2 Wireshark 1.11.3 Release Notes
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7 Wireshark is the world's most popular network protocol analyzer. It is
8 used for troubleshooting, analysis, development and education.
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15 The following bugs have been fixed:
16 * "On-the-wire" packet lengths are limited to 65535 bytes. ([1]Bug
17 8808, ws-buglink:9390)
18 * "Follow TCP Stream" shows only the first HTTP req+res. ([2]Bug
20 * Files with pcap-ng Simple Packet Blocks can't be read. ([3]Bug
22 * MPLS-over-PPP isn't recognized. ([4]Bug 9492)
24 New and Updated Features
26 The following features are new (or have been significantly updated)
29 + The About dialog has been added
30 + The Capture Interfaces dialog has been added.
31 + The Decode As dialog has been added.
32 + Several SCTP dialogs have been added.
33 + The statistics tree (the backend for many Statistics and
34 Telephony menu items) dialog has been added.
36 The following features are new (or have been significantly updated)
38 * Mac OS X packaging has been improved.
40 The following features are new (or have been significantly updated)
42 * Dissector output may be encoded as UTF-8. This includes TShark
45 + The Follow Stream dialog now supports packet and TCP stream
47 + A Flow Graph (sequence diagram) dialog has been added.
48 + The main window now respects geometry preferences.
50 The following features are new (or have been significantly updated)
52 * Wireshark now uses the Qt application framework. The new UI should
53 provide a significantly better user experience, particularly on Mac
55 * The Windows installer now uninstalls the previous version of
56 Wireshark silently. You can still run the uninstaller manually
57 beforehand if you wish to run it interactively.
58 * Expert information is now filterable when the new API is in use.
59 * The "Number" column shows related packets and protocol conversation
61 * When manipulating packets with editcap using the -C <choplen>
62 and/or -s <snaplen> options, it is now possible to also adjust the
63 original frame length using the -L option.
64 * You can now pass the -C <choplen> option to editcap multiple times,
65 which allows you to chop bytes from the beginning of a packet as
66 well as at the end of a packet in a single step.
67 * You can now specify an optional offset to the -C option for
68 editcap, which allows you to start chopping from that offset
69 instead of from the absolute packet beginning or end.
70 * "malformed" display filter has been renamed to "_ws.malformed". A
71 handful of other filters have been given the "_ws." prefix to note
72 they are Wireshark application specific filters and not dissector
77 * The ASN1 plugin has been removed as it's deemed obsolete.
78 * The GNM dissector has been removed as it was never used.
82 802.1AE Secure tag, ACR122, ADB CS, Aruba Instant AP, ASTERIX, ATN,
83 Bencode, Bluetooth 3DS, Bluetooth HSP, Bluetooth Linux Monitor
84 Transport, Bluetooth Low Energy, CARP, CFDP, Cisco MetaData, DeviceNet,
85 ELF file format, EXPORTED PDU, FINGER, HDMI, HTTP2, IDRP, ILP, Kafka,
86 Kyoto Tycoon, Lightweight Mesh (v1.1.1), Linux netlink, Linux netlink
87 netfilter, Linux netlink sock diag, Linux rtnetlink (route netlink),
88 Logcat, MBIM, MiNT, MP4 / ISOBMFF file format, Novell PKIS certificate
89 extensions, NXP PN532 HCI, OpenFlow, Pathport, Picture Transfer
90 Protocol Over IP, QUIC (Quick UDP Internet Connections), SAE J1939, SEL
91 RTAC (Real Time Automation Controller) EIA-232 Serial-Line Dissection,
92 Sippy RTPproxy, SMB-Direct, STANAG 4607, STANAG 5066 DTS, STANAG 5066
93 SIS, Tinkerforge, Ubertooth, UDT, URL Encoded Form Data, USB
94 Communications and CDC Control, USB Device Firmware Upgrade, VP8,
95 WHOIS, and Wi-Fi Display
97 Updated Protocol Support
99 Too many protocols have been updated to list here.
101 New and Updated Capture File Support
103 Netscaler 2.6, STANAG 4607, and STANAG 5066 Data Transfer Sublayer
107 The libwireshark API has undergone some major changes:
108 * A more flexible, modular memory manger (wmem) has been added. It
109 was available experimentally in 1.10 but is now mature and has
110 mostly replaced the old emem API (which is deprecated).
111 * A new API for expert information has been added, replacing the old
113 * The tvbuff API has been cleaned up: tvb_length has been renamed to
114 tvb_captured_length for clarity, and tvb_get_string has been
115 deprecated in favour of tvb_get_string_enc.
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120 Wireshark source code and installation packages are available from
121 [5]http://www.wireshark.org/download.html.
123 Vendor-supplied Packages
125 Most Linux and Unix vendors supply their own Wireshark packages. You
126 can usually install or upgrade Wireshark using the package management
127 system specific to that platform. A list of third-party packages can be
128 found on the [6]download page on the Wireshark web site.
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133 Wireshark and TShark look in several different locations for preference
134 files, plugins, SNMP MIBS, and RADIUS dictionaries. These locations
135 vary from platform to platform. You can use About->Folders to find the
136 default locations on your system.
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141 Dumpcap might not quit if Wireshark or TShark crashes. ([7]Bug 1419)
143 The BER dissector might infinitely loop. ([8]Bug 1516)
145 Capture filters aren't applied when capturing from named pipes.
148 Filtering tshark captures with read filters (-R) no longer works.
151 The 64-bit Windows installer does not support Kerberos decryption.
152 ([10]Win64 development page)
154 Resolving ([11]Bug 9044) reopens ([12]Bug 3528) so that Wireshark no
155 longer automatically decodes gzip data when following a TCP stream.
157 Application crash when changing real-time option. ([13]Bug 4035)
159 Hex pane display issue after startup. ([14]Bug 4056)
161 Packet list rows are oversized. ([15]Bug 4357)
163 Summary pane selected frame highlighting not maintained. ([16]Bug 4445)
165 Wireshark and TShark will display incorrect delta times in some cases.
168 The 64-bit Mac OS X installer doesn't support Mac OS X 10.9 ([18]Bug
170 __________________________________________________________________
174 Community support is available on [19]Wireshark's Q&A site and on the
175 wireshark-users mailing list. Subscription information and archives for
176 all of Wireshark's mailing lists can be found on [20]the web site.
178 Official Wireshark training and certification are available from
179 [21]Wireshark University.
180 __________________________________________________________________
182 Frequently Asked Questions
184 A complete FAQ is available on the [22]Wireshark web site.
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187 Last updated 2014-02-26 00:28:20 CET
191 1. https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=8808
192 2. https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=9044
193 3. https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=9200
194 4. https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=9492
195 5. http://www.wireshark.org/download.html
196 6. http://www.wireshark.org/download.html#thirdparty
197 7. https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1419
198 8. https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1516
199 9. https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=2234
200 10. https://wiki.wireshark.org/Development/Win64
201 11. https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=9044
202 12. https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3528
203 13. https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=4035
204 14. https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=4056
205 15. https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=4357
206 16. https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=4445
207 17. https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=4985
208 18. https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=9242
209 19. http://ask.wireshark.org/
210 20. http://www.wireshark.org/lists/
211 21. http://www.wiresharktraining.com/
212 22. http://www.wireshark.org/faq.html