Wireshark 2.6.11 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 vulnerabilities have been fixed:

     • wnpa-sec-2019-21[1] Gryphon dissector infinite loop. Bug
       16020[2].

   The following bugs have been fixed:

     • Coloring Rules dialog - enable/disable coloring rule issues. Bug
       15153[3].

     • Enabling Time-Of-Day in IO Graph causes the x-axis origin to be
       set to 01.01.1970. Bug 15247[4].

     • Tshark outputs two data rate instead of one. Bug 15928[5].

     • Typo in checkbox label at bottom of sshdump configuration screen
       (save parameters). Bug 15929[6].

     • Pane configuration inconsistencies. Bug 15976[7].

     • Packet Bytes highlight for dns.qry.name.len and dns.count.labels
       off by one. Bug 15999[8].

     • Segmentation fault in nfs_name_snoop_fh. Bug 16017[9].

     • Changing the protocol preferences caused a crash. Bug 16019[10].

  New and Updated Features

   There are no new features in this release.

  New Protocol Support

   There are no new protocols in this release.

  Updated Protocol Support

   BACnet, DNS, FC-dNS, Gryphon, NFS, and Radiotap

  New and Updated Capture File Support

   CommView and PacketLogger

  New and Updated Capture Interfaces support

   There is no new or updated capture file support in this release.

 Getting Wireshark

  Wireshark source code and installation packages are available from
  https://www.wireshark.org/download.html[11].

  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[12] 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

  The BER dissector might infinitely loop. Bug 1516[13].

  Capture filters aren’t applied when capturing from named pipes. Bug
  1814[14].

  Filtering tshark captures with read filters (-R) no longer works. Bug
  2234[15].

  Application crash when changing real-time option. Bug 4035[16].

  Wireshark and TShark will display incorrect delta times in some cases.
  Bug 4985[17].

  Wireshark should let you work with multiple capture files. Bug
  10488[18].

 Getting Help

  Community support is available on Wireshark’s Q&A site[19] 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[20].

  Official Wireshark training and certification are available from
  Wireshark University[21].

 Frequently Asked Questions

  A complete FAQ is available on the Wireshark web site[22].

  Last updated 2019-09-11 17:39:48 UTC

 References

   1. https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2019-21
   2. https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=16020
   3. https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=15153
   4. https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=15247
   5. https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=15928
   6. https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=15929
   7. https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=15976
   8. https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=15999
   9. https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=16017
  10. https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=16019
  11. https://www.wireshark.org/download.html
  12. https://www.wireshark.org/download.html#thirdparty
  13. https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1516
  14. https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1814
  15. https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=2234
  16. https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=4035
  17. https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=4985
  18. https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=10488
  19. https://ask.wireshark.org/
  20. https://www.wireshark.org/lists/
  21. http://www.wiresharktraining.com/
  22. https://www.wireshark.org/faq.html
