Wireshark · Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Wireshark 1.99.6 is now available

[Roland Knall <rknall@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi

The original extcap message, mentioning that Qt does not support it yet is not correct anymore and should be changed. Also menus for plugins are supported in the Gtk version as well, although not as nice. 

regards, Roland



> Am 28.05.2015 um 22:25 schrieb Gerald Combs <gerald@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
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> I'm proud to announce the release of Wireshark 1.99.6.
> 
> 
>   This is an experimental release intended to test new features for
>   Wireshark 2.0.
>     __________________________________________________________________
> 
> What is Wireshark?
> 
>   Wireshark is the world's most popular network protocol analyzer. It is
>   used for troubleshooting, analysis, development and education.
>     __________________________________________________________________
> 
> What's New
> 
>  New and Updated Features
> 
>   The following features are new (or have been significantly updated)
>   since version 1.99.4 and 1.99.5:
>     * Qt port:
>          + Capture restarts are now supported.
>          + Menu items for plugins are now supported.
>          + Extcap interfaces are now supported.
>          + The Expert Information dialog has been added.
>          + Display filter completion is now supported.
>          + Several interface bugs have been fixed.
>          + Translations have been updated.
> 
>   The following features are new (or have been significantly updated)
>   since version 1.99.3:
>     * Qt port:
>          + Several interface bugs have been fixed.
>          + Translations have been updated.
> 
>   The following features are new (or have been significantly updated)
>   since version 1.99.2:
>     * Qt port:
>          + Several bugs have been fixed.
>          + You can now open a packet in a new window.
>          + The Bluetooth ATT Server Attributes dialog has been added.
>          + The Coloring Rules dialog has been added.
>          + Many translations have been updated. Chinese, Italian and
>            Polish translations are complete.
>          + General user interface and usability improvements.
>          + Automatic scrolling during capture now works.
>          + The related packet indicator has been updated.
> 
>   The following features are new (or have been significantly updated)
>   since version 1.99.1:
>     * Qt port:
>          + The welcome screen layout has been updated.
>          + The Preferences dialog no longer crashes on Windows.
>          + The packet list header menu has been added.
>          + Statistics tree plugins are now supported.
>          + The window icon is now displayed properly in the Windows
>            taskbar.
>          + A packet list an byte view selection bug has been fixed
>            ([1]Bug 10896)
>          + The RTP Streams dialog has been added.
>          + The Protocol Hierarchy Statistics dialog has been added.
> 
>   The following features are new (or have been significantly updated)
>   since version 1.99.0:
>     * Qt port:
>          + You can now show and hide toolbars and major widgets using the
>            View menu.
>          + You can now set the time display format and precision.
>          + The byte view widget is much faster, particularly when
>            selecting large reassembled packets.
>          + The byte view is explorable. Hovering over it highlights the
>            corresponding field and shows a description in the status bar.
>          + An Italian translation has been added.
>          + The Summary dialog has been updated and renamed to Capture
>            File Properties.
>          + The VoIP Calls and SIP Flows dialogs have been added.
>          + Support for HiDPI / Retina displays has been improved in the
>            official packages.
>     * DNS stats: + A new stats tree has been added to the Statistics
>       menu. Now it is possible to collect stats such as qtype/qclass
>       distribution, number of resource record per response section, and
>       stats data (min, max, avg) for values such as query name length or
>       DNS payload.
>     * HPFEEDS stats: + A new stats tree has been added to the statistics
>       menu. Now it is possible to collect stats per channel (messages
>       count and payload size), and opcode distribution.
>     * HTTP2 stats: + A new stats tree has been added to the statistics
>       menu. Now it is possible to collect stats (type distribution).
> 
>   The following features are new (or have been significantly updated)
>   since version 1.12.0:
>     * The I/O Graph in the Gtk+ UI now supports an unlimited number of
>       data points (up from 100k).
>     * TShark now resets its state when changing files in ring-buffer
>       mode.
>     * Expert Info severities can now be configured.
>     * Wireshark now supports external capture interfaces. External
>       capture interfaces can be anything from a tcpdump-over-ssh pipe to
>       a program that captures from proprietary or non-standard hardware.
>       This functionality is not available in the Qt UI yet.
>     * Qt port:
>          + The Qt UI is now the default (program name is wireshark).
>          + A Polish translation has been added.
>          + The Interfaces dialog has been added.
>          + The interface list is now updated when interfaces appear or
>            disappear.
>          + The Conversations and Endpoints dialogs have been added.
>          + A Japanese translation has been added.
>          + It is now possible to manage remote capture interfaces.
>          + Windows: taskbar progress support has been added.
>          + Most toolbar actions are in place and work.
>          + More command line options are now supported
> 
>  New Protocol Support
> 
>   (LISP) TCP Control Message, AllJoyn Reliable Datagram Protocol, Android
>   ADB, Android Logcat text, Apache Tribes Heartbeat, BGP Monitoring
>   Prototol (BMP), C15 Call History Protocol dissection (C15ch), ceph,
>   corosync/totemnet corosync cluster engine ( lowest
>   levelencryption/decryption protocol), corosync/totemsrp corosync
>   cluster engine ( totem single ring protocol), Couchbase, CP "Cooper"
>   2179, DJI UAV Drone Control Protocol, Dynamic Source Routing (RFC
>   4728), Elasticsearch, ETSI Card Application Toolkit - Transport
>   Protocol, Generic Network Virtualization Encapsulation (Geneve),
>   Geospatial and Imagery Access Service (GIAS), GVSP GigE Vision (TM)
>   Streaming Protocol, HCrt, HiQnet, IP Detail Record (IPDR), IPMI Trace,
>   iSER, KNXnetIP, MACsec Key Agreement - EAPoL-MKA, MCPE (Minecraft
>   Pocket Edition), OCFS2, OptoMMP, QNEX6 (QNET), RakNet games library,
>   Remote Shared Virtual Disk - RSVD, Riemann, S7 Communication, Secure
>   Socket Tunnel Protocol (SSTP), Shared Memory Communications - RDMA,
>   Stateless Transport Tunneling, Thrift, Video Services over IP (VSIP),
>   and ZVT Kassenschnittstelle
> 
>  Updated Protocol Support
> 
>   Too many protocols have been updated to list here.
> 
>  New and Updated Capture File Support
> 
>   3GPP Nettrace TS 34 423, Android Logcat text files, Colasoft Capsa
>   files, Netscaler 3.5, and Wireshark now supports nanosecond timestamp
>   resolution in PCAP-NG files.
> 
>  New and Updated Capture Interfaces support
> 
>   and Androiddump - provide interfaces to capture (Logcat and Bluetooth)
>   from connected Android devices
> 
>  Major API Changes
> 
>   The libwireshark API has undergone some major changes:
>     * The emem framework (including all ep_ and se_ memory allocation
>       routines) has been completely removed in favour of wmem which is
>       now fully mature.
>     * The (long-since-broken) Python bindings support has been removed.
>       If you want to write dissectors in something other than C, use Lua.
>     * Plugins can now create GUI menu items.
>     __________________________________________________________________
> 
> Getting Wireshark
> 
>   Wireshark source code and installation packages are available from
>   [2]https://www.wireshark.org/download.html.
> 
>  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 [3]download page 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
> 
>   Dumpcap might not quit if Wireshark or TShark crashes. ([4]Bug 1419)
> 
>   The BER dissector might infinitely loop. ([5]Bug 1516)
> 
>   Capture filters aren't applied when capturing from named pipes. ([6]Bug
>   1814)
> 
>   Filtering tshark captures with read filters (-R) no longer works.
>   ([7]Bug 2234)
> 
>   Resolving ([8]Bug 9044) reopens ([9]Bug 3528) so that Wireshark no
>   longer automatically decodes gzip data when following a TCP stream.
> 
>   Application crash when changing real-time option. ([10]Bug 4035)
> 
>   Hex pane display issue after startup. ([11]Bug 4056)
> 
>   Packet list rows are oversized. ([12]Bug 4357)
> 
>   Wireshark and TShark will display incorrect delta times in some cases.
>   ([13]Bug 4985)
> 
>   The 64-bit version of Wireshark will leak memory on Windows when the
>   display depth is set to 16 bits ([14]Bug 9914)
> 
>   Wireshark should let you work with multiple capture files. ([15]Bug
>   10488)
>     __________________________________________________________________
> 
> Getting Help
> 
>   Community support is available on [16]Wireshark's Q&A site and on the
>   wireshark-users mailing list. Subscription information and archives for
>   all of Wireshark's mailing lists can be found on [17]the web site.
> 
>   Official Wireshark training and certification are available from
>   [18]Wireshark University.
>     __________________________________________________________________
> 
> Frequently Asked Questions
> 
>   A complete FAQ is available on the [19]Wireshark web site.
>     __________________________________________________________________
> 
>   Last updated 2015-05-28 19:01:06 UTC
> 
> References
> 
>   1. https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=10896
>   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=1419
>   5. https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1516
>   6. https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1814
>   7. https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=2234
>   8. https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=9044
>   9. https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3528
>  10. https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=4035
>  11. https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=4056
>  12. https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=4357
>  13. https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=4985
>  14. https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=9914
>  15. https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=10488
>  16. https://ask.wireshark.org/
>  17. https://www.wireshark.org/lists/
>  18. http://www.wiresharktraining.com/
>  19. https://www.wireshark.org/faq.html
> 
> 
> Digests
> 
> wireshark-1.99.6.tar.bz2: 30046495 bytes
> MD5(wireshark-1.99.6.tar.bz2)=2b3513d6967af50008a9aa2014895dc7
> SHA1(wireshark-1.99.6.tar.bz2)=77b0943c681940e9e879964fccfe65e262090285
> RIPEMD160(wireshark-1.99.6.tar.bz2)=da22432ef3b576325728b1c6097eea9190791f6c
> 
> Wireshark-win64-1.99.6.exe: 44043312 bytes
> MD5(Wireshark-win64-1.99.6.exe)=2c8d738df594db5e0cee0570524f6664
> SHA1(Wireshark-win64-1.99.6.exe)=06617f77f5cbf44b34c08f34473f81d4f25cade7
> RIPEMD160(Wireshark-win64-1.99.6.exe)=012043023a47cdfd8067c3d8ca395a4540dd879e
> 
> Wireshark-win32-1.99.6.exe: 34902104 bytes
> MD5(Wireshark-win32-1.99.6.exe)=faac771449e2cda380441537fa54b9a4
> SHA1(Wireshark-win32-1.99.6.exe)=23fd7fbd1b687231a19e78f34b6cd45f50e732e2
> RIPEMD160(Wireshark-win32-1.99.6.exe)=a0336e3430bf0d8e1cb3da44f76202eaf8c52dce
> 
> WiresharkPortable_1.99.6.paf.exe: 39839656 bytes
> MD5(WiresharkPortable_1.99.6.paf.exe)=2f5c57d3eaca9582e593b6240d96e2eb
> SHA1(WiresharkPortable_1.99.6.paf.exe)=6f66ac75e2a4d3040adc6bb283bf0a639c7f1a79
> RIPEMD160(WiresharkPortable_1.99.6.paf.exe)=da816e45ae313302c979ccd292b591e52588e63d
> 
> Wireshark 1.99.6 Intel 32.dmg: 33809243 bytes
> MD5(Wireshark 1.99.6 Intel 32.dmg)=d3d7bfcb0c70d4402f1e2b98ad5349f0
> SHA1(Wireshark 1.99.6 Intel 32.dmg)=122577f88f6846615ecb27cc1ce0d588892b564b
> RIPEMD160(Wireshark 1.99.6 Intel 32.dmg)=a2d55f232f1c80e00027cb372499f61af10618f1
> 
> Wireshark 1.99.6 Intel 64.dmg: 43673193 bytes
> MD5(Wireshark 1.99.6 Intel 64.dmg)=01be1ecd3b86ed895a585aa9ae5d70a4
> SHA1(Wireshark 1.99.6 Intel 64.dmg)=b029d94a435442344f908b270831dfa7151b9ca6
> RIPEMD160(Wireshark 1.99.6 Intel 64.dmg)=76dc22d216b939484c2fd2824879ecaa7bc73ce8
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