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| author | Evan Huus <eapache@gmail.com> | 2014-02-22 14:16:44 -0500 |
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| committer | Evan Huus <eapache@gmail.com> | 2014-02-23 15:30:35 +0000 |
| commit | 83fc3468532ee7a033b66b3a2d3511b568a1d38c (patch) | |
| tree | e96aadacc024726cd686199bfe4ea007751e36e5 /docbook/release-notes.asciidoc | |
| parent | 41fc5a53e9d645b9a089f57c08679a6d2bf766b5 (diff) | |
Documentation updates
Change-Id: I6bd7fa40726fe7ffd68b9341c640874f2a0f1c7c
Reviewed-on: https://code.wireshark.org/review/314
Reviewed-by: Alexis La Goutte <alexis.lagoutte@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Christopher Maynard <Christopher.Maynard@gtech.com>
Reviewed-by: Evan Huus <eapache@gmail.com>
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| -rw-r--r-- | docbook/release-notes.asciidoc | 16 |
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/docbook/release-notes.asciidoc b/docbook/release-notes.asciidoc index 9ca6ae0e0c..0dad4d769e 100644 --- a/docbook/release-notes.asciidoc +++ b/docbook/release-notes.asciidoc @@ -58,12 +58,10 @@ since version 1.10: * Wireshark now uses the Qt application framework. The new UI should provide a significantly better user experience, particularly on Mac OS X and Windows. -* A more flexible, modular memory manger (wmem) has been added. It was available - experimentally in 1.10 but is now mature and has mostly replaced the old API. -* Expert info is now filterable and now requires a new API. * The Windows installer now uninstalls the previous version of Wireshark silently. You can still run the uninstaller manually beforehand if you wish to run it interactively. +* Expert information is now filterable when the new API is in use. * The "Number" column shows related packets and protocol conversation spans (Qt only). * When manipulating packets with editcap using the -C <choplen> and/or @@ -154,6 +152,18 @@ STANAG 5066 Data Transfer Sublayer --sort-and-group-- +=== Major API Changes + +The libwireshark API has undergone some major changes: + +* A more flexible, modular memory manger (wmem) has been added. It was available + experimentally in 1.10 but is now mature and has mostly replaced the old emem + API (which is deprecated). +* A new API for expert information has been added, replacing the old one. +* The tvbuff API has been cleaned up: tvb_length has been renamed to + tvb_captured_length for clarity, and tvb_get_string has been deprecated in + favour of tvb_get_string_enc. + == Getting Wireshark Wireshark source code and installation packages are available from |