Wireshark 2.4.16 Release Notes


1. What is Wireshark?

Wireshark is the world’s most popular network protocol analyzer. It is used for troubleshooting, analysis, development and education.

2. What’s New

This is the final release of the Wireshark 2.4 branch. It will reach its official end of life on July 19, 2019. If you are still using Wireshark 2.4 you are encouraged to upgrade to Wireshark 3.0.

2.1. Bug Fixes

The following vulnerabilities have been fixed:

The following bugs have been fixed:

  • BTLE doesn’t properly detect start fragment of L2CAP PDUs. Bug 15807.
  • Problems with sshdump "Error by extcap pipe: sh: sudo: command not found". Bug 15845.
  • editcap won’t change encapsulation type when writing pcap format. Bug 15873.

2.2. New and Updated Features

There are no new features in this release.

2.3. New Protocol Support

There are no new protocols in this release.

2.4. Updated Protocol Support

ASN.1, BTLE, CUPS, DNS, DPNSS, GSM RLC/MAC, HiQnet, MAC LTE, MIME multipart, MQ, SMB, and TNEF

2.5. New and Updated Capture File Support

Ascend, and pcapng

2.6. New and Updated Capture Interfaces support

There are no new or updated capture interfaces supported in this release.

3. Getting Wireshark

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

3.1. 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 on the Wireshark web site.

4. 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.

5. Known Problems

Dumpcap might not quit if Wireshark or TShark crashes. (Bug 1419)

The BER dissector might infinitely loop. (Bug 1516)

Capture filters aren’t applied when capturing from named pipes. (Bug 1814)

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

Application crash when changing real-time option. (Bug 4035)

Wireshark and TShark will display incorrect delta times in some cases. (Bug 4985)

Wireshark should let you work with multiple capture files. (Bug 10488)

6. Getting Help

Community support is available on 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 the web site.

Official Wireshark training and certification are available from Wireshark University.

7. Frequently Asked Questions

A complete FAQ is available on the Wireshark web site.