Wireshark-dev: [Wireshark-dev] Plugins incompatibility between 4.6.0 & 4.6.1

From: wsgd <wsgd@xxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 29 Nov 2025 11:46:48 +0100
Hello,


FYI

wireshark 4.6.1 does not start with dll 4.6.0 :
wireshark 4.6.0 does not start with dll 4.6.1 :
- ethercat.dll
- opcua.dll
- profinet.dll
- wimax.dll

With the others dll, wireshark starts, but I do not know what happen after

Seen on windows (windows 10 64 bits, Microsoft Visual Studio 2022 (VC++ 14.30, build 30709))
I expect the same on Linux


This due to https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark/-/commit/5d49f6ca521ddcd516eeb7d5425d4a5d51bf41cb
Into epan/expert.h
Into typedef struct expert_field_info
A new field has been added :
    struct expert_field_info *same_name_next; /**< Link to next ei with the same abbrev */


Regards,
Olivier