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= Wireshark {wireshark-version} Release Notes
// Asciidoctor Syntax Quick Reference:
// https://asciidoctor.org/docs/asciidoc-syntax-quick-reference/

This is an experimental release intended to test new features for Wireshark 3.6.

== What is Wireshark?

Wireshark is the world’s most popular network protocol analyzer.
It is used for troubleshooting, analysis, development and education.

== What’s New

Many improvements have been made.
See the “New and Updated Features” section below for more details.

// === Bug Fixes

// The following bugs have been fixed:

//* wsbuglink:5000[]
//* wsbuglink:6000[Wireshark bug]
//* cveidlink:2014-2486[]
//* Wireshark keeps banging out random chords on your piano and yelling “LIPS LIKE SUGUAR, SUGAR KISSES” because it was funny that one time at a party.

=== New and Updated Features

The following features are new (or have been significantly updated) since version 3.4.0:

* The Windows installers now ship with Npcap 1.31.
They previously shipped with Npcap 1.20.

* TCP conversations now support a completeness criteria, which facilitates the identification of TCP streams having any
  of opening or closing handshakes, a payload, in any combination. It is accessed with the new tcp.completeness filter.

* Protobuf fields that are not serialized on the wire (missing in capture files) can now be displayed with default values
  by setting the new 'add_default_value' preference. The default values might be explicitly declared in 'proto2' files,
  or false for bools, first value for enums, zero for numeric types.

* Wireshark now supports reading Event Tracing for Windows (ETW). A new extcap named ETW reader is created that now can open an etl file, convert all
  events in the file to DLT_ETW packets and write to a specified FIFO destination. Also, a new packet_etw dissector is
  created to dissect DLT_ETW packets so Wireshark can display the DLT_ETW packet header, its message and packet_etw dissector
  calls packet_mbim sub_dissector if its provider matches the MBIM provider GUID.

* "Follow DCCP stream" feature to filter for and extract the contents of DCCP streams.

* Wireshark now supports dissecting the rtp packet with OPUS payload.

* Importing captures from text files is now also possible based on regular expressions. By specifying a regex capturing a single
  packet including capturing groups for relevant fields a textfile can be converted to a libcap capture file. Supported data
  encodings are plain-hexadecimal, -octal, -binary and base64.
  Also the timestamp format now allows the second-fractions to be placed anywhere in the timestamp and it will be stored with
  nanosecond instead of microsecond precision.

* Significant RTP Player redesign and improvements (see Wireshark User Documentation, https://www.wireshark.org/docs/wsug_html_chunked/ChTelPlayingCalls.html[Playing VoIP Calls] and https://www.wireshark.org/docs/wsug_html_chunked/_rtp.html#ChTelRtpPlayer[RTP Player Window])
** RTP Player can play many streams in row
** UI is more responsive
** RTP Player maintains playlist, other tools can add/remove streams to it
** Every stream can be muted or routed to L/R channel for replay
** Save audio is moved from RTP Analysis to RTP Player. RTP Player saves what was played. RTP Player can save in multichannel .au or .wav.
** RTP Player added to menu Telephony>RTP>RTP Player

* VoIP dialogs (VoIP Calls, RTP Streams, RTP Analysis, RTP Player, SIP Flows) are non-modal, can stay opened on background
** Same tools are provided acros all dialogs (Prepare Filter, Analyse, RTP Player ...)

* Follow stream is now able to follow SIP call by SIP.Call-ID

// === Removed Features and Support

// === Removed Dissectors

// === New File Format Decoding Support

// [commaize]
// --
// --

=== New Protocol Support

// Add one protocol per line between the -- delimiters in the format
// "Full protocol name (Abbreviation)"
[commaize]
--
Kerberos SPAKE
O-RAN fronthaul UC-plane (O-RAN)
PDU Transport Protocol
SparkplugB
State Synchronization Protocol (SSyncP)
UAVCAN\CAN
R09.x (R09)
--

=== Updated Protocol Support

Too many protocols have been updated to list here.

=== New and Updated Capture File Support

// There is no new or updated capture file support in this release.
// Add one file type per line between the -- delimiters.
[commaize]
--
--

// === New and Updated Capture Interfaces support

//_Non-empty section placeholder._

// === Major API Changes

== Getting Wireshark

Wireshark source code and installation packages are available from
https://www.wireshark.org/download.html.

=== Vendor-supplied Packages

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
https://www.wireshark.org/download.html#thirdparty[download page]
on the Wireshark web site.

== File Locations

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.

== Getting Help

The User’s Guide, manual pages and various other documentation can be found at
https://www.wireshark.org/docs/

Community support is available on
https://ask.wireshark.org/[Wireshark’s Q&A site]
and on the wireshark-users mailing list.
Subscription information and archives for all of Wireshark’s mailing lists can be found on
https://www.wireshark.org/lists/[the web site].

Bugs and feature requests can be reported on
https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark/-/issues[the issue tracker].

// Official Wireshark training and certification are available from
// https://www.wiresharktraining.com/[Wireshark University].

== Frequently Asked Questions

A complete FAQ is available on the
https://www.wireshark.org/faq.html[Wireshark web site].