Wireshark · Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Filter for generated items

[Jaap Keuter <jaap.keuter@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 11/16/2010 07:16 PM, Stephen Fisher wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 11:05:09AM -0700, Stephen Fisher wrote:
> > On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 06:37:32PM +0100, Helge Kruse wrote:
>
> > > Is it guaranteed that a 1.2.x plugin runs with Wireshark 1.4.x?
> >
> > Jaap and Joerg are referring to the same stable branch, so any newer
> > version of 1.2.x than the one you compiled with (or newer 1.4.x than
> > the one you compiled it with).
>
> This is because the stable branches are split from the development
> version at a point in time and then only important bug fixes are copied
> from the latest development version to the stable branch.
>
> The development version 1.1 was turned into 1.2 and then development
> jumped to be version 1.3.  Version 1.4 is not based on 1.2, but rather
> the development 1.3 version.  After 1.4 was released, the development
> version number jumped ahead again to be 1.5.  More information can be
> found at http://wiki.wireshark.org/Development/LifeCycle and perhaps a
> simple drawing would help on that page.

There already is: http://wiki.wireshark.org/Development/ReleaseNumbers

Thanks,
Jaap