Wireshark 0.99.8 Release Notes

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What is Wireshark?

   Wireshark is the world's most popular network protocol analyzer.
   It is used for troubleshooting, analysis, development, and
   education.

What's New

  Bug Fixes

   The following vulnerabilities have been fixed. See the [1]security
   advisory for details and a workaround.

     o The SCTP dissector could crash.

       Versions affected: 0.99.5 to 0.99.7

     o The SNMP dissector could crash.

       Versions affected: 0.99.6 to 0.99.7

     o The TFTP dissector could crash Wireshark on Ubuntu 7.10. (This
       appears to be a bug in the Cairo library on that platform.)
       Reported by Noam Rathaus.

       Versions affected: 0.6.0 to 0.99.7

   The following bugs have been fixed:

     o Wireshark could crash when saving I/O graphs.

     o Wireshark could crash when editing table-based preferences.

     o Wireshark could crash when trying to play RTP streams.

     o Wireshark could crash when trying to apply a display filter
       macro.

     o Wireshark could crash in Turkish and other locales.

  New and Updated Features

   The following features are new (or have been significantly
   updated) since the last release:

     o You can now have multiple configuration profiles.

     o Temporary coloring rules have been added, which let you color
       or filter on a conversation.

     o I/O graphs have been improved.

     o Wireshark now has WLAN traffic statistics.

     o The Wireshark GUI now supports RPCAP.

     o Conversations and endopoints can now be limited to the current
       display filter.

     o Experimental support for the NTAR/PcapNG file format has been
       added.

  New Protocol Support

   AiroPeek Remote Capture, China Mobile Point to Point, Distributed
   Lock Manager 3, EUTRAN X2 Application Protocol, Fieldbus
   Foundation, International Passenger Airline Reservation
   System/Airline Link Control, Microsoft DirectPlay, Path
   Computation Element communication Protocol, Real Time Messaging
   Protocol, S1 Application Protocol, Scripting Service Protocol,
   Societe Internationale de Telecommunications Aeronautiques, Unisys
   Transmittal System, Wi-fi Protected Setup,

  Updated Protocol Support

   3G A11, 3GPP, ACN, ACP133, ALCAP, AMR, ANSI A, ANSI IS-637-A, ANSI
   MAP, ARP, ASAP, AVS WLAN, BACapp, BER, BOOTP, Bluetooth (HCI ACL,
   HCI CMD, HCI EVT, HCI SCO, L2CAP, SDP), CDP, CFM, CMS, COPS,
   Camel, Cisco ERSPAN, DAP, DCERPC SPOOLSS, DCERPC, DHCP, DHCPv6,
   DIAMETER, DMP, DTLS, E.164, EAP, ENIP, ENRP, EtherCAT, Ethernet,
   FMP, FTAM, GMRP, GRE, GSM MAP, GSM SMS, GSS-API, GTP, Gryphon,
   H.223, H.225, H.245, H.263, H.264, H.460, HCI H1, HTTP, ICMP, IEEE
   802.11, IGMP, IPP, ISAKMP, ISUP, JFIF, JPEG, JXTA, Kerberos, LDAP,
   MP2T, MS MMS, MTP3MG, NBAP, NFS, NHRP, NetFlow, P7, PER, PIM,
   PKCS12, PPPoE, PTP, P_Mul, Q.932, Quakeworld, RANAP, RMT ALC, RMT
   LCT, ROS, RPC, RPL, RRC, RTCP, RTP, SCCP, SCTP, SDP, SLL, SMB,
   SMB2, SMPP, SMTP, SNMP, SRVLOC, SSL, STUN2, T.38, TCAP, TCP, TFTP,
   TiVoConnect, UCP, UDP-Lite, USB, VLAN, WBXML, X.411, X.420,
   X.509if, X.509sat

  New and Updated Capture File Support

   Catapult DCT2000, DBS Etherwatch, NTAR/PcapNG, TamoSoft CommView,
   Visual Networks

Getting Wireshark

   Wireshark source code and installation packages are available from
   the [2]download page on the main web site.

  Vendor-supplied Packages

   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 [3]download page on the Wireshark web
   site.

File Locations

   Wireshark and TShark look in several different locations for
   preference files, plugins, MIBS, and RADIUS dictionaries. These
   locations vary from platform to platform. You can use
   About->Folders to find the default locations on your system.

Known Problems

   The Filter button is nonfunctional in the file dialogs under
   Windows. ([4]Bug 942)

Getting Help

   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 [5]the web site.

   Commercial support, training, and development services are
   available from [6]CACE Technologies.

Frequently Asked Questions

   A complete FAQ is available on the [7]Wireshark web site.

References

   Visible links
   1. http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2008-01.html
   2. http://www.wireshark.org/download.html
   3. http://www.wireshark.org/download.html#otherplat
   4. http://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=942
   5. http://www.wireshark.org/lists/
   6. http://www.cacetech.com/
   7. http://www.wireshark.org/faq.html
