Huge thanks to our Platinum Members Endace and LiveAction,
and our Silver Member Veeam, for supporting the Wireshark Foundation and project.

This is expected to be the final supported version of the 3.2 branch.

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:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

AMQP, BGP, CoAP, DCERPC SPOOLSS, GTP, InfiniBand, ISIS LSP, ISObus VT, JPEG, MP2T, NORDIC_BLE, QUIC, RTCP, SMB, TWAMP-Control, 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 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 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.

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

Frequently Asked Questions

A complete FAQ is available on the Wireshark web site.