Update the release notes.

Change-Id: I95de800a01c539835fb12ae1dca4f396a4a206cd
Reviewed-on: https://code.wireshark.org/review/25197
Reviewed-by: Gerald Combs <gerald@wireshark.org>
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Gerald Combs 2018-01-05 17:02:57 -08:00
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== What's New
* Display filter buttons can now be edited, disabled, and removed via a context
menu directly from the toolbar
* Drag&Drop filter fields to the display filter toolbar or edit to create
a button on the fly or apply the filter as a display filter.
* Application startup time has been reduced.
* Some keyboard shortcut mix-up has been resolved by assigning new shortcuts
to Edit -> Copy methods.
* The installation step for Wireshark will now install headers required to
build plugins. A pkg-config file is provided to help with this
(see doc/plugins.example for details). Note you must still rebuild all
plugins between minor releases (X.Y).
Many user interface improvements have been made. See the New and Updated
Features section below for more details.
//=== Bug Fixes
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The following features are new (or have been significantly updated)
since version 2.4.0:
* Add color support for TShark with --color option.
* Display filter buttons can now be edited, disabled, and removed via a context
menu directly from the toolbar
* Drag & Drop filter fields to the display filter toolbar or edit to create
a button on the fly or apply the filter as a display filter.
* Application startup time has been reduced.
* Some keyboard shortcut mix-ups have been resolved by assigning new shortcuts
to Edit -> Copy methods.
* TShark now supports color using the --color option.
* The "matches" display filter operator is now case-insensitive.
* Display expression (button) preferences have been converted to a UAT.
This puts the display expressions in their own file. Wireshark still
supports preference files that contain the old preferences, but new
preference files will be written without the old fields.
* SMI private enterprise numbers are now read from the "enterprises.tsv" configuration file.
* QUIC dissector is renamed to G(oogle) QUIC (quic => gquic).
* Selected packet number can now be shown in the Status Bar by enabling
* The QUIC dissector has been renamed to G(oogle) QUIC (quic => gquic).
* The selected packet number can now be shown in the Status Bar by enabling
Preferences -> Appearance -> Layout -> Show selected packet number.
* File load time in Status Bar is now disabled by default and can be enabled in
* File load time in the Status Bar is now disabled by default and can be enabled in
Preferences -> Appearance -> Layout -> Show file load time.
* Support for G.729 codec in the RTP Player (via the bcg729 library).
* Support for hardware-timestamping of packets
* Support for the G.729 codec in the RTP Player is now supported via the bcg729 library.
* Support for hardware-timestamping of packets has been added.
* Improved NetMon .cap support with comments, event tracing, network filter,
network info types and some Message Analyzer exported types.
* Personal plugins folder on Linux/Unix is now ~/.local/lib/wireshark/plugins.
* Add Flow Graph functionality to TShark using -z
* The personal plugins folder on Linux/Unix is now ~/.local/lib/wireshark/plugins.
* TShark can print flow graphs using -z flow...
* Capinfos now prints SHA256 hashes in addition to RIPEMD160 and SHA1. MD5 output
has been removed.
* Packet editor has been removed (GTK only experimental feature).
* The packet editor has been removed (GTK only experimental feature).
* Support BBC micro:bit Bluetooth profile
* The Linux and UNIX installation step for Wireshark will now install
headers required to build plugins. A pkg-config file is provided to
help with this (see doc/plugins.example for details). Note you must
still rebuild all plugins between minor releases (X.Y).
//=== Removed Dissectors
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// Add one protocol per line between the --sort-and-group-- delimiters.
--sort-and-group--
ActiveMQ Artemis Core Protocol
AMT (Automatic Multicast Tunneling)
Bluetooth Mesh
Broadcom tags (Broadcom Ethernet switch management frames)
FP Mux
GRPC (gRPC)
IEEE 1905.1a
IEEE 802.3br Frame Preemption Protocol
ISOBUS
LoRaTap
LoRaWAN
ISOBUS
AMT (Automatic Multicast Tunneling)
QUIC (IETF)
Wi-Fi Device Provisioning Protocol
PFCP (Packet Forwarding Control Protocol)
Tibia
Broadcom tags (Broadcom Ethernet switch management frames)
GRPC (gRPC)
SolarEdge monitoring protocol
Protobuf (Protocol Buffers)
FP Mux
Network Functional Application Platform Interface (NFAPI) Protocol
IEEE 1905.1a
Bluetooth Mesh
TWAMP and OWAMP
ActiveMQ Artemis Core Protocol
IEEE 802.3br Frame Preemption Protocol
Lustre Network
Network Functional Application Platform Interface (NFAPI) Protocol
NXP 802.15.4 Sniffer Protocol
PFCP (Packet Forwarding Control Protocol)
Protobuf (Protocol Buffers)
QUIC (IETF)
SolarEdge monitoring protocol
Tibia
TWAMP and OWAMP
Wi-Fi Device Provisioning Protocol
--sort-and-group--
=== Updated Protocol Support
@ -104,14 +102,15 @@ Too many protocols have been updated to list here.
=== New and Updated Capture File Support
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// Add one file type per line between the --sort-and-group-- delimiters.
--sort-and-group--
Microsoft Network Monitor
--sort-and-group--
=== New and Updated Capture Interfaces support
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//_Non-empty section placeholder._
--sort-and-group--
LoRaTap
--sort-and-group--
@ -160,9 +159,6 @@ Wireshark and TShark will display incorrect delta times in some cases.
Wireshark should let you work with multiple capture files. (ws-buglink:10488[])
Dell Backup and Recovery (DBAR) makes many Windows applications crash,
including Wireshark. (ws-buglink:12036[])
== Getting Help
Community support is available on https://ask.wireshark.org/[Wireshark's