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Wireshark-users: [Wireshark-users] Wireshark 2.0.0 is now available

From: Gerald Combs <gerald@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2015 15:24:10 -0800

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I'm proud to announce the release of Wireshark 2.0.0.

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What is Wireshark?

Wireshark is the world's most popular network protocol analyzer. It is
used for troubleshooting, analysis, development and education.
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What's New

Wireshark 2.0 features a completely new user interface which should
provide a smoother, faster user experience. The new interface should be
familiar to current users of Wireshark but provide a faster workflow
for many tasks.

The Windows installer provides the option of installing either the new
interface ("Wirehsark") or the old interface ("Wireshark Legacy"). Both
are installed by default. Note that the legacy interface will be
removed in Wireshark 2.2.

The OS X installer only provides the new interface. If you need the old
interface you can install it via Homebrew or MacPorts.

Wireshark's Debian- and RPM-based package definitions provide the new
interface in the "wireshark-qt" package and the old interface in the
"wireshark-gtk" package. It is hoped that downstream distributions will
follow this convention.

New and Updated Features

The following features are new (or have been significantly updated)
since version 2.0.0rc3:
* An RTP player crash has been fixed.
* Flow graph issues have been fixed. Bug [1]Bug 11710.
* A Follow Stream dialog crash has been fixed. Bug [2]Bug 11711.
* An extcap crash has been fixed.
* A file merge crash has been fixed. Bug [3]Bug 11718.
* A handle leak crash has been fixed. Bug [4]Bug 11702.
* Several other crashes and usability issues have been fixed.

The following features are new (or have been significantly updated)
since version 2.0.0rc2:
* Column editing now works correctly. Bug [5]Bug 11433.
* Renaming profiles has been fixed. Bug [6]Bug 11658.
* "File"->Merge no longer crashes on Windows. Bug [7]Bug 11684.
* Icons in the main toolbar obey magnification settings on Windows.
Bug [8]Bug 11675.
* The Windows installer does a better job of detecting WinPcap. Bug
[9]Bug 10867.
* The main window no longer appears off-screen on Windows. Bug
[10]Bug 11568.

The following features are new (or have been significantly updated)
since version 2.0.0rc1:
* For new installations on UN*X, the directory for user preferences
is $HOME/.config/wireshark rather than $HOME/.wireshark. If that
directory is absent, preferences will still be found and stored
under $HOME/.wireshark.
* Qt port:
+ The SIP Statistics dialog has been added.
+ You can now create filter expressions from the display filter
toolbar.
+ Bugs in the UAT preferences dialog has been fixed.
* Several dissector and Qt UI crash bugs have been fixed.
* Problems with the OS X application bundle have been fixed.

The following features are new (or have been significantly updated)
since version 1.99.9:
* Qt port:
+ The LTE RLC Graph dialog has been added.
+ The LTE MAC Statistics dialog has been added.
+ The LTE RLC Statistics dialog has been added.
+ The IAX2 Analysis dialog has been added.
+ The Conversation Hash Tables dialog has been added.
+ The Dissector Tables dialog has been added.
+ The Supported Protocols dialog has been added.
+ You can now zoom the I/O and TCP Stream graph X and Y axes
independently.
+ The RTP Player dialog has been added.
+ Several memory leaks have been fixed.

The following features are new (or have been significantly updated)
since version 1.99.8:
* Qt port:
+ The MTP3 statistics and summary dialogs have been added.
+ The WAP-WSP statistics dialog has been added.
+ The UDP multicast statistics dialog has been added.
+ The WLAN statistics dialog has been added.
+ The display filter macros dialog has been added.
+ The capture file properties dialog now includes packet
comments.
+ Many more statistics dialogs can be opened from the command
line via -z ....
+ Most dialogs now have a cancellable progress bar.
+ Many packet list and packet detail context menus items have
been added.
+ Lua plugins can be reloaded from the Analyze menu.
+ Many bug fixes and improvements.

The following features are new (or have been significantly updated)
since version 1.99.7:
* Qt port:
+ The Enabled Protocols dialog has been added.
+ Many statistics dialogs have been added, including Service
response time, DHCP/BOOTP, and ANSI.
+ The RTP Analysis dialog has been added.
+ Lua dialog support has been added.
+ You can now manually resolve addresses.
+ The Resolved Addresses dialog has been added.
+ The packet list scrollbar now has a minimap.
+ The capture interfaces dialog has been updated.
+ You can now colorize conversations.
+ Welcome screen behavior has been improved.
+ Plugin support has been improved.
+ Many dialogs should now more correctly minimize and maximize.
+ The reload button has been added back to the toolbar.
+ The "Decode As" dialog no longer saves decoding behavior.
+ You can now stop loading large capture files.
+ The Bluetooth HCI Summary has been added.

The following features are new (or have been significantly updated)
since version 1.99.6:
* Qt port:
+ The Bluetooth Devices dialog has been added.
+ The wireless toolbar has been added.
+ Opening files via drag and drop is now supported.
+ The Capture Filter and Display Filter dialogs have been added.
+ The Display Filter Expression dialog has been added.
+ Conversation Filter menu items have been added.
+ You can change protocol preferences by right clicking on the
packet list and details.

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 and capture filter completion is now supported.
+ Many 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
([11]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 File Format Decoding Support

Wireshark is able to display the format of some types of files (rather
than displaying the contents of those files). This is useful when
you're curious about, or debugging, a file and its format. To open a
capture file (such as PCAP) in this mode specify "MIME Files Format" as
the file's format in the Open File dialog.

New files that Wireshark can open in this mode include:

BTSNOOP, PCAP, and PCAPNG

New Protocol Support

Aeron, AllJoyn Reliable Datagram Protocol, Android Debug Bridge,
Android Debug Bridge Service, Android Logcat text, Apache Tribes
Heartbeat, APT-X Codec, B.A.T.M.A.N. GW, B.A.T.M.A.N. Vis, BGP
Monitoring Prototol (BMP), Bluetooth Broadcom HCI, Bluetooth GATT
Attributes (many), Bluetooth OBEX Applications (many), BSSAP2, C15 Call
History Protocol (C15ch) and others, Celerra VNX, Ceph, Chargen,
Classical IP, Concise Binary Object Representation (CBOR) (RFC 7049),
Corosync Totem Single Ring Protocol, Corosync Totemnet, Couchbase, CP
"Cooper" 2179, CSN.1, dCache, DJI UAV Drone Control Protocol, Dynamic
Source Routing (RFC 4728), Elasticsearch, ETSI Card Application Toolkit
- Transport Protocol, eXpressive Internet Protocol (XIP), GDB Remote
Serial Protocol, Generic Network Virtualization Encapsulation (Geneve),
Geospatial and Imagery Access Service (GIAS), Gias Dissector Using GIOP
API, GPRS Tunneling Protocol Prim, GVSP GigE Vision (TM) Streaming
Protocol, H.225 RAS, Harman HiQnet, HCrt, Hotline Command-Response
Transaction Protocol, IEEE 802.11 radio information, IP Detail Record
(IPDR), IPMI Trace, iSER, KNXnetIP, Link Aggregation Control Protocol,
Link Aggregation Marker Protocol, Link Layer Topology Discovery,
Link-local Multicast Name Resolution, LISP TCP Control Message,
Locator/ID Separation Protocol (Reliable Transport), MACsec Key
Agreement - EAPoL-MKA, MCPE (Minecraft Pocket Edition), Message Queuing
Telemetry Transport For Sensor Networks (MQTT-SN), Minecraft Pocket
Edition, MQ Telemetry Transport Protocol for Sensor Networks, Multicast
Domain Name Service (mDNS), Neighborhood Watch Protocol (NWP), Network
File System over Remote Direct Memory Access (NFSoRDMA), OAMPDU, OCFS2,
OptoMMP, Organization Specific Slow Protocol (OSSP), Packet Cable
Lawful Intercept (8 byte CCCID), Packet Cable Lawful Intercept
(timestamp), Packet Cable Lawful Intercept (timestamp case ID),
PacketCable MTA FQDN, Performance Co-Pilot Proxy, QNEX6 (QNET), RakNet
games library, Remote Shared Virtual Disk (RSVD), Riemann, RPC over
RDMA (RPCoRDMA), S7 Communication, Secure Socket Tunnel Protocol
(SSTP), Shared Memory Communications - RDMA (SMCR), Stateless Transport
Tunneling, Sysdig system call events, TCP based Robot Operating System
protocol (TCPROS), Thrift, Time Division Multiplexing over Packet
Network (TDMoP), Video Services over IP (VSIP), Windows Search Protocol
(MS-WSP), XIP Serval, ZigBee ZCL (many), and ZVT Kassenschnittstelle

Updated Protocol Support

Too many protocols have been updated to list here.

New and Updated Capture File Support

3GPP TS 32.423 Trace, Android Logcat text files, Colasoft Capsa files,
Netscaler 3.5, and Symbian OS BTSNOOP File Format

Additionally, Wireshark now supports nanosecond timestamp resolution in
PCAP-NG files.

New and Updated Capture Interfaces support

Androiddump support now provides interfaces to capture (Logcat,
Bluetooth and WiFi) 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.
* Heuristic dissectors can now be globally enabled/disabled so
heur_dissector_add() has a few more parameters to make that
possible
* proto_tree_add_text has been removed.
* tvb_length() has been removed in favor of tvb_reported_length() and
tvb_captured_length().
* The API for ONC RPC-based dissectors has changed significantly: the
procedure dissectors no longer take an offset, void-argument
procedures now need to be declared with a function (use
dissect_rpc_void()), and rpc_init_prog() now handles procedure
registration too (it takes additional arguments to handle this;
rpc_init_proc_table() was removed).
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Getting Wireshark

Wireshark source code and installation packages are available from
[12]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 [13]download page on the Wireshark web site.
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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.
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Known Problems

Dumpcap might not quit if Wireshark or TShark crashes. ([14]Bug 1419)

The BER dissector might infinitely loop. ([15]Bug 1516)

Capture filters aren't applied when capturing from named pipes.
([16]Bug 1814)

Filtering tshark captures with read filters (-R) no longer works.
([17]Bug 2234)

Resolving ([18]Bug 9044) reopens ([19]Bug 3528) so that Wireshark no
longer automatically decodes gzip data when following a TCP stream.

Application crash when changing real-time option. ([20]Bug 4035)

Hex pane display issue after startup. ([21]Bug 4056)

Packet list rows are oversized. ([22]Bug 4357)

Wireshark and TShark will display incorrect delta times in some cases.
([23]Bug 4985)

The 64-bit version of Wireshark will leak memory on Windows when the
display depth is set to 16 bits ([24]Bug 9914)

Wireshark should let you work with multiple capture files. ([25]Bug
10488)
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Getting Help

Community support is available on [26]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 [27]the web site.

Official Wireshark training and certification are available from
[28]Wireshark University.
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Frequently Asked Questions

A complete FAQ is available on the [29]Wireshark web site.
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Last updated 2015-11-18 23:23:06 UTC

References

1. https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=11710
2. https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=11711
3. https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=11718
4. https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=11702
5. https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=11433
6. https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=11658
7. https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=11684
8. https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=11675
9. https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=10867
10. https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=11568
11. https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=10896
12. https://www.wireshark.org/download.html
13. https://www.wireshark.org/download.html#thirdparty
14. https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1419
15. https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1516
16. https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1814
17. https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=2234
18. https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=9044
19. https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3528
20. https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=4035
21. https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=4056
22. https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=4357
23. https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=4985
24. https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=9914
25. https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=10488
26. https://ask.wireshark.org/
27. https://www.wireshark.org/lists/
28. http://www.wiresharktraining.com/
29. https://www.wireshark.org/faq.html

Digests

wireshark-2.0.0.tar.bz2: 30976957 bytes
SHA256(wireshark-2.0.0.tar.bz2)=90026c761a85701d7783c7e2eaa4c1de247dfbadbd53221df355f121e42691dd
RIPEMD160(wireshark-2.0.0.tar.bz2)=79b1badcb34ce5d4d6b8c43de7d0ed2c7c301527
SHA1(wireshark-2.0.0.tar.bz2)=f8b226b40e36e4c431b4f70bc3f523b6dd53a501
MD5(wireshark-2.0.0.tar.bz2)=5909af2a09a9a3023ba61bc62e787ad2

Wireshark-win32-2.0.0.exe: 37999376 bytes
SHA256(Wireshark-win32-2.0.0.exe)=eb791240f4d3e8562e24fb494597b04050820f1991e5dd82b741b7f240661ecf
RIPEMD160(Wireshark-win32-2.0.0.exe)=614ac3e7afaa43604fbb3ee0797ea1a3482ebe46
SHA1(Wireshark-win32-2.0.0.exe)=bbc67138a407aeb10e8e60511922464ffe6826ab
MD5(Wireshark-win32-2.0.0.exe)=5555295e497746617794f432e7d6b4d0

Wireshark-win64-2.0.0.exe: 40868360 bytes
SHA256(Wireshark-win64-2.0.0.exe)=72949ee020a9b21c7cff94b68920db883504ddbb442870496095471b20707feb
RIPEMD160(Wireshark-win64-2.0.0.exe)=a9be8241c6f50f338860bc1af680201d35b02142
SHA1(Wireshark-win64-2.0.0.exe)=2aaf8c76526222f29b3f8f157e56cecd9014dfcd
MD5(Wireshark-win64-2.0.0.exe)=bec01ee4b13f6fd919cedf8ee7b367cf

WiresharkPortable_2.0.0.paf.exe: 42739752 bytes
SHA256(WiresharkPortable_2.0.0.paf.exe)=470933e60832d9a053d14ffadaade9262bdb7a517d690f37e0db0761bf73c892
RIPEMD160(WiresharkPortable_2.0.0.paf.exe)=c8a9b29d558e33980ad507a1c9d109480cf4b2a7
SHA1(WiresharkPortable_2.0.0.paf.exe)=6e1d1c529a3a487ac4d7874a7ccc98ea8ad9b5c8
MD5(WiresharkPortable_2.0.0.paf.exe)=fec2647be084c92ca9167f03637744cb

Wireshark 2.0.0 Intel 64.dmg: 31522805 bytes
SHA256(Wireshark 2.0.0 Intel
64.dmg)=4e981904bcc29a3c4fcab57fee85a0844a0d8c5df0844cbedb21de62b2db2f22
RIPEMD160(Wireshark 2.0.0 Intel
64.dmg)=c6425d398af4d0779865377a683d9945566a1d68
SHA1(Wireshark 2.0.0 Intel 64.dmg)=825f6f97dc782b4109705e780c93a26ea70080ae
MD5(Wireshark 2.0.0 Intel 64.dmg)=19cece26bf58f18704c71f7d6bbce2ab

Wireshark 2.0.0 Intel 32.dmg: 32295530 bytes
SHA256(Wireshark 2.0.0 Intel
32.dmg)=0aa700811403fc356e4d03fd85d13a6bbd0f95d1ca9a1e6f9233148f2dace8ad
RIPEMD160(Wireshark 2.0.0 Intel
32.dmg)=3281e2fdd4556f11e1e0c6a454f08f8734159c5a
SHA1(Wireshark 2.0.0 Intel 32.dmg)=e682d0e761aaea432ffb325206ea0d191db4ca2c
MD5(Wireshark 2.0.0 Intel 32.dmg)=1d516e6c9757d0aa85d05f0edb7194a5
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