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= Wireshark wireshark-version:[] Release Notes
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This is an experimental release intended to test new features for Wireshark 2.0.

== 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

//=== Bug Fixes

//The following bugs have been fixed:

//* ws-buglink:5000[]
//* ws-buglink:6000[Wireshark bug]
//* cve-idlink:2014-2486[]
//* Wireshark insists on calling you on your land line which is keeping you from abandoning it for cellular. (ws-buglink:0000[])

=== New and Updated Features

The following features are new (or have been significantly updated)
since version 1.99.0:

* Qt port:

** You can now show and hide toolbars and major widgets using the View menu.
** You can now set the time display format and precision.
** The byte view widget is much faster, particularly when selecting large
reassembled packets.
** The byte view is explorable. Hovering over it highlights the corresponding
field and shows a description in the status bar.
** An Italian translation has been added.
** The Summary dialog has been updated and renamed to Capture File Properties.
** The VoIP Calls and SIP Flows dialogs have been added.
** Support for HiDPI / Retina displays has been improved in the official packages.

The following features are new (or have been significantly updated)
since version 1.12.0:

* The I/O Graph in the Gtk+ UI now supports an unlimited number of data points
(up from 100k).
* TShark now resets its state when changing files in ring-buffer mode.
* Expert Info severities can now be configured.
* Wireshark now supports external capture interfaces.  External capture
interfaces can be anything from a tcpdump-over-ssh pipe to a program that
captures from proprietary or non-standard hardware.  This functionality is not
available in the Qt UI yet.

* Qt port:

** The Qt UI is now the default (program name is wireshark).
** A Polish translation has been added.
** The Interfaces dialog has been added.
** The interface list is now updated when interfaces appear or disappear.
** The Conversations and Endpoints dialogs have been added.
** A Japanese translation has been added.
** It is now possible to manage remote capture interfaces.
** Windows: taskbar progress support has been added.
** Most toolbar actions are in place and work.
** More command line options are now supported

//=== Removed Dissectors


=== New Protocol Support

--sort-and-group--
Generic Network Virtualization Encapsulation (Geneve)
IPMI Trace
iSER
OptoMMP
corosync/totemnet
corosync/totemsrp
ceph
GVSP
Stateless Transport Tunneling
CP ``Cooper'' 2179
S7 Communication
KNXnetIP
Dynamic Source Routing (RFC 4728)
MCPE (Minecraft Pocket Edition)
RakNet games library
(LISP) TCP Control Message
Android ADB
Android Logcat text
Couchbase
AllJoyn Reliable Datagram Protocol
HiQnet
Elasticsearch
Shared Memory Communications - RDMA
Riemann
MACsec Key Agreement - EAPoL-MKA
--sort-and-group--

=== Updated Protocol Support

Too many protocols have been updated to list here.

=== New and Updated Capture File Support

--sort-and-group--
Android Logcat text files
Wireshark now supports nanosecond timestamp resolution in PCAP-NG files.
Colasoft Capsa files
--sort-and-group--

=== Major API Changes

The libwireshark API has undergone some major changes:

* Many of the ep_ and se_ memory allocation routines and methods that
invoked them implicitly have been removed.
* The (long-since-broken) Python bindings support has been removed.  If
you want to write dissectors in something other than C, use Lua.


== 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.

== Known Problems

Dumpcap might not quit if Wireshark or TShark crashes.
(ws-buglink:1419[])

The BER dissector might infinitely loop.
(ws-buglink:1516[])

Capture filters aren't applied when capturing from named pipes.
(ws-buglink:1814[])

Filtering tshark captures with read filters (-R) no longer works.
(ws-buglink:2234[])

Resolving (ws-buglink:9044[]) reopens (ws-buglink:3528[]) so that Wireshark
no longer automatically decodes gzip data when following a TCP stream.

Application crash when changing real-time option.
(ws-buglink:4035[])

Hex pane display issue after startup.
(ws-buglink:4056[])

Packet list rows are oversized.
(ws-buglink:4357[])

Wireshark and TShark will display incorrect delta times in some cases.
(ws-buglink:4985[])

The 64-bit version of Wireshark will leak memory on Windows when the display
depth is set to 16 bits (ws-buglink:9914[])

Wireshark should let you work with multiple capture files. (ws-buglink:10488[])

== Getting Help

Community support is available on http://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].

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

== Frequently Asked Questions

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