Wireshark · Ethereal-announce: [ethereal-announce] Ethereal 0.8.12 is available

[Gilbert Ramirez <gram@xxxxxxxxxx>]

The source code to Ethereal 0.8.12 is available for download at:

http://ethereal.zing.org/distribution/ethereal-0.8.12.tar.gz

The diff from 0.8.11 to 0.8.12 is at:

http://ethereal.zing.org/distribution/patch-ethereal-0.8.11-to-0.8.12.diff.bz2

As always, the Ethereal home page is at:

http://ethereal.zing.org/


New dissectors include Kerberos 5, RSH, Zebra, and initial support for BXXP.
Our Help menu finally gives some help.
There were many many other changes and fixes throughout the code.


Overview of changes in Ethereal 0.8.12:
* OSPF enhancements (Craig Metz)
* Buffer-overflow protection with snprintf (Gilbert)
* Add "Save As" feature to TCP Follow dialogue (Gilbert)
* NFS update (Guy)
* Show correct IP cksum if cksum in packet is incorrect
	(Johannes.Hennecke@xxxxxxx, Gilbert, Guy)
* Fixes for srvloc (Guy, Peter Kjellerstedt)
* Reorganize Win32 README (Gilbert)
* ICQ updates (Peter Kjellerstedt)
* ICMP proto_tree fix (Guy)
* Filter dialogue GUI fix (Guy)
* Fix rlogin "fd" assumption (Guy)
* Packet-length fixes in various dissectors (Guy)
* Add preferences to OSI CLNP/COTP/CLTP (Laurent)
* Dissector tables allow for tvbuff and non-tvbuff dissectors (Guy)
* Code cleanup (Laurent, Guy)
* SMB fix (Richard)
* Add scripts to turn lists of protocols and filterable fields, as
	produced by "ethereal -G", to SGML (Richard)
* RPC updates (Uwe)
* NLM v1 updates (Uwe)
* Add Help window (Laurent)
* Improve add_host_name fill IP host hasthable from DNS answers (Laurent)
* Add doc strings to ncp2222.py (Gilbert)
* Fix display of IPv6 frag header in proto_tree (Santeri Paavolainen)
* Add wiretap support for Cisco Secure Intrusion Detection System IPLog format
	(Mike Hall, Gilbert)
* Allow "filtering" in TCP Follow Save As, i.e., save entire conversation, or
	either half of the conversation (C->S, S->C) (Gilbert, Laurent)
* Doco update (Guy)
* BOOTP fix (Phil Techau)
* Fix Help|About order (Guy)
* Add #defines to DNS dissector (Guy)
* Fix compilation in non-source directory (Laurent)
* Add ethertypes (Laurent)
* Add routines for fetching little-endian and big-endian 64-bit integral
	quantities, if G_HAVE_GINT64 is defined (Guy)
* ISIS CLV fix (Laurent)
* Add proto_tree_add_text_valist (Laurent)
* make-reg-dotc fix (Guy)
* header-file inclusion fixes (Laurent)
* Add Kerberos 5 dissector (Wes Hardaker, Guy, Gilbert)
* Speedup of random access to compressed ngsniffer files (Guy)
* LLC non-SNAP fix (Guy)
* snprintf fixes (Guy)
* "TCP follow" support for TCP over IPv6 (Laurent)
* Add RSH dissector (Robert Tsai)
* Add HPUX doco and patches (Guy)
* Better handling of failing to open capture device (Guy)
* Cope with Linux ISDN packet headers (Guy)
* Enable/disable particular protocols (Laurent, Uwe)
* Small RPC and NFS fix (Uwe)
* Preferences GUI updates (Laurent, Guy, Gilbert)
* Packet deselection fix (Guy)
* Re-organize popup menu (Laurent)
* GUI convenience function updates (Guy)
* DNS A6 records are now RFC 2874, not i-d (itojun)
* Add support for draft-ietf-ipngwg-icmp-name-lookups-06.txt
	(ICMP node information query) (itojun)
* Gryphon plugin fix (Laurent)
* Plugin fix (Laurent)
* Add Zebra dissector (Jochen, Guy)
* ICMPv6 dissector alignment fix (itojun)
* Add port type for SCTP ports (Michael Tuexen)
* Potential buffer overflow fixes (Laurent)
* Add info to summary window (Laurent)
* Add initial support for SMTP dissector (Richard, Laurent)
* Choose bold font from normal-weight font name (Guy)
* Font fixes (Laurent)
* BGP display filter fix (Laurent)
* Ascend display filter fix (Laurent)
* Ability to mark frames with middle mouse button. (Laurent)
* Tethereal initialization fix (Guy)
* Turn FT_NSTRING_UINT8 into FT_UINT_STRING (Gilbert)
* NCP fix (Gilbert)
* Remove "Decode IPv4 TOS field as DiffServ field" from display
	options (Laurent)
* Add a help context identifier to the status bar (Laurent)
* Fix CLEANUP_* macros in exceptions code (Gilbert)
* LDAP dissector fix (Guy)
* RPC packet-state fix (Guy)
* Name updates to stuff in GSS authentication for ONC RPC (Dug Song)
* Update doco (Guy, Laurent)
* libpcap->wiretap encapsulation type mapping fix for new DLT_ types (Guy)
* LLC fix (Guy)
* pptp fix (Laurent)
* vines fix (Laurent)
* NFS v2 READDIR fix (Guy)
* Add FT_STRINGZ type (Gilbert)
* Move pointer-integer functions (pntohl, et al) to separate file (Gilbert)
* Add initial support for BXXP (Richard)
* Fix method for building list of network interfaces (Uwe, with tip o' hat
	to W. Richard Stevens)
* GIOP endianness fix (Gilbert)
* Random character in help dialogue fix (Laurent)
* Change wtap_read() parameter list to avoid hacks in some wiretap
	modules (Gilbert)
* g_malloc()/g_free() fixes (Guy)
* New tvbuff routines (Gilbert, Richard)
* libsnmp.so loading fix (Guy)
* Use inverse video instead of boldface in hex dump (Graham Bloice, Guy)
* Ability to choose fixed-width font as a GUI preference (Guy)
* Default to "6x13" rather than Lucida Typewriter, as not all X servers
	have Lucida Typewriter (Guy)
* Comment-out Cut/Copy/Paste items in Edit menu (Guy)
* redraw_hex_dump fixes (Guy)
* Negative relative and delta timestamp fixes (Guy)
* Move some string functions out of packet.c and into strutil.c (Gilbert)
* OSPF fixes (Craig Metz)
* Avoid assert in tvbuff when creating packet of bogus reported_length (Gilbert)
* Don't allow hf_text_only to be in the display filter language (Gilbert)
* Win32 .cvsignore additions (Graham)


Enjoy!

--gilbert