HP-UX nettl, NG Sniffer
187 Ethereal 0.10.6 has been released.
189 This release fixes a preferences bug present in Ethereal which displayed
191 (ethereal.exe:3512): Gtk-CRITICAL **: file gtkwindow.c: line 3107
192 (gtk_window_resize): assertion `height > 0' failed
194 at program startup. A workaround for 0.10.5 is described in
196 http://www.ethereal.com/lists/ethereal-users/200408/msg00059.html
198 A new command-line utility called "capinfo" has been added to the
199 distribution which prints statistics about capture files.
201 You can now copy conversation and endpoint data to other applications as
205 New and updated features
207 X.509 support has been added.
209 Crash bugs have been fixed in the RTP and NCP dissectors.
211 PostScript(r) output has been improved.
213 A bug that prevented mergecap from creating a new output file has been
216 Conversation and endpoint performance has been enhanced. General packet
217 display performance has been enhanced.
219 The conversation and host list tools have been renamed to be less
222 You can now copy conversation and host list data as CSV data.
224 RTP analysis can now dynamically determine the proper clock rate.
229 AX/4000, CMS, DCERPC (EVENTLOG, FRSAPI, FRSRPC), MANOLITO, PKCS#1,
230 X.509AF, X.509CE, X.509IF, X.509SAT
233 Updated protocol support
235 802.11, AIM, ASAP, ASN.1 BER, ASN.1, COPS, DCM, DHCP Failover (ISC),
236 ENRP, Fibre Channel, GIOP, GSSAPI, GTP, HTTP, ICAP, iSNS, Kerberos,
237 MPLS, NCP, NTLMSSP, OPSI, OSPF, PRES, RADIUS, Rlogin, RSVP, RTPS, RTSP,
238 SCTP, Sigcomp, Skinny, SMB BROWSER, SMB, SNMP, SSL, TDS, Telnet
241 New and updated capture file support
248 Ethereal 0.10.5 has been released.
251 This release fixes bugs in iSNS, SMB, and SNMP, as described in the
254 http://www.ethereal.com/appnotes/enpa-sa-00015.html
256 Everyone is encouraged to upgrade.
259 New and updated features
261 Ethereal can now merge multiple files (you don't have to resort to
262 mergecap on the command line).
264 A preview pane has been added to the file dialog.
266 The capture progress dialog can now be disabled.
268 The about dialog has received further improvements.
270 The behavior of Ethereal's dialog windows has been normalized somewhat.
272 The Windows installer can now associate standard file extensions
275 Ethereal can be configured not to bug you about unsaved captures.
277 Ethereal can open help documentation using the default web browser.
282 DNP, ENRP, giFT, H.235, PacketCable, SigComp, SIR (Serial Infrared)
285 Updated protocol support
287 AIM, ASAP, ASN.1 BER, ARP, ATM, DHCP, CFPI, CLNP, DCERPC (DCERPC, LSA,
288 NT, SAMR, SRVSVC, WKSSVC), EAP, ENIP, Frame Relay, GRE, H.225, H.245,
289 H.450, HTTP, IAX2, IEEE 802.11, ISAKMP, iSNS, ISUP, JFIF, Kerberos, LMP,
290 M3UA, MGCP, MPLS, MTP3, NCP, NetFlow, NFS, OSPF, PIM, RADIUS, RIP, RSVP,
291 RTCP, RTP, RTSP, SCSI, SDP, SIP, SMB, SMTP, SNMP, SOCKS, SSL, T.35, TCP,
292 VRRP, WBXML (User-Agent Profile), WSP, X11
295 New and updated capture file support
302 Ethereal 0.10.4 has been released.
304 This release fixes bugs in AIM, MMSE, SIP, and SPNEGO, as described in
305 the following advisory:
307 http://www.ethereal.com/appnotes/enpa-sa-00014.html
309 Everyone is encouraged to upgrade.
312 New and updated features
314 When built with GTK+ 2.4, Ethereal uses the new, greatly improved, file
317 Export dialogs for Plain text, PostScript(R), PDML and PSML have been added.
319 PostScript(R) output has been improved.
321 The screen layout of the main window can be changed by Preferences now.
323 Many other parts of the user interface have received improvements.
325 Compressed and chunked transfer-coded HTTP bodies are now decoded.
327 A new generic media dissector more cleanly handles HTTP and WSP
328 Content-Type information.
333 ANSI IS-801, BEA Tuxedo, DCERPC EFS, DICOM, GPRS LLC, GPRS SNDCP,
334 IEEE 1588/PTP, PVSTP, MPLS Echo, RTPS
337 Updated protocol support
339 3G A11, ACSE, AFS, AIM, ANSI MAP, ASN.1 (BER, PER), BACnet, CHDLC, COPS,
340 DCERPC (LSA, NETLOGON, SAMR, SVCCTL, SPOOLS) DHCP, DIAMETER, EAPOL,
341 FTAM, GSM, GTP, H.225, HTTP, ICMPv6, IPv4, IPv6, IPDC, IPMI, iSNS,
342 ISUP, Kerberos, LDAP, LDP, MEGACO, MIPv6, MMSE, MQ, MTP3, NTLMSSP,
343 RADIUS, RPC, RTCP, RTPS, RUDP, SCTP, SIP, SLSK, SMB, SPNEGO, TCP,
344 Time, WBXML (EMN, SI, WV-CSP), WCCP, WSP, X11, YMSG
354 Ethereal 0.10.3 has been released.
356 This release fixes several security bugs described in the following
359 http://www.ethereal.com/appnotes/enpa-sa-00013.html
361 Everyone is encouraged to upgrade.
364 New and updated features
366 Display filters now support the bitwise and (&) operator.
368 Protocol hierarchy statistics now have bandwidth columns.
370 The capture dialog has a new layout.
375 3G A11 Cisco SS7 (RUDP, RLM, and Session Management), FTAM, IPDC,
376 MQ, Presentation, SLSK,
379 Updated protocol support
381 802.11, AFP, AIM/Oscar, Axent Raptor/Symantec Enterprise firewall,
382 BER, BGP, CDP, DCCP, DCERPC NETLOGON, DCERPC RS_PGO, DCERPC
383 RS_PROP_PLCY, DCERPC, DCERPD SAMR, DIAMETER, DOCSIS, E.164, EIGRP,
384 FCFCS, GSM A, GSM MAP, GSM SMS, GTP, H.225, IGAP, IrDA, ISUP,
385 Kerberos, M2PA, M3UA, MTP3, NBNS, NCP, NDMP, Netflow, PER, PGM,
386 PostgreSQL, Q.931, Q.933, Quake 2, RADIUS, RSVP, RTSP, SCTP, SMB,
387 SNA, TCAP, TCP, UCP, WBXML, WSP, X11, xDLC
392 EyeSDN, libpcap (tcpdump)
397 Ethereal 0.10.2 has been released.
399 This release fixes two major bugs in 0.10.1:
401 Under Windows, the error
403 ** WARNING **: error opening
404 /usr/local/share/ethereal/asn1/default.tt, No such file or
407 would be printed at startup.
409 The 0.10.1 source release was missing several files required for
413 New and updated features
415 The user interface has received further updates. The Statistics
417 layout has been improved, as well as the capture options dialog
423 Cisco Cast Client Control Protocol
426 Updated protocol support
428 AppleTalk, ASN.1, DCERPC, Diameter, FCSP, GSM A, GSM MAP, GSM SMS,
430 IEEE 802.3, Kerberos, MSN Messenger, PostgreSQL, Q.931, RPL, Skinny,
436 Ethereal 0.10.1 has been released.
439 New and updated features
441 The Windows installer now lets you choose between the traditional
443 version 1 interface and a new GTK+ 2 interface.
445 Several updates were made to Ethereal's user interface. The "File"
447 now has a "most recently used" list. The help menu was greatly
450 The "matches" operator now handles more data types. For example,
454 smtp matches joespammer@example.com
458 I/O statistics now support 1ms resolution.
462 A column resorting crash on the Windows platform was fixed.
466 EDP, IAX2, IrDA, ISMP, OLSR, PostgreSQL, PRES, V5UA
468 Updated protocol support
470 ACSE, AFP, AIM, ANSI MAP, ARCNET, ASN.1, BEEP, BGP, BPDU, BSSAP,
472 COPS, CPHA, DCERPC AFS4INT, FLDB, RPRIV, RS_REPADM, STAT, SVCCTL,
473 TRKSVR, WKSSVC, DCERPC, DHCPv6, DNS, DOCSIS, EAP, ENIP, ESIS, FC,
475 FC-SB3, FW-1, GIF (OK, so it's a file format and not a protocol per
477 GIOP, GRE, GSM MAP, GSM SMS, GTP, H.225, H.245, H.450, HTTP, ICMPv6,
478 IEEE 802.11, IPMI, IPv4, IPv6, IPX, ISAKMP, iSCSI, ISDN, ISUP, JFIF,
479 Kerberos, KPASSWD, L2TP, LDAP, LDP, LWAPP, MGCP, MLD, MMSE, Mobile
481 MSPROXY, MTP3, NBNS, NCP, NDMP, NFS, OSI, OSPF, PER, PGM, Q.931,
483 RMI, RSTAT, RTP, RTSP, SCCP, SDP, SES, SIP, SLL, SLSK, SMB, SMPP,
485 SOCKS, SRVLOC, SSH, SSL, STUN, T.38, TACACS, TCAP, TDS, Telnet,
487 Text, TFTP, TZSP, UDP, Vines, WAP, WBXML, WSP, WTP, X11
490 Updated capture file support
492 DBS EtherWatch, EtherPeek/AiroPeek, EyeSDN, LANAlzyer, NetXRay,
498 Ethereal 0.10.0 has been released.
500 This release fixes issues in the SMB and Q.931 dissectors that could
501 make Ethereal and Tethereal crash. See
503 http://www.ethereal.com/appnotes/enpa-sa-00012.html
507 New and updated features
509 Many performance improvements have been made to the code. Most
511 should see a 2x to 3x performance increase when loading and working
515 A "matches" display filter operator has been added. It is similar
517 the "contains" operator, but supports Perl-compatible regular
520 Tethereal can now dump packet data in XML (PDML) format.
522 The main application menus have been rearranged and the help windows
523 have been revamped, along with a host of other UI enhancements.
525 The capture progress window now features bar graphs.
527 The GLib, GTK+, Net-SNMP, and zlib libraries that ship with the
529 installer have been updated.
533 BFD, CCSDS, CPFI, DCE/RPC {BUDB, EPM4, ICL_RPC, RS_PLCY,
535 IGAP, ISO 8327-1 SES, MS Kpasswd, RTCFG, SEBEK,
537 Updated protocol support
539 ACN, AFP, ANSI A, ANSI MAP, ASN.1, BSMAP, BSSAP, CPFI, DCE/RPC
541 EPM, NDR, SRVSVC, STAT, WKSSVC}, DCE/RPC, DHCP, DNS, DOCSIS, DSI,
543 ENTTEC, FC ELS, FC FZS, FC-SP, FC-SWILS, GIOP, GPRS NS, GSM A, GSM
545 H.225, H.450, HTTP, ICMP, IPv6, IS-IS, ISAKMP, ISUP, Kerberos, LDAP,
546 LDP, MIPv6, MMSE, MS Proxy, MTP3, NCP 2222, NTP, PIM, RADIUS, RANAP,
547 RDM, RSVP, RTCP, RTP, SCCP, SDP, SIP, SMB, SMPP, SOCKS, SONMP,
549 SSL, TACACS, TCAP, TCP, TPKT, TZSP, UCP, WAP, WBXML, WLAN, WSP, WTP
552 Updated capture file support
554 AiroPeek v9 (2.x) support was added. Network Instruments Observer
556 Snoop support was updated.
561 Ethereal 0.9.16 has been released.
563 This release fixes potential security issues with the GTP, ISAKMP,
564 MEGACO, and SOCKS dissectors. See
566 http://www.ethereal.com/appnotes/enpa-sa-00011.html
570 New and updated features
572 Ethereal has leapt forward into the 90's and added a toolbar.
574 Ethereal and Tethereal can now force the data link type of captured
577 RTP analysis has been enhanced.
579 Individual frames can now be marked as time references
581 Service response time and general I/O statistics have been enhanced.
583 statistics can now calculate client load (experimental).
587 ACN, ALCAP, ANSI MAP, ASN.1 BER, BSSAP, DCE/RPC DRSUAPI, DCE/RPC
588 INITSHUTDOWN, DCE/RPC RS_BIND, FC-SP, FICON, GSM BSSMAP, GSM DTAP,
590 SMS TPDU, GSM SMS, GSM SS, H.450, IOS 4.0.1 IS-637-A (SMS), IS-683-A
591 (OTA), T.38, TCAP, TPCP
593 Updated protocol support
595 AODV, ASN.1 PER, BSSGP, CDP, Cisco HDLC, COPS, DCE/RPC BROWSER,
597 DNSSERVER, DCE/RPC EPM, DCE/RPC LSA, DCE/RPC Messenger, DCE/RPC REG,
598 DCE/RPC SVCCTL, DCE/RPC, DFS, DHCPv6, DOCSIS, EAPOL, ENIP, Frame
600 FTP, GPRS, Gryphon, GTP, H.225, H.245, HTTP, ICMP, IEEE 802.11, IPX,
601 ISAKMP, ISUP, LAPB, Laplink, LWAPP, MAPI, MDSHDR, MEGACO, MPLS, NCP,
602 NDPS, NETLOGON, NFS, NTLMSSP, OSPF, OXID, PPP, Q.931, Q.933, RANAP,
604 RTP, SAMR, SCCP, SCSI, SCTP, SDP, SIP, SMB, SMPP, SNMP, SOCKS,
606 SPOOLSS SRVLOC, SRVSVC, T.35, TACACS+, TAPI, TCP, TZSP, WKSSVC, WSP,
607 X.25, Yahoo! Messenger
610 Updated capture file support
612 Linux Bluez Bluetooth hcidump support has been added.
614 Endace ERF and Network Instruments Observer, and NetXRay support has
620 Ethereal 0.9.15 has been released.
622 New and updated features
624 Many often-requested features have been added with this release. If
625 you're running an older version of Ethereal you may want to have a
628 Conversation List (aka "top talker") support has been added to
630 and Tethereal. Protocol statistics in general have been updated.
632 Searching capture files has been improved even more -- a new
634 display filter operator that searches for strings in PDUs has been
635 added. The Find dialog now supports case-insensitive searches, hex
639 An H.225 dissector has been added. It can automatically recognize
641 and RTCP conversations.
643 A preference file has been added for disabled protocols.
645 Color filters may now be imported and exported from within Ethereal.
647 A new column type has been added for cumulative bytes.
652 GPRS BSSGP, GPRS NS, H.225, H.263, LWAPP, Laplink, Q.933, STUN
657 ArtNet, BOOTP/DHCP, DCE/RPC, DCERPCSTAT, DHCPv6, DOCSIS, ENIP,
659 FCIP, Frame Relay, H.245, HTTP, IPsec, iSCSI, LDAP, LWRES, M2UA,
661 MEGACO, MTP3, NCP, NDPS, NFS, NTLMSSP, PPTP, Q.931, RPC, SAMR, SCCP,
662 SCTP, SIP, SMB, SMPP, SNA, SNMP, SRVLOC, SUA, TCP, TDS, UCD, UDP,
666 Updated capture file support
668 Support for Accellent 5Views and Endace ERF capture files was added.
669 CheckPoint FW-1 and Novell LANalyzer support has been enhanced.
674 Ethereal 0.9.14 has been released.
676 New and updated features
678 The ringbuffer code has been (nearly) completely rewritten. It now
679 supports an unlimited number of files.
681 Ethereal now supports searching for arbitrary text and binary data
685 Service response time statistics have been enhanced.
687 Tethereal, the text-mode version of Ethereal, can now be compiled
688 without capture support.
691 New and updated features
693 Echo, eDonkey, Jabber, MS Messenger, sFlow
698 AODV, AODV6, Boardwalk, DCE-RPC, ENIP, Fibre Channel, FIX, FW1,
700 IGMP, IPsec, IS-IS, iSCSI, ISUP, LDAP, LDP, M2UA, MEGACO, MTP3,
702 NETLOGON, NTLMSSP, NTP, Q.2931, Q.931, SAMR, SCCP, SCSI, SMB, SMPP,
704 SNMP, SPNEGO, SPOOLSS, SRVLOC, UCP, Vines, VRRP, WBXML, WEP, WSP,
709 Updated capture file support
716 Ethereal 0.9.13 has been released.
718 This release fixes a large number of security issues discovered by
720 Sirainen and others. See
722 http://www.ethereal.com/appnotes/enpa-sa-00010.html
726 New and updated features
728 Ethereal now supports a system-wide color filter file.
730 Support for the GNU ADNS library has been added. ADNS allows
731 asynchronous DNS lookups.
733 "Decode As..." functionality has been added to Tethereal via the "-
737 The HTTP, FTP, POP, SMTP, IMAP, and ACAP requests and responses are
739 shown in the protocol tree.
743 distcc, EtherNet/IP, MSRPC ATSVC, RTNET/TMDA
747 802.11, AIM, BGP, CLNP, COTP, CPHA, DCERPC, DNS, EAPOL, Ethernet,
749 GSSAPI, IP, ISAKMP, ISIS, LDAP, LSP, M2PA, MAPI, Modbus, NDPS, NFS,
750 NTLMSSP, OSI, OSPF, OpenBSD pflog, PPTP, RMCP, RMI, RPC, RTP, SCSI,
751 SCTP, SIP, SMB, SMPP, SMTP, SNMP, SPNEGO, TACACS, TCP, TSP, WBXML,
755 Updated capture file support
757 HP-UX nettl, VMS UCX$TRACE
762 Ethereal 0.9.12 has been released.
764 This release fixes several off-by-one and integer overflow errors
765 discovered by Timo Sirainen. See
767 http://www.ethereal.com/appnotes/enpa-sa-00009.html
771 New and updated features
773 TCP sequence number analysis received a few improvements.
775 General packet reassembly has been improved.
777 The "Follow TCP Stream" window now allows you to filter out the
781 The Vines code received significant updates.
783 Several enhancements were made to the text2pcap utility.
787 ArtNET, IPX WAN, Intel ANS, iSNS, NLSP, WKSSVC
791 802.11 ACAP, AFP, AIM, AJP, ASAP, BGP, CLNP, CPHA, DCE/RPC, DSI,
793 IP, IPMI, IPX, IPv6, ISIS, ISUP, IUA, Kerberos, LDAP, M2PA, M2TP,
795 M3UA, MGCP, MTP2, MTP3, MTP3MG, Modbus/TCP, NDMP, NDPS, NFS, NLSP,
797 Q.931, RANAP, RPC, RSVP, SCCP, SCCPMG, SCTP, SMB, SNMP, SPX, SSH,
799 TCP, Telnet, Vines, WBXML, WSP, WTP
801 Updated capture file support
808 Ethereal 0.9.11 has been released.
810 The Ethereal 0.9.10 release was packaged improperly. This release
812 the packaging, and adds minor updates and fixes for the following
815 AFS, OpenBSD enc(4), RTP, SCSI, SIP, SMPP, SSH
817 IA64 support has been improved.
822 Ethereal 0.9.10 has been released.
824 This release fixes a security hole discovered by Georgi Guninski in
826 SOCKS dissector as well as problems with the NTLMSSP and Rsync code.
827 All users of previous versions are encouraged to upgrade. See
829 http://www.ethereal.com/appnotes/enpa-sa-00008.html
834 New and Updated Features
836 Many small updates were made to the user interface.
838 The "Help" menu now includes the FAQ.
840 The TCP dissector was enhanced. Many more fields are filterable.
842 Tethereal received more IO stats: TCP and UDP top talkers.
844 Packet reassembly has been improved.
846 The "Follow TCP Stream" feature can now export C byte arrays.
848 RTP streams can now be saved to a file.
853 A missing comma in a string array could cause Ethereal to crash when
854 opening the preferences dialog.
859 MSN Messenger, Rsync, SSH, Yahoo! Messenger
864 AFP, AFS, AIM, ATM, Apache JServ, BACNET, BGP, BOOTP, CLNP, COPS,
866 DCERPC NT, DCERPC, DNS, ESIS, Ethernet, Frame Relay, GIOP, GTP, HP
867 extended 802.2 LLC, HP-UX remote management, HTTP, IPP, IPX, LLC,
869 M3UA, MDSHDR, MIP6, MPLS, MySQL, NCP2222, NETLOGON, NLPID, NetFlow,
870 OpenBSD enc(4), OSI, PPP, RADIUS, RMP, RPL, SAMR, SCSI, SMB, SNA,
872 SOCKS, SPOOLSS, SRVLOC, SRVSVC, SSL, SliMP3, TCP, Token Ring, WBXML,
873 Wellfleet BofL X.25, X11
876 Updated Capture File Support
878 NetXRay, NGSniffer, Snoop
883 Ethereal 0.9.9 has been released.
885 Please note the next release will NOT be 1.0. There are still more
886 features to be added before a 1.0 release will be ready.
889 New and Updated Features
891 Plugin search behavior was improved under Unix, allowing more than
893 version of Ethereal to be installed at one time.
895 The statistics graphs have been enhanced. More statistics have been
898 Round-trip-time statistics are now computed for SMB traffic.
900 NCP Call and Reply times are now tracked.
902 Top talker statistics for Ethernet, IP and Token Ring are now
903 available (tethereal only).
905 Color allocation and handling was improved.
907 The RADIUS dissector can now decrypt user passwords.
909 Tethereal now supports reading from a pipe under Unix.
911 The ATM code received major improvements.
913 The DOS Sniffer code also received major improvements.
915 For those that compile Ethereal from source, some fixes and updates
916 have been made to the configuration and build environment.
921 The capture progress window now shows the correct number of elapsed
924 A potential infinite loop in the TCP graphing code has been fixed.
929 MDSHDR, MEGACO, MySQL, SDLC, X.29
934 802.11, AFP, AFS, AIM, ARCNET, ASAP, ATM, BPDU, Cisco HDLC, CLNP,
936 RPC, DDTP, Ethernet, FC-ELS, FCIP, H.261, IMSI, IP, IP-over-FC,
938 LMI, M3UA, MTP3, NCP, NetBIOS, NETLOGON, ONC RPC, OSPF, PIM, PPP,
939 RADIUS, RANAP, RPC, SAMR, SCTP, SMB, SPNEGO, SPOOLSS, SRVLOC,
941 SUA, TNS, Token Ring, Wellfleet HDLC, X.25
944 Updated Capture File Support
946 Firewall-1, Netmon, NetXRay, Radcom, Sniffer
951 Ethereal 0.9.8 has been released.
953 Serious problems with the BGP, LMP, PPP, and TDS dissectors have
957 http://www.ethereal.com/appnotes/enpa-sa-00007.html
962 New and Updated Features
964 The TAP subsystem received major updates. Tethereal can display
965 more statistics, and several graphs have been added to Ethereal.
967 A protocol hierarchy statistics tap was added to tethereal. This
969 may be used to replace the hierarchy statistics code in Ethereal.
971 More updates have been added to TCP analysis.
973 After a long hiatus, the Windows installer once again includes SNMP
976 The total running time of the capture is now displayed in the
978 progress dialog box. The capture progress dialog also shows ARP
981 The look of the plugins dialog was revamped.
984 Bug Fixes and Updates
986 A bug which caused Ethereal under Windows to crash when "Update list
988 packets in real time" was enabled has been fixed.
990 The stability of the text2pcap utility has been improved.
992 In tethereal, the packet count is properly displayed when you ^C out
999 ARCNET, ClearCase NFS, DCERPC LSA_DS, Fibre Channel, HyperSCSI,
1006 AFP, AFS, BACNet, BGP, DCERPC, DCERPC EPM, DCERPC LSA, DCERPC NDR,
1007 DCERPC NT, DCERPC SAMR, DCERPC UPDATE, GRE, GTP, HTTP, IPv6CP, IPX,
1008 iSCSI, ISDN, IUA, LAPD, LDAP, M2PA, NDPS, NDS, NetBIOS, NFS,
1010 OSPF, PPP, PPPoE, Q.2931, Q.931, RPC, RSVP, SCSI, SCTP, SMB, SNMP,
1011 Spanning Tree, SPNEGO, SPOOLSS, SPX, SRVLOC, TCP, Telnet, V.120,
1016 Updated Capture File Support
1018 AIX iptrace and tcpdump, NetXRay, Sniffer, snoop
1021 == September 28, 2002
1023 Ethereal 0.9.7 has been released.
1027 In order to improve the out-of-box responsiveness of Ethereal and
1028 Tethereal, network name resolution has been disabled by default.
1030 TCP analysis (a feature added in the 0.9.6 release) was improved.
1032 The NCP code base received quite a few updates.
1034 Initial support for version 2 of the GTK+ library was added.
1036 RPC staticstics (which use the new Tap API) were added.
1038 Due to added and updated support for the NTLM, SNEGO, and GSS-API
1039 protocols, Ethereal can now dissect most of the security blobs for
1040 Windows 2000 authentication.
1042 The Ethernet "manuf" file now handles addresses specified with a
1043 mask, and contains many well-known addresses.
1048 802.1s MSTP, FIX, GSS-API, Interbase, NDPS, Netflow (Cisco and
1050 SCCP-Management, SPNEGO
1052 The following DCE/RPC protocols were also added:
1054 AFS4INT, BOSSVR, CDS_CLERKSERVER, CDS_SOLICIT, CPRPC_SERVER,
1056 DTSPROVIDER, DTSSTIME_REQ, FLDB, FTSERVER, KRB5RPC, REPADMIN,
1058 ROVERRIDE, RPRIV, RS_ATTR, RSEC_LOGIN, RS_MISC, RS_PGO, RS_REPLIST,
1059 RS_UNIX, SECIDMAP, TKN4INT, UBIKDISK, UKIKVOTE
1064 AFP, AODV/AODV6, BGP, CHDLC, CHPA, DCE/RPC CONV, DCE/RPC LSA,
1066 NT, DCE/RPC SAMR, DHCP, DNS, DOCSIS, EAP, GTP, HTTP, IP, iSCSI, IS-
1068 Kerberos, LDAP, LDP, M2PA MMSE, NBNS, NCP, NDS, NETLOGON, NTLMSSP,
1070 Q.931 RPC, RPCSTAT, SCSI, Skinny, SMB, SNEGO, SPOOLSS, SRVSVC, TCP,
1076 Ethereal 0.9.6 has been released.
1080 A buffer overflow in the ISIS dissector has been fixed. More
1081 information can be found at
1082 http://www.ethereal.com/appnotes/enpa-sa-00006.html.
1084 A bad TCP header could cause problems for the "Follow TCP Stream"
1087 Setting "column.format" from the command line no longer crashes
1088 Ethereal and Tethereal.
1090 Problems with capture files being overwritten (e.g. if you try to
1092 the current capture file) have been fixed.
1094 An SMB conversation handling bug has been fixed.
1096 Thanks to Valgrind, several memory leaks have been fixed.
1098 Some problems with printing under Windows have been fixed.
1103 TCP sequence number analysis has been added.
1105 The DCE RPC NETLOGON dissector has received a major overhaul.
1107 Data types throughout the code have been cleaned up.
1112 CPHA, DOCSIS, NTLMSSP, Xyplex terminal server protocol, ZIP
1117 802.11, AFP, ASAP, BGP, CDP, CDPCP, CPHA, DDP, DCERPC, DCERPC NT,
1119 REG, EPM, FTP, HCLNFSD, HTTP, IPX, ISAKMP, ISIS, IUA, Kerberos,
1121 LLMNR, LSA, MMSE, MPLSCP, NBNS, NetBIOS, NETLOGON, NFS, NTLMSSP,
1123 Quake2, RADIUS, RSVP, RTCP, SAMR, SCSI, SDP, SIP, SMB, SMB Mailslot,
1124 SMTP, SPOOLSS, TCP, TDS, TNS, TPKT, Token Ring, VJ TCP, WINREG, WSP
1127 Capture File Updates
1129 CheckPoint Firewall-1 monitor file support and CoSine debug file
1131 were added. Support for pppdump and Netmon files was updated.
1136 Ethereal 0.9.5 has been released. This version fixes several potential
1137 security problems revealed since the release of 0.9.4. See the
1139 advisory at http://www.ethereal.com/appnotes/enpa-sa-00005.html for
1145 The ability to read packet data from a pipe was enhanced. Printing
1146 under Windows now works.
1151 802.3 LACP, Apache JServ, AODV6, DCERPC Browser, Java RMI, TAPI
1156 ATM, BGP, BOOTP, DCE RPC, EPM, Frame Relay, GTP, L2TP, LMP, MAPI, MIP,
1157 MMSE, MTP3, NCP, NFS, NSPI, PPP, Q2931, RADIUS, RSVP, SCSI, SMB, SNA,
1158 SOCKS, SPOOLSS, SRVSVC, SunATM, TFTP, TNS, Token Ring, UCP, VJ TCP/IP,
1162 Capture File Updates
1164 Ethereal can now write LANalyzer files. The Sniffer, nettl, snoop,
1165 NetXRay, and libpcap code all received updates.