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  <title>Wireshark &WiresharkCurrentVersion; Release Notes</title>

  <section id="WhatIs"><title>What is Wireshark?</title>
    <para>
      Wireshark is the world's most popular network protocol analyzer.  It
      is used for troubleshooting, analysis, development, and education.
    </para>
  </section>

  <section id="WhatsNew"><title>What's New</title>
    <section><title>Bug Fixes</title>
    <para>

      The following vulnerabilities have been fixed.  See the
      <ulink url="http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2006-02.html">security advisory</ulink> for details and a workaround.

      <itemizedlist>

        <listitem><para>
	  The HTTP dissector could crash.
	  <!-- Fixed in r19022, r19153 -->
	  <!-- Bug IDs: 1050, 1079 -->
	  Versions affected: 0.99.3.
        </para></listitem>

      </itemizedlist>

    </para>

    <para>

    The following bugs have been fixed:

      <itemizedlist>

        <listitem><para>
          Trying to save flow data may crash Wireshark.
          (<ulink url="http://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=396">Bug
          396</ulink>)
        </para></listitem>

        <listitem><para>
          It may not be possible to re-order coloring rules under Windows.
          (<ulink url="http://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=699">Bug
          699</ulink>)
        </para></listitem>

      </itemizedlist>
    </para>

    </section>

    <section><title>New and Updated Features</title>
    <para>
      The following features are new (or have been significantly updated)
      since the last release:
      <itemizedlist>

        <listitem><para>
        <ulink url="http://www.cacetech.com/products/airpcap.htm">AirPcap</ulink>,
        support (which provides raw mode capture under Windows) has been
	enhanced..
        </para></listitem>

      </itemizedlist>
    </para>
    </section>

    <section><title>New Protocol Support</title>
    <para>


    </para>
    </section>

    <section><title>Updated Protocol Support</title> <para>



    </para>
    </section>

    <section><title>New and Updated Capture File Support</title>
    <para>


</para>
    </section>

  </section>

  <section id="GettingWireshark"><title>Getting Wireshark</title>
    <para>
      Wireshark source code and installation packages are available from
      the <ulink url="http://www.wireshark.org/download.html">download
      page</ulink> on the main web site.
    </para>

    <section><title>Vendor-supplied Packages</title>
      <para>
	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
	<ulink url="http://www.wireshark.org/download.html#otherplat">download page</ulink> on the Wireshark web site.
      </para>
    </section>

  </section>

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  <section id="RemovingWireshark"><title>Removing Wireshark</title>
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  <section id="FileLocations"><title>File Locations</title>
    <para>
      Wireshark and TShark look in several different locations for
      preference files, plugins, SNMP MIBS, and RADIUS dictionaries.
      These locations vary from platform to platform.  You can use
      About->Folders to find the default locations on your system.
    </para>
  </section>

  <section id="KnownProblems"><title>Known Problems</title>

    <para>
      On Windows systems the packet list scroll bar can sometimes disappear
      or become unusable.  Until the problem is fixed you can work around it
      by resizing the packet list or the main window.
      (<ulink url="http://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=220">Bug
      220</ulink>)
    </para>

    <para>
      The <guibutton>Filter</guibutton> button is nonfunctional in the
      file dialogs under Windows.
      (<ulink url="http://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=942">Bug
      942</ulink>)
    </para>

  </section>

  <section id="GettingHelp"><title>Getting Help</title>
    <para>
    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 <ulink url="http://www.wireshark.org/lists/">the
    web site</ulink>.
    </para>
    <para>
    Commercial support, training, and development services are available
    from <ulink url="http://www.cacetech.com/">CACE Technologies</ulink>.
    </para>
  </section>

  <section id="FAQ"><title>Frequently Asked Questions</title>
    <para>
    A complete FAQ is available on the
    <ulink url="http://www.wireshark.org/faq.html">Wireshark web site</ulink>.
    </para>
  </section>

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