Wireshark 3.6.9 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
This is the last release branch with support for 32-bit Windows. Updates will no longer be available after May 22, 2024 for that platform. Issue 17779
Bug Fixes
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wnpa-sec-2022-07 OPUS dissector crash. Issue 18378.
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wnpa-sec-2022-08 USB-HID dissector crash on Windows. Issue 18384.
The following bugs have been fixed:
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Wireshark no longer calculates Statistics → Service Response Time → FC properly. Issue 16084.
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Qt: Crash when opening Statistics → Service Response Time → DCE-RPC. Issue 18319.
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Qt: Crash when closing 3 of the 14 dialogs available from the menu item Statistics → 29West Issue 18334.
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TCP: Dissector bug, protocol TCP, in packet 13: …/wireshark/epan/reassemble.c:1420: failed assertion "tvb_bytes_exist(tvb, offset, frag_data_len)" Issue 18335.
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Packet diagram field values are not terminated Issue 18428.
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Decoding bug H.245 userInput Signal Issue 18468.
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CFDP dissector doesn’t handle "destination filename" only Issue 18495.
New and Updated Features
New Protocol Support
There are no new protocols in this release.
Updated Protocol Support
ASN.1 PER, BGP, CFDP, FC, GSMTAP, GTP, HTTP, IEEE 802.11, IPv4, ISAKMP, NAS-5GS, OPUS, PFCP, RTPS, TCP, and USB HID
New and Updated Capture File Support
BLF
New File Format Decoding Support
There is no new or updated file format support in this release.
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 or tshark -G 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.
Bugs and feature requests can be reported on the issue tracker.
Frequently Asked Questions
A complete FAQ is available on the Wireshark web site.