Roadmap

This is a tentative roadmap for the next stable releases of Wireshark 1.4 and 1.2. For more information on the Wireshark releases see Development/LifeCycle.

Planning

• Release	Expected Date	Notes
  1.4.1	Unscheduled	Next maintenance release of the stable release
  1.2.12	Unscheduled	Next maintenance release of the old stable branch
  1.0.17	Unscheduled	Next maintenance release of the old stable branch

Upcoming Release Status

1.4.1

Pending Tasks

• Move over the following revisions:

  • Rev 33525 - Get our dynamic payload name from the correct location.

  • Rev 33977 - Give all files in the ringbuffer the same group-id

  • Rev 33994 - Bug 5132 - Suspend bytes-in-flight calculation when packets are missing in the trace until the next ACK is seen

  • Rev 34001 - Bug 5076 - Packet details have errors when decode MAP V2 PRN_ACK msg.

  • Rev 34011, Rev 34012 & Rev 34030 - Bug 5002 - Avoid crash when renaming a display filter macro.

  • Rev 34031 - Bug 5162 - Set correct length for GTP header.

  • Rev 34033 - Bug 5163 - Allow space in list of hidden columns in preferences.

  • Rev 34036 & Rev 34037 - Bug 5167 - Wireshark don't show mgcp calls in "Telephony" => "VoIP calls"

  • Rev 34038 - Bug 5165 - 1.4 version does not display the t.38 graph.

  • Rev 34039 - Ensure we always print the heading when dumping PSML and CSV.

• Update services file (we may want to automate this, like manuf and enterprise numbers)

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

1.2.12

Pending Tasks

• Move over the following revisions:

  • Rev 34031 - Bug 5162 - Set correct length for GTP header.

  • Rev 34039 - Ensure we always print the heading when dumping PSML and CSV.

1.0.17

Pending Tasks

• Move over the following revisions:

  • Queue empty

Proposed Changes

• make plugin API and ABI stable, so binary plugins will be working with more than one Wireshark version
• Version checking
• Windows updater
• 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)

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