5 Ethereal 0.10.10 has been released.
7 This release fixes three security and stability-related issues:
9 The Etheric dissector was susceptible to a buffer
10 overflow. (CAN-2005-0704)
12 The GPRS-LLC dissector could crash if the "ignore cipher bit" option
13 was enabled. (CAN-2005-0705)
15 The 3GPP2 A11 dissector was susceptible to a buffer
16 overflow. (CAN-2005-0699)
18 Please see the following advisory for more information:
20 http://www.ethereal.com/appnotes/enpa-sa-00018.html
22 Everyone is encouraged to upgrade.
25 New and updated features
27 Tree view item context menus now let you browse to the display filter
28 reference and wiki pages for a particular protocol.
30 Online help has been expanded.
32 VoIP call analysis (including nifty connection diagrams) has been
38 AgentX, BUDB, DTP, G.723, IDP, INAP, KINK, Realplayer Data Protocol, Retix Spanning Tree Protocol, RTCP-XR, XML, XNS, SPP
40 Updated protocol support
73 IEEE 802.3 Slow Protocols,
108 New and updated capture file support
110 DBS Etherwatch, Lucent/Ascend, Nettl, Tcpdump (Redback),
115 Ethereal 0.10.9 has been released.
117 This release fixes the following security-related issues:
119 The COPS dissector could go into an infinite loop. (CAN-2005-0006)
121 The DLSw dissector could cause an assertion, making Ethereal exit
122 prematurely. (CAN-2005-0007)
124 The DNP dissector could cause memory corruption. (CAN-2005-0008)
126 The Gnutella dissector could cause an assertion, making Ethereal
127 exit prematurely. (CAN-2005-0009)
129 The MMSE dissector could free static memory. (CAN-2005-0010)
131 The X11 protocol dissector is vulnerable to a string buffer overflow.
134 Please see the following advisory for more information:
136 http://www.ethereal.com/appnotes/enpa-sa-00017.html
138 Everyone is encouraged to upgrade.
141 New and updated features
143 Ethereal will now detect and flag weak 802.11 WEP IVs.
145 Windows Sniffer timestamp handling has been greatly improved.
147 A bug which made Ethereal crash at startup on Windows 98 and Windows
148 ME systems has been fixed.
150 Ethereal and Tethereal now support a personal "hosts" file.
152 Invalid field length handling has been greatly improved.
154 The capture progress window title now shows the interface name.
159 ALC, AMR, CRMF, JXTA, NORM, PKIXCMP, PROFINET CBA
161 Updated protocol support
163 AIM, ARP, BGP, BOOTP/DHCP, COPS, DAAP, DCERPC EPM, DCERPC, DCOM,
164 DHCPv6, DLSw, DNP, DNS, EAPOL, eDonkey, FC-dNS, FC-FCS, FC-SWILS,
165 FCIP, FCSB3, FIX, GIOP, Gnutella, GSM A, GSM SMS, GTP, H.225, H.245,
166 HTTP, ICMP, IEEE 802.11, IEEE 802a, image/GIF, image/JFIF, Kerberos,
167 L2TP, LDAP, LLC, LMP, MGCP, MIME Multipart, MMSE, MPLS, MTP2, NBNS,
168 NDMP, NMAS, NSIP, OLSR, PER, pflog, PGM, PostgreSQL, PPP, PRES, Q.931,
169 RADIUS, RTCP, RTP, SDP, SEBEK, SIGCOMP, SIP, SLSK, SMB, SMPP, SRVLOC,
170 SSL/TLS, T.38, TACACS, TCAP, TCP, X11
173 New and updated capture file support
179 Ethereal 0.10.8 has been released.
181 This release fixes the following security-related issues:
183 Matthew Bing discovered a bug in DICOM dissection that could make
184 Ethereal crash. (CAN-2004-1139)
186 An invalid RTP timestamp could make Ethereal hang and create a large
187 temporary file, possibly filling available disk space. (CAN-2004-1140)
189 The HTTP dissector could access previously-freed memory, causing a
190 crash. (CAN-2004-1141)
192 Brian Caswell discovered that an improperly formatted SMB packet could
193 make Ethereal hang, maximizing CPU utilization. (CAN-2004-1142)
195 Please see the following advisory for more information:
197 http://www.ethereal.com/appnotes/enpa-sa-00016.html
199 Everyone is encouraged to upgrade.
202 New and updated features
204 Ethereal now has a packet history, similar to most web browsers.
206 Ethereal now supports custom window titles.
208 Minor performance enhancements have been added.
210 RTP analysis has been enhanced.
212 Host name resolution has been improved.
214 Ethereal can now track TCP PDU times. See
215 http://wiki.ethereal.com/TcpPduTime for more details.
217 Ethereal now ships with netscreen2dump.py, a utility which converts
218 netscreen packet-trace hex dumps to hex dumps that can be read by
224 AoE (ATA over Ethernet), Bittorrent, CMIP, GPRS Mobility Management
225 and Session Management, GSM MAP, Extended Security Services, Logotype
226 Certificate Extensions, MAP Dialogue, Network Service Over IP, Online
227 Certificate Status Protocol, PKIX Certificate, PKIX Qualified, PROFINET
228 DCP, IO, Real-Time, Short Message Relaying Service, SSCF-NNI,
231 Updated protocol support
233 3GPP2 A11, ACSE, AIM, AODV, ASN.1 BER, ASN.1 PER, BOOTP, BSSGP, BVLC,
234 CMS, COPS, DCERPC, DCERPC ISystemActivator, DICOM, DHCPv6, DNS, eDonkey,
235 ENTTEC, Etheric, Frame Relay, FTAM, FW1, GIOP, GPRS LLC, GRE, GSM A,
236 GSM SMS, H.225, H.245, H.450, HTTP, IPAddress, IPDC, IPMI, IPsec,
237 ISAKMP, ISUP, JFIF, Kerberos, MQ, MTP3, NMAS, OPSI, PKIX1EXPLICIT,
238 PKIX1IMPLICIT, PKIXProxy, PPP, PRES, Radiotap, RADIUS, ONC RPC, RTnet,
239 RTP, SAP, SDP, SIGCOMP, SIGCOMP UDVM, SIP, SMB, SNMP, SONMP, SSCOP,
240 SSL, Symantec Firewall, T.38, TCP, TDS, TSP, UDP, WSP, WTP, X.25,
241 X.509af, X.509ce, X.509if, X.509sat,
244 New and updated capture file support
251 Ethereal 0.10.7 has been released.
253 The Windows installer features new GLib/GTK+, Net-SNMP and ADNS
254 libraries which fix several known bugs. Unfortunately, a few known
255 GLib/GTK+ bugs remain.
257 In order to avoid a naming conflict with the tcpreplay project, the
258 "capinfo" utility has been renamed to "capinfos".
261 New and updated features
263 Search wrapping is now a configurable option.
265 A lot of material has been added to the Developer's Guide. The User's Guide
266 has been updated as well.
268 The "Decode As..." dialog now supports DCERPC and SCTP.
270 The "Help" menu now includes a link to the wiki.
272 H.323 call analysis is now supported.
277 Cisco PAgP, DAAP, Etheric, Ethernet Configuration Testing Protocol,
278 Ethernet MAC Control Frame, ICE, Kerberos v4, Netscape certificate
279 extensions, PKINIT, PKIX1EXPLICIT, PKIX1IMPLICIT,
282 Updated protocol support
284 AIM, ARTNET, ASN.1 BER, ASN.1 PER, ASN.1, BGP, BOOTP, CIP, CLNP, COPS,
285 DCERPC MAPI, DCERPC SAMR, DCERPC, DCOM, DHCP, DHCPv6, DIAMETER, DNS,
286 EAP, ENIP, EPM, GRE, GSM A, GSM MAP, H.225, H.245, H.248 MEGACO, H.450,
287 ISAKMP, iSCSI, iSNS, ISUP, JFIF, Kerberos, LDAP, LDP, LLC, LWAPP, M2PA,
288 MEGACO, MPLS, NCP 2222, NCP, NDMP, NetFlow, NTLMSSP, OSCAR-ICQ, OSPF,
289 RADIUS, RSVP, RTCP, RTP, RTSP, SCTP, SDP, SES, SIP, Skinny, SMB, SNMP,
290 SUA, T.38, TALI, TCAP, TCP, TDS, Teredo, Time, X.509, X11,
293 New and updated capture file support
295 HP-UX nettl, NG Sniffer
300 Ethereal 0.10.6 has been released.
302 This release fixes a preferences bug present in Ethereal which displayed
304 (ethereal.exe:3512): Gtk-CRITICAL **: file gtkwindow.c: line 3107
305 (gtk_window_resize): assertion `height > 0' failed
307 at program startup. A workaround for 0.10.5 is described in
309 http://www.ethereal.com/lists/ethereal-users/200408/msg00059.html
311 A new command-line utility called "capinfo" has been added to the
312 distribution which prints statistics about capture files.
314 You can now copy conversation and endpoint data to other applications as
318 New and updated features
320 X.509 support has been added.
322 Crash bugs have been fixed in the RTP and NCP dissectors.
324 PostScript(r) output has been improved.
326 A bug that prevented mergecap from creating a new output file has been
329 Conversation and endpoint performance has been enhanced. General packet
330 display performance has been enhanced.
332 The conversation and host list tools have been renamed to be less
335 You can now copy conversation and host list data as CSV data.
337 RTP analysis can now dynamically determine the proper clock rate.
342 AX/4000, CMS, DCERPC (EVENTLOG, FRSAPI, FRSRPC), MANOLITO, PKCS#1,
343 X.509AF, X.509CE, X.509IF, X.509SAT
346 Updated protocol support
348 802.11, AIM, ASAP, ASN.1 BER, ASN.1, COPS, DCM, DHCP Failover (ISC),
349 ENRP, Fibre Channel, GIOP, GSSAPI, GTP, HTTP, ICAP, iSNS, Kerberos,
350 MPLS, NCP, NTLMSSP, OPSI, OSPF, PRES, RADIUS, Rlogin, RSVP, RTPS, RTSP,
351 SCTP, Sigcomp, Skinny, SMB BROWSER, SMB, SNMP, SSL, TDS, Telnet
354 New and updated capture file support
361 Ethereal 0.10.5 has been released.
364 This release fixes bugs in iSNS, SMB, and SNMP, as described in the
367 http://www.ethereal.com/appnotes/enpa-sa-00015.html
369 Everyone is encouraged to upgrade.
372 New and updated features
374 Ethereal can now merge multiple files (you don't have to resort to
375 mergecap on the command line).
377 A preview pane has been added to the file dialog.
379 The capture progress dialog can now be disabled.
381 The about dialog has received further improvements.
383 The behavior of Ethereal's dialog windows has been normalized somewhat.
385 The Windows installer can now associate standard file extensions
388 Ethereal can be configured not to bug you about unsaved captures.
390 Ethereal can open help documentation using the default web browser.
395 DNP, ENRP, giFT, H.235, PacketCable, SigComp, SIR (Serial Infrared)
398 Updated protocol support
400 AIM, ASAP, ASN.1 BER, ARP, ATM, DHCP, CFPI, CLNP, DCERPC (DCERPC, LSA,
401 NT, SAMR, SRVSVC, WKSSVC), EAP, ENIP, Frame Relay, GRE, H.225, H.245,
402 H.450, HTTP, IAX2, IEEE 802.11, ISAKMP, iSNS, ISUP, JFIF, Kerberos, LMP,
403 M3UA, MGCP, MPLS, MTP3, NCP, NetFlow, NFS, OSPF, PIM, RADIUS, RIP, RSVP,
404 RTCP, RTP, RTSP, SCSI, SDP, SIP, SMB, SMTP, SNMP, SOCKS, SSL, T.35, TCP,
405 VRRP, WBXML (User-Agent Profile), WSP, X11
408 New and updated capture file support
415 Ethereal 0.10.4 has been released.
417 This release fixes bugs in AIM, MMSE, SIP, and SPNEGO, as described in
418 the following advisory:
420 http://www.ethereal.com/appnotes/enpa-sa-00014.html
422 Everyone is encouraged to upgrade.
425 New and updated features
427 When built with GTK+ 2.4, Ethereal uses the new, greatly improved, file
430 Export dialogs for Plain text, PostScript(R), PDML and PSML have been added.
432 PostScript(R) output has been improved.
434 The screen layout of the main window can be changed by Preferences now.
436 Many other parts of the user interface have received improvements.
438 Compressed and chunked transfer-coded HTTP bodies are now decoded.
440 A new generic media dissector more cleanly handles HTTP and WSP
441 Content-Type information.
446 ANSI IS-801, BEA Tuxedo, DCERPC EFS, DICOM, GPRS LLC, GPRS SNDCP,
447 IEEE 1588/PTP, PVSTP, MPLS Echo, RTPS
450 Updated protocol support
452 3G A11, ACSE, AFS, AIM, ANSI MAP, ASN.1 (BER, PER), BACnet, CHDLC, COPS,
453 DCERPC (LSA, NETLOGON, SAMR, SVCCTL, SPOOLS) DHCP, DIAMETER, EAPOL,
454 FTAM, GSM, GTP, H.225, HTTP, ICMPv6, IPv4, IPv6, IPDC, IPMI, iSNS,
455 ISUP, Kerberos, LDAP, LDP, MEGACO, MIPv6, MMSE, MQ, MTP3, NTLMSSP,
456 RADIUS, RPC, RTCP, RTPS, RUDP, SCTP, SIP, SLSK, SMB, SPNEGO, TCP,
457 Time, WBXML (EMN, SI, WV-CSP), WCCP, WSP, X11, YMSG
467 Ethereal 0.10.3 has been released.
469 This release fixes several security bugs described in the following
472 http://www.ethereal.com/appnotes/enpa-sa-00013.html
474 Everyone is encouraged to upgrade.
477 New and updated features
479 Display filters now support the bitwise and (&) operator.
481 Protocol hierarchy statistics now have bandwidth columns.
483 The capture dialog has a new layout.
488 3G A11 Cisco SS7 (RUDP, RLM, and Session Management), FTAM, IPDC,
489 MQ, Presentation, SLSK,
492 Updated protocol support
494 802.11, AFP, AIM/Oscar, Axent Raptor/Symantec Enterprise firewall,
495 BER, BGP, CDP, DCCP, DCERPC NETLOGON, DCERPC RS_PGO, DCERPC
496 RS_PROP_PLCY, DCERPC, DCERPD SAMR, DIAMETER, DOCSIS, E.164, EIGRP,
497 FCFCS, GSM A, GSM MAP, GSM SMS, GTP, H.225, IGAP, IrDA, ISUP,
498 Kerberos, M2PA, M3UA, MTP3, NBNS, NCP, NDMP, Netflow, PER, PGM,
499 PostgreSQL, Q.931, Q.933, Quake 2, RADIUS, RSVP, RTSP, SCTP, SMB,
500 SNA, TCAP, TCP, UCP, WBXML, WSP, X11, xDLC
505 EyeSDN, libpcap (tcpdump)
510 Ethereal 0.10.2 has been released.
512 This release fixes two major bugs in 0.10.1:
514 Under Windows, the error
516 ** WARNING **: error opening
517 /usr/local/share/ethereal/asn1/default.tt, No such file or
520 would be printed at startup.
522 The 0.10.1 source release was missing several files required for
526 New and updated features
528 The user interface has received further updates. The Statistics
530 layout has been improved, as well as the capture options dialog
536 Cisco Cast Client Control Protocol
539 Updated protocol support
541 AppleTalk, ASN.1, DCERPC, Diameter, FCSP, GSM A, GSM MAP, GSM SMS,
543 IEEE 802.3, Kerberos, MSN Messenger, PostgreSQL, Q.931, RPL, Skinny,
549 Ethereal 0.10.1 has been released.
552 New and updated features
554 The Windows installer now lets you choose between the traditional
556 version 1 interface and a new GTK+ 2 interface.
558 Several updates were made to Ethereal's user interface. The "File"
560 now has a "most recently used" list. The help menu was greatly
563 The "matches" operator now handles more data types. For example,
567 smtp matches joespammer@example.com
571 I/O statistics now support 1ms resolution.
575 A column resorting crash on the Windows platform was fixed.
579 EDP, IAX2, IrDA, ISMP, OLSR, PostgreSQL, PRES, V5UA
581 Updated protocol support
583 ACSE, AFP, AIM, ANSI MAP, ARCNET, ASN.1, BEEP, BGP, BPDU, BSSAP,
585 COPS, CPHA, DCERPC AFS4INT, FLDB, RPRIV, RS_REPADM, STAT, SVCCTL,
586 TRKSVR, WKSSVC, DCERPC, DHCPv6, DNS, DOCSIS, EAP, ENIP, ESIS, FC,
588 FC-SB3, FW-1, GIF (OK, so it's a file format and not a protocol per
590 GIOP, GRE, GSM MAP, GSM SMS, GTP, H.225, H.245, H.450, HTTP, ICMPv6,
591 IEEE 802.11, IPMI, IPv4, IPv6, IPX, ISAKMP, iSCSI, ISDN, ISUP, JFIF,
592 Kerberos, KPASSWD, L2TP, LDAP, LDP, LWAPP, MGCP, MLD, MMSE, Mobile
594 MSPROXY, MTP3, NBNS, NCP, NDMP, NFS, OSI, OSPF, PER, PGM, Q.931,
596 RMI, RSTAT, RTP, RTSP, SCCP, SDP, SES, SIP, SLL, SLSK, SMB, SMPP,
598 SOCKS, SRVLOC, SSH, SSL, STUN, T.38, TACACS, TCAP, TDS, Telnet,
600 Text, TFTP, TZSP, UDP, Vines, WAP, WBXML, WSP, WTP, X11
603 Updated capture file support
605 DBS EtherWatch, EtherPeek/AiroPeek, EyeSDN, LANAlzyer, NetXRay,
611 Ethereal 0.10.0 has been released.
613 This release fixes issues in the SMB and Q.931 dissectors that could
614 make Ethereal and Tethereal crash. See
616 http://www.ethereal.com/appnotes/enpa-sa-00012.html
620 New and updated features
622 Many performance improvements have been made to the code. Most
624 should see a 2x to 3x performance increase when loading and working
628 A "matches" display filter operator has been added. It is similar
630 the "contains" operator, but supports Perl-compatible regular
633 Tethereal can now dump packet data in XML (PDML) format.
635 The main application menus have been rearranged and the help windows
636 have been revamped, along with a host of other UI enhancements.
638 The capture progress window now features bar graphs.
640 The GLib, GTK+, Net-SNMP, and zlib libraries that ship with the
642 installer have been updated.
646 BFD, CCSDS, CPFI, DCE/RPC {BUDB, EPM4, ICL_RPC, RS_PLCY,
648 IGAP, ISO 8327-1 SES, MS Kpasswd, RTCFG, SEBEK,
650 Updated protocol support
652 ACN, AFP, ANSI A, ANSI MAP, ASN.1, BSMAP, BSSAP, CPFI, DCE/RPC
654 EPM, NDR, SRVSVC, STAT, WKSSVC}, DCE/RPC, DHCP, DNS, DOCSIS, DSI,
656 ENTTEC, FC ELS, FC FZS, FC-SP, FC-SWILS, GIOP, GPRS NS, GSM A, GSM
658 H.225, H.450, HTTP, ICMP, IPv6, IS-IS, ISAKMP, ISUP, Kerberos, LDAP,
659 LDP, MIPv6, MMSE, MS Proxy, MTP3, NCP 2222, NTP, PIM, RADIUS, RANAP,
660 RDM, RSVP, RTCP, RTP, SCCP, SDP, SIP, SMB, SMPP, SOCKS, SONMP,
662 SSL, TACACS, TCAP, TCP, TPKT, TZSP, UCP, WAP, WBXML, WLAN, WSP, WTP
665 Updated capture file support
667 AiroPeek v9 (2.x) support was added. Network Instruments Observer
669 Snoop support was updated.
674 Ethereal 0.9.16 has been released.
676 This release fixes potential security issues with the GTP, ISAKMP,
677 MEGACO, and SOCKS dissectors. See
679 http://www.ethereal.com/appnotes/enpa-sa-00011.html
683 New and updated features
685 Ethereal has leapt forward into the 90's and added a toolbar.
687 Ethereal and Tethereal can now force the data link type of captured
690 RTP analysis has been enhanced.
692 Individual frames can now be marked as time references
694 Service response time and general I/O statistics have been enhanced.
696 statistics can now calculate client load (experimental).
700 ACN, ALCAP, ANSI MAP, ASN.1 BER, BSSAP, DCE/RPC DRSUAPI, DCE/RPC
701 INITSHUTDOWN, DCE/RPC RS_BIND, FC-SP, FICON, GSM BSSMAP, GSM DTAP,
703 SMS TPDU, GSM SMS, GSM SS, H.450, IOS 4.0.1 IS-637-A (SMS), IS-683-A
704 (OTA), T.38, TCAP, TPCP
706 Updated protocol support
708 AODV, ASN.1 PER, BSSGP, CDP, Cisco HDLC, COPS, DCE/RPC BROWSER,
710 DNSSERVER, DCE/RPC EPM, DCE/RPC LSA, DCE/RPC Messenger, DCE/RPC REG,
711 DCE/RPC SVCCTL, DCE/RPC, DFS, DHCPv6, DOCSIS, EAPOL, ENIP, Frame
713 FTP, GPRS, Gryphon, GTP, H.225, H.245, HTTP, ICMP, IEEE 802.11, IPX,
714 ISAKMP, ISUP, LAPB, Laplink, LWAPP, MAPI, MDSHDR, MEGACO, MPLS, NCP,
715 NDPS, NETLOGON, NFS, NTLMSSP, OSPF, OXID, PPP, Q.931, Q.933, RANAP,
717 RTP, SAMR, SCCP, SCSI, SCTP, SDP, SIP, SMB, SMPP, SNMP, SOCKS,
719 SPOOLSS SRVLOC, SRVSVC, T.35, TACACS+, TAPI, TCP, TZSP, WKSSVC, WSP,
720 X.25, Yahoo! Messenger
723 Updated capture file support
725 Linux Bluez Bluetooth hcidump support has been added.
727 Endace ERF and Network Instruments Observer, and NetXRay support has
733 Ethereal 0.9.15 has been released.
735 New and updated features
737 Many often-requested features have been added with this release. If
738 you're running an older version of Ethereal you may want to have a
741 Conversation List (aka "top talker") support has been added to
743 and Tethereal. Protocol statistics in general have been updated.
745 Searching capture files has been improved even more -- a new
747 display filter operator that searches for strings in PDUs has been
748 added. The Find dialog now supports case-insensitive searches, hex
752 An H.225 dissector has been added. It can automatically recognize
754 and RTCP conversations.
756 A preference file has been added for disabled protocols.
758 Color filters may now be imported and exported from within Ethereal.
760 A new column type has been added for cumulative bytes.
765 GPRS BSSGP, GPRS NS, H.225, H.263, LWAPP, Laplink, Q.933, STUN
770 ArtNet, BOOTP/DHCP, DCE/RPC, DCERPCSTAT, DHCPv6, DOCSIS, ENIP,
772 FCIP, Frame Relay, H.245, HTTP, IPsec, iSCSI, LDAP, LWRES, M2UA,
774 MEGACO, MTP3, NCP, NDPS, NFS, NTLMSSP, PPTP, Q.931, RPC, SAMR, SCCP,
775 SCTP, SIP, SMB, SMPP, SNA, SNMP, SRVLOC, SUA, TCP, TDS, UCD, UDP,
779 Updated capture file support
781 Support for Accellent 5Views and Endace ERF capture files was added.
782 CheckPoint FW-1 and Novell LANalyzer support has been enhanced.
787 Ethereal 0.9.14 has been released.
789 New and updated features
791 The ringbuffer code has been (nearly) completely rewritten. It now
792 supports an unlimited number of files.
794 Ethereal now supports searching for arbitrary text and binary data
798 Service response time statistics have been enhanced.
800 Tethereal, the text-mode version of Ethereal, can now be compiled
801 without capture support.
804 New and updated features
806 Echo, eDonkey, Jabber, MS Messenger, sFlow
811 AODV, AODV6, Boardwalk, DCE-RPC, ENIP, Fibre Channel, FIX, FW1,
813 IGMP, IPsec, IS-IS, iSCSI, ISUP, LDAP, LDP, M2UA, MEGACO, MTP3,
815 NETLOGON, NTLMSSP, NTP, Q.2931, Q.931, SAMR, SCCP, SCSI, SMB, SMPP,
817 SNMP, SPNEGO, SPOOLSS, SRVLOC, UCP, Vines, VRRP, WBXML, WEP, WSP,
822 Updated capture file support
829 Ethereal 0.9.13 has been released.
831 This release fixes a large number of security issues discovered by
833 Sirainen and others. See
835 http://www.ethereal.com/appnotes/enpa-sa-00010.html
839 New and updated features
841 Ethereal now supports a system-wide color filter file.
843 Support for the GNU ADNS library has been added. ADNS allows
844 asynchronous DNS lookups.
846 "Decode As..." functionality has been added to Tethereal via the "-
850 The HTTP, FTP, POP, SMTP, IMAP, and ACAP requests and responses are
852 shown in the protocol tree.
856 distcc, EtherNet/IP, MSRPC ATSVC, RTNET/TMDA
860 802.11, AIM, BGP, CLNP, COTP, CPHA, DCERPC, DNS, EAPOL, Ethernet,
862 GSSAPI, IP, ISAKMP, ISIS, LDAP, LSP, M2PA, MAPI, Modbus, NDPS, NFS,
863 NTLMSSP, OSI, OSPF, OpenBSD pflog, PPTP, RMCP, RMI, RPC, RTP, SCSI,
864 SCTP, SIP, SMB, SMPP, SMTP, SNMP, SPNEGO, TACACS, TCP, TSP, WBXML,
868 Updated capture file support
870 HP-UX nettl, VMS UCX$TRACE
875 Ethereal 0.9.12 has been released.
877 This release fixes several off-by-one and integer overflow errors
878 discovered by Timo Sirainen. See
880 http://www.ethereal.com/appnotes/enpa-sa-00009.html
884 New and updated features
886 TCP sequence number analysis received a few improvements.
888 General packet reassembly has been improved.
890 The "Follow TCP Stream" window now allows you to filter out the
894 The Vines code received significant updates.
896 Several enhancements were made to the text2pcap utility.
900 ArtNET, IPX WAN, Intel ANS, iSNS, NLSP, WKSSVC
904 802.11 ACAP, AFP, AIM, AJP, ASAP, BGP, CLNP, CPHA, DCE/RPC, DSI,
906 IP, IPMI, IPX, IPv6, ISIS, ISUP, IUA, Kerberos, LDAP, M2PA, M2TP,
908 M3UA, MGCP, MTP2, MTP3, MTP3MG, Modbus/TCP, NDMP, NDPS, NFS, NLSP,
910 Q.931, RANAP, RPC, RSVP, SCCP, SCCPMG, SCTP, SMB, SNMP, SPX, SSH,
912 TCP, Telnet, Vines, WBXML, WSP, WTP
914 Updated capture file support
921 Ethereal 0.9.11 has been released.
923 The Ethereal 0.9.10 release was packaged improperly. This release
925 the packaging, and adds minor updates and fixes for the following
928 AFS, OpenBSD enc(4), RTP, SCSI, SIP, SMPP, SSH
930 IA64 support has been improved.
935 Ethereal 0.9.10 has been released.
937 This release fixes a security hole discovered by Georgi Guninski in
939 SOCKS dissector as well as problems with the NTLMSSP and Rsync code.
940 All users of previous versions are encouraged to upgrade. See
942 http://www.ethereal.com/appnotes/enpa-sa-00008.html
947 New and Updated Features
949 Many small updates were made to the user interface.
951 The "Help" menu now includes the FAQ.
953 The TCP dissector was enhanced. Many more fields are filterable.
955 Tethereal received more IO stats: TCP and UDP top talkers.
957 Packet reassembly has been improved.
959 The "Follow TCP Stream" feature can now export C byte arrays.
961 RTP streams can now be saved to a file.
966 A missing comma in a string array could cause Ethereal to crash when
967 opening the preferences dialog.
972 MSN Messenger, Rsync, SSH, Yahoo! Messenger
977 AFP, AFS, AIM, ATM, Apache JServ, BACNET, BGP, BOOTP, CLNP, COPS,
979 DCERPC NT, DCERPC, DNS, ESIS, Ethernet, Frame Relay, GIOP, GTP, HP
980 extended 802.2 LLC, HP-UX remote management, HTTP, IPP, IPX, LLC,
982 M3UA, MDSHDR, MIP6, MPLS, MySQL, NCP2222, NETLOGON, NLPID, NetFlow,
983 OpenBSD enc(4), OSI, PPP, RADIUS, RMP, RPL, SAMR, SCSI, SMB, SNA,
985 SOCKS, SPOOLSS, SRVLOC, SRVSVC, SSL, SliMP3, TCP, Token Ring, WBXML,
986 Wellfleet BofL X.25, X11
989 Updated Capture File Support
991 NetXRay, NGSniffer, Snoop
996 Ethereal 0.9.9 has been released.
998 Please note the next release will NOT be 1.0. There are still more
999 features to be added before a 1.0 release will be ready.
1002 New and Updated Features
1004 Plugin search behavior was improved under Unix, allowing more than
1006 version of Ethereal to be installed at one time.
1008 The statistics graphs have been enhanced. More statistics have been
1011 Round-trip-time statistics are now computed for SMB traffic.
1013 NCP Call and Reply times are now tracked.
1015 Top talker statistics for Ethernet, IP and Token Ring are now
1016 available (tethereal only).
1018 Color allocation and handling was improved.
1020 The RADIUS dissector can now decrypt user passwords.
1022 Tethereal now supports reading from a pipe under Unix.
1024 The ATM code received major improvements.
1026 The DOS Sniffer code also received major improvements.
1028 For those that compile Ethereal from source, some fixes and updates
1029 have been made to the configuration and build environment.
1034 The capture progress window now shows the correct number of elapsed
1037 A potential infinite loop in the TCP graphing code has been fixed.
1042 MDSHDR, MEGACO, MySQL, SDLC, X.29
1047 802.11, AFP, AFS, AIM, ARCNET, ASAP, ATM, BPDU, Cisco HDLC, CLNP,
1049 RPC, DDTP, Ethernet, FC-ELS, FCIP, H.261, IMSI, IP, IP-over-FC,
1051 LMI, M3UA, MTP3, NCP, NetBIOS, NETLOGON, ONC RPC, OSPF, PIM, PPP,
1052 RADIUS, RANAP, RPC, SAMR, SCTP, SMB, SPNEGO, SPOOLSS, SRVLOC,
1054 SUA, TNS, Token Ring, Wellfleet HDLC, X.25
1057 Updated Capture File Support
1059 Firewall-1, Netmon, NetXRay, Radcom, Sniffer
1064 Ethereal 0.9.8 has been released.
1066 Serious problems with the BGP, LMP, PPP, and TDS dissectors have
1070 http://www.ethereal.com/appnotes/enpa-sa-00007.html
1075 New and Updated Features
1077 The TAP subsystem received major updates. Tethereal can display
1078 more statistics, and several graphs have been added to Ethereal.
1080 A protocol hierarchy statistics tap was added to tethereal. This
1082 may be used to replace the hierarchy statistics code in Ethereal.
1084 More updates have been added to TCP analysis.
1086 After a long hiatus, the Windows installer once again includes SNMP
1089 The total running time of the capture is now displayed in the
1091 progress dialog box. The capture progress dialog also shows ARP
1094 The look of the plugins dialog was revamped.
1097 Bug Fixes and Updates
1099 A bug which caused Ethereal under Windows to crash when "Update list
1101 packets in real time" was enabled has been fixed.
1103 The stability of the text2pcap utility has been improved.
1105 In tethereal, the packet count is properly displayed when you ^C out
1112 ARCNET, ClearCase NFS, DCERPC LSA_DS, Fibre Channel, HyperSCSI,
1119 AFP, AFS, BACNet, BGP, DCERPC, DCERPC EPM, DCERPC LSA, DCERPC NDR,
1120 DCERPC NT, DCERPC SAMR, DCERPC UPDATE, GRE, GTP, HTTP, IPv6CP, IPX,
1121 iSCSI, ISDN, IUA, LAPD, LDAP, M2PA, NDPS, NDS, NetBIOS, NFS,
1123 OSPF, PPP, PPPoE, Q.2931, Q.931, RPC, RSVP, SCSI, SCTP, SMB, SNMP,
1124 Spanning Tree, SPNEGO, SPOOLSS, SPX, SRVLOC, TCP, Telnet, V.120,
1129 Updated Capture File Support
1131 AIX iptrace and tcpdump, NetXRay, Sniffer, snoop
1134 == September 28, 2002
1136 Ethereal 0.9.7 has been released.
1140 In order to improve the out-of-box responsiveness of Ethereal and
1141 Tethereal, network name resolution has been disabled by default.
1143 TCP analysis (a feature added in the 0.9.6 release) was improved.
1145 The NCP code base received quite a few updates.
1147 Initial support for version 2 of the GTK+ library was added.
1149 RPC staticstics (which use the new Tap API) were added.
1151 Due to added and updated support for the NTLM, SNEGO, and GSS-API
1152 protocols, Ethereal can now dissect most of the security blobs for
1153 Windows 2000 authentication.
1155 The Ethernet "manuf" file now handles addresses specified with a
1156 mask, and contains many well-known addresses.
1161 802.1s MSTP, FIX, GSS-API, Interbase, NDPS, Netflow (Cisco and
1163 SCCP-Management, SPNEGO
1165 The following DCE/RPC protocols were also added:
1167 AFS4INT, BOSSVR, CDS_CLERKSERVER, CDS_SOLICIT, CPRPC_SERVER,
1169 DTSPROVIDER, DTSSTIME_REQ, FLDB, FTSERVER, KRB5RPC, REPADMIN,
1171 ROVERRIDE, RPRIV, RS_ATTR, RSEC_LOGIN, RS_MISC, RS_PGO, RS_REPLIST,
1172 RS_UNIX, SECIDMAP, TKN4INT, UBIKDISK, UKIKVOTE
1177 AFP, AODV/AODV6, BGP, CHDLC, CHPA, DCE/RPC CONV, DCE/RPC LSA,
1179 NT, DCE/RPC SAMR, DHCP, DNS, DOCSIS, EAP, GTP, HTTP, IP, iSCSI, IS-
1181 Kerberos, LDAP, LDP, M2PA MMSE, NBNS, NCP, NDS, NETLOGON, NTLMSSP,
1183 Q.931 RPC, RPCSTAT, SCSI, Skinny, SMB, SNEGO, SPOOLSS, SRVSVC, TCP,
1189 Ethereal 0.9.6 has been released.
1193 A buffer overflow in the ISIS dissector has been fixed. More
1194 information can be found at
1195 http://www.ethereal.com/appnotes/enpa-sa-00006.html.
1197 A bad TCP header could cause problems for the "Follow TCP Stream"
1200 Setting "column.format" from the command line no longer crashes
1201 Ethereal and Tethereal.
1203 Problems with capture files being overwritten (e.g. if you try to
1205 the current capture file) have been fixed.
1207 An SMB conversation handling bug has been fixed.
1209 Thanks to Valgrind, several memory leaks have been fixed.
1211 Some problems with printing under Windows have been fixed.
1216 TCP sequence number analysis has been added.
1218 The DCE RPC NETLOGON dissector has received a major overhaul.
1220 Data types throughout the code have been cleaned up.
1225 CPHA, DOCSIS, NTLMSSP, Xyplex terminal server protocol, ZIP
1230 802.11, AFP, ASAP, BGP, CDP, CDPCP, CPHA, DDP, DCERPC, DCERPC NT,
1232 REG, EPM, FTP, HCLNFSD, HTTP, IPX, ISAKMP, ISIS, IUA, Kerberos,
1234 LLMNR, LSA, MMSE, MPLSCP, NBNS, NetBIOS, NETLOGON, NFS, NTLMSSP,
1236 Quake2, RADIUS, RSVP, RTCP, SAMR, SCSI, SDP, SIP, SMB, SMB Mailslot,
1237 SMTP, SPOOLSS, TCP, TDS, TNS, TPKT, Token Ring, VJ TCP, WINREG, WSP
1240 Capture File Updates
1242 CheckPoint Firewall-1 monitor file support and CoSine debug file
1244 were added. Support for pppdump and Netmon files was updated.
1249 Ethereal 0.9.5 has been released. This version fixes several potential
1250 security problems revealed since the release of 0.9.4. See the
1252 advisory at http://www.ethereal.com/appnotes/enpa-sa-00005.html for
1258 The ability to read packet data from a pipe was enhanced. Printing
1259 under Windows now works.
1264 802.3 LACP, Apache JServ, AODV6, DCERPC Browser, Java RMI, TAPI
1269 ATM, BGP, BOOTP, DCE RPC, EPM, Frame Relay, GTP, L2TP, LMP, MAPI, MIP,
1270 MMSE, MTP3, NCP, NFS, NSPI, PPP, Q2931, RADIUS, RSVP, SCSI, SMB, SNA,
1271 SOCKS, SPOOLSS, SRVSVC, SunATM, TFTP, TNS, Token Ring, UCP, VJ TCP/IP,
1275 Capture File Updates
1277 Ethereal can now write LANalyzer files. The Sniffer, nettl, snoop,
1278 NetXRay, and libpcap code all received updates.