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  <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-2011-06.html">security advisory</ulink> for details and a workaround.

      <itemizedlist>

        <listitem>
          <para>
            The NFS dissector could crash on Windows.
            <!-- This is due to Visual C++ not supporting C99. Do non-Windows, non-gcc Wireshark packages exist? -->
            <!-- Fixed in trunk: r34115 -->
            <!-- Fixed in trunk-1.4: r36570 -->
            (<ulink url="https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=5209">Bug
            5209</ulink>)
          </para>
          <para>Versions affected: 1.4.0 to 1.4.4.</para>
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        </listitem>

        <listitem>
          <para>
            The X.509if dissector could crash.
            <!-- Fixed in trunk: r36608 -->
            <!-- Fixed in trunk-1.4: r36611 -->
            <!-- Fixed in trunk-1.2: r36612 -->
            (<ulink url="https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=5754">Bug
            5754</ulink>,
            <ulink url="https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=5793">Bug
            5793</ulink>)
          </para>
          <para>Versions affected: 1.2.0 to 1.2.15 and 1.4.0 to 1.4.4.</para>
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        </listitem>

        <listitem>
          <para>
            Paul Makowski from SEI/CERT discovered that the DECT dissector could
            overflow a buffer. He verified that this could allow remote code
            execution on many platforms.
            <!-- Fixed in trunk-1.4: r36644 -->
          </para>
          <para>Versions affected: 1.4.0 to 1.4.4.</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
          0000</ulink>)
        </para></listitem>
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        <listitem><para>
          Cygwin make fails after updating to bash v 4.1.9.2
        </para></listitem>

        <listitem><para>
          Export HTTP > All - System Appears Hung (but isn't).
          (<ulink url="https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1671">Bug
          1671</ulink>)
        </para></listitem>

        <listitem><para>
          Some HTTP responses don't decode with TCP reassembly on.
          (<ulink url="https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3785">Bug
          3785</ulink>)
        </para></listitem>

        <listitem><para>
          Wireshark crashes when cancelling a large sort operation.
          (<ulink url="https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=5189">Bug
          5189</ulink>)
        </para></listitem>

        <listitem><para>
          Wireshark crashes if SSL preferences RSA key is actually a DSA key.
          (<ulink url="https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=5662">Bug
          5662</ulink>)
        </para></listitem>

        <listitem><para>
          tshark incorrectly calculates TCP stream for some syn packets.
          (<ulink url="https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=5743">Bug
          5743</ulink>)
        </para></listitem>

        <listitem><para>
          Wireshark not able to decode the PPP frame in a sflow (RFC3176) flow sample packet because Wireshark incorrectly read the protocol in PPP frame header.
          (<ulink url="https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=5746">Bug
          5746</ulink>)
        </para></listitem>

        <listitem><para>
          Mysql protocol dissector: all fields should be little endian.
          (<ulink url="https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=5759">Bug
          5759</ulink>)
        </para></listitem>

        <listitem><para>
          Error when opening snoop from Juniper SSG-140.
          (<ulink url="https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=5762">Bug
          5762</ulink>)
        </para></listitem>

        <listitem><para>
          svnversion: command not found.
          (<ulink url="https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=5798">Bug
          5798</ulink>)
        </para></listitem>

        <listitem><para>
          capinfos: #ifdef HAVE_LIBGCRYPT block includes a line too many.
          (<ulink url="https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=5803">Bug
          5803</ulink>)
        </para></listitem>

        <listitem><para>
          Value of TCP segment data cannot be copied.
          (<ulink url="https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=5811">Bug
          5811</ulink>)
        </para></listitem>

        <listitem><para>
          proto_field_is_referenced() is not exported in libwireshark.dll.
          (<ulink url="https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=5816">Bug
          5816</ulink>)
        </para></listitem>

        <listitem><para>
          Wireshark ver. 1.4.4 not displayed "Granted QoS" field in a A11 packet.
          (<ulink url="https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=5822">Bug
          5822</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>

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HTTP,
LDAP,
MySQL,
NFS,
sFlow,
SSL,
TCP

    </para>
    </section>

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


    </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>
    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>

</article>
