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Wireshark 2.5.1 Release Notes
This is a semi-experimental release intended to test new features
for Wireshark 2.6.
What is Wireshark?
Wireshark is the worlds most popular network protocol analyzer.
It is used for troubleshooting, analysis, development and
education.
Whats New
Wireshark 2.6 is the last release that will support the legacy
(GTK+) user interface. It will not be supported or available in
Wireshark 3.0.
Many user interface improvements have been made. See the “New
and Updated Features” section below for more details.
Dumpcap might not quit if Wireshark or TShark crashes. (Bug
1419[1])
New and Updated Features
The following features are new (or have been significantly
updated) since version 2.5.0:
• HTTP Referer statistics are now supported.
• Wireshark now supports MaxMind DB files. Support for GeoIP
and GeoLite Legacy databases has been removed.
• The Windows packages are now built using Microsoft Visual
Studio 2017.
• The IP map feature (the “Map” button in the “Endpoints”
dialog) has been removed.
The following features are new (or have been significantly
updated) since version 2.4.0:
• 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.
• The QUIC dissector has been renamed to Google 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 the Status Bar is now disabled by default
and can be enabled in Preferences → Appearance → Layout →
Show file load time.
• Support for the G.729A codec in the RTP Player is now added
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.
• 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.
• The packet editor has been removed. (This was a 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).
• The Windows installers and packages now ship with Qt 5.9.4.
• The generic data dissector can now uncompress zlib
compressed data.
New Protocol Support
ActiveMQ Artemis Core Protocol, AMT (Automatic Multicast
Tunneling), Bluetooth Mesh, Broadcom tags (Broadcom Ethernet
switch management frames), CAN-ETH, CVS password server,
Excentis DOCSIS31 XRA header, F5ethtrailer, FP Mux, GRPC
(gRPC), IEEE 1905.1a, IEEE 802.11ax (High Efficiency WLAN
(HEW)), IEEE 802.15.9 IEEE Recommended Practice for Transport
of Key Management Protocol (KMP) Datagrams, IEEE 802.3br Frame
Preemption Protocol, ISOBUS, LoRaTap, LoRaWAN, Lustre
Filesystem, Lustre Network, Nano / RaiBlocks Cryptocurrency
Protocol (UDP), Network Functional Application Platform
Interface (NFAPI) Protocol, New Radio Radio Resource Control
protocol, NXP 802.15.4 Sniffer Protocol, PFCP (Packet
Forwarding Control Protocol), Protobuf (Protocol Buffers), QUIC
(IETF), RFC 4108 Using CMS to Protect Firmware Packages,
Session Multiplex Protocol, SolarEdge monitoring protocol,
Steam In-Home Streaming Discovery Protocol, Tibia, TWAMP and
OWAMP, Wi-Fi Device Provisioning Protocol, and Wi-SUN FAN
Protocol
Updated Protocol Support
Too many protocols have been updated to list here.
New and Updated Capture File Support
Microsoft Network Monitor
New and Updated Capture Interfaces support
LoRaTap
Getting Wireshark
Wireshark source code and installation packages are available
from https://www.wireshark.org/download.html[2].
Vendor-supplied Packages
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 download page[3] on
the Wireshark web site.
File Locations
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.
Known Problems
The BER dissector might infinitely loop. (Bug 1516[4])
Capture filters arent applied when capturing from named pipes.
(Bug 1814[5])
Filtering tshark captures with read filters (-R) no longer
works. (Bug 2234[6])
Application crash when changing real-time option. (Bug 4035[7])
Wireshark and TShark will display incorrect delta times in some
cases. (Bug 4985[8])
Wireshark should let you work with multiple capture files. (Bug
10488[9])
Getting Help
Community support is available on Wiresharks Q&A site[10] and
on the wireshark-users mailing list. Subscription information
and archives for all of Wiresharks mailing lists can be found
on the web site[11].
Official Wireshark training and certification are available from
Wireshark University[12].
Frequently Asked Questions
A complete FAQ is available on the Wireshark web site[13].
Last updated 2018-03-13 19:13:27 UTC
References
1. https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1419
2. https://www.wireshark.org/download.html
3. https://www.wireshark.org/download.html#thirdparty
4. https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1516
5. https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1814
6. https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=2234
7. https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=4035
8. https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=4985
9. https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=10488
10. https://ask.wireshark.org/
11. https://www.wireshark.org/lists/
12. http://www.wiresharktraining.com/
13. https://www.wireshark.org/faq.html