1 $Id: NEWS,v 1.127 2003/05/02 00:46:18 gerald Exp $
5 Ethereal 0.9.12 has been released.
7 This release fixes several off-by-one and integer overflow errors
8 discovered by Timo Sirainen. See
10 http://www.ethereal.com/appnotes/enpa-sa-00009.html
14 New and updated features
16 TCP sequence number analysis received a few improvements.
18 General packet reassembly has been improved.
20 The "Follow TCP Stream" window now allows you to filter out the current
23 The Vines code received significant updates.
25 Several enhancements were made to the text2pcap utility.
29 ArtNET, IPX WAN, Intel ANS, iSNS, NLSP, WKSSVC
33 802.11 ACAP, AFP, AIM, AJP, ASAP, BGP, CLNP, CPHA, DCE/RPC, DSI, EAP,
34 IP, IPMI, IPX, IPv6, ISIS, ISUP, IUA, Kerberos, LDAP, M2PA, M2TP, M2UA,
35 M3UA, MGCP, MTP2, MTP3, MTP3MG, Modbus/TCP, NDMP, NDPS, NFS, NLSP, PGM,
36 Q.931, RANAP, RPC, RSVP, SCCP, SCCPMG, SCTP, SMB, SNMP, SPX, SSH, SUA,
37 TCP, Telnet, Vines, WBXML, WSP, WTP
39 Updated capture file support
46 Ethereal 0.9.11 has been released.
48 The Ethereal 0.9.10 release was packaged improperly. This release fixes
49 the packaging, and adds minor updates and fixes for the following
52 AFS, OpenBSD enc(4), RTP, SCSI, SIP, SMPP, SSH
54 IA64 support has been improved.
59 Ethereal 0.9.10 has been released.
61 This release fixes a security hole discovered by Georgi Guninski in the
62 SOCKS dissector as well as problems with the NTLMSSP and Rsync code.
63 All users of previous versions are encouraged to upgrade. See
65 http://www.ethereal.com/appnotes/enpa-sa-00008.html
70 New and Updated Features
72 Many small updates were made to the user interface.
74 The "Help" menu now includes the FAQ.
76 The TCP dissector was enhanced. Many more fields are filterable.
78 Tethereal received more IO stats: TCP and UDP top talkers.
80 Packet reassembly has been improved.
82 The "Follow TCP Stream" feature can now export C byte arrays.
84 RTP streams can now be saved to a file.
89 A missing comma in a string array could cause Ethereal to crash when
90 opening the preferences dialog.
95 MSN Messenger, Rsync, SSH, Yahoo! Messenger
100 AFP, AFS, AIM, ATM, Apache JServ, BACNET, BGP, BOOTP, CLNP, COPS, DCCP,
101 DCERPC NT, DCERPC, DNS, ESIS, Ethernet, Frame Relay, GIOP, GTP, HP
102 extended 802.2 LLC, HP-UX remote management, HTTP, IPP, IPX, LLC, LSA,
103 M3UA, MDSHDR, MIP6, MPLS, MySQL, NCP2222, NETLOGON, NLPID, NetFlow,
104 OpenBSD enc(4), OSI, PPP, RADIUS, RMP, RPL, SAMR, SCSI, SMB, SNA, SNMP,
105 SOCKS, SPOOLSS, SRVLOC, SRVSVC, SSL, SliMP3, TCP, Token Ring, WBXML,
106 Wellfleet BofL X.25, X11
109 Updated Capture File Support
111 NetXRay, NGSniffer, Snoop
116 Ethereal 0.9.9 has been released.
118 Please note the next release will NOT be 1.0. There are still more
119 features to be added before a 1.0 release will be ready.
122 New and Updated Features
124 Plugin search behavior was improved under Unix, allowing more than one
125 version of Ethereal to be installed at one time.
127 The statistics graphs have been enhanced. More statistics have been
130 Round-trip-time statistics are now computed for SMB traffic.
132 NCP Call and Reply times are now tracked.
134 Top talker statistics for Ethernet, IP and Token Ring are now
135 available (tethereal only).
137 Color allocation and handling was improved.
139 The RADIUS dissector can now decrypt user passwords.
141 Tethereal now supports reading from a pipe under Unix.
143 The ATM code received major improvements.
145 The DOS Sniffer code also received major improvements.
147 For those that compile Ethereal from source, some fixes and updates
148 have been made to the configuration and build environment.
153 The capture progress window now shows the correct number of elapsed
156 A potential infinite loop in the TCP graphing code has been fixed.
161 MDSHDR, MEGACO, MySQL, SDLC, X.29
166 802.11, AFP, AFS, AIM, ARCNET, ASAP, ATM, BPDU, Cisco HDLC, CLNP, DCE
167 RPC, DDTP, Ethernet, FC-ELS, FCIP, H.261, IMSI, IP, IP-over-FC, L2TP,
168 LMI, M3UA, MTP3, NCP, NetBIOS, NETLOGON, ONC RPC, OSPF, PIM, PPP,
169 RADIUS, RANAP, RPC, SAMR, SCTP, SMB, SPNEGO, SPOOLSS, SRVLOC, SRVSVC,
170 SUA, TNS, Token Ring, Wellfleet HDLC, X.25
173 Updated Capture File Support
175 Firewall-1, Netmon, NetXRay, Radcom, Sniffer
180 Ethereal 0.9.8 has been released.
182 Serious problems with the BGP, LMP, PPP, and TDS dissectors have been
185 http://www.ethereal.com/appnotes/enpa-sa-00007.html
190 New and Updated Features
192 The TAP subsystem received major updates. Tethereal can display
193 more statistics, and several graphs have been added to Ethereal.
195 A protocol hierarchy statistics tap was added to tethereal. This code
196 may be used to replace the hierarchy statistics code in Ethereal.
198 More updates have been added to TCP analysis.
200 After a long hiatus, the Windows installer once again includes SNMP
203 The total running time of the capture is now displayed in the capture
204 progress dialog box. The capture progress dialog also shows ARP packets.
206 The look of the plugins dialog was revamped.
209 Bug Fixes and Updates
211 A bug which caused Ethereal under Windows to crash when "Update list of
212 packets in real time" was enabled has been fixed.
214 The stability of the text2pcap utility has been improved.
216 In tethereal, the packet count is properly displayed when you ^C out of a
222 ARCNET, ClearCase NFS, DCERPC LSA_DS, Fibre Channel, HyperSCSI, MDNS,
228 AFP, AFS, BACNet, BGP, DCERPC, DCERPC EPM, DCERPC LSA, DCERPC NDR,
229 DCERPC NT, DCERPC SAMR, DCERPC UPDATE, GRE, GTP, HTTP, IPv6CP, IPX,
230 iSCSI, ISDN, IUA, LAPD, LDAP, M2PA, NDPS, NDS, NetBIOS, NFS, NTLMSSP,
231 OSPF, PPP, PPPoE, Q.2931, Q.931, RPC, RSVP, SCSI, SCTP, SMB, SNMP,
232 Spanning Tree, SPNEGO, SPOOLSS, SPX, SRVLOC, TCP, Telnet, V.120, WEP,
236 Updated Capture File Support
238 AIX iptrace and tcpdump, NetXRay, Sniffer, snoop
241 == September 28, 2002
243 Ethereal 0.9.7 has been released.
247 In order to improve the out-of-box responsiveness of Ethereal and
248 Tethereal, network name resolution has been disabled by default.
250 TCP analysis (a feature added in the 0.9.6 release) was improved.
252 The NCP code base received quite a few updates.
254 Initial support for version 2 of the GTK+ library was added.
256 RPC staticstics (which use the new Tap API) were added.
258 Due to added and updated support for the NTLM, SNEGO, and GSS-API
259 protocols, Ethereal can now dissect most of the security blobs for
260 Windows 2000 authentication.
262 The Ethernet "manuf" file now handles addresses specified with a
263 mask, and contains many well-known addresses.
268 802.1s MSTP, FIX, GSS-API, Interbase, NDPS, Netflow (Cisco and Juniper),
269 SCCP-Management, SPNEGO
271 The following DCE/RPC protocols were also added:
273 AFS4INT, BOSSVR, CDS_CLERKSERVER, CDS_SOLICIT, CPRPC_SERVER, DNSSERVER,
274 DTSPROVIDER, DTSSTIME_REQ, FLDB, FTSERVER, KRB5RPC, REPADMIN, REP_PROC,
275 ROVERRIDE, RPRIV, RS_ATTR, RSEC_LOGIN, RS_MISC, RS_PGO, RS_REPLIST,
276 RS_UNIX, SECIDMAP, TKN4INT, UBIKDISK, UKIKVOTE
281 AFP, AODV/AODV6, BGP, CHDLC, CHPA, DCE/RPC CONV, DCE/RPC LSA, DCE/RPC
282 NT, DCE/RPC SAMR, DHCP, DNS, DOCSIS, EAP, GTP, HTTP, IP, iSCSI, IS-IS,
283 Kerberos, LDAP, LDP, M2PA MMSE, NBNS, NCP, NDS, NETLOGON, NTLMSSP, OSI
284 Q.931 RPC, RPCSTAT, SCSI, Skinny, SMB, SNEGO, SPOOLSS, SRVSVC, TCP, WSP,
289 Ethereal 0.9.6 has been released.
293 A buffer overflow in the ISIS dissector has been fixed. More
294 information can be found at
295 http://www.ethereal.com/appnotes/enpa-sa-00006.html.
297 A bad TCP header could cause problems for the "Follow TCP Stream"
300 Setting "column.format" from the command line no longer crashes
301 Ethereal and Tethereal.
303 Problems with capture files being overwritten (e.g. if you try to save over
304 the current capture file) have been fixed.
306 An SMB conversation handling bug has been fixed.
308 Thanks to Valgrind, several memory leaks have been fixed.
310 Some problems with printing under Windows have been fixed.
315 TCP sequence number analysis has been added.
317 The DCE RPC NETLOGON dissector has received a major overhaul.
319 Data types throughout the code have been cleaned up.
324 CPHA, DOCSIS, NTLMSSP, Xyplex terminal server protocol, ZIP
329 802.11, AFP, ASAP, BGP, CDP, CDPCP, CPHA, DDP, DCERPC, DCERPC NT, DCERPC
330 REG, EPM, FTP, HCLNFSD, HTTP, IPX, ISAKMP, ISIS, IUA, Kerberos, L2TP,
331 LLMNR, LSA, MMSE, MPLSCP, NBNS, NetBIOS, NETLOGON, NFS, NTLMSSP, PPP,
332 Quake2, RADIUS, RSVP, RTCP, SAMR, SCSI, SDP, SIP, SMB, SMB Mailslot,
333 SMTP, SPOOLSS, TCP, TDS, TNS, TPKT, Token Ring, VJ TCP, WINREG, WSP
338 CheckPoint Firewall-1 monitor file support and CoSine debug file support
339 were added. Support for pppdump and Netmon files was updated.
344 Ethereal 0.9.5 has been released. This version fixes several potential
345 security problems revealed since the release of 0.9.4. See the security
346 advisory at http://www.ethereal.com/appnotes/enpa-sa-00005.html for
352 The ability to read packet data from a pipe was enhanced. Printing
353 under Windows now works.
358 802.3 LACP, Apache JServ, AODV6, DCERPC Browser, Java RMI, TAPI
363 ATM, BGP, BOOTP, DCE RPC, EPM, Frame Relay, GTP, L2TP, LMP, MAPI, MIP,
364 MMSE, MTP3, NCP, NFS, NSPI, PPP, Q2931, RADIUS, RSVP, SCSI, SMB, SNA,
365 SOCKS, SPOOLSS, SRVSVC, SunATM, TFTP, TNS, Token Ring, UCP, VJ TCP/IP,
371 Ethereal can now write LANalyzer files. The Sniffer, nettl, snoop,
372 NetXRay, and libpcap code all received updates.