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

Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Reminder: 1.12 branch tomorrow

From: Bálint Réczey <balint@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2014 00:19:59 +0700
Hi,

2014-05-23 6:33 GMT+07:00 Gerald Combs <gerald@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> Reminder: I'm going to create the master-1.12 branch along with the
> other changes listed below tomorrow.
>
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: 1.12 branch + release schedule
> Date: Mon, 19 May 2014 14:46:42 -0700
> From: Gerald Combs <gerald@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Organization: Wireshark Foundation
> To: Developer support list for Wireshark <wireshark-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Hi,
>
> I'd like to create the 1.12 branch this Friday (May 23) followed by
> 1.12.0rc1 in late May or early June. I'm planning on the following:
>
>
> In master-1.12:
>
> - Set the major.minor versions to 1.12.
> - Choose sensible names for the GTK+ and Qt binaries in the NSIS
>   installer, e.g. "Wireshark" and "Wireshark 2 preview"
> - Enable GTK+ and disable Qt by default in the NSIS installer.
> - Switch the 64-bit OS X package back to GTK+ while quietly weeping[1].
> - Drop support for Windows XP[2].

I have uploaded 1.12.0 RC1 to Debian experimental using CMake as the
build system and shipping the Qt GUI in wireshark-qt package with the
binary qtshark renamed to wireshark-qt to help users in finding it
more easily:
http://packages.qa.debian.org/w/wireshark.html

Cheers,
Balint