= Wireshark wireshark-version:[] Release Notes
// $Id: release-notes.asciidoc 49650 2013-05-31 08:52:59Z sake $

== 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:2013-2486[]
//* Wireshark will practice the jazz flute for hours on end when you're trying to sleep. ws-buglink:0000[]
* Redirecting the standard output didn't redirect the output the of -D or -L
flags. This fix means that the output of those flags now goes to the
standard output, not the standard error, as it did in previous releases. ws-buglink:8609[]

=== New and Updated Features

The following features are new (or have been significantly updated)
since version 1.8:

* Wireshark on 32- and 64-bit Windows supports automatic updates.
* The packet bytes view is faster.
* You can now display a list of resolved host names in "hosts" format
within Wireshark.
* The wireless toolbar has been updated.
* Wireshark on Linux does a better job of detecting interface addition
and removal.
* It is now possible to compare two fields in a display filter (for
example: udp.srcport != udp.dstport). The two fields must be of the same
type for this to work.
* The Windows installers ship with WinPcap 4.1.3, which supports Windows 8.
* USB type and product name support has been improved.
* All Bluetooth profiles and protocols are now supported.
* Wireshark now calculates HTTP response times and presents the result in a new
field in the HTTP response. Links from the request's frame to the response's
frame and vice-versa are also added.
* The main welcome screen and status bar now display file sizes using
strict SI prefixes instead of old-style binary prefixes.
* Capinfos now prints human-readable statistics with SI suffixes by
default.
* It is now possible to open a referenced packet (such as the matched request or
response packet) in a new window.
* Tshark can now display only the hex/ascii packet data
without requiring that the packet summary and/or packet details are also
displayed.  If you want the old behavior, use -Px instead of just -x.
* Wireshark can be compiled using GTK+ 3.
* The Wireshark application icon, capture toolbar icons, and other icons
have been updated.
* Tshark's filtering and multi-pass analysis have been reworked for consistency
and in order to support dependent frame calculations during reassembly. See the
man page descriptions for -2, -R, and -Y.
* Tshark's -G fields2 and -G fields3 options have been eliminated.  The
-G fields option now includes the 2 extra fields that -G fields3 previously
provided, and the blurb information has been relegated to the last column since
in many cases it is blank anyway.
* Wireshark dropped the left-handed settings from the preferences. This is
still configurable via the GTK settings (add
"gtk-scrolled-window-placement = top-right" in the config file, which might be
called ~/.gtkrc-2.0 or ~/.config/gtk-3.0/settings.ini).
* Wireshark now ships with two global configuration files: Bluetooth, which
contains coloring rules for Bluetooth and Classic, which contains the old-style
coloring rules.
* The LOAD() metric in the IO-graph now shows the load in IO units instead 
of thousands of IO units.

=== New Protocol Support

--sort-and-group--

Amateur Radio BPQ
Amateur Radio NET/ROM
Amateur Radio AX.25
America Online (AOL)
AR Drone
Automatic Position Reporting System (APRS)
AX.25 KISS
AX.25 no Layer 3
Bitcoin Protocol
Bluetooth Attribute Protocol
Bluetooth AVDTP Protocol
Bluetooth AVRCP Profile
Bluetooth AVCTP Protocol
Bluetooth BNEP Protocol
Bluetooth HCI USB Transport
Bluetooth HCRP Profile
Bluetooth HID Profile
Bluetooth MCAP Protocol
Bluetooth SAP Profile
Bluetooth SBC Codec
Bluetooth Security Manager Protocol
Cisco GED-125 Protocol
Clique Reliable Multicast Protocol (CliqueRM)
D-Bus
Digital Transmission Content Protection over IP
DVB-S2 Baseband
FlexNet
Forwarding and Control Element Separation Protocol (ForCES)
Foundry Discovery Protocol (FDP)
Gearman Protocol
GEO-Mobile Radio (1) RACH
HoneyPot Feeds Protocol (HPFEEDS)
LTE Positioning Protocol Extensions (LLPe)
Media Resource Control Protocol Version 2 (MRCPv2)
MIDI System Exclusive (SYSEX)
Media-Independent Handover (MIH)
MPLS-TP Fault-Management
MPLS-TP Lock-Instruct
Mojito DHT
NASDAQ's SoupBinTCP
NASDAQ's OUCH 4.x
OpenVPN Protocol
Pseudo-Wire OAM
RPKI-Router Protocol
Skype
SEL Fast Message
Smart Message Language (SML)
SPNEGO Extended Negotiation Security Mechanism (NEGOEX)
Simple Packet Relay Transport (SPRT)
UHD/USRP
USB Audio
USB Video
v.150.1 State Signaling Event (SSE)
VITA 49 Radio Transport
VNTAG
WebRTC Datachannel Protocol (RTCDC)
WiMAX OFDMA PHY SAP

--sort-and-group--

=== Updated Protocol Support

Too many protocols have been updated to list here.

=== New and Updated Capture File Support

--sort-and-group--

AIX iptrace
CAM Inspector
Catapult DCT2000
Citrix NetScaler
DBS Etherwatch (VMS)
Endace ERF
HP-UX nettl
IBM iSeries
Ixia IxVeriWave
Netscreen
Network Instruments Observer
NA Sniffer (DOS)
pcap
pcap-ng
Symbian OS btsnoop
TamoSoft CommView
Tektronix K12xx

--sort-and-group--

== Getting Wireshark

Wireshark source code and installation packages are available from
http://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 http://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[])

The 64-bit Windows installer does not support Kerberos decryption.
(https://wiki.wireshark.org/Development/Win64[Win64 development page])

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[])

Summary pane selected frame highlighting not maintained.
(ws-buglink:4445[])

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

== 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 http://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
http://www.wireshark.org/faq.html[Wireshark web site].
