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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>Bug Fixes</title>
70 Several security vulnerabilities have been fixed since the
71 previous release. See the
72 <ulink url="http://www.ethereal.com/appnotes/enpa-sa-00022.html">application
73 advisory</ulink> for more details.
77 The IRC dissector could go into an infinite loop.
78 <!-- Fixed in r16290 -->
80 <!-- CVE: CVE-2005-3313 -->
81 Versions affected: 0.10.13.
85 The GTP dissector could go into an infinite loop.
86 <!-- Fixed in r16436 -->
89 Versions affected: 0.9.1 to 0.10.13.
96 <section><title>New and Updated Features</title>
98 The following features are new (or have been significantly updated)
99 since the last release:
103 When cancelling a file load operation, Ethereal will keep
104 displaying the loaded packets now, instead of simply discarding the
108 This can be very helpful to detect wether a specific (huge) capture
109 file is the expected file or not. Remember:
110 The complete load of a huge capture file (>100MB) can take even
117 <section><title>New Protocol Support</title>
123 <section><title>Updated Protocol Support</title> <para>
128 <section><title>New and Updated Capture File Support</title>
136 <section id="GettingEthereal"><title>Getting Ethereal</title>
137 <section><title>Microsoft Windows</title>
139 Download ethereal-setup-&EtherealCurrentVersion;.exe from the
140 <ulink url="http://www.ethereal.com/docs/distribution/win32/">Windows
141 download area</ulink> on the main web site. Double-click the
142 installer executable.
146 <section><title>Sun Solaris</title>
148 Download the appropriate package from the
149 <ulink url="http://www.ethereal.com/docs/distribution/solaris/">Solaris
150 download area</ulink> on the main web site. Uncompress the package
151 using bzip2, and install it using pkgadd.
155 <section><title>Source Code</title>
157 Download ethereal-&EtherealCurrentVersion;.tar.gz from the
158 <ulink url="http://www.ethereal.com/docs/distribution/">main
159 download area</ulink> on the web site. Extract the package
160 using tar and gzip. Run "configure ; make ; make install".
164 <section><title>Vendor-supplied Packages</title>
166 Most Linux and Unix vendors supply their own Ethereal packages.
167 You can install or upgrade Ethereal using the package management
168 system specific to that platform. A list of third-party packages
169 can be found on the <ulink url="http://www.ethereal.com/download.html#otherplat">download page</ulink> on the Ethereal web site.
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176 <section id="RemovingEthereal"><title>Removing Ethereal</title>
182 <section id="FileLocations"><title>File Locations</title>
184 Ethereal and Tethereal look in several different locations for
185 preference files, plugins, SNMP MIBS, and RADIUS dictionaries.
186 These locations vary from platform to platform. You can use
187 About->Folders to find the default locations on your system.
191 <section id="KnownProblems"><title>Known Problems</title>
193 On Windows systems the packet list scroll bar can sometimes disappear
194 or become unusable. Until the problem is fixed you can work around it
195 by resizing the packet list or the main window.
196 (<ulink url="http://bugs.ethereal.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=220">Bug
201 <section id="GettingHelp"><title>Getting Help</title>
203 Community support is available on the ethereal-users mailing list.
204 Subscription information and archives for all of Ethereal's mailing
205 lists can be found on <ulink url="http://www.ethereal.com/lists/">the
206 web site</ulink>. There is also an <ulink url="irc://irc.freenode.net/ethereal">IRC channel dedicated to Ethereal</ulink>.
209 Commercial support, training, and development services are available
210 from <ulink url="http://www.etherealsoft.com/">Ethereal Software</ulink>.
214 <section id="FAQ"><title>Frequently Asked Questions</title>
216 A complete FAQ is available on the
217 <ulink url="http://www.ethereal.com/faq.html">Ethereal web site</ulink>.