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Change-Id: Ic40ac0557e61dbb044a3f324964d378a47e8f50e Reviewed-on: https://code.wireshark.org/review/26488 Reviewed-by: Gerald Combs <gerald@wireshark.org>
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Wireshark 2.5.1 Release Notes
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This is a semi-experimental release intended to test new features
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for Wireshark 2.6.
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What is Wireshark?
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Wireshark is the world’s most popular network protocol analyzer.
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It is used for troubleshooting, analysis, development and
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education.
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What’s New
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Wireshark 2.6 is the last release that will support the legacy
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(GTK+) user interface. It will not be supported or available in
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Wireshark 3.0.
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Many user interface improvements have been made. See the “New
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and Updated Features” section below for more details.
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Dumpcap might not quit if Wireshark or TShark crashes. (Bug
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1419[1])
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New and Updated Features
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The following features are new (or have been significantly
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updated) since version 2.5.0:
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• HTTP Referer statistics are now supported.
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• Wireshark now supports MaxMind DB files. Support for GeoIP
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and GeoLite Legacy databases has been removed.
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• The Windows packages are now built using Microsoft Visual
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Studio 2017.
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• The IP map feature (the “Map” button in the “Endpoints”
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dialog) has been removed.
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The following features are new (or have been significantly
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updated) since version 2.4.0:
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• Display filter buttons can now be edited, disabled, and
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removed via a context menu directly from the toolbar
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• Drag & Drop filter fields to the display filter toolbar or
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edit to create a button on the fly or apply the filter as a
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display filter.
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• Application startup time has been reduced.
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• Some keyboard shortcut mix-ups have been resolved by
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assigning new shortcuts to Edit → Copy methods.
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• TShark now supports color using the --color option.
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• The "matches" display filter operator is now
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case-insensitive.
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• Display expression (button) preferences have been converted
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to a UAT. This puts the display expressions in their own
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file. Wireshark still supports preference files that
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contain the old preferences, but new preference files will
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be written without the old fields.
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• SMI private enterprise numbers are now read from the
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"enterprises.tsv" configuration file.
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• The QUIC dissector has been renamed to Google QUIC (quic →
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gquic).
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• The selected packet number can now be shown in the Status
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Bar by enabling Preferences → Appearance → Layout → Show
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selected packet number.
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• File load time in the Status Bar is now disabled by default
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and can be enabled in Preferences → Appearance → Layout →
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Show file load time.
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• Support for the G.729A codec in the RTP Player is now added
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via the bcg729 library.
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• Support for hardware-timestamping of packets has been
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added.
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• Improved NetMon .cap support with comments, event tracing,
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network filter, network info types and some Message
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Analyzer exported types.
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• The personal plugins folder on Linux/Unix is now
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~/.local/lib/wireshark/plugins.
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• TShark can print flow graphs using -z flow…
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• Capinfos now prints SHA256 hashes in addition to RIPEMD160
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and SHA1. MD5 output has been removed.
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• The packet editor has been removed. (This was a GTK+ only
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experimental feature.)
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• Support BBC micro:bit Bluetooth profile
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• The Linux and UNIX installation step for Wireshark will now
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install headers required to build plugins. A pkg-config
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file is provided to help with this (see doc/plugins.example
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for details). Note you must still rebuild all plugins
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between minor releases (X.Y).
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• The Windows installers and packages now ship with Qt 5.9.4.
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• The generic data dissector can now uncompress zlib
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compressed data.
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New Protocol Support
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ActiveMQ Artemis Core Protocol, AMT (Automatic Multicast
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Tunneling), Bluetooth Mesh, Broadcom tags (Broadcom Ethernet
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switch management frames), CAN-ETH, CVS password server,
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Excentis DOCSIS31 XRA header, F5ethtrailer, FP Mux, GRPC
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(gRPC), IEEE 1905.1a, IEEE 802.11ax (High Efficiency WLAN
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(HEW)), IEEE 802.15.9 IEEE Recommended Practice for Transport
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of Key Management Protocol (KMP) Datagrams, IEEE 802.3br Frame
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Preemption Protocol, ISOBUS, LoRaTap, LoRaWAN, Lustre
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Filesystem, Lustre Network, Nano / RaiBlocks Cryptocurrency
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Protocol (UDP), Network Functional Application Platform
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Interface (NFAPI) Protocol, New Radio Radio Resource Control
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protocol, NXP 802.15.4 Sniffer Protocol, PFCP (Packet
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Forwarding Control Protocol), Protobuf (Protocol Buffers), QUIC
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(IETF), RFC 4108 Using CMS to Protect Firmware Packages,
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Session Multiplex Protocol, SolarEdge monitoring protocol,
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Steam In-Home Streaming Discovery Protocol, Tibia, TWAMP and
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OWAMP, Wi-Fi Device Provisioning Protocol, and Wi-SUN FAN
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Protocol
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Updated Protocol Support
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Too many protocols have been updated to list here.
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New and Updated Capture File Support
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Microsoft Network Monitor
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New and Updated Capture Interfaces support
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LoRaTap
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Getting Wireshark
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Wireshark source code and installation packages are available
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from https://www.wireshark.org/download.html[2].
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Vendor-supplied Packages
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Most Linux and Unix vendors supply their own Wireshark
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packages. You can usually install or upgrade Wireshark using
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the package management system specific to that platform. A list
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of third-party packages can be found on the download page[3] on
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the Wireshark web site.
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File Locations
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Wireshark and TShark look in several different locations for
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preference files, plugins, SNMP MIBS, and RADIUS dictionaries.
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These locations vary from platform to platform. You can use
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About→Folders to find the default locations on your system.
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Known Problems
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The BER dissector might infinitely loop. (Bug 1516[4])
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Capture filters aren’t applied when capturing from named pipes.
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(Bug 1814[5])
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Filtering tshark captures with read filters (-R) no longer
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works. (Bug 2234[6])
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Application crash when changing real-time option. (Bug 4035[7])
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Wireshark and TShark will display incorrect delta times in some
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cases. (Bug 4985[8])
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Wireshark should let you work with multiple capture files. (Bug
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10488[9])
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Getting Help
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Community support is available on Wireshark’s Q&A site[10] and
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on the wireshark-users mailing list. Subscription information
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and archives for all of Wireshark’s mailing lists can be found
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on the web site[11].
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Official Wireshark training and certification are available from
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Wireshark University[12].
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Frequently Asked Questions
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A complete FAQ is available on the Wireshark web site[13].
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Last updated 2018-03-13 19:13:27 UTC
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References
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1. https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1419
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2. https://www.wireshark.org/download.html
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3. https://www.wireshark.org/download.html#thirdparty
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4. https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1516
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5. https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1814
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6. https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=2234
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7. https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=4035
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8. https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=4985
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9. https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=10488
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10. https://ask.wireshark.org/
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11. https://www.wireshark.org/lists/
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12. http://www.wiresharktraining.com/
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13. https://www.wireshark.org/faq.html
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