aboutsummaryrefslogtreecommitdiffstats
path: root/NEWS
blob: b4a93829c87b9f5e73e178dd4baadf5b26992873 (plain)
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
31
32
33
34
35
36
37
38
39
40
41
42
43
44
45
46
47
48
49
50
51
52
53
54
55
56
57
58
59
60
61
62
63
64
65
66
67
68
69
70
71
72
73
74
75
76
77
78
79
80
81
82
83
84
85
86
87
88
89
90
91
92
93
94
95
96
97
98
99
100
101
102
103
104
105
106
107
108
109
110
111
112
113
114
115
116
117
118
119
120
121
122
123
124
125
126
127
128
129
130
131
132
133
134
135
136
137
138
139
140
141
142
143
144
145
146
147
148
149
150
151
152
153
154
155
156
157
158
159
160
161
162
163
164
165
166
167
168
169
170
171
172
173
174
175
176
177
178
179
180
181
182
183
184
185
186
187
188
189
190
191
192
193
194
195
196
197
198
199
200
201
202
203
204
205
206
207
208
209
210
211
212
213
214
215
216
217
218
219
220
221
222
223
224
225
226
227
228
229
230
231
232
233
234
235
236
237
238
239
240
241
242
243
244
245
246
247
248
249
250
251
252
253
254
255
256
257
258
259
260
261
262
263
264
265
266
267
268
269
270
271
272
273
274
275
276
277
278
279
280
281
282
283
284
285
286
287
288
289
290
291
292
293
294
295
296
297
298
299
300
301
302
303
304
305
306
307
308
309
310
311
312
313
314
315
316
317
318
319
320
321
322
323
324
325
326
327
328
329
330
331
332
333
334
335
336
337
338
339
340
341
342
343
344
345
346
347
348
349
350
351
352
353
354
355
356
357
358
359
360
361
362
363
364
365
366
367
368
369
370
371
372
373
$Id: NEWS,v 1.127 2003/05/02 00:46:18 gerald Exp $

== May 1, 2003

Ethereal 0.9.12 has been released.

  This release fixes several off-by-one and integer overflow errors
  discovered by Timo Sirainen.  See

    http://www.ethereal.com/appnotes/enpa-sa-00009.html

  for more details.

New and updated features

  TCP sequence number analysis received a few improvements.

  General packet reassembly has been improved.

  The "Follow TCP Stream" window now allows you to filter out the current
  stream.

  The Vines code received significant updates.

  Several enhancements were made to the text2pcap utility.

New protocols

  ArtNET, IPX WAN, Intel ANS, iSNS, NLSP, WKSSVC

Updated protocols

  802.11 ACAP, AFP, AIM, AJP, ASAP, BGP, CLNP, CPHA, DCE/RPC, DSI, EAP,
  IP, IPMI, IPX, IPv6, ISIS, ISUP, IUA, Kerberos, LDAP, M2PA, M2TP, M2UA,
  M3UA, MGCP, MTP2, MTP3, MTP3MG, Modbus/TCP, NDMP, NDPS, NFS, NLSP, PGM,
  Q.931, RANAP, RPC, RSVP, SCCP, SCCPMG, SCTP, SMB, SNMP, SPX, SSH, SUA,
  TCP, Telnet, Vines, WBXML, WSP, WTP

Updated capture file support

  Netxray


== March 10, 2003

Ethereal 0.9.11 has been released.

  The Ethereal 0.9.10 release was packaged improperly.  This release fixes 
  the packaging, and adds minor updates and fixes for the following
  protocols:
  
  AFS, OpenBSD enc(4), RTP, SCSI, SIP, SMPP, SSH
  
  IA64 support has been improved.
  

== March 7, 2003

Ethereal 0.9.10 has been released.

  This release fixes a security hole discovered by Georgi Guninski in the
  SOCKS dissector as well as problems with the NTLMSSP and Rsync code. 
  All users of previous versions are encouraged to upgrade.  See

    http://www.ethereal.com/appnotes/enpa-sa-00008.html

  for more details.


New and Updated Features

  Many small updates were made to the user interface.
  
  The "Help" menu now includes the FAQ.
  
  The TCP dissector was enhanced.  Many more fields are filterable.

  Tethereal received more IO stats: TCP and UDP top talkers.
  
  Packet reassembly has been improved.
  
  The "Follow TCP Stream" feature can now export C byte arrays.
  
  RTP streams can now be saved to a file.
    

Bug Fixes

  A missing comma in a string array could cause Ethereal to crash when
  opening the preferences dialog.


New Protocols

  MSN Messenger, Rsync, SSH, Yahoo! Messenger


Updated Protocols

  AFP, AFS, AIM, ATM, Apache JServ, BACNET, BGP, BOOTP, CLNP, COPS, DCCP,
  DCERPC NT, DCERPC, DNS, ESIS, Ethernet, Frame Relay, GIOP, GTP, HP
  extended 802.2 LLC, HP-UX remote management, HTTP, IPP, IPX, LLC, LSA,
  M3UA, MDSHDR, MIP6, MPLS, MySQL, NCP2222, NETLOGON, NLPID, NetFlow,
  OpenBSD enc(4), OSI, PPP, RADIUS, RMP, RPL, SAMR, SCSI, SMB, SNA, SNMP,
  SOCKS, SPOOLSS, SRVLOC, SRVSVC, SSL, SliMP3, TCP, Token Ring, WBXML,
  Wellfleet BofL X.25, X11


Updated Capture File Support
  
  NetXRay, NGSniffer, Snoop


== January 23, 2003

Ethereal 0.9.9 has been released.

  Please note the next release will NOT be 1.0.  There are still more
  features to be added before a 1.0 release will be ready.
  

New and Updated Features

  Plugin search behavior was improved under Unix, allowing more than one
  version of Ethereal to be installed at one time.
  
  The statistics graphs have been enhanced.  More statistics have been
  added:
  
    Round-trip-time statistics are now computed for SMB traffic. 
    
    NCP Call and Reply times are now tracked.
    
    Top talker statistics for Ethernet, IP and Token Ring are now
    available (tethereal only).
  
  Color allocation and handling was improved.
  
  The RADIUS dissector can now decrypt user passwords.
  
  Tethereal now supports reading from a pipe under Unix.
  
  The ATM code received major improvements.
  
  The DOS Sniffer code also received major improvements.
  
  For those that compile Ethereal from source, some fixes and updates
  have been made to the configuration and build environment.
    

Bug Fixes

  The capture progress window now shows the correct number of elapsed
  minutes.
  
  A potential infinite loop in the TCP graphing code has been fixed.


New Protocols

 MDSHDR, MEGACO, MySQL, SDLC, X.29


Updated Protocols

  802.11, AFP, AFS, AIM, ARCNET, ASAP, ATM, BPDU, Cisco HDLC,  CLNP, DCE
  RPC, DDTP, Ethernet, FC-ELS, FCIP, H.261, IMSI, IP,  IP-over-FC, L2TP,
  LMI, M3UA, MTP3, NCP, NetBIOS, NETLOGON, ONC RPC, OSPF, PIM, PPP,
  RADIUS, RANAP, RPC, SAMR, SCTP, SMB,  SPNEGO, SPOOLSS, SRVLOC, SRVSVC,
  SUA, TNS, Token Ring, Wellfleet HDLC, X.25


Updated Capture File Support
  
  Firewall-1, Netmon, NetXRay, Radcom, Sniffer


== December 7, 2002

Ethereal 0.9.8 has been released.

  Serious problems with the BGP, LMP, PPP, and TDS dissectors have been
  discovered.  See 
  
    http://www.ethereal.com/appnotes/enpa-sa-00007.html
  
  for more details.


New and Updated Features

  The TAP subsystem received major updates.  Tethereal can display
  more statistics, and several graphs have been added to Ethereal.

  A protocol hierarchy statistics tap was added to tethereal.  This code
  may be used to replace the hierarchy statistics code in Ethereal.
  
  More updates have been added to TCP analysis.

  After a long hiatus, the Windows installer once again includes SNMP
  support.

  The total running time of the capture is now displayed in the capture
  progress dialog box.  The capture progress dialog also shows ARP packets.

  The look of the plugins dialog was revamped.


Bug Fixes and Updates

  A bug which caused Ethereal under Windows to crash when "Update list of
  packets in real time" was enabled has been fixed.

  The stability of the text2pcap utility has been improved.

  In tethereal, the packet count is properly displayed when you ^C out of a
  capture.


New Protocols

  ARCNET, ClearCase NFS, DCERPC LSA_DS, Fibre Channel, HyperSCSI, MDNS,
  PCLI, RPL


Updated Protocols

  AFP, AFS, BACNet, BGP, DCERPC, DCERPC EPM, DCERPC LSA, DCERPC NDR,
  DCERPC NT, DCERPC SAMR, DCERPC UPDATE, GRE, GTP, HTTP, IPv6CP, IPX,
  iSCSI, ISDN, IUA, LAPD, LDAP, M2PA, NDPS, NDS, NetBIOS, NFS, NTLMSSP,
  OSPF, PPP, PPPoE, Q.2931, Q.931, RPC, RSVP, SCSI, SCTP, SMB, SNMP,
  Spanning Tree, SPNEGO, SPOOLSS, SPX, SRVLOC, TCP, Telnet, V.120, WEP,
  YPSERV


Updated Capture File Support

  AIX iptrace and tcpdump, NetXRay, Sniffer, snoop


== September 28, 2002

Ethereal 0.9.7 has been released.

New Features

  In order to improve the out-of-box responsiveness of Ethereal and
  Tethereal, network name resolution has been disabled by default.

  TCP analysis (a feature added in the 0.9.6 release) was improved.

  The NCP code base received quite a few updates.

  Initial support for version 2 of the GTK+ library was added.

  RPC staticstics (which use the new Tap API) were added.

  Due to added and updated support for the NTLM, SNEGO, and GSS-API
  protocols, Ethereal can now dissect most of the security blobs for
  Windows 2000 authentication.

  The Ethernet "manuf" file now handles addresses specified with a
  mask, and  contains many well-known addresses.


New Protocols

  802.1s MSTP, FIX, GSS-API, Interbase, NDPS, Netflow (Cisco and Juniper),
  SCCP-Management, SPNEGO

  The following DCE/RPC protocols were also added:

  AFS4INT, BOSSVR, CDS_CLERKSERVER, CDS_SOLICIT, CPRPC_SERVER, DNSSERVER,
  DTSPROVIDER, DTSSTIME_REQ, FLDB, FTSERVER, KRB5RPC, REPADMIN, REP_PROC, 
  ROVERRIDE, RPRIV, RS_ATTR, RSEC_LOGIN, RS_MISC, RS_PGO, RS_REPLIST,
  RS_UNIX, SECIDMAP, TKN4INT, UBIKDISK, UKIKVOTE


Updated Protocols

  AFP, AODV/AODV6, BGP, CHDLC, CHPA, DCE/RPC CONV, DCE/RPC LSA, DCE/RPC
  NT, DCE/RPC SAMR, DHCP, DNS, DOCSIS, EAP, GTP, HTTP, IP, iSCSI, IS-IS,
  Kerberos, LDAP, LDP, M2PA MMSE, NBNS, NCP, NDS, NETLOGON, NTLMSSP, OSI
  Q.931 RPC, RPCSTAT, SCSI, Skinny, SMB, SNEGO, SPOOLSS, SRVSVC, TCP, WSP,


== August 20, 2002

Ethereal 0.9.6 has been released.

Bugs Fixed

  A buffer overflow in the ISIS dissector has been fixed.  More
  information can be found at
  http://www.ethereal.com/appnotes/enpa-sa-00006.html.
    
  A bad TCP header could cause problems for the "Follow TCP Stream"
  feature.
  
  Setting "column.format" from the command line no longer crashes
  Ethereal and Tethereal.

  Problems with capture files being overwritten (e.g. if you try to save over
  the current capture file) have been fixed.

  An SMB conversation handling bug has been fixed.

  Thanks to Valgrind, several memory leaks have been fixed.

  Some problems with printing under Windows have been fixed.


New Features

  TCP sequence number analysis has been added.

  The DCE RPC NETLOGON dissector has received a major overhaul.

  Data types throughout the code have been cleaned up. 


New Protocols

  CPHA, DOCSIS, NTLMSSP, Xyplex terminal server protocol, ZIP


Updated Protocols

  802.11, AFP, ASAP, BGP, CDP, CDPCP, CPHA, DDP, DCERPC, DCERPC NT, DCERPC
  REG, EPM, FTP, HCLNFSD, HTTP, IPX, ISAKMP, ISIS, IUA, Kerberos, L2TP,
  LLMNR, LSA, MMSE, MPLSCP, NBNS, NetBIOS, NETLOGON, NFS, NTLMSSP, PPP,
  Quake2, RADIUS, RSVP, RTCP, SAMR, SCSI, SDP, SIP, SMB, SMB Mailslot,
  SMTP, SPOOLSS, TCP, TDS, TNS, TPKT, Token Ring, VJ TCP, WINREG, WSP


Capture File Updates

CheckPoint Firewall-1 monitor file support and CoSine debug file support
were added.  Support for pppdump and Netmon files was updated.


== June 28, 2002

Ethereal 0.9.5 has been released. This version fixes several potential
security problems revealed since the release of 0.9.4. See the security
advisory at http://www.ethereal.com/appnotes/enpa-sa-00005.html for
more details.


New Features:

The ability to read packet data from a pipe was enhanced.  Printing
under Windows now works.


New Protocols

802.3 LACP, Apache JServ, AODV6, DCERPC Browser, Java RMI, TAPI


Updated Protocols

ATM, BGP, BOOTP, DCE RPC, EPM, Frame Relay, GTP, L2TP, LMP, MAPI, MIP,
MMSE, MTP3, NCP, NFS, NSPI, PPP, Q2931, RADIUS, RSVP, SCSI, SMB, SNA,
SOCKS, SPOOLSS, SRVSVC, SunATM, TFTP, TNS, Token Ring, UCP, VJ TCP/IP,
WCP, WEP, WSP, WTP


Capture File Updates

Ethereal can now write LANalyzer files.  The Sniffer, nettl, snoop,
NetXRay, and libpcap code all received updates.