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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

__This is the last release branch with support for 32-bit Windows.__
Updates will no longer be available after May 22, 2024 for that platform.
wsbuglink:17779[]

// The Windows installers now ship with Npcap 1.60.
// They previously shipped with Npcap 1.55.

// 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 5.15.2.
// They previously shipped with Qt 5.12.1.

=== Bug Fixes

The following vulnerabilities have been fixed:

* wssalink:2022-09[]
Multiple dissector infinite loops.
// wsbuglink:xxxxx[].
// cveidlink:2022-xxxx[].
// Fixed in master: f2a0d25dba,13823bb105,0e11932183,f8d308e9af
// Fixed in release-4.0: 6b49db03f2,ccf491b993,9828a59081
// Fixed in release-3.6: 5fb7e2097e,39db474f80
// CVSS AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
// CWE-835

* wssalink:2022-10[]
Kafka dissector memory exhaustion.
// wsbuglink:xxxxx[].
// cveidlink:2022-xxxx[].
// Fixed in master: 9412adf7bf
// Fixed in release-4.0: f812314a60
// Fixed in release-3.6: 9a93a1dbe3
// CVSS AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
// CWE-789

The following bugs have been fixed:

//* wsbuglink:5000[]
//* wsbuglink:6000[Wireshark bug]
//* cveidlink:2014-2486[]
//* Wireshark keeps banging out random chords on your piano and yelling “LIPS LIKE SUGUAR, SUGAR KISSES” because it was funny that one time at a party.

* Packet bytes not displayed completely if scrolling wsbuglink:18438[].

* GOOSE: field "floating_point" not working anymore wsbuglink:18491[].

* EVS dissector missing value description wsbuglink:18550[].

* ProtoBuf parse extension definitions failed wsbuglink:18599[].

* Fuzz job crash output: fuzz-2022-11-09-11134.pcap wsbuglink:18613[].

* Wireshark is using old version of ASN (ETSI TS 125 453 V11.2.0)  which is imapacting length of param in the messages wsbuglink:18646[].

* BGP: False IGMP flags value in EVPN routes (type 6,7,8) wsbuglink:18660[].

* wslog assumes stderr and stdout exist wsbuglink:18684[].

* Editing packet comments, with non-ASCII characters, on Windows saves them in the local code page, not in UTF-8. wsbuglink:18698[].

=== New and Updated Features

// === Removed Features and Support

// === Removed Dissectors

=== New Protocol Support

There are no new protocols in this release.

=== Updated Protocol Support

// Add one protocol per line between the -- delimiters.
// ag -A1 '(define PSNAME|proto_register_protocol[^_])' $(git diff --name-only v3.6.9.. | ag packet- | sort -u)
[commaize]
--
ASN.1 PER
BGP
BPv6
EVS
GOOSE
GSM Osmux
Kafka
Mongo
NXP 802.15.4
OpenFlow
PCAP
S1AP
WASSP
--

=== 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]
// --
// --

=== New File Format Decoding Support

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


// === 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[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 menu:Help[About Wireshark,Folders] or `tshark -G 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].

Bugs 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].
