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20 <title>Wireshark &WiresharkCurrentVersion; Release Notes</title>
22 <section id="WhatIs"><title>What is Wireshark?</title>
24 Wireshark is the world's most popular network protocol analyzer. It
25 is used for troubleshooting, analysis, development and education.
29 <section id="WhatsNew"><title>What's New</title>
30 <section id="BugFixes"><title>Bug Fixes</title>
34 The following bugs have been fixed:
40 Wireshark is unresponsive when capturing from named pipes on Windows.
41 (<ulink url="http://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1759">Bug
46 Ring buffers are no longer turned on by default when using multiple
57 <section id="NewFeatures"><title>New and Updated Features</title>
59 The following features are new (or have been significantly updated)
66 Wireshark supports capturing from multiple interfaces at once.
72 Wireshark, TShark, and their associated utilities now save files
73 using the pcap-ng file format by default. (Your copy of Wireshark
74 might still use the pcap file format if pcap-ng is disabled in
81 Decryption key management for IEEE 802.11, IPsec, and ISAKMP
88 OID resolution is now supported on 64-bit Windows.
97 <section id="NewProtocols"><title>New Protocol Support</title>
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105 <section id="UpdatedProtocols"><title>Updated Protocol Support</title> <para>
110 <section id="NewCapture"><title>New and Updated Capture File Support</title>
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120 <section id="GettingWireshark"><title>Getting Wireshark</title>
122 Wireshark source code and installation packages are available from
123 <ulink url="http://www.wireshark.org/download.html">http://www.wireshark.org/download.html</ulink>.
126 <section id="VendorPackages"><title>Vendor-supplied Packages</title>
128 Most Linux and Unix vendors supply their own Wireshark packages.
129 You can usually install or upgrade Wireshark using the package management
130 system specific to that platform. A list of third-party packages
132 <ulink url="http://www.wireshark.org/download.html#thirdparty">download page</ulink>
133 on the Wireshark web site.
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140 <section id="RemovingWireshark"><title>Removing Wireshark</title>
146 <section id="FileLocations"><title>File Locations</title>
148 Wireshark and TShark look in several different locations for
149 preference files, plugins, SNMP MIBS, and RADIUS dictionaries.
150 These locations vary from platform to platform. You can use
151 About→Folders to find the default locations on your system.
155 <section id="KnownProblems"><title>Known Problems</title>
158 Wireshark might make your system disassociate from a wireless network
160 (<ulink url="http://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1315">Bug
165 Dumpcap might not quit if Wireshark or TShark crashes.
166 (<ulink url="http://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1419">Bug
171 The BER dissector might infinitely loop.
172 (<ulink url="http://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1516">Bug
177 Capture filters aren't applied when capturing from named pipes.
178 (<ulink url="http://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1814">Bug
183 Filtering tshark captures with display filters (-R) no longer works.
184 (<ulink url="http://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=2234">Bug
189 The 64-bit Windows installer does not ship with libsmi.
190 (<ulink url="http://wiki.wireshark.org/Development/Win64">Win64
191 development page</ulink>)
195 Application crash when changing real-time option.
196 (<ulink url="http://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=4035">Bug
201 Hex pane display issue after startup.
202 (<ulink url="http://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=4056">Bug
207 Packet list rows are oversized.
208 (<ulink url="http://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=4357">Bug
213 Summary pane selected frame highlighting not maintained.
214 (<ulink url="http://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=4445">Bug
219 Wireshark and TShark will display incorrect delta times in some cases.
220 (<ulink url="http://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=5356">Bug
223 <ulink url="http://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=5356">bug
228 Character echo pauses in Capture Filter field in Capture Options.
229 (<ulink url="http://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=5356">Bug
235 <section id="GettingHelp"><title>Getting Help</title>
237 Community support is available on
238 <ulink url="http://ask.wireshark.org/">Wireshark's Q&A site</ulink>
239 and on the wireshark-users mailing list.
240 Subscription information and archives for all of Wireshark's mailing
241 lists can be found on <ulink url="http://www.wireshark.org/lists/">the
245 Training is available from
246 <ulink url="http://www.wiresharktraining.com/">Wireshark University</ulink>.
250 <section id="FAQ"><title>Frequently Asked Questions</title>
252 A complete FAQ is available on the
253 <ulink url="http://www.wireshark.org/faq.html">Wireshark web site</ulink>.