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= Wireshark {wireshark-version} Release Notes
// Asciidoctor Syntax Quick Reference:
// https://asciidoctor.org/docs/asciidoc-syntax-quick-reference/

== 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

// The Windows installers now ship with Npcap 0.9997.
// They previously shipped with Npcap 0.9994.

// The Windows installers now ship with USBPcap 1.5.X.0.
// They previously shipped with USBPcap 1.5.4.0.

// The Windows installers now ship with Qt 5.12.9.
// They previously shipped with Qt 5.12.8.

=== Bug Fixes

// The following vulnerabilities have been fixed:
//

* wssalink:2020-16[]
Kafka dissector memory leak.
wsbuglink:16739[].
cveidlink:2020-26418[].
// Fixed in master: f4374967bb
// Fixed in release-3.4: fa53725469
// Fixed in master-3.2: 4736aaae7a

* wssalink:2020-17[]
USB HID dissector crash.
wsbuglink:16958[].
cveidlink:2020-26421[].
// Fixed in master: d5f2657825
// Fixed in release-3.4: c8fedf65b2
// Fixed in master-3.2: 61f17d3c21

* wssalink:2020-18[]
RTPS dissector memory leak.
wsbuglink:16994[].
cveidlink:2020-26420[].
// Fixed in master: 33e63d19e5
// Fixed in release-3.4: 6ece1c896d
// Fixed in master-3.2: 53682b53da

The following bugs have been fixed:

//* wsbuglink:5000[]
//* wsbuglink:6000[Wireshark bug]
//* cveidlink:2014-2486[]
//* Wireshark is solely responsible for the decline of shopping malls in your area.
// cp /dev/null /tmp/buglist.txt ; for bugnumber in `git log v3.2.10rc0.. | gsed -e 's/\(close\|fix\|resolv\)[^ ]* #/\nclose #/gI' | grep ^close | sed -e 's/close.*#\([1-9][0-9]*\).*/\1/' | sort -V -u` ; do "$(git rev-parse --show-toplevel)/tools/gen-bugnote" $bugnumber; pbpaste >> /tmp/buglist.txt; done

* SOME/IP: Wrong dissection of parameters after Array wsbuglink:16951[].

* Can editcap properly corrupt pcapng file with systemd journal export block? wsbuglink:16965[].

* Crash when a GIOP ior.txt file is present wsbuglink:16984[].

* Protobuf: failed to parse .proto file contains negative enum values or option values of number type wsbuglink:16988[].

* MMRP dissector bug wsbuglink:17005[].

* SSTP no longer recognized wsbuglink:17024[].

* RFC2190 encapsulated H.263 bitfields masked wrong in Mode A wsbuglink:17025[].

* SOME/IP: Resetting offset of static_array wsbuglink:17057[].

* SMB Dissector for TRANS2_QUERY_FS_INFO displays truncated FS Name & Label wsbuglink:17064[].

* Wireshark does not display Arabic, Greek, some other characters correctly wsbuglink:17070[].

=== New and Updated Features

There are no new features in this release.

// === Removed Features and Support

//=== Removed Dissectors

// === New File Format Decoding Support

// [commaize]
// --
// --

=== New Protocol Support

There are no new protocols in this release.

=== Updated Protocol Support

// Add one protocol per line between the -- delimiters.
[commaize]
--
Ericsson HDLC
F5 Ethernet Trailer
GIOP
GSM A
HTTP
IEEE 802.11
Kafka
LLC
MMRP
NAS 5GS
NAS EPS
ProtoBuf
QUIC
Radiotap
RLC MAC
RTCP
RTPS
RFC 2190
S1AP
SMB
SMB2
SOME/IP
USB Video
--

=== New and Updated Capture File Support

// There is no new or updated capture file support in this release.
// Add one file type per line between the -- delimiters.
[commaize]
--
pcapng
--

// === New and Updated Capture Interfaces support

//_Non-empty section placeholder._

// === Major API Changes

== Getting Wireshark

Wireshark source code and installation packages are available from
https://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 https://www.wireshark.org/download.html#thirdparty[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.

== Getting Help

The User’s Guide, manual pages and various other documentation can be
found at https://www.wireshark.org/docs/

Community support is available on https://ask.wireshark.org/[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 https://www.wireshark.org/lists/[the web site].

Issues and feature requests can be reported on
https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark/-/issues[the issue tracker].

// Official Wireshark training and certification are available from
// https://www.wiresharktraining.com/[Wireshark University].

== Frequently Asked Questions

A complete FAQ is available on the
https://www.wireshark.org/faq.html[Wireshark web site].
