Cool New Stuff

Wed, 17 Dec 2014 16:57:16 +0000

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. Please note that this is a convenience only; pull requests and issues will still go through our existing Gerrit and Bugzilla sites. The github mirror is very much *just* a mirror, but it is handy to have none-the-less.

That’s all we’ve got for you today, hopefully one or more of the above items caught your eye.

Wireshark 1.12 Officially Released!

Thu, 31 Jul 2014 22:40:45 +0000

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. Kind of backwards.
Yes some of us are still stuck with some XP around because software doesn’t self recompile its own architecture to work on Vista+, especially when the source code is no longer available. Think about that great tool you found on the internet who’s author passed away years ago.
So far version 1.12 hasn’t blown up on XP.

Comment by Graham Bloice on 2014-08-10 04:12:51 +0000 🔗

@ Andy Konency, from the release notes:

2.4. Platform Support

Support for Windows XP has been deprecated. We will make an effort to support it for as long as possible but our ability to do so depends on upstream packages and other factors beyond our control.

However the installer could warn XP users before doing anything.

Comment by ladroop on 2014-08-11 08:42:45 +0000 🔗

i’m not a specialist in this but i used it to capture some packages from a rtmpt stream (filter rtmpt.function.response).
version 1.10.7 captures them , version 1.12 does not

Comment by Evan Huus on 2014-08-11 08:58:08 +0000 🔗

@ladroop this is not the best place for bug reports: please file an issue in Bugzilla (https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/)

Comment by OSX Fangirl on 2014-08-14 10:48:21 +0000 🔗

So I see wireshark still requires X11. Double U, Tee, Eff m8?

Comment by Evan Huus on 2014-08-14 11:09:58 +0000 🔗

@OSXFangirl this is the very last release requiring X11 – as mentioned in the post we are in the process of moving from GTK+ to Qt, which includes a native OSX UI among other goodies. I believe the x64 development builds (the “1.99” versions at https://www.wireshark.org/download/automated/osx/) already ship with a basic Qt UI, though it is by no means complete yet.

Comment by Idan on 2014-08-23 09:22:41 +0000 🔗

Evan,
Just wondering whether the new UI will support retina displays, right now it looks quite pixelated.

Comment by Evan Huus on 2014-08-23 10:42:55 +0000 🔗

@Idan I don’t know; I imagine Qt does support retina for the things it provides, but we may need to do some work on our end to provide retina logos etc. Perhaps try asking on one of our mailing lists: https://www.wireshark.org/lists/

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