-$Id: NEWS,v 1.122 2003/03/05 03:51:23 gerald Exp $
-
-== March ?, 2003
-
-Ethereal 0.9.10 has been released.
-
- This release fixes a security hole discovered by Georgi Guninski in
- the SOCKS dissector. All users of previous versions are encouraged
- to upgrade. See
-
- http://www.ethereal.com/appnotes/enpa-sa-00008.html
-
- for more details.
+Wireshark 1.3.0 Release Notes
-New and Updated Features
+ ------------------------------------------------------------------
+What is Wireshark?
-Bug Fixes
+ Wireshark is the world's most popular network protocol analyzer.
+ It is used for troubleshooting, analysis, development, and
+ education.
- A missing comma in a string array could cause Ethereal to crash when
- opening the preferences dialog.
+What's New
-New Protocols
+ Bug Fixes
-MSN Messenger,
-SSH,
+ The following vulnerabilities have been fixed. See the security
+ advisory for details and a workaround.
+ o The NetFlow dissector could run off with your dog, crash your
+ truck, and write a country music song about the experience.
-Updated Protocols
+ Versions affected: 0.99.5 to 1.0.8
-AFS,
-Apache JServ,
-BACNET,
-BGP,
-DCCP,
-DCERPC,
-DCERPC NT,
-DNS,
-Frame Relay,
-GTP,
-IPP,
-IPX,
-LSA,
-M3UA,
-MDSHDR,
-MPLS,
-NCP2222,
-NETLOGON,
-RADIUS,
-SAMR,
-SMB,
-SNMP,
-SPOOLSS,
-SRVSVC,
-SSL,
-Token Ring,
-X11,
+ The following bugs have been fixed:
+ o Wireshark could crash without warning.
+ New and Updated Features
-Updated Capture File Support
-
-NetXRay
+ The following features are new (or have been significantly
+ updated) since version 1.0:
-== January 23, 2003
+ o The packet list internals have been rewritten and are now more
+ efficient.
-Ethereal 0.9.9 has been released.
+ o Capturing from pipes on Windows has been improved.
- Please note the next release will NOT be 1.0. There are still more
- features to be added before a 1.0 release will be ready.
-
+ New Protocol Support
-New and Updated Features
+ Updated Protocol Support
- Plugin search behavior was improved under Unix, allowing more than one
- version of Ethereal to be installed at one time.
-
- The statistics graphs have been enhanced. More statistics have been
- added:
-
- Round-trip-time statistics are now computed for SMB traffic.
-
- NCP Call and Reply times are now tracked.
-
- Top talker statistics for Ethernet, IP and Token Ring are now
- available (tethereal only).
-
- Color allocation and handling was improved.
-
- The RADIUS dissector can now decrypt user passwords.
-
- Tethereal now supports reading from a pipe under Unix.
-
- The ATM code received major improvements.
-
- The DOS Sniffer code also received major improvements.
-
- For those that compile Ethereal from source, some fixes and updates
- have been made to the configuration and build environment.
-
+ New and Updated Capture File Support
-Bug Fixes
+Getting Wireshark
- The capture progress window now shows the correct number of elapsed
- minutes.
-
- A potential infinite loop in the TCP graphing code has been fixed.
+ Wireshark source code and installation packages are available from
+ the download page on the main web site.
+ Vendor-supplied Packages
-New Protocols
+ Most Linux and Unix vendors supply their own Wireshark packages.
+ You can usually install or upgrade Wireshark using the package
+ management system specific to that platform. A list of third-party
+ packages can be found on the download page on the Wireshark web
+ site.
- MDSHDR, MEGACO, MySQL, SDLC, X.29
+File Locations
+ Wireshark and TShark look in several different locations for
+ preference files, plugins, SNMP MIBS, and RADIUS dictionaries.
+ These locations vary from platform to platform. You can use
+ About->Folders to find the default locations on your system.
-Updated Protocols
+Known Problems
- 802.11, AFP, AFS, AIM, ARCNET, ASAP, ATM, BPDU, Cisco HDLC, CLNP, DCE
- RPC, DDTP, Ethernet, FC-ELS, FCIP, H.261, IMSI, IP, IP-over-FC, L2TP,
- LMI, M3UA, MTP3, NCP, NetBIOS, NETLOGON, ONC RPC, OSPF, PIM, PPP,
- RADIUS, RANAP, RPC, SAMR, SCTP, SMB, SPNEGO, SPOOLSS, SRVLOC, SRVSVC,
- SUA, TNS, Token Ring, Wellfleet HDLC, X.25
+ Wireshark may appear offscreen on multi-monitor Windows systems.
+ (Bug 553)
+ Wireshark might make your system disassociate from a wireless
+ network on OS X. (Bug 1315)
-Updated Capture File Support
-
- Firewall-1, Netmon, NetXRay, Radcom, Sniffer
+ Dumpcap might not quit if Wireshark or TShark crashes. (Bug 1419)
+ Wireshark is unable to decrypt WPA group keys. (Bug 1420)
-== December 7, 2002
+ The BER dissector might infinitely loop. (Bug 1516)
-Ethereal 0.9.8 has been released.
+ Wireshark can't dynamically update the packet list. This means
+ that host name resolutions above a certain response time threshold
+ won't show up in the packet list. (Bug 1605)
- Serious problems with the BGP, LMP, PPP, and TDS dissectors have been
- discovered. See
-
- http://www.ethereal.com/appnotes/enpa-sa-00007.html
-
- for more details.
+ Capture filters aren't applied when capturing from named pipes.
+ (Bug 1814)
+ Wireshark might freeze when reading from a pipe. (Bug 2082)
-New and Updated Features
+ Capturing from named pipes might be delayed on Windows. (Bug 2200)
- The TAP subsystem received major updates. Tethereal can display
- more statistics, and several graphs have been added to Ethereal.
+ Filtering tshark captures with display filters (-R) no longer
+ works. (Bug 2234)
- A protocol hierarchy statistics tap was added to tethereal. This code
- may be used to replace the hierarchy statistics code in Ethereal.
-
- More updates have been added to TCP analysis.
+Getting Help
- After a long hiatus, the Windows installer once again includes SNMP
- support.
+ Community support is available on the wireshark-users mailing
+ list. Subscription information and archives for all of Wireshark's
+ mailing lists can be found on the web site.
- The total running time of the capture is now displayed in the capture
- progress dialog box. The capture progress dialog also shows ARP packets.
+ Commercial support, training, and development services are
+ available from CACE Technologies.
- The look of the plugins dialog was revamped.
-
-
-Bug Fixes and Updates
-
- A bug which caused Ethereal under Windows to crash when "Update list of
- packets in real time" was enabled has been fixed.
-
- The stability of the text2pcap utility has been improved.
-
- In tethereal, the packet count is properly displayed when you ^C out of a
- capture.
-
-
-New Protocols
-
- ARCNET, ClearCase NFS, DCERPC LSA_DS, Fibre Channel, HyperSCSI, MDNS,
- PCLI, RPL
-
-
-Updated Protocols
-
- AFP, AFS, BACNet, BGP, DCERPC, DCERPC EPM, DCERPC LSA, DCERPC NDR,
- DCERPC NT, DCERPC SAMR, DCERPC UPDATE, GRE, GTP, HTTP, IPv6CP, IPX,
- iSCSI, ISDN, IUA, LAPD, LDAP, M2PA, NDPS, NDS, NetBIOS, NFS, NTLMSSP,
- OSPF, PPP, PPPoE, Q.2931, Q.931, RPC, RSVP, SCSI, SCTP, SMB, SNMP,
- Spanning Tree, SPNEGO, SPOOLSS, SPX, SRVLOC, TCP, Telnet, V.120, WEP,
- YPSERV
-
-
-Updated Capture File Support
-
- AIX iptrace and tcpdump, NetXRay, Sniffer, snoop
-
-
-== September 28, 2002
-
-Ethereal 0.9.7 has been released.
-
-New Features
-
- In order to improve the out-of-box responsiveness of Ethereal and
- Tethereal, network name resolution has been disabled by default.
-
- TCP analysis (a feature added in the 0.9.6 release) was improved.
-
- The NCP code base received quite a few updates.
-
- Initial support for version 2 of the GTK+ library was added.
-
- RPC staticstics (which use the new Tap API) were added.
-
- Due to added and updated support for the NTLM, SNEGO, and GSS-API
- protocols, Ethereal can now dissect most of the security blobs for
- Windows 2000 authentication.
-
- The Ethernet "manuf" file now handles addresses specified with a
- mask, and contains many well-known addresses.
-
-
-New Protocols
-
- 802.1s MSTP, FIX, GSS-API, Interbase, NDPS, Netflow (Cisco and Juniper),
- SCCP-Management, SPNEGO
-
- The following DCE/RPC protocols were also added:
-
- AFS4INT, BOSSVR, CDS_CLERKSERVER, CDS_SOLICIT, CPRPC_SERVER, DNSSERVER,
- DTSPROVIDER, DTSSTIME_REQ, FLDB, FTSERVER, KRB5RPC, REPADMIN, REP_PROC,
- ROVERRIDE, RPRIV, RS_ATTR, RSEC_LOGIN, RS_MISC, RS_PGO, RS_REPLIST,
- RS_UNIX, SECIDMAP, TKN4INT, UBIKDISK, UKIKVOTE
-
-
-Updated Protocols
-
- AFP, AODV/AODV6, BGP, CHDLC, CHPA, DCE/RPC CONV, DCE/RPC LSA, DCE/RPC
- NT, DCE/RPC SAMR, DHCP, DNS, DOCSIS, EAP, GTP, HTTP, IP, iSCSI, IS-IS,
- Kerberos, LDAP, LDP, M2PA MMSE, NBNS, NCP, NDS, NETLOGON, NTLMSSP, OSI
- Q.931 RPC, RPCSTAT, SCSI, Skinny, SMB, SNEGO, SPOOLSS, SRVSVC, TCP, WSP,
-
-
-== August 20, 2002
-
-Ethereal 0.9.6 has been released.
-
-Bugs Fixed
-
- A buffer overflow in the ISIS dissector has been fixed. More
- information can be found at
- http://www.ethereal.com/appnotes/enpa-sa-00006.html.
-
- A bad TCP header could cause problems for the "Follow TCP Stream"
- feature.
-
- Setting "column.format" from the command line no longer crashes
- Ethereal and Tethereal.
-
- Problems with capture files being overwritten (e.g. if you try to save over
- the current capture file) have been fixed.
-
- An SMB conversation handling bug has been fixed.
-
- Thanks to Valgrind, several memory leaks have been fixed.
-
- Some problems with printing under Windows have been fixed.
-
-
-New Features
-
- TCP sequence number analysis has been added.
-
- The DCE RPC NETLOGON dissector has received a major overhaul.
-
- Data types throughout the code have been cleaned up.
-
-
-New Protocols
-
- CPHA, DOCSIS, NTLMSSP, Xyplex terminal server protocol, ZIP
-
-
-Updated Protocols
-
- 802.11, AFP, ASAP, BGP, CDP, CDPCP, CPHA, DDP, DCERPC, DCERPC NT, DCERPC
- REG, EPM, FTP, HCLNFSD, HTTP, IPX, ISAKMP, ISIS, IUA, Kerberos, L2TP,
- LLMNR, LSA, MMSE, MPLSCP, NBNS, NetBIOS, NETLOGON, NFS, NTLMSSP, PPP,
- Quake2, RADIUS, RSVP, RTCP, SAMR, SCSI, SDP, SIP, SMB, SMB Mailslot,
- SMTP, SPOOLSS, TCP, TDS, TNS, TPKT, Token Ring, VJ TCP, WINREG, WSP
-
-
-Capture File Updates
-
-CheckPoint Firewall-1 monitor file support and CoSine debug file support
-were added. Support for pppdump and Netmon files was updated.
-
-
-== June 28, 2002
-
-Ethereal 0.9.5 has been released. This version fixes several potential
-security problems revealed since the release of 0.9.4. See the security
-advisory at http://www.ethereal.com/appnotes/enpa-sa-00005.html for
-more details.
-
-
-New Features:
-
-The ability to read packet data from a pipe was enhanced. Printing
-under Windows now works.
-
-
-New Protocols
-
-802.3 LACP, Apache JServ, AODV6, DCERPC Browser, Java RMI, TAPI
-
-
-Updated Protocols
-
-ATM, BGP, BOOTP, DCE RPC, EPM, Frame Relay, GTP, L2TP, LMP, MAPI, MIP,
-MMSE, MTP3, NCP, NFS, NSPI, PPP, Q2931, RADIUS, RSVP, SCSI, SMB, SNA,
-SOCKS, SPOOLSS, SRVSVC, SunATM, TFTP, TNS, Token Ring, UCP, VJ TCP/IP,
-WCP, WEP, WSP, WTP
-
-
-Capture File Updates
-
-Ethereal can now write LANalyzer files. The Sniffer, nettl, snoop,
-NetXRay, and libpcap code all received updates.
+Frequently Asked Questions
+ A complete FAQ is available on the Wireshark web site.
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