1 $Id: NEWS,v 1.134 2003/09/08 03:13:14 gerald Exp $
5 Ethereal 0.9.15 has been released.
7 New and updated features
9 Endpoint Talker (aka "top talker") support has been added. Protocol
10 statistics in general have been updated.
12 Searching capture files has been improved even more -- a new "contains"
13 display filter that searches for strings in PDUs has been added. The
14 Find dialog now supports case-insensitive searches, hex data searches,
17 An H.225 dissector has been added. It can automatically recognize RTP
18 and RTCP conversations.
20 A preference file has been added for disabled protocols.
22 Color filters may now be imported and exported from within Ethereal.
64 Updated capture file support
66 Accellent 5Views, CheckPoint FW-1, Endace ERF, LANalyzer,
71 Ethereal 0.9.14 has been released.
73 New and updated features
75 The ringbuffer code has been (nearly) completely rewritten. It now
76 supports an unlimited number of files.
78 Ethereal now supports searching for arbitrary text and binary data in
81 Service response time statistics have been enhanced.
83 Tethereal, the text-mode version of Ethereal, can now be compiled
84 without capture support.
87 New and updated features
89 Echo, eDonkey, Jabber, MS Messenger, sFlow
94 AODV, AODV6, Boardwalk, DCE-RPC, ENIP, Fibre Channel, FIX, FW1, H.245,
95 IGMP, IPsec, IS-IS, iSCSI, ISUP, LDAP, LDP, M2UA, MEGACO, MTP3, NDS,
96 NETLOGON, NTLMSSP, NTP, Q.2931, Q.931, SAMR, SCCP, SCSI, SMB, SMPP, SNA,
97 SNMP, SPNEGO, SPOOLSS, SRVLOC, UCP, Vines, VRRP, WBXML, WEP, WSP, WTP,
101 Updated capture file support
108 Ethereal 0.9.13 has been released.
110 This release fixes a large number of security issues discovered by Timo
111 Sirainen and others. See
113 http://www.ethereal.com/appnotes/enpa-sa-00010.html
117 New and updated features
119 Ethereal now supports a system-wide color filter file.
121 Support for the GNU ADNS library has been added. ADNS allows
122 asynchronous DNS lookups.
124 "Decode As..." functionality has been added to Tethereal via the "-d"
127 The HTTP, FTP, POP, SMTP, IMAP, and ACAP requests and responses are now
128 shown in the protocol tree.
132 distcc, EtherNet/IP, MSRPC ATSVC, RTNET/TMDA
136 802.11, AIM, BGP, CLNP, COTP, CPHA, DCERPC, DNS, EAPOL, Ethernet, FDDI,
137 GSSAPI, IP, ISAKMP, ISIS, LDAP, LSP, M2PA, MAPI, Modbus, NDPS, NFS,
138 NTLMSSP, OSI, OSPF, OpenBSD pflog, PPTP, RMCP, RMI, RPC, RTP, SCSI,
139 SCTP, SIP, SMB, SMPP, SMTP, SNMP, SPNEGO, TACACS, TCP, TSP, WBXML, WSP,
142 Updated capture file support
144 HP-UX nettl, VMS UCX$TRACE
149 Ethereal 0.9.12 has been released.
151 This release fixes several off-by-one and integer overflow errors
152 discovered by Timo Sirainen. See
154 http://www.ethereal.com/appnotes/enpa-sa-00009.html
158 New and updated features
160 TCP sequence number analysis received a few improvements.
162 General packet reassembly has been improved.
164 The "Follow TCP Stream" window now allows you to filter out the current
167 The Vines code received significant updates.
169 Several enhancements were made to the text2pcap utility.
173 ArtNET, IPX WAN, Intel ANS, iSNS, NLSP, WKSSVC
177 802.11 ACAP, AFP, AIM, AJP, ASAP, BGP, CLNP, CPHA, DCE/RPC, DSI, EAP,
178 IP, IPMI, IPX, IPv6, ISIS, ISUP, IUA, Kerberos, LDAP, M2PA, M2TP, M2UA,
179 M3UA, MGCP, MTP2, MTP3, MTP3MG, Modbus/TCP, NDMP, NDPS, NFS, NLSP, PGM,
180 Q.931, RANAP, RPC, RSVP, SCCP, SCCPMG, SCTP, SMB, SNMP, SPX, SSH, SUA,
181 TCP, Telnet, Vines, WBXML, WSP, WTP
183 Updated capture file support
190 Ethereal 0.9.11 has been released.
192 The Ethereal 0.9.10 release was packaged improperly. This release fixes
193 the packaging, and adds minor updates and fixes for the following
196 AFS, OpenBSD enc(4), RTP, SCSI, SIP, SMPP, SSH
198 IA64 support has been improved.
203 Ethereal 0.9.10 has been released.
205 This release fixes a security hole discovered by Georgi Guninski in the
206 SOCKS dissector as well as problems with the NTLMSSP and Rsync code.
207 All users of previous versions are encouraged to upgrade. See
209 http://www.ethereal.com/appnotes/enpa-sa-00008.html
214 New and Updated Features
216 Many small updates were made to the user interface.
218 The "Help" menu now includes the FAQ.
220 The TCP dissector was enhanced. Many more fields are filterable.
222 Tethereal received more IO stats: TCP and UDP top talkers.
224 Packet reassembly has been improved.
226 The "Follow TCP Stream" feature can now export C byte arrays.
228 RTP streams can now be saved to a file.
233 A missing comma in a string array could cause Ethereal to crash when
234 opening the preferences dialog.
239 MSN Messenger, Rsync, SSH, Yahoo! Messenger
244 AFP, AFS, AIM, ATM, Apache JServ, BACNET, BGP, BOOTP, CLNP, COPS, DCCP,
245 DCERPC NT, DCERPC, DNS, ESIS, Ethernet, Frame Relay, GIOP, GTP, HP
246 extended 802.2 LLC, HP-UX remote management, HTTP, IPP, IPX, LLC, LSA,
247 M3UA, MDSHDR, MIP6, MPLS, MySQL, NCP2222, NETLOGON, NLPID, NetFlow,
248 OpenBSD enc(4), OSI, PPP, RADIUS, RMP, RPL, SAMR, SCSI, SMB, SNA, SNMP,
249 SOCKS, SPOOLSS, SRVLOC, SRVSVC, SSL, SliMP3, TCP, Token Ring, WBXML,
250 Wellfleet BofL X.25, X11
253 Updated Capture File Support
255 NetXRay, NGSniffer, Snoop
260 Ethereal 0.9.9 has been released.
262 Please note the next release will NOT be 1.0. There are still more
263 features to be added before a 1.0 release will be ready.
266 New and Updated Features
268 Plugin search behavior was improved under Unix, allowing more than one
269 version of Ethereal to be installed at one time.
271 The statistics graphs have been enhanced. More statistics have been
274 Round-trip-time statistics are now computed for SMB traffic.
276 NCP Call and Reply times are now tracked.
278 Top talker statistics for Ethernet, IP and Token Ring are now
279 available (tethereal only).
281 Color allocation and handling was improved.
283 The RADIUS dissector can now decrypt user passwords.
285 Tethereal now supports reading from a pipe under Unix.
287 The ATM code received major improvements.
289 The DOS Sniffer code also received major improvements.
291 For those that compile Ethereal from source, some fixes and updates
292 have been made to the configuration and build environment.
297 The capture progress window now shows the correct number of elapsed
300 A potential infinite loop in the TCP graphing code has been fixed.
305 MDSHDR, MEGACO, MySQL, SDLC, X.29
310 802.11, AFP, AFS, AIM, ARCNET, ASAP, ATM, BPDU, Cisco HDLC, CLNP, DCE
311 RPC, DDTP, Ethernet, FC-ELS, FCIP, H.261, IMSI, IP, IP-over-FC, L2TP,
312 LMI, M3UA, MTP3, NCP, NetBIOS, NETLOGON, ONC RPC, OSPF, PIM, PPP,
313 RADIUS, RANAP, RPC, SAMR, SCTP, SMB, SPNEGO, SPOOLSS, SRVLOC, SRVSVC,
314 SUA, TNS, Token Ring, Wellfleet HDLC, X.25
317 Updated Capture File Support
319 Firewall-1, Netmon, NetXRay, Radcom, Sniffer
324 Ethereal 0.9.8 has been released.
326 Serious problems with the BGP, LMP, PPP, and TDS dissectors have been
329 http://www.ethereal.com/appnotes/enpa-sa-00007.html
334 New and Updated Features
336 The TAP subsystem received major updates. Tethereal can display
337 more statistics, and several graphs have been added to Ethereal.
339 A protocol hierarchy statistics tap was added to tethereal. This code
340 may be used to replace the hierarchy statistics code in Ethereal.
342 More updates have been added to TCP analysis.
344 After a long hiatus, the Windows installer once again includes SNMP
347 The total running time of the capture is now displayed in the capture
348 progress dialog box. The capture progress dialog also shows ARP packets.
350 The look of the plugins dialog was revamped.
353 Bug Fixes and Updates
355 A bug which caused Ethereal under Windows to crash when "Update list of
356 packets in real time" was enabled has been fixed.
358 The stability of the text2pcap utility has been improved.
360 In tethereal, the packet count is properly displayed when you ^C out of a
366 ARCNET, ClearCase NFS, DCERPC LSA_DS, Fibre Channel, HyperSCSI, MDNS,
372 AFP, AFS, BACNet, BGP, DCERPC, DCERPC EPM, DCERPC LSA, DCERPC NDR,
373 DCERPC NT, DCERPC SAMR, DCERPC UPDATE, GRE, GTP, HTTP, IPv6CP, IPX,
374 iSCSI, ISDN, IUA, LAPD, LDAP, M2PA, NDPS, NDS, NetBIOS, NFS, NTLMSSP,
375 OSPF, PPP, PPPoE, Q.2931, Q.931, RPC, RSVP, SCSI, SCTP, SMB, SNMP,
376 Spanning Tree, SPNEGO, SPOOLSS, SPX, SRVLOC, TCP, Telnet, V.120, WEP,
380 Updated Capture File Support
382 AIX iptrace and tcpdump, NetXRay, Sniffer, snoop
385 == September 28, 2002
387 Ethereal 0.9.7 has been released.
391 In order to improve the out-of-box responsiveness of Ethereal and
392 Tethereal, network name resolution has been disabled by default.
394 TCP analysis (a feature added in the 0.9.6 release) was improved.
396 The NCP code base received quite a few updates.
398 Initial support for version 2 of the GTK+ library was added.
400 RPC staticstics (which use the new Tap API) were added.
402 Due to added and updated support for the NTLM, SNEGO, and GSS-API
403 protocols, Ethereal can now dissect most of the security blobs for
404 Windows 2000 authentication.
406 The Ethernet "manuf" file now handles addresses specified with a
407 mask, and contains many well-known addresses.
412 802.1s MSTP, FIX, GSS-API, Interbase, NDPS, Netflow (Cisco and Juniper),
413 SCCP-Management, SPNEGO
415 The following DCE/RPC protocols were also added:
417 AFS4INT, BOSSVR, CDS_CLERKSERVER, CDS_SOLICIT, CPRPC_SERVER, DNSSERVER,
418 DTSPROVIDER, DTSSTIME_REQ, FLDB, FTSERVER, KRB5RPC, REPADMIN, REP_PROC,
419 ROVERRIDE, RPRIV, RS_ATTR, RSEC_LOGIN, RS_MISC, RS_PGO, RS_REPLIST,
420 RS_UNIX, SECIDMAP, TKN4INT, UBIKDISK, UKIKVOTE
425 AFP, AODV/AODV6, BGP, CHDLC, CHPA, DCE/RPC CONV, DCE/RPC LSA, DCE/RPC
426 NT, DCE/RPC SAMR, DHCP, DNS, DOCSIS, EAP, GTP, HTTP, IP, iSCSI, IS-IS,
427 Kerberos, LDAP, LDP, M2PA MMSE, NBNS, NCP, NDS, NETLOGON, NTLMSSP, OSI
428 Q.931 RPC, RPCSTAT, SCSI, Skinny, SMB, SNEGO, SPOOLSS, SRVSVC, TCP, WSP,
433 Ethereal 0.9.6 has been released.
437 A buffer overflow in the ISIS dissector has been fixed. More
438 information can be found at
439 http://www.ethereal.com/appnotes/enpa-sa-00006.html.
441 A bad TCP header could cause problems for the "Follow TCP Stream"
444 Setting "column.format" from the command line no longer crashes
445 Ethereal and Tethereal.
447 Problems with capture files being overwritten (e.g. if you try to save over
448 the current capture file) have been fixed.
450 An SMB conversation handling bug has been fixed.
452 Thanks to Valgrind, several memory leaks have been fixed.
454 Some problems with printing under Windows have been fixed.
459 TCP sequence number analysis has been added.
461 The DCE RPC NETLOGON dissector has received a major overhaul.
463 Data types throughout the code have been cleaned up.
468 CPHA, DOCSIS, NTLMSSP, Xyplex terminal server protocol, ZIP
473 802.11, AFP, ASAP, BGP, CDP, CDPCP, CPHA, DDP, DCERPC, DCERPC NT, DCERPC
474 REG, EPM, FTP, HCLNFSD, HTTP, IPX, ISAKMP, ISIS, IUA, Kerberos, L2TP,
475 LLMNR, LSA, MMSE, MPLSCP, NBNS, NetBIOS, NETLOGON, NFS, NTLMSSP, PPP,
476 Quake2, RADIUS, RSVP, RTCP, SAMR, SCSI, SDP, SIP, SMB, SMB Mailslot,
477 SMTP, SPOOLSS, TCP, TDS, TNS, TPKT, Token Ring, VJ TCP, WINREG, WSP
482 CheckPoint Firewall-1 monitor file support and CoSine debug file support
483 were added. Support for pppdump and Netmon files was updated.
488 Ethereal 0.9.5 has been released. This version fixes several potential
489 security problems revealed since the release of 0.9.4. See the security
490 advisory at http://www.ethereal.com/appnotes/enpa-sa-00005.html for
496 The ability to read packet data from a pipe was enhanced. Printing
497 under Windows now works.
502 802.3 LACP, Apache JServ, AODV6, DCERPC Browser, Java RMI, TAPI
507 ATM, BGP, BOOTP, DCE RPC, EPM, Frame Relay, GTP, L2TP, LMP, MAPI, MIP,
508 MMSE, MTP3, NCP, NFS, NSPI, PPP, Q2931, RADIUS, RSVP, SCSI, SMB, SNA,
509 SOCKS, SPOOLSS, SRVSVC, SunATM, TFTP, TNS, Token Ring, UCP, VJ TCP/IP,
515 Ethereal can now write LANalyzer files. The Sniffer, nettl, snoop,
516 NetXRay, and libpcap code all received updates.