Wireshark · Ethereal-announce: [ethereal-announce] Ethereal 0.8.9

[Gilbert Ramirez <gram@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Ethereal 0.8.9 is available at:

http://ethereal.zing.org/distribution/ethereal-0.8.9.tar.gz

The patch from version 0.8.8 is at:

http://ethereal.zing.org/distribution/ethereal-patch-0.8.8-to-0.8.9.diff.bz2

The dissectors for RTP, IP, ISAKMP, ICMP, SMB, SMB-PIPE, VTP, SNMPv3,
Ethernet, GRE, EIGRP, DHCP, IPX, X.25, RSVP, and L2TP have been updated,
fixed, or otherwise modified. Ethereal has new dissectors for Mobile IP
and COPS.

Internally, the dissector API has changed in order to catch more errors
at compile time and to guard against segfaulting when dissecting
short packets. The Ethereal team has to convert all the existing dissectors
to make use of the new API; that is a work in progress. If you have
your own dissector, you should consider converting it to this new API
as soon as possible. Read the doc/README.tvbuff file for information,
and be sure to subscribe to the ethereal-dev mailing list.

The Wiretap library can now read compressed Sniffer files,
allowing Ethereal, Tethereal, and Editcap to do so too. You'll also find
a few minor but helpful GUI tweaks in this version of Ethereal.


Overview of changes in Ethereal 0.8.9:
* Timestamps in RTP summary column (Jason Lango)
* Fix build warnings (Ron Flory)
* Make our GtkCList sortable (Graham Bloice)
* Use F<> instead of B<> for files in man pages (Guy)
* Fix a type IP packet counter (Gerald)
* Build fixes (Gilbert, Guy)
* Rename "private" to "dump", to avoid C++ reserved word (Guy)
* Add tvbuff class and exceptions module (Gilbert, Guy)
* Convert dissectors to use tvbuffs (Gilbert, Olivier, Guy)
* Support ISAKMP Configuration Method (Yaniv Kaul)
* Fix tethereal/wiretap error-reporting bug (Gilbert)
* Add sample Makefile for regression testing (Gilbert)
* Dissect substring filters in packet-ldap.c (Guy)
* Fix wtap.h typo (Alan Harrison)
* Change usage of 'fd' in file.c (Ben Fowler)
* Fix endian bug in ngsniffer.c (Guy)
* Fix smb-pipe NetServEnum (Guy)
* Fix VTP to correctly add ipv4 address to proto_tree (Guy)
* cf->current_frame fix for correctly displaying GtkCList (Guy)
* SMUX and SNMPv3 support (Jochen Friedrich)
* Fix snmp-less build (Guy)
* Show Ethernet trailer (Gilbert)
* Old-style fixes for bounds checking (Guy, Gilbert)
* Make proto_tree_is_visible false more of the time (Guy)
* Support for GRE over IPX (Paul Ionescu)
* Move psuedo_header out of frame_data structure to save memory. Required
	changes in wiretap, too. (Guy)
* Doco fixes (Guy)
* Mark DCHP packets as DHCP, using bootp.dhcp flag. (Paul Ionescu)
* Fix randpkt.c for new wtap_dump() (Gilbert)
* Correctly handle 0-length FT_BYTES (Gilbert)
* Header file fixes (Guy, Gilbert)
* SMUX-related fix (Guy)
* More wiretap zlib fixes (Guy)
* Detect Cisco and Novell type IPX packets (Paul Ionescu)
* Close the capture file descriptor (Mark Burton, Guy)
* More ISAKMP additions (Yaniv Kaul, Guy)
* Support for EIGRP over Appletalk and IPX (Paul Ionescu)
* Fix display of IP fragment (Scott Howard)
* Fix for Linux ISDN ippp devices (Gilbert)
* Change handling of capture_ppp() (Gilbert)
* SMB fixes (Mark Burton)
* Support for reading compressed Sniffer fils (Tim Farley, Joerg, Guy)
* GTK dialogue fixes (Guy)
* Incorporate gtkclist.c from GTK+ 1.2.8 (Guy)
* Initial SCTP support (Michael Tuexen)
* Support for Mobile IP dissection (Stefan Raab, Gilbert, Guy)
* Fix for X.25 dbit (Gilbert)
* Enable more dissector handoff tables (Guy)
* Win32 build enhancements (Graham Bloice)
* X.25 LCN display fix (Olivier)
* C/C++ typedef fixes (Guy, Andreas Sikkema)
* Change proto_tree_add_*() calls to find more errors at compile time (Guy)
* Fix plugin function pointer table (Gilbert)
* Add "Enable name resolution" check box to File Open dialogue (Gilbert)
* Fix RSVP for Resv Tear Confirm message (Gilbert)
* Show ICMP sequence number as two bytes instead of integer of unknown-endianness (Gilbert)
* Add gtk_set_locale() to main (Kaoru Kusunoki)
* Make dissect_ah() use dissector handoff tables (Gilbert)
* Fix L2TP dissector to call dissect_ppp() (Gilbert)
* Support for COPS (Heikki)

Enjoy!

--gilbert