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| author | Jeff Morriss <jeff.morriss.ws@gmail.com> | 2015-10-15 21:50:17 -0400 |
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| committer | Jeff Morriss <jeff.morriss.ws@gmail.com> | 2015-10-19 14:47:18 +0000 |
| commit | 66f67f7b925fe9a5808a671785e49b5220680d80 (patch) | |
| tree | d19a49cd92e5cc3626dd71ccbcf2601f85ba5c4a /docbook | |
| parent | a9fa699d1e9c91bfaf48bf68d093b911290a7117 (diff) | |
Explain what it means that Wireshark can now open PCAP files (as MIME files).
The title "New File Format Support" containing a list that included PCAP and
PCAPNG caught my eye: Wireshark has supported those for years. (Attempt to)
explain what it means.
Change-Id: I472fabcca00befee9032cd7ef11bf30257b8ff8e
Reviewed-on: https://code.wireshark.org/review/11076
Reviewed-by: Anders Broman <a.broman58@gmail.com>
(cherry picked from commit 1a434143693a7f9ce103dfcf53e60c63415c81e8)
Reviewed-on: https://code.wireshark.org/review/11147
Reviewed-by: Jeff Morriss <jeff.morriss.ws@gmail.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'docbook')
| -rw-r--r-- | docbook/release-notes.asciidoc | 10 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/docbook/release-notes.asciidoc b/docbook/release-notes.asciidoc index 16cf6c9159..8b46124c65 100644 --- a/docbook/release-notes.asciidoc +++ b/docbook/release-notes.asciidoc @@ -30,7 +30,15 @@ since version 2.0.0: _Non-empty section placeholder._ //=== Removed Dissectors -=== New File Format Support +=== New File Format Decoding Support + +Wireshark is able to display the format of some types of files (rather than +displaying the contents of those files). This is useful when you're curious +about, or debugging, a file and its format. To open a capture file (such as +PCAP) in this mode specify "MIME Files Format" as the file's format in the +Open File dialog. + +New files that Wireshark can open in this mode include: _Non-empty section placeholder._ --sort-and-group-- |