[Gerald Combs <gerald@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ethereal 0.9.8 has been released.

  Serious problems with the BGP, LMP, PPP, and TDS dissectors have been
  discovered.  See 
  
    http://www.ethereal.com/appnotes/enpa-sa-00007.html
  
  for more details.


New and Updated Features

  The TAP subsystem received major updates.  Tethereal can display
  more statistics, and several graphs have been added to Ethereal.

  A protocol hierarchy statistics tap was added to tethereal.  This code
  may be used to replace the hierarchy statistics code in Ethereal.
  
  More updates have been added to TCP analysis.

  After a long hiatus, the Windows installer once again includes SNMP
  support.

  The total running time of the capture is now displayed in the capture
  progress dialog box.  The capture progress dialog also shows ARP
  packets.

  The look of the plugins dialog was revamped.


Bug Fixes and Updates

  A bug which caused Ethereal under Windows to crash when "Update list of
  packets in real time" was enabled has been fixed.

  The stability of the text2pcap utility has been improved.

  In tethereal, the packet count is properly displayed when you ^C out of
  a capture.


New Protocols

  ARCNET, ClearCase NFS, DCERPC LSA_DS, Fibre Channel, HyperSCSI, MDNS,
  PCLI, RPL


Updated Protocols

  AFP, AFS, BACNet, BGP, DCERPC, DCERPC EPM, DCERPC LSA, DCERPC NDR,
  DCERPC NT, DCERPC SAMR, DCERPC UPDATE, GRE, GTP, HTTP, IPv6CP, IPX,
  iSCSI, ISDN, IUA, LAPD, LDAP, M2PA, NDPS, NDS, NetBIOS, NFS, NTLMSSP,
  OSPF, PPP, PPPoE, Q.2931, Q.931, RPC, RSVP, SCSI, SCTP, SMB, SNMP,
  Spanning Tree, SPNEGO, SPOOLSS, SPX, SRVLOC, TCP, Telnet, V.120, WEP,
  YPSERV


Updated Capture File Support

  AIX iptrace and tcpdump, NetXRay, Sniffer, snoop


Download Sites

  The source code, Windows and Solaris installers can be downloaded
  immediately from the following locations:

Main site:

Source: 

  http://www.ethereal.com/distribution/ethereal-0.9.8.tar.gz
  http://www.ethereal.com/distribution/ethereal-0.9.8.tar.bz2

Windows installer: 

  http://www.ethereal.com/distribution/win32/ethereal-setup-0.9.8.exe

Solaris installers: 

  http://www.ethereal.com/distribution/solaris/

SourceForge:

  http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=255  


The mirror sites listed at http://www.ethereal.com/download.html#sources
should be updated shortly.