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Let me tell you about Wireshark 2.0

by Gerald Combs

Categories: Uncategorized
We’re getting ready to release Wireshark 2.0, which includes a major user interface update. As a comparison, here’s a picture of Wireshark 1.12.8, which is the current stable release: Here’s a picture of Wireshark 2.0.0rc2, which is the current development release: See? Totally different. Actually, quite a few things have changed. The user interface has been completely rewritten using a different interface library (Qt). It has been streamlined so that you can work faster and it should have a better look and feel on every platform. The screenshots above are similar because we’ve also tried to ensure that the new UI is familiar to current users. The features you’re used to are still there and in the same place (or at least nearby). They should work much more smoothly, however. I can’t hope to cover all of the changes in Wireshark 2.0 in one blog post, but here are a few highlights: Capture options. Capture options have been simplified and consolidated. In 1.12 they are spread out in many places across several windows. In 2.0 they are in two places: the Capture Options dialog (Capture→Options or the “gear” icon in the toolbar) and the Manage Interfaces dialog, which you can open by pressing “Manage Interfaces” in the Capture Options dialog.

Cool New Stuff

by Evan Huus

Categories: Announcement
Tags: github release twitter ubuntu
Hello everybody, we’ve got a handful of miscellaneous announcements for you today. They all just happened to occur within a handful of days, so it made more sense to lump them all into one post. Development version 1.99.1 was released, another milestone on the road to 2.0 and our shiny new Qt interface. You can read the full announcement with release notes here, and download it from the “Development Release” section of here! Tweet tweet! That’s right, we have an official twitter handle now for announcements and the like. It is shared by several of the core developers, but mostly run by our fearless leader Gerald. Follow us @WiresharkNews to find out more! Thanks to the hard work of our Debian maintainer Bálint, we now have an Ubuntu PPA (Personal Package Archive) containing the latest stable Wireshark releases pre-built for all the supported Ubuntu releases. If you’ve ever wanted the latest and greatest Wireshark on an older version of Ubuntu, now’s your chance, so get it here. Last but not least (although this one’s older – it actually launched way back in June), our repository now has an official github mirror.

Wireshark 1.12 Officially Released!

by Evan Huus

Categories: Announcement
Tags: announcement release
We are proud to announce the release of Wireshark 1.12.0! This is a fairly significant release for us, as we expect it to be the very last release using the GTK toolkit in the default interface (see this post for our plans to replace it). Wireshark 1.12 contains a substantial number of fixes and new features, representing just over a year of development effort. Check out the release notes for full information on what’s new and improved, and download it now! If you have any issues with the new version, please file a report in our bug tracker. Comments 🔗Comment by L.Grove on 2014-08-05 10:37:44 +0000 🔗Version 1.12 does not capture IEC61850 MMS massage any more. The MMS will be shown in T.125. This is not right. Comment by Evan Huus on 2014-08-05 12:14:43 +0000 🔗@L.Grove this is not the best place for bug reports: please file an issue in Bugzilla (https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/) Comment by L.Grove on 2014-08-07 08:49:35 +0000 🔗@Evan Huus, thanks, I didn’t know there is bugzilla Comment by Andy Konecny on 2014-08-09 18:50:36 +0000 🔗The install faults on one bit, that it uninstalls the previous version, and only then tells me there may be issues running it on XP and it recommends the version it just uninstalled.

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