release-notes: add developer/distribution-specific updates

Mention some changes to aid developers and distributors.

Change-Id: Ifd33796fd3b4883275c034021d25ae9b35eef1a5
Reviewed-on: https://code.wireshark.org/review/31651
Petri-Dish: Peter Wu <peter@lekensteyn.nl>
Tested-by: Petri Dish Buildbot
Reviewed-by: Anders Broman <a.broman58@gmail.com>
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Peter Wu 2019-01-21 14:52:09 +01:00 committed by Anders Broman
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@ -42,6 +42,7 @@ since version 2.9.0:
* Wireshark now supports the Swedish and Ukrainian language.
* Initial support for using PKCS #11 tokens for RSA decryption in TLS. A
configuration user interface is still in development.
* The build system now produces reproducible builds (wsbuglink:15163[]).
The following features are new (or have been significantly updated)
since version 2.6.0:
@ -81,16 +82,19 @@ since version 2.6.0:
* A new dfilter function string() has been added. It allows the conversion of
non-string fields to strings so string functions (as contains and matches)
can be used on them.
* The Bash test suite has been replaced by one based on Python unittest/pytest.
=== Removed Features and Support
* The legacy (GTK+) user interface has been removed and is no longer supported.
* The portaudio library is no longer needed due to the removal of GTK+.
* Wireshark requires Qt 5.2 or later. Qt 4 is no longer supported.
* Wireshark requires GLib 2.32 or later.
* Wireshark requires GnuTLS 3.2 or later as optional dependency.
* Building Wireshark requires Python 3.4 or newer, Python 2.7 is unsupported.
* Building Wireshark requires CMake. Autotools is no longer supported.
* TSharks `-z compare` option was removed.
* Building with Cygwin is no longer supported on Windows.
//=== Removed Dissectors