[Gerald Combs <gerald@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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I'm proud to announce the release of Wireshark 1.6.8.

What is Wireshark?

   Wireshark is the world's most popular network protocol analyzer.
   It is used for troubleshooting, analysis, development and
   education.

What's New

  Bug Fixes

   The following vulnerabilities have been fixed.

     o wnpa-sec-2012-11

       The PPP dissector could crash. (Debian bug 680056)

       Versions affected: 1.4.0 to 1.4.13, 1.6.0 to 1.6.8, 1.8.0.

     o wnpa-sec-2012-12

       The NFS dissector could use excessive amounts of CPU. (Bug
       7436)

       Versions affected: 1.4.0 to 1.4.13, 1.6.0 to 1.6.8, 1.8.0.

   The following bugs have been fixed:

     o Cannot run tshark under TCP using decode-as format for syslog.
       (Bug 5241)

     o Unable to reassemble EAP-TLS fragments across multiple RADIUS
       packets (works on 1.2.15). (Bug 5735)

     o Rearranging columns in preferences doesn't work on 64-bit
       Windows. (Bug 6077)

     o Incorrect PER UNALIGNED decoding of IA5String. (Bug 6246)

     o After fix for Bug 3046, after save-as then open you cannot see
       the packet list. (Bug 6640)

     o Problem with Floating point (double-precision). (Bug 6917)

     o Unhandled exception ( group=1, code=4) occurs when trying to
       capture in pdml file. (Bug 7333)

     o Netscreen - Can't parse packet-header. (Bug 7340)

     o Assignment Request message is not decoded after Service
       handover parameter. (Bug 7360)

     o Wireshark fails to link because of missing @GLIB_LIBS@
       reference in Makefile.am. (Bug 7427)

     o Wireshark > 1.4 does not correctly read Association ID for PS
       Poll packets. (Bug 7429)

     o SNMP incorrectly marks SNMPv3 "discovery" packet as malformed.
       (Bug 7438)

  New and Updated Features

   There are no new features in this release.

  New Protocol Support

   There are no new protocols in this release.

  Updated Protocol Support

   ASN.1 PER, DIAMETER, GSM BSSMAP, IEEE 802.11, MNDP, NFS, PPP,
   RADIUS, SNMP, Syslog, UDP-Lite, VMLAB, WiMax DL-MAP, WiMax UL-MAP

  New and Updated Capture File Support

   Juniper NetScreen

Getting Wireshark

   Wireshark source code and installation packages are available from
   http://www.wireshark.org/download.html.

  Vendor-supplied Packages

   Most Linux and Unix vendors supply their own Wireshark packages.
   You can usually install or upgrade Wireshark using the package
   management system specific to that platform. A list of third-party
   packages can be found on the download page on the Wireshark web
   site.

File Locations

   Wireshark and TShark look in several different locations for
   preference files, plugins, SNMP MIBS, and RADIUS dictionaries.
   These locations vary from platform to platform. You can use
   About→Folders to find the default locations on your system.

Known Problems

   Wireshark might make your system disassociate from a wireless
   network on OS X 10.4. (Bug 1315)

   Dumpcap might not quit if Wireshark or TShark crashes. (Bug 1419)

   The BER dissector might infinitely loop. (Bug 1516)

   Capture filters aren't applied when capturing from named pipes.
   (Bug 1814)

   Filtering tshark captures with display filters (-R) no longer
   works. (Bug 2234)

   The 64-bit Windows installer does not ship with libsmi. (Win64
   development page)

   "Closing File!" Dialog Hangs. (Bug 3046)

   Application crash when changing real-time option. (Bug 4035)

   Hex pane display issue after startup. (Bug 4056)

   Packet list rows are oversized. (Bug 4357)

   Summary pane selected frame highlighting not maintained. (Bug
   4445)

   Wireshark and TShark will display incorrect delta times when
   displayed as a custom column. (Bug 4985)

Getting Help

   Community support is available on Wireshark's Q&A site and on the
   wireshark-users mailing list. Subscription information and
   archives for all of Wireshark's mailing lists can be found on the
   web site.

   Official Wireshark training and certification are available from
   Wireshark University.

Frequently Asked Questions

   A complete FAQ is available on the Wireshark web site.


Digests

wireshark-1.6.9.tar.bz2: 22012780 bytes
MD5(wireshark-1.6.9.tar.bz2)=68c838117e9a3cda5c3ac159fde04dd4
SHA1(wireshark-1.6.9.tar.bz2)=7e86dfc93e38faf907b105c35c76ba3e2f31a8b4
RIPEMD160(wireshark-1.6.9.tar.bz2)=32b91d0c4724ca876d06fc50fdc7f647eb9220d7

wireshark-win64-1.6.9.exe: 21932474 bytes
MD5(wireshark-win64-1.6.9.exe)=624dbc8dcbbac58e24a6f11e3f273251
SHA1(wireshark-win64-1.6.9.exe)=9d6cdd1ef427cb9df5e327a6065dba766a5a8355
RIPEMD160(wireshark-win64-1.6.9.exe)=a6b2c0b55de65a325b0ed0251731b2542ff1a32c

wireshark-win32-1.6.9.exe: 18819264 bytes
MD5(wireshark-win32-1.6.9.exe)=7f31c5ad3f98a74b1221e4c90e3c835c
SHA1(wireshark-win32-1.6.9.exe)=1738cc63756d8294abaaad77ffbeff245548c143
RIPEMD160(wireshark-win32-1.6.9.exe)=8a7e6831b47eed3ec0e0ea873b7d921b0c9824d6

wireshark-1.6.9.u3p: 25305301 bytes
MD5(wireshark-1.6.9.u3p)=e1dcff5e797315c435a4e5c3bc30d720
SHA1(wireshark-1.6.9.u3p)=ced5ab19e0816ae734ac82ace1a64460cd4e602c
RIPEMD160(wireshark-1.6.9.u3p)=10242d9a0d4bcbf54e1c73e48e9d09ea6c0d0acb

WiresharkPortable-1.6.9.paf.exe: 19691157 bytes
MD5(WiresharkPortable-1.6.9.paf.exe)=c92e6c9c5e25f5287c002deb2e8ea7d2
SHA1(WiresharkPortable-1.6.9.paf.exe)=6eadbb3d50e23dc62339fbc6f7fce76a37b5a392
RIPEMD160(WiresharkPortable-1.6.9.paf.exe)=efb3205753bc68ead05f17e5018f3e1b9ca9c905

Wireshark 1.6.9 Intel 32.dmg: 20554057 bytes
MD5(Wireshark 1.6.9 Intel 32.dmg)=0cd34bd5532c2f7d9b638d7cd174d67f
SHA1(Wireshark 1.6.9 Intel
32.dmg)=1ce57a9fff50142833bc841cee46a6f482bc1ea3
RIPEMD160(Wireshark 1.6.9 Intel
32.dmg)=8d66a2f6748dcc5d331fd125e4cc0d39027f16cc

Wireshark 1.6.9 PPC 32.dmg: 21237708 bytes
MD5(Wireshark 1.6.9 PPC 32.dmg)=b3256dcdb99d79d03c0dcc7dd0408d87
SHA1(Wireshark 1.6.9 PPC 32.dmg)=419f4557353fcfa98c7c5309762eeb00133745cf
RIPEMD160(Wireshark 1.6.9 PPC
32.dmg)=ae4afe34ce8bf6774f28fd8713a36df54883dee7

Wireshark 1.6.9 Intel 64.dmg: 20351428 bytes
MD5(Wireshark 1.6.9 Intel 64.dmg)=3d849aa2fd4b578335441416789a82c0
SHA1(Wireshark 1.6.9 Intel
64.dmg)=8f2300b9c4d4d8ef3cdb84ae352fffc837ad64d2
RIPEMD160(Wireshark 1.6.9 Intel
64.dmg)=6084db5fe11d71bfa7ba75fc7ef16f37a5968911

patch-wireshark-1.6.8-to-1.6.9.diff.bz2: 152472 bytes
MD5(patch-wireshark-1.6.8-to-1.6.9.diff.bz2)=db84d4defcb414f8eeebeee91b3bb0fa
SHA1(patch-wireshark-1.6.8-to-1.6.9.diff.bz2)=11ec07024dde7db88dd37551c68de84c29f07253
RIPEMD160(patch-wireshark-1.6.8-to-1.6.9.diff.bz2)=55d9a1e27fe00fa29f67415b8f377710ba3d6487
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