Roadmap
This is a tentative roadmap for the next stable releases of Wireshark. For more information on the Wireshark release lifecycle and on past releases see Development/LifeCycle.
Planning
Release
Expected Date
Notes
2.2.1
October 11, 2016
Next maintenance release of the 2.2 branch
2.0.7
October 11, 2016
Next maintenance release of the 2.0 branch
Backporting Changes
Significant bug fixes should be backported to each applicable stable branches after they are checked in to the master branch. You can follow development progress using the links below.
Proposed Changes
For a list of bugs that should have been fixed before the 2.0 release, see Bugzilla (target milestone: 2.0 release).
Other proposed items (possibly out of date, see wiki source):
Items marked with
in the TODO list of Development/SNMP Keep plugin API and ABI stable and versioned, so binary plugins will reliably work with more than one Wireshark version (ABI changes can be followed here: Upstream Tracker)
Run tools/git-compare-abis.sh in the Git repository right before the release
Bump library versions as needed based on Libtool's documentation in */Makefile.am and */CmakeList.txt (don't forget updating debian/*.symbols)
When major library version bumps are needed *.CMakeList.txt-s have to be changed at two locations and debian/lib*N.* files have to be updated and renamed
Version checking
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)