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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.
      <itemizedlist>

        <listitem>
          <para>
            <ulink url="http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2012-08.html">wnpa-sec-2012-08</ulink>
          </para>
          <para>
            Infinite and large loops in the ANSI MAP, ASF, BACapp, Bluetooth HCI, IEEE 802.11, IEEE 802.3, LTP, and R3
	    dissectors have been fixed. Discovered by Laurent Butti.
            <!-- Fixed in trunk: r42631 (802.11) -->
            <!-- Fixed in trunk: r41741 (802.3) -->
            <!-- Fixed in trunk: r42129 (ANSI MAP) -->
            <!-- Fixed in trunk: r42113 (ASF) -->
            <!-- Fixed in trunk: r42115 (ASF) -->
            <!-- Fixed in trunk: r42203 (BACapp) -->
            <!-- Fixed in trunk: r42114 (BTHCI) -->
            <!-- Fixed in trunk: r42116 (BTHCI) -->
            <!-- Fixed in trunk: r42121 (LTP) -->
            <!-- Fixed in trunk: r42122 (R3) -->

            <!-- Fixed in trunk-1.6: r42673 (802.11) -->
            <!-- Fixed in trunk-1.6: r42665 (802.3) -->
            <!-- Fixed in trunk-1.6: r42374 (ANSI MAP) -->
            <!-- Fixed in trunk-1.6: r42671 (ASF) -->
            <!-- Fixed in trunk-1.6: r42674 (BACapp) -->
            <!-- Fixed in trunk-1.6: r42451 (BTHCI) -->
            <!-- Fixed in trunk-1.6: r42666 (LTP) -->
            <!-- Fixed in trunk-1.6: r42667 (R3) -->

            <!-- Fixed in trunk-1.4: r42693 (802.3) -->
            <!-- Fixed in trunk-1.4: r42452 (BTHCI) -->
            <!-- Fixed in trunk-1.4: r42690 (ANSI MAP) -->
            <!-- Fixed in trunk-1.4: r42694 (BACapp) -->
            <!-- Fixed in trunk-1.4: r42695 (BACapp) -->
            <!-- Fixed in trunk-1.4: r42696 (LTP) -->
            <!-- Fixed in trunk-1.4: r42697 (R3) -->
            <!-- Fixed in trunk-1.4: r42698 (R3) -->

            (Bugs
	    <ulink url="https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6805">6805</ulink>,
	    <ulink url="https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=7118">7118</ulink>,
	    <ulink url="https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=7119">7119</ulink>,
	    <ulink url="https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=7120">7120</ulink>,
	    <ulink url="https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=7121">7121</ulink>,
	    <ulink url="https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=7122">7122</ulink>,
	    <ulink url="https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=7124">7124</ulink>,
	    <ulink url="https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=7125">7125</ulink>)
          </para>
          <para>Versions affected: 1.4.0 to 1.4.12, 1.6.0 to 1.6.7.</para>
          <!-- <para>
            <ulink url="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2012-????">CVE-2012-????</ulink>
          </para> -->
        </listitem>

        <listitem>
          <para>
            <ulink url="http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2012-09.html">wnpa-sec-2012-09</ulink>
          </para>
          <para>
            The DIAMETER dissector could try to allocate memory improperly and crash.
            <!-- Fixed in trunk: r42200 -->
            <!-- Fixed in trunk-1.6: r42369 -->
            <!-- Fixed in trunk-1.4: r42691 -->
            (<ulink url="https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=7138">Bug
            7138</ulink>)
          </para>
          <para>Versions affected: 1.4.0 to 1.4.12, 1.6.0 to 1.6.7.</para>
          <!-- <para>
            <ulink url="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2012-????">CVE-2012-????</ulink>
          </para> -->
        </listitem>

        <listitem>
          <para>
            <ulink url="http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2012-10.html">wnpa-sec-2012-10</ulink>
          </para>
          <para>
            Wireshark could crash on SPARC processors due to misaligned memory. Discovered by Klaus Heckelmann.
            <!-- Fixed in trunk: r42393, r42407, r42431 -->
            <!-- Fixed in trunk-1.6: r42669 -->
            <!-- Fixed in trunk-1.4: r42662 -->
            (<ulink url="https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=7221">Bug
            7221</ulink>)
          </para>
          <para>Versions affected: 1.4.0 to 1.4.12, 1.6.0 to 1.6.7.</para>
          <!-- <para>
            <ulink url="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2012-????">CVE-2012-????</ulink>
          </para> -->
        </listitem>

      </itemizedlist>

    </para>

    <para>

    The following bugs have been fixed:

      <itemizedlist>

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        <listitem><para>
	  Wireshark will ruin your favorite songs by singing them a capella,
	  loudly, and slightly off key.
          (<ulink url="https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=0000">Bug
          0000</ulink>)
        </para></listitem>
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        <listitem><para>
          User-Password - PAP decoding passwords longer than 16 bytes.
          (<ulink url="https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6779">Bug
          6779</ulink>)
        </para></listitem>

        <listitem><para>
          The MSISDN is not seen correctly in GTP packet.
          (<ulink url="https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=7042">Bug
          7042</ulink>)
        </para></listitem>

        <listitem><para>
          Wireshark doesn't calculate the right IPv4 destination using source routing options when bad options precede them.
          (<ulink url="https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=7043">Bug
          7043</ulink>)
        </para></listitem>

        <listitem><para>
          BOOTP dissector issue with DHCP option 82 - suboption 9.
          (<ulink url="https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=7047">Bug
          7047</ulink>)
        </para></listitem>

        <listitem><para>
          MPLS dissector in 1.6.7 and 1.7.1 misdecodes some MPLS CW packets.
          (<ulink url="https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=7089">Bug
          7089</ulink>)
        </para></listitem>

        <listitem><para>
          ANSI MAP infinite loop.
          (<ulink url="https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=7119">Bug
          7119</ulink>)
        </para></listitem>

        <listitem><para>
          HCIEVT infinite loop.
          (<ulink url="https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=7122">Bug
          7122</ulink>)
        </para></listitem>

        <listitem><para>
          Wireshark doesn't decode NFSv4.1 operations.
          (<ulink url="https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=7127">Bug
          7127</ulink>)
        </para></listitem>

        <listitem><para>
          LTP infinite loop.
          (<ulink url="https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=7124">Bug
          7124</ulink>)
        </para></listitem>

        <listitem><para>
          Wrong values in DNS CERT RR.
          (<ulink url="https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=7130">Bug
          7130</ulink>)
        </para></listitem>

        <listitem><para>
          Megaco parser problem with LF in header.
          (<ulink url="https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=7198">Bug
          7198</ulink>)
        </para></listitem>

        <listitem><para>
          OPC UA bytestring node id decoding is wrong.
          (<ulink url="https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=7226">Bug
          7226</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,
ASF,
BACapp,
Bluetooth HCI,
DHCP,
DIAMETER,
DNS,
GTP,
IEEE 802.11,
IEEE 802.3,
IPv4,
LTP,
Megaco,
MPLS,
NFS,
OPC UA,
RADIUS

    </para>
    </section>

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

5View, CSIDS, pcap, pcap-ng

    </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="RemovingWireshark"><title>Removing Wireshark</title>
    <para>
    </para>
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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 libsmi.
      (<ulink url="http://wiki.wireshark.org/Development/Win64">Win64
      development page</ulink>)
    </para>

    <para>
      &quot;Closing File!&quot; Dialog Hangs.
      (<ulink url="https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3046">Bug
      3046</ulink>)
    </para>

    <para>
      Application crash when changing real-time option.
      (<ulink url="http://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=4035">Bug
      4035</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>

    <para>
      Wireshark and TShark will display incorrect delta times when displayed as
      a custom column.
      (<ulink url="http://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=4985">Bug
      4985</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>
