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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><title>Bug Fixes</title>
33 The following vulnerabilities have been fixed:
38 The SCSI dissector could crash.
39 <!-- Fixed in r18832 -->
40 <!-- Bug IDs: 1034 -->
41 Versions affected: 0.99.2.
45 If Wireshark was compiled with ESP decryption support, the
46 IPsec ESP preference parser was susceptible to off-by-one
48 <!-- Fixed in r18856, r18915 -->
49 <!-- Bug IDs: None -->
50 Versions affected: 0.99.2.
59 <section><title>New and Updated Features</title>
61 The following features are new (or have been significantly updated)
62 since the last release:
66 ESP, Kerberos, and SSL decryption are now supported in the
67 Windows installer. (As as result, Wireshark is now subject to
68 United States export controls.)
72 Wireshark can now generate ACL rules for several popular firewall
80 <section><title>New Protocol Support</title>
86 <section><title>Updated Protocol Support</title> <para>
91 <section><title>New and Updated Capture File Support</title>
99 <section id="GettingWireshark"><title>Getting Wireshark</title>
101 Wireshark source code and installation packages are available from
102 the <ulink url="http://www.wireshark.org/download.html">download
103 page</ulink> on the main web site.
106 <section><title>Vendor-supplied Packages</title>
108 Most Linux and Unix vendors supply their own Wireshark packages.
109 You can install or upgrade Wireshark using the package management
110 system specific to that platform. A list of third-party packages
111 can be found on the <ulink url="http://www.wireshark.org/download.html#otherplat">download page</ulink> on the Wireshark web site.
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118 <section id="RemovingWireshark"><title>Removing Wireshark</title>
124 <section id="FileLocations"><title>File Locations</title>
126 Wireshark and TShark look in several different locations for
127 preference files, plugins, SNMP MIBS, and RADIUS dictionaries.
128 These locations vary from platform to platform. You can use
129 About->Folders to find the default locations on your system.
133 <section id="KnownProblems"><title>Known Problems</title>
136 On Windows systems the packet list scroll bar can sometimes disappear
137 or become unusable. Until the problem is fixed you can work around it
138 by resizing the packet list or the main window.
139 (<ulink url="http://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=220">Bug
144 The <guibutton>Filter</guibutton> button is nonfunctional in the
145 file dialogs under Windows.
149 Trying to save flow data may crash Wireshark.
150 (<ulink url="http://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=396">Bug
155 It may not be possible to re-order coloring rules under Windows.
156 (<ulink url="http://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=699">Bug
161 Multiple tap interfaces may cause a crash under FreeBSD.
162 (<ulink url="http://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=757">Bug
167 Wireshark may crash while viewing TCP streams.
168 (<ulink url="http://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=852">Bug
174 <section id="GettingHelp"><title>Getting Help</title>
176 Community support is available on the wireshark-users mailing list.
177 Subscription information and archives for all of Wireshark's mailing
178 lists can be found on <ulink url="http://www.wireshark.org/lists/">the
182 Commercial support, training, and development services are available
183 from <ulink url="http://www.cacetech.com/">CACE Technologies</ulink>.
187 <section id="FAQ"><title>Frequently Asked Questions</title>
189 A complete FAQ is available on the
190 <ulink url="http://www.wireshark.org/faq.html">Wireshark web site</ulink>.