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<article>
  <title>Wireshark &WiresharkCurrentVersion; Release Notes</title>

  <section id="WhatIs"><title>What is Wireshark?</title>
    <para>
      Wireshark is the world's most popular network protocol analyzer.  It
      is used for troubleshooting, analysis, development and education.
    </para>
  </section>

  <section id="WhatsNew"><title>What's New</title>
    <section id="BugFixes"><title>Bug Fixes</title>

    <para>

      The following vulnerabilities have been fixed. See the
      <ulink url="http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2010-14.html">security advisory</ulink> for details and a workaround.

      <itemizedlist>

        <listitem>
          <para>
            Nephi Johnson of BreakingPoint discovered that the LDSS dissector
            could overflow a buffer.
            <!-- Fixed in trunk: r34581 -->
            <!-- Fixed in trunk-1.4: r34889 -->
            <!-- Fixed in trunk-1.2: r34941 -->
            (<ulink url="https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=5318">Bug
            5318</ulink>)
          </para>
          <para>Versions affected: 1.2.0 to 1.2.12 and 1.4.0 to 1.4.1.</para>
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        </listitem>

        <listitem>
          <para>
            The ZigBee ZCL dissector could go into an infinite loop.
            <!-- Fixed in trunk: r34575 -->
            <!-- Fixed in trunk-1.4: r34889 -->
            (<ulink url="https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=5303">Bug
            5303</ulink>)
          </para>
          <para>Versions affected: 1.4.0 to 1.4.1.</para>
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        </listitem>

      </itemizedlist>

    </para>

    <para>

    The following bugs have been fixed:

      <itemizedlist>

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          Wireshark can contribute to ennui in adolescent rats.
          (<ulink url="https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=0000">Bug
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        <listitem><para>
          File-Open Display Filter is overwritten by Save-As Filename.
          (<ulink url="https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3894">Bug
          3894</ulink>)
        </para></listitem>

        <listitem><para>
          Wireshark crashes with "Gtk-ERROR **: Byte index 6 is off the end of the line" if click on last PDU.
          (<ulink url="https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=5285">Bug
          5285</ulink>)
        </para></listitem>

        <listitem><para>
          GTK-ERROR can occur in packets when there are multiple Netbios/SMB headers in a single frame.
          (<ulink url="https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=5289">Bug
          5289</ulink>)
        </para></listitem>

        <listitem><para>
          "Tshark -G values" crashes on Windows.
          (<ulink url="https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=5296">Bug
          5296</ulink>)
        </para></listitem>

        <listitem><para>
          PROFINET I&amp;M0FilterData packet not fully decoded.
          (<ulink url="https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=5299">Bug
          5299</ulink>)
        </para></listitem>

        <listitem><para>
          PROFINET MRP linkup/linkdown decoding incorrect.
          (<ulink url="https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=5300">Bug
          5300</ulink>)
        </para></listitem>

        <listitem><para>
          [lua] Dumper:close() will cause a segfault due later GC of the Dumper.
          (<ulink url="https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=5320">Bug
          5320</ulink>)
        </para></listitem>

        <listitem><para>
          Network Instruments' trace files sometimes cannot be read with an error message of "Observer: bad record: Invalid magic number".
          (<ulink url="https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=5330">Bug
          5330</ulink>)
        </para></listitem>

        <listitem><para>
          IO Graph Time of Day times incorrect for filtered data.
          (<ulink url="https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=5340">Bug
          5340</ulink>)
        </para></listitem>

        <listitem><para>
          Wireshark tools do not detect and read some ERF files correctly.
          (<ulink url="https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=5344">Bug
          5344</ulink>)
        </para></listitem>

        <listitem><para>
          "editcap -h" sends some lines to stderr and others to stdout.
          (<ulink url="https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=5353">Bug
          5353</ulink>)
        </para></listitem>

        <listitem><para>
          IP Timestamp Option: "flag=3" variant (prespecified) not displayed correctly.
          (<ulink url="https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=5357">Bug
          5357</ulink>)
        </para></listitem>

        <listitem><para>
          AgentX PDU Header 'hex field highlighting' incorrectly spans extra bytes.
          (<ulink url="https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=5364">Bug
          5364</ulink>)
        </para></listitem>

        <listitem><para>
          AgentX dissector cannot handle null OID in Open-PDU.
          (<ulink url="https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=5368">Bug
          5368</ulink>)
        </para></listitem>

        <listitem><para>
          Crash with "Gtk-ERROR **: Byte index 6 is off the end of the line".
          (<ulink url="https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=5374">Bug
          5374</ulink>)
        </para></listitem>

        <listitem><para>
          ANCP Portmanagment TLV wrong decoded.
          (<ulink url="https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=5388">Bug
          5388</ulink>)
        </para></listitem>

        <listitem><para>
          Crash during startup because of Python SyntaxError in wspy_libws.py.
          (<ulink url="https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=5389">Bug
          5389</ulink>)
        </para></listitem>

      </itemizedlist>

    </para>

    </section>

    <section id="NewFeatures"><title>New and Updated Features</title>
    <para>

There are no new features in this release.

    </para>
    </section>

    <section id="NewProtocols"><title>New Protocol Support</title>
    <para>

There are no new protocols in this release.

    </para>
    </section>

    <section id="UpdatedProtocols"><title>Updated Protocol Support</title>
    <para>

AgentX,
ANCP,
DIAMETER,
HTTP,
IP,
LDSS,
MIME,
NBNS,
PROFINET,
SIP,
TCP,
Telnet,
ZigBee

    </para>
    </section>

    <section id="NewCapture"><title>New and Updated Capture File Support</title>
    <para>

Endace ERF, Network Instruments Observer.

    </para>
    </section>

  </section>

  <section id="GettingWireshark"><title>Getting Wireshark</title>
    <para>
      Wireshark source code and installation packages are available from
      <ulink url="http://www.wireshark.org/download.html">http://www.wireshark.org/download.html</ulink>.
    </para>

    <section id="VendorPackages"><title>Vendor-supplied Packages</title>
      <para>
        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
        <ulink url="http://www.wireshark.org/download.html#thirdparty">download page</ulink>
        on the Wireshark web site.
      </para>
    </section>

  </section>

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  <section id="FileLocations"><title>File Locations</title>
    <para>
      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.
    </para>
  </section>

  <section id="KnownProblems"><title>Known Problems</title>

    <para>
      Wireshark might make your system disassociate from a wireless network
      on OS X 10.4.
      (<ulink url="http://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1315">Bug
      1315</ulink>)
    </para>

    <para>
      Dumpcap might not quit if Wireshark or TShark crashes.
      (<ulink url="http://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1419">Bug
      1419</ulink>)
    </para>

    <para>
      The BER dissector might infinitely loop.
      (<ulink url="http://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1516">Bug
      1516</ulink>)
    </para>

    <para>
      Capture filters aren't applied when capturing from named pipes.
      (<ulink url="http://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1814">Bug
      1814</ulink>)
    </para>

    <para>
      Filtering tshark captures with display filters (-R) no longer works.
      (<ulink url="http://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=2234">Bug
      2234</ulink>)
    </para>

    <para>
      The 64-bit Windows installer does not ship with the same libraries as the
      32-bit installer.
      (<ulink url="http://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3610">Bug
      3610</ulink>)
    </para>

    <para>
      Hex pane display issue after startup.
      (<ulink url="http://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=4056">Bug
      4056</ulink>)
    </para>

    <para>
      Packet list rows are oversized.
      (<ulink url="http://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=4357">Bug
      4357</ulink>)
    </para>

    <para>
      Summary pane selected frame highlighting not maintained.
      (<ulink url="http://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=4445">Bug
      4445</ulink>)
    </para>

  </section>

  <section id="GettingHelp"><title>Getting Help</title>
    <para>
    Community support is available on
    <ulink url="http://ask.wireshark.org/">Wireshark's Q&amp;A site</ulink>
    and on the wireshark-users mailing list.
    Subscription information and archives for all of Wireshark's mailing
    lists can be found on <ulink url="http://www.wireshark.org/lists/">the
    web site</ulink>.
    </para>
    <para>
    Commercial support is available from
    <ulink url="http://www.cacetech.com/products/sharknet.html">CACE Technologies</ulink>.
    </para>
    <para>
    Training is available from
    <ulink url="http://www.wiresharktraining.com/">Wireshark University</ulink>.
    </para>
  </section>

  <section id="FAQ"><title>Frequently Asked Questions</title>
    <para>
    A complete FAQ is available on the
    <ulink url="http://www.wireshark.org/faq.html">Wireshark web site</ulink>.
    </para>
  </section>

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