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Ethereal &EtherealCurrentVersion; Release Notes
What is Ethereal?
Ethereal is the world's most popular network protocol analyzer. It
is used for troubleshooting, analysis, development, and education.
What's New
Bug Fixes
Three security vulnerabilities have been fixed since the
previous release. See the
application
advisory for more details.
The H.248 dissector could crash.
Versions affected: 0.10.14.
Win32: Unicode characters in the users profile path causes problems
reading/writing the preferences (and alike) files.
Versions affected: 0.10.14.
Win32: Unicode characters in filenames given to the Ethereal command
line doesn't work (used e.g. when "double-clicking" in explorer).
Versions affected: 0.10.14.
New and Updated Features
The following features are new (or have been significantly updated)
since the last release:
Win32: Catch hardware exceptions caused by buggy dissectors.
If e.g. a NULL pointer exceptions occurs, Ethereal won't crash now
but displays the exception and tries to continue decoding packets.
New and Updated Capture File Support
Getting Ethereal
Microsoft Windows
Download ethereal-setup-&EtherealCurrentVersion;.exe from the
Windows
download area on the main web site. Double-click the
installer executable.
Sun Solaris
Download the appropriate package from the
Solaris
download area on the main web site. Uncompress the package
using bzip2, and install it using pkgadd.
Source Code
Download ethereal-&EtherealCurrentVersion;.tar.gz from the
main
download area on the web site. Extract the package
using tar and gzip. Run "configure ; make ; make install".
Vendor-supplied Packages
Most Linux and Unix vendors supply their own Ethereal packages.
You can install or upgrade Ethereal using the package management
system specific to that platform. A list of third-party packages
can be found on the download page on the Ethereal web site.
File Locations
Ethereal and Tethereal 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
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.
(Bug
#220)
Getting Help
Community support is available on the ethereal-users mailing list.
Subscription information and archives for all of Ethereal's mailing
lists can be found on the
web site. There is also an IRC channel dedicated to Ethereal.
Commercial support, training, and development services are available
from Ethereal Software.
Frequently Asked Questions
A complete FAQ is available on the
Ethereal web site.