1 $Id: NEWS,v 1.130 2003/06/12 01:01:05 gerald Exp $
5 Ethereal 0.9.13 has been released.
7 This release fixes a large number of security issues discovered by Timo
8 Sirainen and others. See
10 http://www.ethereal.com/appnotes/enpa-sa-00010.html
14 New and updated features
16 Ethereal now supports a system-wide color filter file.
18 Support for the GNU ADNS library has been added. ADNS allows
19 asynchronous DNS lookups.
21 "Decode As..." functionality has been added to Tethereal via the "-d"
24 The HTTP, FTP, POP, SMTP, IMAP, and ACAP requests and responses are now
25 shown in the protocol tree.
29 distcc, EtherNet/IP, MSRPC ATSVC, RTNET/TMDA
33 802.11, AIM, BGP, CLNP, COTP, CPHA, DCERPC, DNS, EAPOL, Ethernet, FDDI,
34 GSSAPI, IP, ISAKMP, ISIS, LDAP, LSP, M2PA, MAPI, Modbus, NDPS, NFS,
35 NTLMSSP, OSI, OSPF, OpenBSD pflog, PPTP, RMCP, RMI, RPC, RTP, SCSI,
36 SCTP, SIP, SMB, SMPP, SMTP, SNMP, SPNEGO, TACACS, TCP, TSP, WBXML, WSP,
39 Updated capture file support
41 HP-UX nettl, VMS UCX$TRACE
46 Ethereal 0.9.12 has been released.
48 This release fixes several off-by-one and integer overflow errors
49 discovered by Timo Sirainen. See
51 http://www.ethereal.com/appnotes/enpa-sa-00009.html
55 New and updated features
57 TCP sequence number analysis received a few improvements.
59 General packet reassembly has been improved.
61 The "Follow TCP Stream" window now allows you to filter out the current
64 The Vines code received significant updates.
66 Several enhancements were made to the text2pcap utility.
70 ArtNET, IPX WAN, Intel ANS, iSNS, NLSP, WKSSVC
74 802.11 ACAP, AFP, AIM, AJP, ASAP, BGP, CLNP, CPHA, DCE/RPC, DSI, EAP,
75 IP, IPMI, IPX, IPv6, ISIS, ISUP, IUA, Kerberos, LDAP, M2PA, M2TP, M2UA,
76 M3UA, MGCP, MTP2, MTP3, MTP3MG, Modbus/TCP, NDMP, NDPS, NFS, NLSP, PGM,
77 Q.931, RANAP, RPC, RSVP, SCCP, SCCPMG, SCTP, SMB, SNMP, SPX, SSH, SUA,
78 TCP, Telnet, Vines, WBXML, WSP, WTP
80 Updated capture file support
87 Ethereal 0.9.11 has been released.
89 The Ethereal 0.9.10 release was packaged improperly. This release fixes
90 the packaging, and adds minor updates and fixes for the following
93 AFS, OpenBSD enc(4), RTP, SCSI, SIP, SMPP, SSH
95 IA64 support has been improved.
100 Ethereal 0.9.10 has been released.
102 This release fixes a security hole discovered by Georgi Guninski in the
103 SOCKS dissector as well as problems with the NTLMSSP and Rsync code.
104 All users of previous versions are encouraged to upgrade. See
106 http://www.ethereal.com/appnotes/enpa-sa-00008.html
111 New and Updated Features
113 Many small updates were made to the user interface.
115 The "Help" menu now includes the FAQ.
117 The TCP dissector was enhanced. Many more fields are filterable.
119 Tethereal received more IO stats: TCP and UDP top talkers.
121 Packet reassembly has been improved.
123 The "Follow TCP Stream" feature can now export C byte arrays.
125 RTP streams can now be saved to a file.
130 A missing comma in a string array could cause Ethereal to crash when
131 opening the preferences dialog.
136 MSN Messenger, Rsync, SSH, Yahoo! Messenger
141 AFP, AFS, AIM, ATM, Apache JServ, BACNET, BGP, BOOTP, CLNP, COPS, DCCP,
142 DCERPC NT, DCERPC, DNS, ESIS, Ethernet, Frame Relay, GIOP, GTP, HP
143 extended 802.2 LLC, HP-UX remote management, HTTP, IPP, IPX, LLC, LSA,
144 M3UA, MDSHDR, MIP6, MPLS, MySQL, NCP2222, NETLOGON, NLPID, NetFlow,
145 OpenBSD enc(4), OSI, PPP, RADIUS, RMP, RPL, SAMR, SCSI, SMB, SNA, SNMP,
146 SOCKS, SPOOLSS, SRVLOC, SRVSVC, SSL, SliMP3, TCP, Token Ring, WBXML,
147 Wellfleet BofL X.25, X11
150 Updated Capture File Support
152 NetXRay, NGSniffer, Snoop
157 Ethereal 0.9.9 has been released.
159 Please note the next release will NOT be 1.0. There are still more
160 features to be added before a 1.0 release will be ready.
163 New and Updated Features
165 Plugin search behavior was improved under Unix, allowing more than one
166 version of Ethereal to be installed at one time.
168 The statistics graphs have been enhanced. More statistics have been
171 Round-trip-time statistics are now computed for SMB traffic.
173 NCP Call and Reply times are now tracked.
175 Top talker statistics for Ethernet, IP and Token Ring are now
176 available (tethereal only).
178 Color allocation and handling was improved.
180 The RADIUS dissector can now decrypt user passwords.
182 Tethereal now supports reading from a pipe under Unix.
184 The ATM code received major improvements.
186 The DOS Sniffer code also received major improvements.
188 For those that compile Ethereal from source, some fixes and updates
189 have been made to the configuration and build environment.
194 The capture progress window now shows the correct number of elapsed
197 A potential infinite loop in the TCP graphing code has been fixed.
202 MDSHDR, MEGACO, MySQL, SDLC, X.29
207 802.11, AFP, AFS, AIM, ARCNET, ASAP, ATM, BPDU, Cisco HDLC, CLNP, DCE
208 RPC, DDTP, Ethernet, FC-ELS, FCIP, H.261, IMSI, IP, IP-over-FC, L2TP,
209 LMI, M3UA, MTP3, NCP, NetBIOS, NETLOGON, ONC RPC, OSPF, PIM, PPP,
210 RADIUS, RANAP, RPC, SAMR, SCTP, SMB, SPNEGO, SPOOLSS, SRVLOC, SRVSVC,
211 SUA, TNS, Token Ring, Wellfleet HDLC, X.25
214 Updated Capture File Support
216 Firewall-1, Netmon, NetXRay, Radcom, Sniffer
221 Ethereal 0.9.8 has been released.
223 Serious problems with the BGP, LMP, PPP, and TDS dissectors have been
226 http://www.ethereal.com/appnotes/enpa-sa-00007.html
231 New and Updated Features
233 The TAP subsystem received major updates. Tethereal can display
234 more statistics, and several graphs have been added to Ethereal.
236 A protocol hierarchy statistics tap was added to tethereal. This code
237 may be used to replace the hierarchy statistics code in Ethereal.
239 More updates have been added to TCP analysis.
241 After a long hiatus, the Windows installer once again includes SNMP
244 The total running time of the capture is now displayed in the capture
245 progress dialog box. The capture progress dialog also shows ARP packets.
247 The look of the plugins dialog was revamped.
250 Bug Fixes and Updates
252 A bug which caused Ethereal under Windows to crash when "Update list of
253 packets in real time" was enabled has been fixed.
255 The stability of the text2pcap utility has been improved.
257 In tethereal, the packet count is properly displayed when you ^C out of a
263 ARCNET, ClearCase NFS, DCERPC LSA_DS, Fibre Channel, HyperSCSI, MDNS,
269 AFP, AFS, BACNet, BGP, DCERPC, DCERPC EPM, DCERPC LSA, DCERPC NDR,
270 DCERPC NT, DCERPC SAMR, DCERPC UPDATE, GRE, GTP, HTTP, IPv6CP, IPX,
271 iSCSI, ISDN, IUA, LAPD, LDAP, M2PA, NDPS, NDS, NetBIOS, NFS, NTLMSSP,
272 OSPF, PPP, PPPoE, Q.2931, Q.931, RPC, RSVP, SCSI, SCTP, SMB, SNMP,
273 Spanning Tree, SPNEGO, SPOOLSS, SPX, SRVLOC, TCP, Telnet, V.120, WEP,
277 Updated Capture File Support
279 AIX iptrace and tcpdump, NetXRay, Sniffer, snoop
282 == September 28, 2002
284 Ethereal 0.9.7 has been released.
288 In order to improve the out-of-box responsiveness of Ethereal and
289 Tethereal, network name resolution has been disabled by default.
291 TCP analysis (a feature added in the 0.9.6 release) was improved.
293 The NCP code base received quite a few updates.
295 Initial support for version 2 of the GTK+ library was added.
297 RPC staticstics (which use the new Tap API) were added.
299 Due to added and updated support for the NTLM, SNEGO, and GSS-API
300 protocols, Ethereal can now dissect most of the security blobs for
301 Windows 2000 authentication.
303 The Ethernet "manuf" file now handles addresses specified with a
304 mask, and contains many well-known addresses.
309 802.1s MSTP, FIX, GSS-API, Interbase, NDPS, Netflow (Cisco and Juniper),
310 SCCP-Management, SPNEGO
312 The following DCE/RPC protocols were also added:
314 AFS4INT, BOSSVR, CDS_CLERKSERVER, CDS_SOLICIT, CPRPC_SERVER, DNSSERVER,
315 DTSPROVIDER, DTSSTIME_REQ, FLDB, FTSERVER, KRB5RPC, REPADMIN, REP_PROC,
316 ROVERRIDE, RPRIV, RS_ATTR, RSEC_LOGIN, RS_MISC, RS_PGO, RS_REPLIST,
317 RS_UNIX, SECIDMAP, TKN4INT, UBIKDISK, UKIKVOTE
322 AFP, AODV/AODV6, BGP, CHDLC, CHPA, DCE/RPC CONV, DCE/RPC LSA, DCE/RPC
323 NT, DCE/RPC SAMR, DHCP, DNS, DOCSIS, EAP, GTP, HTTP, IP, iSCSI, IS-IS,
324 Kerberos, LDAP, LDP, M2PA MMSE, NBNS, NCP, NDS, NETLOGON, NTLMSSP, OSI
325 Q.931 RPC, RPCSTAT, SCSI, Skinny, SMB, SNEGO, SPOOLSS, SRVSVC, TCP, WSP,
330 Ethereal 0.9.6 has been released.
334 A buffer overflow in the ISIS dissector has been fixed. More
335 information can be found at
336 http://www.ethereal.com/appnotes/enpa-sa-00006.html.
338 A bad TCP header could cause problems for the "Follow TCP Stream"
341 Setting "column.format" from the command line no longer crashes
342 Ethereal and Tethereal.
344 Problems with capture files being overwritten (e.g. if you try to save over
345 the current capture file) have been fixed.
347 An SMB conversation handling bug has been fixed.
349 Thanks to Valgrind, several memory leaks have been fixed.
351 Some problems with printing under Windows have been fixed.
356 TCP sequence number analysis has been added.
358 The DCE RPC NETLOGON dissector has received a major overhaul.
360 Data types throughout the code have been cleaned up.
365 CPHA, DOCSIS, NTLMSSP, Xyplex terminal server protocol, ZIP
370 802.11, AFP, ASAP, BGP, CDP, CDPCP, CPHA, DDP, DCERPC, DCERPC NT, DCERPC
371 REG, EPM, FTP, HCLNFSD, HTTP, IPX, ISAKMP, ISIS, IUA, Kerberos, L2TP,
372 LLMNR, LSA, MMSE, MPLSCP, NBNS, NetBIOS, NETLOGON, NFS, NTLMSSP, PPP,
373 Quake2, RADIUS, RSVP, RTCP, SAMR, SCSI, SDP, SIP, SMB, SMB Mailslot,
374 SMTP, SPOOLSS, TCP, TDS, TNS, TPKT, Token Ring, VJ TCP, WINREG, WSP
379 CheckPoint Firewall-1 monitor file support and CoSine debug file support
380 were added. Support for pppdump and Netmon files was updated.
385 Ethereal 0.9.5 has been released. This version fixes several potential
386 security problems revealed since the release of 0.9.4. See the security
387 advisory at http://www.ethereal.com/appnotes/enpa-sa-00005.html for
393 The ability to read packet data from a pipe was enhanced. Printing
394 under Windows now works.
399 802.3 LACP, Apache JServ, AODV6, DCERPC Browser, Java RMI, TAPI
404 ATM, BGP, BOOTP, DCE RPC, EPM, Frame Relay, GTP, L2TP, LMP, MAPI, MIP,
405 MMSE, MTP3, NCP, NFS, NSPI, PPP, Q2931, RADIUS, RSVP, SCSI, SMB, SNA,
406 SOCKS, SPOOLSS, SRVSVC, SunATM, TFTP, TNS, Token Ring, UCP, VJ TCP/IP,
412 Ethereal can now write LANalyzer files. The Sniffer, nettl, snoop,
413 NetXRay, and libpcap code all received updates.