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Roadmap

This is a tentative roadmap for stable releases of Wireshark 1.0 and beyond. For past releases, see Development/PastReleases.

Planning

• Release	Expected Date	Notes
  1.2.7	Unscheduled	Next maintenance release of the stable branch
  1.0.12	Unscheduled	Next maintenance release of the old stable branch
  1.3.4	Unscheduled	Next development snapshot

  For release numbering, see Development/ReleaseNumbers.

Upcoming Release Status

1.2.7

Pending Tasks

• Move over the following revisions:

  • Rev 31987 - Bug 4522 - Fix crash from context menu. Port to main_menu.c

  • Rev 32005 - Bug 2478 - Allow full repeated use of welcome screen.

  • Rev 32081 - Bug 2426 - Check for duplicate entries in usmUserTable.

  • Rev 32090 - Slow handling of large SIP captures.

  • Rev 32112 - Bug 3230 - Negative INTEGER number displayed as positive number in snmp dissector.

  • Rev 32146 - Bug 4563 - Fix crash on working with non tvb backed tree item.

  • Rev 32193 - Bug 4565 - Make pseudo GLib function play nice with NULL pointers.

• Update contents User's Guide in Wireshark libs

• Items marked with in the TODO list of Development/SNMP

Done

• Move over the following revisions:

  • Rev 30249 - Bug 4049 - Add support for FT_BOOLEAN fields to wslua FieldInfo.

  • Rev 30305 , Rev 30570 , Rev 30729 - Bug 4487 - I/O Graph dropdown boxes not working correctly.

  • Rev 31032 - Bug 4437 - When decoding a Cell Identifier, curr_offset is not increased after reading rnc-id.

  • Rev 31659 - Revert incorrect changes from Rev 31499.

  • Rev 31738 - IANA updates and fixes for PPP types.

  • Rev 31786 , Rev 31787 - Fix a crash which occurs if a progress bar is displayed while generating a hex bytes pane.

  • Rev 31918 - Fix configure script typo.

  • Rev 31919 - Another configure script fix.

  • Rev 31978 - Bug 4525 - Corrected values for IdentInfo in Profinet.

  • Rev 31985 - Bug 4524 - GSM SMS PDU TPVPF wrong interpretation.

• Rev 31872 - Bug 4176 - Add OldCigarettes Windows 2000 XP API Wrapper, restoring Windows 2000 support.

• Rev 31996 - Use the current GTK+ 2.16 packages.

1.0.12

Pending Tasks

• Move over the following revisions:

  • Rev 31786 , Rev 31787 - Fix a crash which occurs if a progress bar is displayed while generating a hex bytes pane.

  • Rev 31918 - Fix configure script typo.

Proposed Changes

• make plugin API and ABI stable, so binary plugins will be working with more than one Wireshark version
• Version checking.
• Windows updater.
• Finish the native Windows interface and integrate it with the main trunk
• Make the capture filter syntax the same as the display filter syntax?
• Add privilege separation for dissection
• Add thread/multiprocessor support

... well, maybe all the points mentioned in the WishList!

Unsorted

• Security improvements (see also: Security)

  • Add privilege separation for POSIX environments (in progress)
  • Add a similar mechanism for the Windows environment
  • Enhance the API to make it easier to write secure code (e.g. add tvb_get_gstring())?
• Documentation of library API's (e.g. wiretap)

Discussion

Is the native Windows interface still a desirable target? - the Windows integration is pretty good in it's current form -- UlfLamping