Beta Releases

These were the changes incorporated into the beta releases leading up to 1.0.0

0.99.9

Starting with 0.99.8/0.99.9, odd-numbered versions were used for development snapshots only. There was no official 0.99.9 release.

0.99.8

Released: Feb 27, 2008 Release Notes

Complete:

• Move over the following revisions:

  • Rev 24388 - Add rawshark.rc.in to the tarball

  • Rev 24396 - Fix a wrong mask that could lead to a uint8 overflow

  • Rev 24398 - Fix pcapng timestamp writing and reading (for usec resolution captures-nsec was ok)

  • Rev 24400 - Update manuf and faq

  • Rev 24403 - Fix dlt conversion in rawshark

  • Rev 24417 - Some custom column fixes

  • Rev 24422 - Don't build rawshark if we don't have libpcap

  • Rev 24428, 24429, 24431, 24434, 24436, and 24437 - Add rawshark.html to packaging and Wireshark help menu. (These also add ws.css to the man page HTML files.)

  • Rev 24449, 24450 - Fix ws.css dist problems.

  • Rev 24457 - Fix handling of unsigned SNMP MIB values.

  • Rev 24459 - Fix EtherCAT length mask.

  • Rev 24465 - Fix setresuid/setresgid detection

  • Rev 24466 - Add missing distribution files

  • Rev 24467 - Fix NPE in SNMP

  • Rev 24471 - Fix crash in SCTP

  • Rev 24472 - Require GNUTLS 1.2

• Remove mention of custom column types from release notes until the feature is fully developed? (see discussion at http://www.wireshark.org/lists/wireshark-dev/200802/msg00149.html)

• Fix blocker bugs

0.99.7

Released: Dec 19, 2007 Release Notes

Complete:

• Move over the following revisions:

  • Rev 23527 - Fix crash with long hex dump pane

  • Rev 23532 - Avoid redraw hex dump windows if redissecting.

  • Rev 23538 - Catch SIGINT, SIGHUP, and SIGTERM on UN*X, so we cleanly exit if, for example, we're ^C'ed. This should fix bug 2003.

  • Rev 23540 - Rename Windows ConsoleCtrHandlerRoutine --> capture_cleanup to match SVN #23537 change

  • Rev 23545 - Make previously removed fcoe.ethertype preference obsolete.

  • Rev 23546 - comment out no longer meaningful "read filter" test case.

  • Rev 23548 - Correction to check for empty choice in BER. This should fix bug 2008.

  • Rev 23555 - Catch a loop in IPv6. Fixes bug 2007..

  • Rev 23534 - Fix for CFM Sender ID TLV bug

  • Rev 23559 - More 3GPP AVP:s

  • Rev 23563 - Fix for xLR==0 SCCP bug (good to have)

  • Rev 23564 - Fix for RANAP called/calling SSN bug (good to have)

  • Rev 23565 - Fix error printout/popup for out-of-tree builders (good to have)

  • Rev 23567 - Fix SCTP reassembly crash (really should have)

  • Rev 23568 - Make sure h225_pi is initialized (fixes a crash).

  • Rev 23591 - Make sure the capture process exits when it should.

  • Rev 23593 - Fix a crash in the SMB dissector.

  • Rev 23601 - Fix another non-ASCII filename problem (goes along with the many other non-ASCII filename problems already fixed in 0.99.7)

  • Rev 23604 - Fix crash when editing UAT tables

  • Rev 23608 - Get rid of C++/C99 style comments (if only to save Albert Chin the trouble of patching+reporting them in this release)

  • Rev 23610 - Small fix to 23608

  • Rev 23613 - Initialize a pointer in USB. Fixes a crash.

  • Rev 23615 - Fix crash with bad Diameter dissectors

  • Rev 23618 - Save RTP payload whenever it's complete

  • Rev 23619 - Add tvb_get_ephemeral_faked_unicode and tvb_get_ephemeral_stringz to epan/libwireshark.def

  • Rev 23621 - Fix infinite loop in SCTP dissector

  • Rev 23623 - Fix case-insensitive string matching in Turkish (and possibly other) locales

  • Rev 23632 - Fixed a bug when adjusting summary filtered start time

  • Rev 23639 - Fix unreported bug where the smb2 SRT filter has a comma at the beginning, making it unusable

  • Rev 23642 - Fixed a possible infinite loop in atalk. This fixes bug 2035.

  • Rev 23644 - Put double click on a frame link back. This fixes bug 2032.

  • Rev 23648 - Apply coloring rules to marked packages. This fixes bug 2038.

  • Rev 23667 - Fix a bug in Protocol Hierarchy Statistics End Packets/End Bytes calculation.

  • Rev 23577 - Corrected setting of "warnings_as_errors_default"

  • Rev 23634 - Use NEED_G_ASCII_STRCASECMP_H in airpdcap.c

  • Rev 23635 - g_ascii_strcasecmp.c needs glib.h

  • Rev 23636 - fix the path to include g_ascii_strcasecmp.h

  • Rev 23638 - fix the path to include g_ascii_strcasecmp.h

  • Rev 23687 - Fix crash in packet-rpl.c, bug 2052

  • Rev 23688 - Fix crash in packet-ansi_a.c, bug 2051

  • Rev 23689 - Give the flow graph window the correct title.

  • Rev 23695 - *really* Give the flow graph window the correct title.

  • Rev 23612 - Allow compilation with --as-needed (requested by bug author but fix not confirmed--not a big deal if it doesn't make it)

  • Rev 23616 - libwiretap.def fix for 23612

  • Rev 23676 - Add directory handling to "configure --with-libsmi"

  • Rev 23702 - SNMP Traps marked as malformed - Fix confusion in BER tag handling

  • Rev 23704 - MTP3MG bug fix

  • Rev 23705 - Reassemble SCCP XUDTS (not a big deal)

  • Rev 23728 - On Windows, let the native file dialog figure out if a file exists.

  • Rev 23729 - Another IO Graphs fix, for out-of-graph values in FBar and Dot.

  • Rev 23723 - Small bugfix ANSI MAP

  • Rev 23753 - Add the MIB path to About->Folders

  • Rev 23754 - Clean up r23753

  • Rev 23640 - Fix SRT stats filters.

  • Rev 23756 - Do not create illegal filters.

  • Rev 23773 - ANSI ISUP bug fix.

  • Rev 23777 - Auto scroll behavior fix.

  • Rev 23787 - Fix unaligned access in WiMAX.

  • Rev 23794 - Register "samr.nt_password" as obsolete.

  • Rev 23807 Fix TiVoConnect dissector, seemingly broken since rev 18415.

  • Rev 23820 Fix a crash bug in the CIP dissector.

  • Rev 23838 - Access to freed memory - strings registered to dissector table have to be allocated permanently

  • Rev 23841 - Fix bug 2062

• Fix bug 2055

• Upgrade to GTK+ 2.12.1 on the Windows build.

• Upgrade to WinPcap 4.0.2 on the Windows packaging

• update user-guide.chm? No problem, this file is updated on each official build.

• Finish capture privilege separation.

• Fix blocker bugs (no blocker bugs open).

• Fix current Buildbot problems.

• Add "PortableApps" (Windows USB stick) package to website

0.99.6

Released: Jul 5, 2007 Release Notes

• Move over the following revisions:

  • Rev 22113 - User Guide updates

  • Rev 22115 & 22120 - Fix filter dialog->add expression dialog "hang" and console errors

  • Rev 22116 - Have editcap and capinfos compile --without-plugins

  • Rev 22117 - Developer Guide updates

  • Rev 22135 & 22136 & 22146 - GSM MAP fixes (exclude packet-gsm_ss.c)

  • Rev 22151 & 22152Colon separators

  • Rev 22138 - Be less picky about parsing EAPOL handshakes

  • Rev 22188 - Fix compilation on OpenBSD

  • Rev 22186 - Don't try to parse EAPOL group keys as pairwise keys

  • Rev 22171 - Typo(IMPLICIT SET not working properly with -X option of asn2wrs).

  • Rev 22195 - PPI capture counts

  • Rev 22198 - Only show one error dialog in object export

  • Rev 22210 - Allow percent-escapes in WPA passphrases

  • Rev 22211 - Apply prefs in the key management dialog

  • Rev 22149 & 22209 - small X.411 fixes

  • Rev 22220 - small BACAPP fix

  • Rev 22237 - Incorporate WinPcap 4.0.1

  • Rev 22238 - Debian package files update

• Fix Coverity bugs:

  • 216
  • 232
  • 241
  • 240
  • 244

• Fix blocker bugs.

• Upgrade to GTK+ 2.10.12 on the Windows build. This fixes a menu display bug on Vista.

• Fix compiler warnings on various platforms

0.99.5

Released: Feb 1, 2007

• Update the Windows GTK+ package(s) to 2.10.

• Update the Windows GNUTLS package to 1.6.0.

• Update the Windows PortAudio package to v19.

• Update the Windows Net-SNMP package to 5.4.

• Move cryptographic code to epan/crypto.

• Use the "User's Guide" as the online help system for Wireshark.

0.99.4

Released: Oct 31, 2006

• Finish TCP reassembly

• Solve the Preferences/Filter "Save" button confusion. That's the last one on my "personal GUI list" that's regular confusing newbies IMHO. It's solved by adding a Preference setting "Explicit saving changes" which defaults to off. UlfLamping

• 396 - Saving flow data crashes Wireshark

• 699 - "Order" buttons not working properly in Coloring Rules window

• 1050, 1079 - The HTTP dissector could crash

• 1096 - Wireshark fails to start on Windows when it can't acquire a crypto context.

• Fix fuzz bugs currently in Bugzilla

0.99.3

Released: Aug 23, 2006

• TCP reassembly updates

• Determine our ECCN status, which is done

• Add GNU TLS and libgcrypt to the Windows installer

0.99.2

Released: July 17, 2006

• TCP reassembly updates
• Update the Net-SNMP library in the Windows distribution to 5.3.0.1.
• Fix blocker bugs:

  • 852 - Follow TCP stream crashes on particular data with X Window System error

  • Rev 23708 - Don't wrap in IO Graphs when drawing advanced time values above ~27 seconds.

  • Rev 23711 - Added some casts to r23708.

  • Rev 23712 - Added yet another cast to r23708.

particular data with X Window System error

• 757 - Crashes when multiple tap interfaces exist

• 967 - crash on fuzzed SNMP capture

• Add the Portaudio library to the Windows distribution.

0.99.1

The 0.99.1 release has been abandoned, as discussed in this thread on the wireshark-dev list.

0.99.0

Released: April 24, 2006

• Fix security-related Coverity bugs
• Add some reasonable example files for filters, rules, .... (Done in 14595)
• Fix Bugzilla "blocker" bugs
• Updated Lua for Windows. (GNU TLS/libgcrypt will be added pending an ECCN assignment from the U.S. Department of Commerce)

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