1 $Id: NEWS,v 1.125 2003/04/29 02:33:47 gerald Exp $
5 Ethereal 0.9.12 has been released.
7 This release fixes security holes discovered by
9 New and updated features
11 TCP sequence number analysis received a few improvements.
41 Updated capture file support
47 Ethereal 0.9.11 has been released.
49 The Ethereal 0.9.10 release was packaged improperly. This release fixes
50 the packaging, and adds minor updates and fixes for the following
53 AFS, OpenBSD enc(4), RTP, SCSI, SIP, SMPP, SSH
55 IA64 support has been improved.
60 Ethereal 0.9.10 has been released.
62 This release fixes a security hole discovered by Georgi Guninski in the
63 SOCKS dissector as well as problems with the NTLMSSP and Rsync code.
64 All users of previous versions are encouraged to upgrade. See
66 http://www.ethereal.com/appnotes/enpa-sa-00008.html
71 New and Updated Features
73 Many small updates were made to the user interface.
75 The "Help" menu now includes the FAQ.
77 The TCP dissector was enhanced. Many more fields are filterable.
79 Tethereal received more IO stats: TCP and UDP top talkers.
81 Packet reassembly has been improved.
83 The "Follow TCP Stream" feature can now export C byte arrays.
85 RTP streams can now be saved to a file.
90 A missing comma in a string array could cause Ethereal to crash when
91 opening the preferences dialog.
96 MSN Messenger, Rsync, SSH, Yahoo! Messenger
101 AFP, AFS, AIM, ATM, Apache JServ, BACNET, BGP, BOOTP, CLNP, COPS, DCCP,
102 DCERPC NT, DCERPC, DNS, ESIS, Ethernet, Frame Relay, GIOP, GTP, HP
103 extended 802.2 LLC, HP-UX remote management, HTTP, IPP, IPX, LLC, LSA,
104 M3UA, MDSHDR, MIP6, MPLS, MySQL, NCP2222, NETLOGON, NLPID, NetFlow,
105 OpenBSD enc(4), OSI, PPP, RADIUS, RMP, RPL, SAMR, SCSI, SMB, SNA, SNMP,
106 SOCKS, SPOOLSS, SRVLOC, SRVSVC, SSL, SliMP3, TCP, Token Ring, WBXML,
107 Wellfleet BofL X.25, X11
110 Updated Capture File Support
112 NetXRay, NGSniffer, Snoop
117 Ethereal 0.9.9 has been released.
119 Please note the next release will NOT be 1.0. There are still more
120 features to be added before a 1.0 release will be ready.
123 New and Updated Features
125 Plugin search behavior was improved under Unix, allowing more than one
126 version of Ethereal to be installed at one time.
128 The statistics graphs have been enhanced. More statistics have been
131 Round-trip-time statistics are now computed for SMB traffic.
133 NCP Call and Reply times are now tracked.
135 Top talker statistics for Ethernet, IP and Token Ring are now
136 available (tethereal only).
138 Color allocation and handling was improved.
140 The RADIUS dissector can now decrypt user passwords.
142 Tethereal now supports reading from a pipe under Unix.
144 The ATM code received major improvements.
146 The DOS Sniffer code also received major improvements.
148 For those that compile Ethereal from source, some fixes and updates
149 have been made to the configuration and build environment.
154 The capture progress window now shows the correct number of elapsed
157 A potential infinite loop in the TCP graphing code has been fixed.
162 MDSHDR, MEGACO, MySQL, SDLC, X.29
167 802.11, AFP, AFS, AIM, ARCNET, ASAP, ATM, BPDU, Cisco HDLC, CLNP, DCE
168 RPC, DDTP, Ethernet, FC-ELS, FCIP, H.261, IMSI, IP, IP-over-FC, L2TP,
169 LMI, M3UA, MTP3, NCP, NetBIOS, NETLOGON, ONC RPC, OSPF, PIM, PPP,
170 RADIUS, RANAP, RPC, SAMR, SCTP, SMB, SPNEGO, SPOOLSS, SRVLOC, SRVSVC,
171 SUA, TNS, Token Ring, Wellfleet HDLC, X.25
174 Updated Capture File Support
176 Firewall-1, Netmon, NetXRay, Radcom, Sniffer
181 Ethereal 0.9.8 has been released.
183 Serious problems with the BGP, LMP, PPP, and TDS dissectors have been
186 http://www.ethereal.com/appnotes/enpa-sa-00007.html
191 New and Updated Features
193 The TAP subsystem received major updates. Tethereal can display
194 more statistics, and several graphs have been added to Ethereal.
196 A protocol hierarchy statistics tap was added to tethereal. This code
197 may be used to replace the hierarchy statistics code in Ethereal.
199 More updates have been added to TCP analysis.
201 After a long hiatus, the Windows installer once again includes SNMP
204 The total running time of the capture is now displayed in the capture
205 progress dialog box. The capture progress dialog also shows ARP packets.
207 The look of the plugins dialog was revamped.
210 Bug Fixes and Updates
212 A bug which caused Ethereal under Windows to crash when "Update list of
213 packets in real time" was enabled has been fixed.
215 The stability of the text2pcap utility has been improved.
217 In tethereal, the packet count is properly displayed when you ^C out of a
223 ARCNET, ClearCase NFS, DCERPC LSA_DS, Fibre Channel, HyperSCSI, MDNS,
229 AFP, AFS, BACNet, BGP, DCERPC, DCERPC EPM, DCERPC LSA, DCERPC NDR,
230 DCERPC NT, DCERPC SAMR, DCERPC UPDATE, GRE, GTP, HTTP, IPv6CP, IPX,
231 iSCSI, ISDN, IUA, LAPD, LDAP, M2PA, NDPS, NDS, NetBIOS, NFS, NTLMSSP,
232 OSPF, PPP, PPPoE, Q.2931, Q.931, RPC, RSVP, SCSI, SCTP, SMB, SNMP,
233 Spanning Tree, SPNEGO, SPOOLSS, SPX, SRVLOC, TCP, Telnet, V.120, WEP,
237 Updated Capture File Support
239 AIX iptrace and tcpdump, NetXRay, Sniffer, snoop
242 == September 28, 2002
244 Ethereal 0.9.7 has been released.
248 In order to improve the out-of-box responsiveness of Ethereal and
249 Tethereal, network name resolution has been disabled by default.
251 TCP analysis (a feature added in the 0.9.6 release) was improved.
253 The NCP code base received quite a few updates.
255 Initial support for version 2 of the GTK+ library was added.
257 RPC staticstics (which use the new Tap API) were added.
259 Due to added and updated support for the NTLM, SNEGO, and GSS-API
260 protocols, Ethereal can now dissect most of the security blobs for
261 Windows 2000 authentication.
263 The Ethernet "manuf" file now handles addresses specified with a
264 mask, and contains many well-known addresses.
269 802.1s MSTP, FIX, GSS-API, Interbase, NDPS, Netflow (Cisco and Juniper),
270 SCCP-Management, SPNEGO
272 The following DCE/RPC protocols were also added:
274 AFS4INT, BOSSVR, CDS_CLERKSERVER, CDS_SOLICIT, CPRPC_SERVER, DNSSERVER,
275 DTSPROVIDER, DTSSTIME_REQ, FLDB, FTSERVER, KRB5RPC, REPADMIN, REP_PROC,
276 ROVERRIDE, RPRIV, RS_ATTR, RSEC_LOGIN, RS_MISC, RS_PGO, RS_REPLIST,
277 RS_UNIX, SECIDMAP, TKN4INT, UBIKDISK, UKIKVOTE
282 AFP, AODV/AODV6, BGP, CHDLC, CHPA, DCE/RPC CONV, DCE/RPC LSA, DCE/RPC
283 NT, DCE/RPC SAMR, DHCP, DNS, DOCSIS, EAP, GTP, HTTP, IP, iSCSI, IS-IS,
284 Kerberos, LDAP, LDP, M2PA MMSE, NBNS, NCP, NDS, NETLOGON, NTLMSSP, OSI
285 Q.931 RPC, RPCSTAT, SCSI, Skinny, SMB, SNEGO, SPOOLSS, SRVSVC, TCP, WSP,
290 Ethereal 0.9.6 has been released.
294 A buffer overflow in the ISIS dissector has been fixed. More
295 information can be found at
296 http://www.ethereal.com/appnotes/enpa-sa-00006.html.
298 A bad TCP header could cause problems for the "Follow TCP Stream"
301 Setting "column.format" from the command line no longer crashes
302 Ethereal and Tethereal.
304 Problems with capture files being overwritten (e.g. if you try to save over
305 the current capture file) have been fixed.
307 An SMB conversation handling bug has been fixed.
309 Thanks to Valgrind, several memory leaks have been fixed.
311 Some problems with printing under Windows have been fixed.
316 TCP sequence number analysis has been added.
318 The DCE RPC NETLOGON dissector has received a major overhaul.
320 Data types throughout the code have been cleaned up.
325 CPHA, DOCSIS, NTLMSSP, Xyplex terminal server protocol, ZIP
330 802.11, AFP, ASAP, BGP, CDP, CDPCP, CPHA, DDP, DCERPC, DCERPC NT, DCERPC
331 REG, EPM, FTP, HCLNFSD, HTTP, IPX, ISAKMP, ISIS, IUA, Kerberos, L2TP,
332 LLMNR, LSA, MMSE, MPLSCP, NBNS, NetBIOS, NETLOGON, NFS, NTLMSSP, PPP,
333 Quake2, RADIUS, RSVP, RTCP, SAMR, SCSI, SDP, SIP, SMB, SMB Mailslot,
334 SMTP, SPOOLSS, TCP, TDS, TNS, TPKT, Token Ring, VJ TCP, WINREG, WSP
339 CheckPoint Firewall-1 monitor file support and CoSine debug file support
340 were added. Support for pppdump and Netmon files was updated.
345 Ethereal 0.9.5 has been released. This version fixes several potential
346 security problems revealed since the release of 0.9.4. See the security
347 advisory at http://www.ethereal.com/appnotes/enpa-sa-00005.html for
353 The ability to read packet data from a pipe was enhanced. Printing
354 under Windows now works.
359 802.3 LACP, Apache JServ, AODV6, DCERPC Browser, Java RMI, TAPI
364 ATM, BGP, BOOTP, DCE RPC, EPM, Frame Relay, GTP, L2TP, LMP, MAPI, MIP,
365 MMSE, MTP3, NCP, NFS, NSPI, PPP, Q2931, RADIUS, RSVP, SCSI, SMB, SNA,
366 SOCKS, SPOOLSS, SRVSVC, SunATM, TFTP, TNS, Token Ring, UCP, VJ TCP/IP,
372 Ethereal can now write LANalyzer files. The Sniffer, nettl, snoop,
373 NetXRay, and libpcap code all received updates.