Wireshark 3.6.15 Release Notes
What is Wireshark?
Wireshark is the world’s most popular network protocol analyzer. It is used for troubleshooting, analysis, development and education.
What’s New
This is the last release branch with support for 32-bit Windows. Updates will no longer be available after May 22, 2024 for that platform. Issue 17779
If you’re running Wireshark on macOS and upgraded to macOS 13 from an earlier version, you might have to open and run the “Uninstall ChmodBPF” package, then open and run “Install ChmodBPF” in order to reset the ChmodBPF Launch Daemon. Issue 18734.
Bug Fixes
The following vulnerabilities have been fixed:
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wnpa-sec-2023-21 Kafka dissector crash. Issue 19105.
The following bugs have been fixed:
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Crash when (re)loading a capture file after renaming a dfilter macro Issue 13753.
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Moving a column deselects selected packet and moves to beginning of packet list Issue 16251.
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If you set the default interface in the preferences, it doesn’t work with TShark Issue 16593.
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Severe performance issues in Follow → Save As raw workflow Issue 17313.
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NAS-5GS Operator-defined Access Category: Multiple Criteria values not displayed in dissected packet display Issue 18941.
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CQL protocol parsing issues with
Resultframes from open source Cassandra Issue 19119. -
TLS 1.3 second Key Update doesn’t work Issue 19120.
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HTTP2 dissector reports an assertion error on large data frames Issue 19121.
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epan: Single letter hostnames aren’t displayed correctly Issue 19137.
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BLF: CAN-FD-Message format is missing a field Issue 19146.
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BLF: last parameter of LIN-Message is not mandatory (BUGFIX) Issue 19147.
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PPP IPv6CP: Incorrect payload length warning Issue 19149.
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Wrong ordering in OpenFlow 1.0 Datapath unique ID Issue 19172.
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Incorrect mask in RTCP slice picture ID Issue 19182.
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Dissection error in AMQP 1.0 Issue 19191.
New and Updated Features
New Protocol Support
There are no new protocols in this release.
Updated Protocol Support
9P, AMQP, BGP, CQL, GlusterFS, HTTP2, Kafka, NAN, NAS-5GS, OpenFlow v1.0, PDCP-NR, PPPoE, RSL, RTCP, and XMPP
New and Updated Capture File Support
There is no new or updated capture file support in this release.
New File Format Decoding Support
There is no new or updated file format support in this release.
Getting Wireshark
Wireshark source code and installation packages are available from https://www.wireshark.org/download.html.
Vendor-supplied Packages
Most Linux and Unix vendors supply their own Wireshark packages. You can usually install or upgrade Wireshark using the package management system specific to that platform. A list of third-party packages can be found on the download page on the Wireshark web site.
File Locations
Wireshark and TShark look in several different locations for preference files, plugins, SNMP MIBS, and RADIUS dictionaries.
These locations vary from platform to platform.
You can use or tshark -G folders to find the default locations on your system.
Getting Help
The User’s Guide, manual pages and various other documentation can be found at https://www.wireshark.org/docs/
Community support is available on Wireshark’s Q&A site and on the wireshark-users mailing list. Subscription information and archives for all of Wireshark’s mailing lists can be found on the web site.
Bugs and feature requests can be reported on the issue tracker.
How You Can Help
The Wireshark Foundation helps as many people as possible understand their networks as much as possible. You can find out more and donate at wiresharkfoundation.org.
Frequently Asked Questions
A complete FAQ is available on the Wireshark web site.