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Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Time for a 1.8 release?

From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2013 01:03:35 -0800
On Jan 24, 2013, at 12:29 AM, Anders Broman <anders.broman@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> -----Original Message-----
> From: wireshark-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:wireshark-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jaap Keuter
> Sent: den 24 januari 2013 08:30
> To: Developer support list for Wireshark
> Subject: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Time for a 1.8 release?
>> 
>> ..Or do we tread water until the new WinPcap installer arrives?
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Jaap
> 
> I there one in the works?

Apparently there is:

	http://www.winpcap.org/pipermail/winpcap-users/2013-January/004706.html

> From: Gianluca Varenni Gianluca.Varenni at riverbed.com 
> Date: Wed Jan 23 11:48:29 PST 2013
> 
> There will be, most probably by mid/end February.
> 
> GV
> 
> From: winpcap-users-bounces at winpcap.org [mailto:winpcap-users-bounces at winpcap.org] On Behalf Of Paul Bußmann
> Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2013 4:51 AM
> To: winpcap-users at winpcap.org
> 
> Subject: [Winpcap-users] Windows 8
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I found this question already in the archive: 
> http://www.winpcap.org/pipermail/winpcap-users/2012-July/004629.html
>  although it seems to be unanswered since six months.
> 
> Unfortunately I didn't find a roadmap on winpcap's website.
> 
> I'd like to push this thread, because I need to know "Is there going to be a new version of WinPCap that installs on Windows 8?".

...although whether we want to wait until, perhaps, the end of next month is another question.  Perhaps do *another* 1.8 release then, or shortly afterwards.