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58 <title>Ethereal &EtherealCurrentVersion; Release Notes</title>
60 <section id="WhatIs"><title>What is Ethereal?</title>
62 Ethereal is the world's most popular network protocol analyzer. It
63 is used for troubleshooting, analysis, development, and education.
67 <section id="WhatsNew"><title>What's New</title>
68 <section><title>Bugfixes</title>
70 The following bugs have been fixed since the previous release:
74 The ISAKMP dissector could exhaust system memory.
75 <!-- Fixed in r15163 -->
76 <!-- Bug IDs: none -->
77 Versions affected: 0.10.11 to 0.10.12.
81 The FC-FCS dissector could exhaust system memory.
82 <!-- Fixed in r15204 -->
84 Versions affected: 0.9.0 to 0.10.12.
88 The RSVP dissector could exhaust system memory.
89 <!-- Fixed in r15206 -->
90 <!-- Bug IDs: 311, 314 -->
91 Versions affected: 0.9.4 to 0.10.12.
95 The ISIS LSP dissector could exhaust system memory.
96 <!-- Fixed in r15245 -->
97 <!-- Bug IDs: 320, 326 -->
98 Versions affected: 0.8.18 to 0.10.12.
102 The IrDA dissector could crash.
103 <!-- Fixed in r15265, r15267 -->
104 <!-- Bug IDs: 328, 329, 330, 334, 335, 336 -->
105 Versions affected: 0.10.0 to 0.10.12.
109 The SLIMP3 dissector could overflow a buffer.
110 <!-- Fixed in r15279 -->
111 <!-- Bug IDs: 327 -->
112 Versions affected: 0.9.1 to 0.10.12.
116 The BER dissector was susceptible to an infinite loop.
117 <!-- Fixed in r15292 -->
118 <!-- Bug IDs: none -->
119 Versions affected: 0.10.3 to 0.10.12.
123 The SCSI dissector could dereference a null pointer and crash.
124 <!-- Fixed in r15289 -->
125 <!-- Bug IDs: none -->
126 Versions affected: 0.10.3 to 0.10.12.
130 If the "Dissect unknown RPC program numbers" option was enabled,
131 the ONC RPC dissector might be able to exhaust system memory.
132 This option is disabled by default.
133 <!-- Fixed in r15290 -->
134 <!-- Bug IDs: none -->
135 Versions affected: 0.7.7 to 0.10.12.
139 The sFlow dissector could dereference a null pointer and crash.
140 <!-- Fixed in r15375 -->
141 <!-- Bug IDs: 356 -->
142 Versions affected: 0.9.14 to 0.10.12.
149 <section><title>New and Updated Features</title>
151 The following features are new (or have been significantly updated) since
156 The version of WinPcap included with the Ethereal Windows
157 installer has been updated from 3.1 beta 4 to 3.1. If you
158 want to upgrade WinPcap separately or install a different
159 version you can download it from
160 <ulink url="http://www.winpcap.org">the WinPcap web site</ulink>.
164 The behavior of the display filter "ip.checksum_bad" has changed.
165 Instead of merely checking for its presence you must now make sure
166 it is set, e.g. instead of using "ip.checksum_bad" you must now
167 use "ip.checksum_bad == 1".
175 <section id="GettingEthereal"><title>Getting Ethereal</title>
176 <section><title>Microsoft Windows</title>
178 Download ethereal-setup-&EtherealCurrentVersion;.exe from the
179 <ulink url="http://www.ethereal.com/docs/distribution/win32/">Windows
180 download area</ulink> on the main web site. Double-click the
181 installer executable.
185 <section><title>Sun Solaris</title>
187 Download the appropriate package from the
188 <ulink url="http://www.ethereal.com/docs/distribution/solaris/">Solaris
189 download area</ulink> on the main web site. Uncompress the package
190 using bzip2, and install it using pkgadd.
194 <section><title>Source Code</title>
196 Download ethereal-&EtherealCurrentVersion;.tar.gz from the
197 <ulink url="http://www.ethereal.com/docs/distribution/">main
198 download area</ulink> on the web site. Extract the package
199 using tar and gzip. Run "configure ; make ; make install".
203 <section><title>Vendor-supplied Packages</title>
205 Most Linux and Unix vendors supply their own Ethereal packages.
206 You can install or upgrade Ethereal using the package management
207 system specific to that platform.
213 <section id="RemovingEthereal"><title>Removing Ethereal</title>
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219 <section id="FileLocations"><title>File Locations</title>
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225 <section id="KnownProblems"><title>Known Problems</title>
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231 <section id="GettingHelp"><title>Getting Help</title>
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237 <section id="FAQ"><title>Frequently Asked Questions</title>
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