Wireshark 3.4.9 Release Notes

 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:

     • TShark PDML output embeds "proto" elements within other "proto"
       elements Issue 10588[1].

     • Filter expressions comparing against single-octet hex strings
       where the hex digit string equals a protocol name don’t work
       Issue 12810[2].

     • AMQP 0.9: dissector fails to handle Content-Body frame split
       across TCP packets Issue 14217[3].

     • IEEE 802.15.4: Missing check on "PAN ID Present" bit of the
       Multipurpose Frame Control field Issue 17496[4].

     • Wireshark ignored some character in filename when exporting SMB
       objects. Issue 17530[5].

     • tshark -z credentials: assertion failed: (allocator→in_scope)
       Issue 17576[6].

     • IS-IS Extended IP Reachability Prefix-SID not decoded properly
       Issue 17610[7].

     • Error when reloading lua plugins with a capture file loaded via a
       custom lua file handler Issue 17615[8].

     • Absolute time UTC field filters are constructed incorrectly,
       don’t match the packet Issue 17617[9].

     • GUI freezes when clicking on large (non-capture) file in File
       chooser Issue 17620[10].

     • Crash after selecting a different profile while capturing Issue
       17622[11].

     • BT-DHT reports malformed packets that are actually uTP on same
       connection Issue 17626[12].

  New and Updated Features

  New Protocol Support

   There are no new protocols in this release.

  Updated Protocol Support

   AMQP, Aruba IAP, BGP, BT-DHT, CoAP, DCERPC SPOOLSS, Diameter, EPL,
   GSM A-bis OML, GSM A-I/F COMMON, GSM SIM, IEEE 1905.1a, IEEE
   802.15.4, IMAP, InfiniBand, ISIS LSP, ISObus VT, JPEG, MP2T,
   NORDIC_BLE, QUIC, RTCP, SDP, SMB, TWAMP-Control, USB HID, and VSS
   Monitoring

  New and Updated Capture File Support

   CAM Inspector, Ixia IxVeriWave, pcapng, and USBDump

 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 download page[13] 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.

 Getting Help

  The User’s Guide, manual pages and various other documentation can be
  found at https://www.wireshark.org/docs/

  Community support is available on Wireshark’s Q&A site[14] and on the
  wireshark-users mailing list. Subscription information and archives
  for all of Wireshark’s mailing lists can be found on the web site[15].

  Issues and feature requests can be reported on the issue tracker[16].

 Frequently Asked Questions

  A complete FAQ is available on the Wireshark web site[17].

  Last updated 2021-10-06 17:20:36 UTC

 References

   1. https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark/-/issues/10588
   2. https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark/-/issues/12810
   3. https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark/-/issues/14217
   4. https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark/-/issues/17496
   5. https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark/-/issues/17530
   6. https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark/-/issues/17576
   7. https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark/-/issues/17610
   8. https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark/-/issues/17615
   9. https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark/-/issues/17617
  10. https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark/-/issues/17620
  11. https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark/-/issues/17622
  12. https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark/-/issues/17626
  13. https://www.wireshark.org/download.html#thirdparty
  14. https://ask.wireshark.org/
  15. https://www.wireshark.org/lists/
  16. https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark/-/issues
  17. https://www.wireshark.org/faq.html
