1 $Id: NEWS,v 1.137 2003/11/03 02:50:11 gerald Exp $
5 Ethereal 0.9.16 has been released.
7 This release fixes potential security issues with the GTP, ISAKMP,
8 MEGACO, and SOCKS dissectors. See
10 http://www.ethereal.com/appnotes/enpa-sa-00011.html
14 New and updated features
16 Ethereal has leapt forward into the 90's and added a toolbar.
18 Ethereal and Tethereal can now force the data link type of captured
21 RTP analysis has been enhanced.
23 Individual frames can now be marked as time references
25 Service response time and general I/O statistics have been enhanced. I/O
26 statistics can now calculate client load (experimental).
30 ACN, ALCAP, ANSI MAP, ASN.1 BER, BSSAP, DCE/RPC DRSUAPI, DCE/RPC
31 INITSHUTDOWN, DCE/RPC RS_BIND, FC-SP, FICON, GSM BSSMAP, GSM DTAP, GSM
32 SMS TPDU, GSM SMS, GSM SS, H.450, IOS 4.0.1 IS-637-A (SMS), IS-683-A
33 (OTA), T.38, TCAP, TPCP
35 Updated protocol support
37 AODV, ASN.1 PER, BSSGP, CDP, Cisco HDLC, COPS, DCE/RPC BROWSER, DCE/RPC
38 DNSSERVER, DCE/RPC EPM, DCE/RPC LSA, DCE/RPC Messenger, DCE/RPC REG,
39 DCE/RPC SVCCTL, DCE/RPC, DFS, DHCPv6, DOCSIS, EAPOL, ENIP, Frame Relay,
40 FTP, GPRS, Gryphon, GTP, H.225, H.245, HTTP, ICMP, IEEE 802.11, IPX,
41 ISAKMP, ISUP, LAPB, Laplink, LWAPP, MAPI, MDSHDR, MEGACO, MPLS, NCP,
42 NDPS, NETLOGON, NFS, NTLMSSP, OSPF, OXID, PPP, Q.931, Q.933, RANAP, RIP,
43 RTP, SAMR, SCCP, SCSI, SCTP, SDP, SIP, SMB, SMPP, SNMP, SOCKS, SONMP,
44 SPOOLSS SRVLOC, SRVSVC, T.35, TACACS+, TAPI, TCP, TZSP, WKSSVC, WSP,
45 X.25, Yahoo! Messenger
48 Updated capture file support
50 Linux Bluez Bluetooth hcidump support has been added.
52 Endace ERF and Network Instruments Observer, and NetXRay support has
58 Ethereal 0.9.15 has been released.
60 New and updated features
62 Many often-requested features have been added with this release. If
63 you're running an older version of Ethereal you may want to have a look.
65 Conversation List (aka "top talker") support has been added to Ethereal
66 and Tethereal. Protocol statistics in general have been updated.
68 Searching capture files has been improved even more -- a new "contains"
69 display filter operator that searches for strings in PDUs has been
70 added. The Find dialog now supports case-insensitive searches, hex data
73 An H.225 dissector has been added. It can automatically recognize RTP
74 and RTCP conversations.
76 A preference file has been added for disabled protocols.
78 Color filters may now be imported and exported from within Ethereal.
80 A new column type has been added for cumulative bytes.
85 GPRS BSSGP, GPRS NS, H.225, H.263, LWAPP, Laplink, Q.933, STUN
90 ArtNet, BOOTP/DHCP, DCE/RPC, DCERPCSTAT, DHCPv6, DOCSIS, ENIP, Ethernet,
91 FCIP, Frame Relay, H.245, HTTP, IPsec, iSCSI, LDAP, LWRES, M2UA, M3UA,
92 MEGACO, MTP3, NCP, NDPS, NFS, NTLMSSP, PPTP, Q.931, RPC, SAMR, SCCP,
93 SCTP, SIP, SMB, SMPP, SNA, SNMP, SRVLOC, SUA, TCP, TDS, UCD, UDP, WSP,
96 Updated capture file support
98 Support for Accellent 5Views and Endace ERF capture files was added.
99 CheckPoint FW-1 and Novell LANalyzer support has been enhanced.
104 Ethereal 0.9.14 has been released.
106 New and updated features
108 The ringbuffer code has been (nearly) completely rewritten. It now
109 supports an unlimited number of files.
111 Ethereal now supports searching for arbitrary text and binary data in
114 Service response time statistics have been enhanced.
116 Tethereal, the text-mode version of Ethereal, can now be compiled
117 without capture support.
120 New and updated features
122 Echo, eDonkey, Jabber, MS Messenger, sFlow
127 AODV, AODV6, Boardwalk, DCE-RPC, ENIP, Fibre Channel, FIX, FW1, H.245,
128 IGMP, IPsec, IS-IS, iSCSI, ISUP, LDAP, LDP, M2UA, MEGACO, MTP3, NDS,
129 NETLOGON, NTLMSSP, NTP, Q.2931, Q.931, SAMR, SCCP, SCSI, SMB, SMPP, SNA,
130 SNMP, SPNEGO, SPOOLSS, SRVLOC, UCP, Vines, VRRP, WBXML, WEP, WSP, WTP,
134 Updated capture file support
141 Ethereal 0.9.13 has been released.
143 This release fixes a large number of security issues discovered by Timo
144 Sirainen and others. See
146 http://www.ethereal.com/appnotes/enpa-sa-00010.html
150 New and updated features
152 Ethereal now supports a system-wide color filter file.
154 Support for the GNU ADNS library has been added. ADNS allows
155 asynchronous DNS lookups.
157 "Decode As..." functionality has been added to Tethereal via the "-d"
160 The HTTP, FTP, POP, SMTP, IMAP, and ACAP requests and responses are now
161 shown in the protocol tree.
165 distcc, EtherNet/IP, MSRPC ATSVC, RTNET/TMDA
169 802.11, AIM, BGP, CLNP, COTP, CPHA, DCERPC, DNS, EAPOL, Ethernet, FDDI,
170 GSSAPI, IP, ISAKMP, ISIS, LDAP, LSP, M2PA, MAPI, Modbus, NDPS, NFS,
171 NTLMSSP, OSI, OSPF, OpenBSD pflog, PPTP, RMCP, RMI, RPC, RTP, SCSI,
172 SCTP, SIP, SMB, SMPP, SMTP, SNMP, SPNEGO, TACACS, TCP, TSP, WBXML, WSP,
175 Updated capture file support
177 HP-UX nettl, VMS UCX$TRACE
182 Ethereal 0.9.12 has been released.
184 This release fixes several off-by-one and integer overflow errors
185 discovered by Timo Sirainen. See
187 http://www.ethereal.com/appnotes/enpa-sa-00009.html
191 New and updated features
193 TCP sequence number analysis received a few improvements.
195 General packet reassembly has been improved.
197 The "Follow TCP Stream" window now allows you to filter out the current
200 The Vines code received significant updates.
202 Several enhancements were made to the text2pcap utility.
206 ArtNET, IPX WAN, Intel ANS, iSNS, NLSP, WKSSVC
210 802.11 ACAP, AFP, AIM, AJP, ASAP, BGP, CLNP, CPHA, DCE/RPC, DSI, EAP,
211 IP, IPMI, IPX, IPv6, ISIS, ISUP, IUA, Kerberos, LDAP, M2PA, M2TP, M2UA,
212 M3UA, MGCP, MTP2, MTP3, MTP3MG, Modbus/TCP, NDMP, NDPS, NFS, NLSP, PGM,
213 Q.931, RANAP, RPC, RSVP, SCCP, SCCPMG, SCTP, SMB, SNMP, SPX, SSH, SUA,
214 TCP, Telnet, Vines, WBXML, WSP, WTP
216 Updated capture file support
223 Ethereal 0.9.11 has been released.
225 The Ethereal 0.9.10 release was packaged improperly. This release fixes
226 the packaging, and adds minor updates and fixes for the following
229 AFS, OpenBSD enc(4), RTP, SCSI, SIP, SMPP, SSH
231 IA64 support has been improved.
236 Ethereal 0.9.10 has been released.
238 This release fixes a security hole discovered by Georgi Guninski in the
239 SOCKS dissector as well as problems with the NTLMSSP and Rsync code.
240 All users of previous versions are encouraged to upgrade. See
242 http://www.ethereal.com/appnotes/enpa-sa-00008.html
247 New and Updated Features
249 Many small updates were made to the user interface.
251 The "Help" menu now includes the FAQ.
253 The TCP dissector was enhanced. Many more fields are filterable.
255 Tethereal received more IO stats: TCP and UDP top talkers.
257 Packet reassembly has been improved.
259 The "Follow TCP Stream" feature can now export C byte arrays.
261 RTP streams can now be saved to a file.
266 A missing comma in a string array could cause Ethereal to crash when
267 opening the preferences dialog.
272 MSN Messenger, Rsync, SSH, Yahoo! Messenger
277 AFP, AFS, AIM, ATM, Apache JServ, BACNET, BGP, BOOTP, CLNP, COPS, DCCP,
278 DCERPC NT, DCERPC, DNS, ESIS, Ethernet, Frame Relay, GIOP, GTP, HP
279 extended 802.2 LLC, HP-UX remote management, HTTP, IPP, IPX, LLC, LSA,
280 M3UA, MDSHDR, MIP6, MPLS, MySQL, NCP2222, NETLOGON, NLPID, NetFlow,
281 OpenBSD enc(4), OSI, PPP, RADIUS, RMP, RPL, SAMR, SCSI, SMB, SNA, SNMP,
282 SOCKS, SPOOLSS, SRVLOC, SRVSVC, SSL, SliMP3, TCP, Token Ring, WBXML,
283 Wellfleet BofL X.25, X11
286 Updated Capture File Support
288 NetXRay, NGSniffer, Snoop
293 Ethereal 0.9.9 has been released.
295 Please note the next release will NOT be 1.0. There are still more
296 features to be added before a 1.0 release will be ready.
299 New and Updated Features
301 Plugin search behavior was improved under Unix, allowing more than one
302 version of Ethereal to be installed at one time.
304 The statistics graphs have been enhanced. More statistics have been
307 Round-trip-time statistics are now computed for SMB traffic.
309 NCP Call and Reply times are now tracked.
311 Top talker statistics for Ethernet, IP and Token Ring are now
312 available (tethereal only).
314 Color allocation and handling was improved.
316 The RADIUS dissector can now decrypt user passwords.
318 Tethereal now supports reading from a pipe under Unix.
320 The ATM code received major improvements.
322 The DOS Sniffer code also received major improvements.
324 For those that compile Ethereal from source, some fixes and updates
325 have been made to the configuration and build environment.
330 The capture progress window now shows the correct number of elapsed
333 A potential infinite loop in the TCP graphing code has been fixed.
338 MDSHDR, MEGACO, MySQL, SDLC, X.29
343 802.11, AFP, AFS, AIM, ARCNET, ASAP, ATM, BPDU, Cisco HDLC, CLNP, DCE
344 RPC, DDTP, Ethernet, FC-ELS, FCIP, H.261, IMSI, IP, IP-over-FC, L2TP,
345 LMI, M3UA, MTP3, NCP, NetBIOS, NETLOGON, ONC RPC, OSPF, PIM, PPP,
346 RADIUS, RANAP, RPC, SAMR, SCTP, SMB, SPNEGO, SPOOLSS, SRVLOC, SRVSVC,
347 SUA, TNS, Token Ring, Wellfleet HDLC, X.25
350 Updated Capture File Support
352 Firewall-1, Netmon, NetXRay, Radcom, Sniffer
357 Ethereal 0.9.8 has been released.
359 Serious problems with the BGP, LMP, PPP, and TDS dissectors have been
362 http://www.ethereal.com/appnotes/enpa-sa-00007.html
367 New and Updated Features
369 The TAP subsystem received major updates. Tethereal can display
370 more statistics, and several graphs have been added to Ethereal.
372 A protocol hierarchy statistics tap was added to tethereal. This code
373 may be used to replace the hierarchy statistics code in Ethereal.
375 More updates have been added to TCP analysis.
377 After a long hiatus, the Windows installer once again includes SNMP
380 The total running time of the capture is now displayed in the capture
381 progress dialog box. The capture progress dialog also shows ARP packets.
383 The look of the plugins dialog was revamped.
386 Bug Fixes and Updates
388 A bug which caused Ethereal under Windows to crash when "Update list of
389 packets in real time" was enabled has been fixed.
391 The stability of the text2pcap utility has been improved.
393 In tethereal, the packet count is properly displayed when you ^C out of a
399 ARCNET, ClearCase NFS, DCERPC LSA_DS, Fibre Channel, HyperSCSI, MDNS,
405 AFP, AFS, BACNet, BGP, DCERPC, DCERPC EPM, DCERPC LSA, DCERPC NDR,
406 DCERPC NT, DCERPC SAMR, DCERPC UPDATE, GRE, GTP, HTTP, IPv6CP, IPX,
407 iSCSI, ISDN, IUA, LAPD, LDAP, M2PA, NDPS, NDS, NetBIOS, NFS, NTLMSSP,
408 OSPF, PPP, PPPoE, Q.2931, Q.931, RPC, RSVP, SCSI, SCTP, SMB, SNMP,
409 Spanning Tree, SPNEGO, SPOOLSS, SPX, SRVLOC, TCP, Telnet, V.120, WEP,
413 Updated Capture File Support
415 AIX iptrace and tcpdump, NetXRay, Sniffer, snoop
418 == September 28, 2002
420 Ethereal 0.9.7 has been released.
424 In order to improve the out-of-box responsiveness of Ethereal and
425 Tethereal, network name resolution has been disabled by default.
427 TCP analysis (a feature added in the 0.9.6 release) was improved.
429 The NCP code base received quite a few updates.
431 Initial support for version 2 of the GTK+ library was added.
433 RPC staticstics (which use the new Tap API) were added.
435 Due to added and updated support for the NTLM, SNEGO, and GSS-API
436 protocols, Ethereal can now dissect most of the security blobs for
437 Windows 2000 authentication.
439 The Ethernet "manuf" file now handles addresses specified with a
440 mask, and contains many well-known addresses.
445 802.1s MSTP, FIX, GSS-API, Interbase, NDPS, Netflow (Cisco and Juniper),
446 SCCP-Management, SPNEGO
448 The following DCE/RPC protocols were also added:
450 AFS4INT, BOSSVR, CDS_CLERKSERVER, CDS_SOLICIT, CPRPC_SERVER, DNSSERVER,
451 DTSPROVIDER, DTSSTIME_REQ, FLDB, FTSERVER, KRB5RPC, REPADMIN, REP_PROC,
452 ROVERRIDE, RPRIV, RS_ATTR, RSEC_LOGIN, RS_MISC, RS_PGO, RS_REPLIST,
453 RS_UNIX, SECIDMAP, TKN4INT, UBIKDISK, UKIKVOTE
458 AFP, AODV/AODV6, BGP, CHDLC, CHPA, DCE/RPC CONV, DCE/RPC LSA, DCE/RPC
459 NT, DCE/RPC SAMR, DHCP, DNS, DOCSIS, EAP, GTP, HTTP, IP, iSCSI, IS-IS,
460 Kerberos, LDAP, LDP, M2PA MMSE, NBNS, NCP, NDS, NETLOGON, NTLMSSP, OSI
461 Q.931 RPC, RPCSTAT, SCSI, Skinny, SMB, SNEGO, SPOOLSS, SRVSVC, TCP, WSP,
466 Ethereal 0.9.6 has been released.
470 A buffer overflow in the ISIS dissector has been fixed. More
471 information can be found at
472 http://www.ethereal.com/appnotes/enpa-sa-00006.html.
474 A bad TCP header could cause problems for the "Follow TCP Stream"
477 Setting "column.format" from the command line no longer crashes
478 Ethereal and Tethereal.
480 Problems with capture files being overwritten (e.g. if you try to save over
481 the current capture file) have been fixed.
483 An SMB conversation handling bug has been fixed.
485 Thanks to Valgrind, several memory leaks have been fixed.
487 Some problems with printing under Windows have been fixed.
492 TCP sequence number analysis has been added.
494 The DCE RPC NETLOGON dissector has received a major overhaul.
496 Data types throughout the code have been cleaned up.
501 CPHA, DOCSIS, NTLMSSP, Xyplex terminal server protocol, ZIP
506 802.11, AFP, ASAP, BGP, CDP, CDPCP, CPHA, DDP, DCERPC, DCERPC NT, DCERPC
507 REG, EPM, FTP, HCLNFSD, HTTP, IPX, ISAKMP, ISIS, IUA, Kerberos, L2TP,
508 LLMNR, LSA, MMSE, MPLSCP, NBNS, NetBIOS, NETLOGON, NFS, NTLMSSP, PPP,
509 Quake2, RADIUS, RSVP, RTCP, SAMR, SCSI, SDP, SIP, SMB, SMB Mailslot,
510 SMTP, SPOOLSS, TCP, TDS, TNS, TPKT, Token Ring, VJ TCP, WINREG, WSP
515 CheckPoint Firewall-1 monitor file support and CoSine debug file support
516 were added. Support for pppdump and Netmon files was updated.
521 Ethereal 0.9.5 has been released. This version fixes several potential
522 security problems revealed since the release of 0.9.4. See the security
523 advisory at http://www.ethereal.com/appnotes/enpa-sa-00005.html for
529 The ability to read packet data from a pipe was enhanced. Printing
530 under Windows now works.
535 802.3 LACP, Apache JServ, AODV6, DCERPC Browser, Java RMI, TAPI
540 ATM, BGP, BOOTP, DCE RPC, EPM, Frame Relay, GTP, L2TP, LMP, MAPI, MIP,
541 MMSE, MTP3, NCP, NFS, NSPI, PPP, Q2931, RADIUS, RSVP, SCSI, SMB, SNA,
542 SOCKS, SPOOLSS, SRVSVC, SunATM, TFTP, TNS, Token Ring, UCP, VJ TCP/IP,
548 Ethereal can now write LANalyzer files. The Sniffer, nettl, snoop,
549 NetXRay, and libpcap code all received updates.