Ethereal-announce: [ethereal-announce] Ethereal 0.8.7

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From: Gilbert Ramirez <gram@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2000 07:09:15 -0500
Ethereal 0.8.7 is available for download from:
http://ethereal.zing.org/distribution/ethereal-0.8.7.tar.gz

The patch is at:
http://ethereal.zing.org/distribution/ethereal-patch-0.8.6-to-0.8.7.diff.bz2

The Win32 version will be availabe within a few hours at
http://ethereal.zing.org/distribution/win32

Summary:
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In Ethereal 0.8.7 we have fixed a display bug affecting boolean flags
in bitfields that was introduced in 0.8.5. The DNS dissector avoids the
zlip DNS Denial-of-Service exploit.  Dissectors for rlogin and SOCKS
4 and 5 were added. Other updated dissectors include SMB, BGP, LLC,
OSI CLNP, and ISIS.

Detail:
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* Small memleak in "Find Frame" plugged (Guy)
* Correct behavior for stopping frame search (Guy)
* RPM spec file fix (Patrick Higgins <phiggins@xxxxxxxxxxxx>)
* Disable "Update list of packets in real time" and
	"Automatic scrolling in live capture" for Win32 (Gilbert)
* Avoid using zero-length arrays in packet-rsvp.c (Guy)
* Add wtap_read() func to wtap.c (Richard, Guy)
* Update to SMB Browse (Richard)
* Rlogin dissector (Jeff Foster)
* Re-arrange dissector_add() calls and make some dissectors static
	for dissectors under TCP and UDP (Guy)
* Remove unused value_string in packet-llc.c (Guy)
* Add DOCSIS BPDU (Johannes Hennecke <Johannes.Hennecke@xxxxxxx>)
* Separate variables for "File|Open" and "File|Save [As]" (Guy)
* BGP confederations support (Greg Hankins)
* Correct display of FT_BOOLEANs inside bitfields (Gilbert)
* Catch loops in DNS names. Avoids zlip DNS DoS exploit (Guy)
* Compile tethereal and editcap for Win32 (Gilbert)
* Support CIFS-over-TCP w/o NBSS (Mark Muhlestein)
* .cvsignore updates (Ben Fowler)
* Add SOCKS[45] dissector, plus changes to conversation.c (Jeff Foster)
* Fix int size for I and S LLC frames. (Guy)
* Update packet-osi.c [CLNP] (Guy)
* Update packet-isis.c (Guy)
* Fix typo in packet-h1.c (Guy)
* Update Win32 doco (Guy)
* Fix null filter string display in summary dialogue (Guy)

--gilbert