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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-2011-10.html">security advisory</ulink> for details and a workaround.

      <itemizedlist>

        <listitem>
          <para>
            The Lucent/Ascend file parser was susceptible to an infinite loop.
            <!-- Fixed in trunk: r37625 -->
            <!-- Fixed in trunk-1.6: r37965 -->
            <!-- Fixed in trunk-1.4: r38009 -->
            <!-- Fixed in trunk-1.2: r37809 -->
            <!-- (<ulink url="https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=????">Bug
            ????</ulink>) -->
          </para>
          <para>Versions affected: 1.2.0 to 1.2.17, 1.4.0 to 1.4.7, and 1.6.0.</para>
          <para>
            <ulink url="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2011-2597">CVE-2011-2597</ulink>
          </para>
        </listitem>

        <listitem>
          <para>
            The ANSI MAP dissector was susceptible to an infinite loop.
            <!-- Fixed in trunk: r37930 -->
            <!-- Fixed in trunk-1.6: r37966 -->
            <!-- Fixed in trunk-1.4: r38010 -->
            (<ulink url="https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6044">Bug
            6044</ulink>)
          </para>
          <para>Versions affected: 1.4.0 to 1.4.7, and 1.6.0.</para>
          <para>
            <ulink url="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2011-????">CVE-2011-????</ulink>
          </para>
        </listitem>

      </itemizedlist>

    </para>

    <para>

    The following bugs have been fixed:

      <itemizedlist>

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        <listitem><para>
          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>
          TCP dissector doesn't decode TCP segments of length 1.
          (<ulink url="https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=4716">Bug
          4716</ulink>)
        </para></listitem>

        <listitem><para>
          Wireshark 1.4.0rc1 and python - spurious message.
          (<ulink url="https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=4878">Bug
          4878</ulink>)
        </para></listitem>

        <listitem><para>
          Missing LUA function.
          (<ulink url="https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=5006">Bug
          5006</ulink>)
        </para></listitem>

        <listitem><para>
          Lua API description about creating a new Tvb from a bytearray is not correct in wireshark's user guide.
          (<ulink url="https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=5199">Bug
          5199</ulink>)
        </para></listitem>

        <listitem><para>
          sflow decode error for some extended formats.
          (<ulink url="https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=5379">Bug
          5379</ulink>)
        </para></listitem>

        <listitem><para>
          White space in protocol field abbreviation causes runtime failure while registering Lua dissector.
          (<ulink url="https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=5569">Bug
          5569</ulink>)
        </para></listitem>

        <listitem><para>
          &quot;File not found&quot; box uses wrong filename encoding.
          (<ulink url="https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=5715">Bug
          5715</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>
          Wireshark crashes if Lua contains &quot;Pref.range()&quot; with missing arguments.
          (<ulink url="https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=5895">Bug
          5895</ulink>)
        </para></listitem>

        <listitem><para>
          The &quot;range&quot; field in Lua's &quot;Pref.range()&quot; serves as default while the &quot;default&quot; field does nothing.
          (<ulink url="https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=5896">Bug
          5896</ulink>)
        </para></listitem>

        <listitem><para>
          Wireshark crashes when calling TreeItem:set_len() on TreeItem without tvb.
          (<ulink url="https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=5941">Bug
          5941</ulink>)
        </para></listitem>

        <listitem><para>
          TvbRange_string(lua_State* L)  call a wrong function.
          (<ulink url="https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=5960">Bug
          5960</ulink>)
        </para></listitem>

        <listitem><para>
          VoIP call flow graph displays BICC APM as a BICC ANM.
          (<ulink url="https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=5966">Bug
          5966</ulink>)
        </para></listitem>

        <listitem><para>
          H323 rate multiplier wrong.
          (<ulink url="https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6009">Bug
          6009</ulink>)
        </para></listitem>

        <listitem><para>
          tshark crashes when loading Lua script that contains GUI function.
          (<ulink url="https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6018">Bug
          6018</ulink>)
        </para></listitem>

        <listitem><para>
          802.11 Disassociation Packet's &quot;Reason Code&quot; field is imprecisely decoded/described.
          (<ulink url="https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6022">Bug
          6022</ulink>)
        </para></listitem>

        <listitem><para>
          Wireshark crashes when setting custom column's field name with conditional.
          (<ulink url="https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6028">Bug
          6028</ulink>)
        </para></listitem>

        <listitem><para>
          GTS Descriptor count limited to 3 instead of 7.
          (<ulink url="https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6055">Bug
          6055</ulink>)
        </para></listitem>

        <listitem><para>
          The SSL dissector can not resemble correctly the frames after TCP zero window probe packet.
          (<ulink url="https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6059">Bug
          6059</ulink>)
        </para></listitem>

        <listitem><para>
          Packet parser takes too long for this trace.
          (<ulink url="https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6073">Bug
          6073</ulink>)
        </para></listitem>

        <listitem><para>
          802.11 Association Response Packet's &quot;Status Code&quot; field is imprecisely decoded/described.
          (<ulink url="https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6093">Bug
          6093</ulink>)
        </para></listitem>

        <listitem><para>
          Wireshark 1.6.0 and Python support: installer fails to create the wspy_dissectors subdirectory and .
          (<ulink url="https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6110">Bug
          6110</ulink>)
        </para></listitem>

        <listitem><para>
          Wireshark crash during RTP stream analysis.
          (<ulink url="https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6120">Bug
          6120</ulink>)
        </para></listitem>

        <listitem><para>
          Tshark custom columns: Why don't I get an error message?
          (<ulink url="https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6131">Bug
          6131</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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ANSI MAP,
GIOP,
H.323,
IEEE 802.11,
MSRP,
RPCAP,
sFlow,
TCP,

    </para>
    </section>

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

Lucent/Ascend.

    </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>

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