Ethereal-announce: [ethereal-announce] Ethereal 0.8.11

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From: Gilbert Ramirez <gram@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 02 Aug 2000 22:11:09 -0500
Ethereal 0.8.11 is available for download at:

http://ethereal.zing.org/distribution/ethereal-0.8.11.tar.gz

The patch from 0.8.10 is at:

http://ethereal.zing.org/distribution/patch-ethereal-0.8.10-to-0.8.11.diff.bz2

Ethereal's home page is, as always:

http://ethereal.zing.org/

Summary of changes:

New dissectors: SCTP, DIAMETER, Quake 1
New features: user-configurable per-protocol preferences, capturing
	from a pipe (FIFO or STDIN), display filters work for
	string fields
Updated dissectors: SNMP, BOOTP, CLNP, NFS, OSPF, RPC, DNS,
	NCP (re-written), TCP

Overview of changes in Ethereal 0.8.11:
* Set locale in tethereal (Guy)
* Dialog box utility routines (Guy)
* Modal window fixes (Guy)
* GUI cleanups (Guy)
* Add support for preferences (Guy)
* IPv4 DiffServ is a preference (Guy)
* Add strcasecmp.c for those systems that need it, like SINIX-M (Uwe)
* BOOTP magic cookie fix, option-dissection fix (Guy)
* SNMPv3 fix for security model values 1 and 2 (Guy)
* Make AH payload dissection placement a preference (Gilbert)
* Timestamp display fix (Guy)
* CLNP TSAP fix (Guy)
* NFS filehandle dissection for ReliantUNIX and Linux nfsd/knfsd (Uwe)
* TCP summary info in protocol tree is an option (Gilbert)
* OSPF enhancements and fixes (Michael Rozhavsky)
* inet_aton()-related build fixes (Guy)
* UDP has heuristic dissector table, and uses it for RPC (Uwe)
* Dissection of RPCSEC_GSS credentials in ONC RPC (Dug Song)
* DNSSEC additions/name changes (Jakob Schlyter)
* Error message cleanups (Guy)
* DNS support for MS's WINS and WINS-R resource records (Guy)
* tvbuff-ication of H1 dissector, and response identifier display change
	(Gerrit Gehnen)
* SCTP dissector (Michael.Tuexen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx)
* Capture-window titlebar fix (Gilbert)
* Support for building SVR4 binary packages (Gerald)
* proto_tree/dfilter interaction change (Gilbert)
* Fix URL for libpcap (Guy)
* Improved autogen.sh script (Bruce Korb)
* Add "debian" target to Makefile (Olivier)
* Tethereal packet-count and new-line fix (Gilbert)
* SNMP "agent address" trap PDU display fix (Guy)
* Support for many more DHCP options (Jose Pedro Oliveira)
* Compiler-warning fixes in wiretap (Guy)
* Reset "visited" flag when rescanning a file (Gilbert)
* Add RPM and SRPM build targets (Gerald)
* Another shot at the undead libpcap monster fix (i.e., extra info
	in headers for ss990915 libpcap) (Guy)
* Add aclocal-flags to fix build headaches (Guy)
* In proto_tree_add_item(), access tvbuff before adding anything to
	proto_tree. (Gilbert)
* Add Quake 1 dissector (Uwe)
* GIOP dissector warns about unsupported GIOP versions (Gilbert)
* dfilter2pod build fix (Gilbert)
* Re-write of NCP dissector. Adds python to build. :) (Gilbert)
* Fix Edit->Filters...->Apply (Richard)
* Add DIAMETER dissector (David Frascone)
* Display TCP RST data as text, as per RFC 1122 (Guy, with tip o' hat
	to Kevin Steves)
* Support for capturing from a pipe (FIFO or STDIN). (Olivier)
* Cross-platform build fixes (Guy)
* Fix directory-checking routines (Guy)
* Display filters now work on string types (Gilbert)
* Initial templates for decoding all 4 NLM protocol versions (Uwe)

--gilbert