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authorGerald Combs <gerald@wireshark.org>2007-01-10 01:58:56 +0000
committerGerald Combs <gerald@wireshark.org>2007-01-10 01:58:56 +0000
commit8068316211ca5db30b78bc1f4ebe1cbe0ca802fa (patch)
tree4ee679550fc3b75cb288ac4b2aed62bab1e20d1a /docbook
parentf3679ee8a26ea57acb95d859c9d6f288fc7a7be6 (diff)
Update to r20350.
svn path=/trunk/; revision=20368
Diffstat (limited to 'docbook')
-rw-r--r--docbook/release-notes.xml293
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diff --git a/docbook/release-notes.xml b/docbook/release-notes.xml
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--- a/docbook/release-notes.xml
+++ b/docbook/release-notes.xml
@@ -31,22 +31,36 @@ Wireshark Info
<para>
The following vulnerabilities have been fixed. See the
- <ulink url="http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2006-02.html">security advisory</ulink> for details and a workaround.
+ <ulink url="http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2007-01.html">security advisory</ulink> for details and a workaround.
<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>
- TCP reassembly could crash.
- <!-- Fixed in ? -->
- <!-- Bug IDs: ? -->
- Versions affected: ?
+ The TCP dissector could hang or crash while reassembling HTTP packets.
+ <!-- Fixed in r19859 -->
+ <!-- Bug IDs: 1200 -->
+ Versions affected: 0.99.2 to 0.99.4
+ </para></listitem>
+
+ <listitem><para>
+ The HTTP dissector could crash.
+ <!-- Fixed in 19899 -->
+ <!-- Bug IDs: None -->
+ Versions affected: 0.99.3 to 0.99.4
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
On some systems, the IEEE 802.11 dissector could crash.
<!-- Fixed in 20126 -->
<!-- Bug IDs: None -->
- Versions affected: ?
+ Versions affected: 0.10.14 to 0.99.4
+ </para></listitem>
+
+ <listitem><para>
+ On some systems, the LLT dissector could crash.
+ <!-- Fixed in 20007 -->
+ <!-- Bug IDs: None -->
+ Versions affected: 0.99.3 to 0.99.4
</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>
@@ -59,59 +73,52 @@ Wireshark Info
<itemizedlist>
- <listitem><para>
- The file set dialog could grow excessively large.
- (<ulink url="http://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=331">Bug
- 331</ulink>)
- </para></listitem>
-
- <listitem><para>
- Trying to save flow data may crash Wireshark.
- (<ulink url="http://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=396">Bug
- 396</ulink>)
- </para></listitem>
+ <para>
+ On Windows systems the packet list scroll bar could sometimes
+ disappear or become unusable.
+ (<ulink url="http://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=220">Bug
+ 220</ulink>)
+ </para>
<listitem><para>
- It may not be possible to re-order coloring rules under Windows.
- (<ulink url="http://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=699">Bug
- 699</ulink>)
+ The end of HTTP chunked encoding wasn't being displayed.
+ (<ulink url="http://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=646">Bug
+ 646</ulink>)
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
- Printing each packet to a new page didn't work under Windows.
- (<ulink url="http://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=707">Bug
- 707</ulink>)
+ The Follow TCP Stream window could omit characters.
+ (<ulink url="http://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1043">Bug
+ 1043</ulink>)
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
- The personal hosts configuration file wasn't being parsed correctly.
- (<ulink url="http://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=795">Bug
- 795</ulink>)
+ Opening a flow graph could crash Wireshark.
+ (<ulink url="http://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1117">Bug
+ 1117</ulink>)
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
- "Save as" to an existing file wasn't allowed.
- (<ulink url="http://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=927">Bug
- 927</ulink>)
+ Follow TCP Stream would sometimes get the direction wrong.
+ (<ulink url="http://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1138">Bug
+ 1138</ulink>)
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
- The SNMP dissector was not handling 64-bit counters properly.
- (<ulink url="http://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1047">Bug
- 1047</ulink>)
+ The foreground text in the coloring rules editor was always black..
+ (<ulink url="http://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1164">Bug
+ 1164</ulink>)
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
- Wireshark and TShark would fail to start under Windows while trying to acquire a crypto context.
- (<ulink url="http://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1096">Bug
- 1096</ulink>)
+ The CSV export format was incorrect.
+ (<ulink url="http://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1173">Bug
+ 1173</ulink>)
</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>
- Invalid characters could show up in PDML output.
- (<ulink url="http://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1110">Bug
- 1110</ulink>)
- </para></listitem>
+ <listitem><para>
+ On some Windows systems Wireshark could take a long time to start up.
+ </para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</para>
@@ -125,58 +132,40 @@ Wireshark Info
<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>
- <ulink url="http://www.cacetech.com/products/airpcap.htm">AirPcap</ulink>,
- support (which provides raw mode capture under Windows) has been
- enhanced to allow capturing on multiple AirPcap adapters
- simultaneously using the Multi-Channel Aggregator.
+ WPA and WPA2 decryption support has been added. The TDS / MS SQL
+ dissector now de-obfuscates passwords.
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
- VoIP call playback has been enhanced. If Wireshark is linked with
- the PortAudio library, you can play back G.711 conversations. This
- feature is present in the standard Windows installer.
+ 64-bit file handling has been improved.
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
- The capture interface dialog display has been enhanced.
+ The <command>Find</command> function now selects the corresponding.
+ packet detail item.
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
- The "Save" button has been removed from the "Ok" / "Apply" / "Cancel"
- button group in the following dialogs:
- <itemizedlist>
- <listitem><para>Edit/Preferences</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>View/Coloring Rules</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>Capture/Capture Filters</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>Analyze/Display Filters</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>"Analyze/Enabled Protocols</para></listitem>
- </itemizedlist>
- If you're fond of the "Save" button it can be resurrected in the
- User Interface preferences.
+ <command>Find</command> functionality has been added to the TCP and
+ SSL stream dialogs.
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
- Reading from stdin ("-i -") now works under Windows.
+ Main window keyboard navigation has been improved.
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
- Expert analysis has been improved.
+ <ulink url="http://www.cacetech.com/products/airpcap.htm">AirPcap</ulink>
+ support (which provides raw mode capture under Windows) has been
+ enhanced to allow capturing on multiple AirPcap adapters
+ simultaneously using the Multi-Channel Aggregator.
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
- Wireshark now supports USB as a media type. If you're running a
- Linux distribution with version 2.6.11 of the kernel or greater
- <emphasis>and</emphasis> you have the usbmon module enabled <emphasis>and</emphasis>
- you have a recent CVS version of libpcap (post-0.9.5) installed
- you can also do live captures. More details can be found at the
- <ulink url="http://wiki.wireshark.org/CaptureSetup/USB">USB
- capture setup</ulink> page on the wiki.
+ You can no longer install Wireshark on Windows 95, 98, or ME. (OK,
+ so it's not a <emphasis>feature</emphasis> per se&#2026;)
</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>
- The number of WEP keys that the user can specify in the IEEE 802.11
- protocol preferences has been increased from 4 to 64.
- </para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</para>
@@ -185,119 +174,117 @@ Wireshark Info
<section><title>New Protocol Support</title>
<para>
-Enea LINX,
-Ethernet Powerlink (v1 and v2),
-H.248 Q.1950 Annex A,
-Linux pktgen,
-MP2T,
-NEWMAIL,
-PNG,
-SCSI OSD,
-UDLD,
-UMTS FP,
-USB,
-WLCCP,
-WZCSVC,
+DMP,
+NBD,
+OMAPI,
+RGMP,
+Roofnet,
+STUN v2
</para>
</section>
<section><title>Updated Protocol Support</title> <para>
-3Com NJACK,
-802.11,
-ACSE,
-AH,
-ALCAP,
+2dparityfec,
+ACN,
+AIM,
+AMR,
+ANSI 637,
+ANSI A,
ANSI MAP,
-ATM,
-ASN.1,
+ARP,
+ASN.1 BER,
+ASN.1 PER,
BACapp,
-BER,
-BGP,
-BSSAP,
-Camel,
-Catapult DCT2000,
-CFlow,
-CLNP,
-Common Windows networking,
-DAP,
-DCERPC (DCERPC, ATSVC, DFS, EFS, EPM, EVENTLOG, INITSHUTDOWN, MAPI, NT, PIPE, SAMR, SPOOLSS, SRVSVC, SVCCTL, WINREG),
-DCOM (DCOM, CBA-ACCO, SYSACT),
-DIAMETER,
-DISP,
+BPDU,
+CAMEL,
+DCERPC (DCERPC, EFS, EVENTLOG, NSPI, PN-IO, WINREG),
+DCOM CBA,
+DCP,
+DHCP,
+DHCPv6,
+DMP,
DNS,
-DOP,
-DSP,
-ESP,
-Ethernet,
-FC,
+EAP,
+EPL,
+ETSI DCP,
FCP,
+GIOP,
GSM A,
-GSM MAP,
-GSM SMS,
-GSSAPI,
-GTP,
-H.225,
H.245,
H.248,
+HPSW,
HTTP,
-ICQ,
-IKE,
+ICMP,
+ICMPv6,
+IEEE 802.11,
+IMAP,
+INAP,
+IPMI,
+IPsec,
+IRC,
ISAKMP,
iSCSI,
-ISUP,
+ISIS LSP,
IUUP,
-Kerberos 4,
-LAP-D,
+K12,
+Kerberos,
LDAP,
-LLC,
-LogotypeCertExtn,
+LLDP,
MEGACO,
+MGCP,
MIME Multipart,
-MIP6,
MMS,
+MMSE,
MSRP,
-MTP3,
-NCP,
-NDMP,
-NDPS,
+MySQL,
+NetFlow,
NFS,
+NTLMSSP,
NTP,
-OSI,
-PER,
-PN-MRP,
-PPP,
-19154Q.931,
+OSPF,
+PN-PTCP,
+PPPoE,
+Q.931,
+Radiotap,
RADIUS,
-Redback,
RPC,
+RSVP,
RTCP,
-RTP,
+S4406,
SCCP,
SCSI,
SDP,
+SES,
+sFlow,
+SIGCOMP,
SIP,
-SMB,
-SMRSE,
-SNMP,
+SIR,
+Skinny,
+SMB (SMB, NETLOGON),
+SMTP,
+SPNEGO,
SSL,
-STANAG 5066,
-STP,
-TCAP,
+T.38,
TCP,
-TFTP,
+TDS,
+text/media,
TIPC,
+UDP Lite,
UDP,
UMA,
-VLAN,
+UMTS FP,
+USB,
VNC,
-VRRP,
-X.509ce
-X11,
-YMSG,
-WTLS,
-
+WBXML,
+WLCCP,
+WSP,
+X.411,
+X.420,
+XML,
+XOT,
+YMSG
</para>
</section>
@@ -305,7 +292,7 @@ WTLS,
<section><title>New and Updated Capture File Support</title>
<para>
-Catapult DCT2000, EyeSDN, iSeries
+Catapult DCT2000, Netttl, Windows Sniffer / NetXray
</para>
</section>
@@ -350,14 +337,6 @@ Catapult DCT2000, EyeSDN, iSeries
<section id="KnownProblems"><title>Known Problems</title>
<para>
- On Windows systems the packet list scroll bar can sometimes disappear
- or become unusable. Until the problem is fixed you can work around it
- by resizing the packet list or the main window.
- (<ulink url="http://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=220">Bug
- 220</ulink>)
- </para>
-
- <para>
The <guibutton>Filter</guibutton> button is nonfunctional in the
file dialogs under Windows.
(<ulink url="http://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=942">Bug