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Wireshark 4.3.0 Release Notes
This is an experimental release intended to test new features for
Wireshark 4.4.
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
Improved display filter support for value strings (optional string
representations for numeric fields).
Display filter functions can be implemented as runtime-loadable C
plugins.
Many other improvements have been made. See the “New and Updated
Features” section below for more details.
New and Updated Features
The following features are new (or have been significantly updated)
since version 4.2.0:
• Display filter syntax-related enhancements:
• Better handling of comparisons with value strings. Now the
display filter engine can correctly handle cases where multiple
different numeric values map to the same value string, including
but not limited to range-type value strings.
• Fields with value strings now support regular expression
matching.
• Date and time values now support arithmetic, with some
restrictions: the multiplier/divisor must be an integer or float
and appear on the right-hand side of the operator.
• The keyword "bitand" can be used as an alternative syntax for
the bitwise-and operator.
• Functions alone can now be used as an entire logical
expression. The result of the expression is the truthiness of the
function return value (or of all values if more than one). This
is useful for example to write "len(something)" instead of
"len(something) != 0". Even more so if a function returns itself
a boolean value, it is now possible to write
"bool_test(some.field)" instead of having to write
"bool_test(some.field) == True" (both forms are now valid).
• Display filter references can be written without curly braces.
It is now possible to write `$frame.number` instead of
`${frame.number}` for example.
• Added new display filter functions to test various IP address
properties. Check the wireshark-filter(5) manpage for more
information.
• Display filter macros can be written using a function-like
notation. The macro `${mymacro:arg1; …; argN}` can be written
$mymacro(arg1, …, argN)`.
• Display filter functions can be implemented as libwireshark
plugins. Plugins are loaded during startup from the usual binary
plugin configuration directories. See the `ipaddr.c` source file
in the distribution for an example of a display filter C plugin
and the doc/plugins.example folder for generic instructions how
to build a plugin.
• Display filter autocompletions now also include display filter
functions.
• The display filter macro configuration file has changed format.
It now uses the same format as the "dfilters" file and has been
renamed accordingly to "dmacros". Internally it no longer uses
the UAT API and the display filter macro GUI dialog has been
updated. There is some basic migration logic implemented but it
is advisable to check that the "dfilter_macros" (old) and
"dmacros" (new) files in the profile directory are consistent.
• When selecting "Manage Interfaces" from "Capture Options",
Wireshark only attempts to reconnect to rpcap (remote) hosts that
were connected to in the last session, instead of every remote
host that the current profile has ever connected to. Issue
17484[1]
• Adding interfaces at startup is about twice as fast, and has many
fewer UAC pop-ups when npcap is installed with access restricted
to Administrators on Windows
New Protocol Support
EGNOS Message Server (EMS) file format, MAC NR Framed
(mac-nr-framed), RF4CE Network Layer (RF4CE), and RF4CE Profile
(RF4CE Profile)
Updated Protocol Support
• IPv6: The "show address detail" preference is now enabled by
default. The address details provided have been extended to
include more special purpose address block properties
(forwardable, globally-routable, etc).
Too many other protocol updates have been made to list them all here.
EGNOS Messager Server (EMS) files
Major API Changes
• Plugins should provide a `plugin_describe()` function that
returns an ORed list of flags consisting of the plugin types used
(declared in wsutil/plugins.h).
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[2] 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 "Help › About
Wireshark › Folders" 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[3] 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[4].
Bugs and feature requests can be reported on the issue tracker[5].
You can learn protocol analysis and meet Wireshark’s developers at
SharkFest[6].
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[7].
Frequently Asked Questions
A complete FAQ is available on the Wireshark web site[8].
References
1. https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark/-/issues/17484
2. https://www.wireshark.org/download.html
3. https://ask.wireshark.org/
4. https://www.wireshark.org/lists/
5. https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark/-/issues
6. https://sharkfest.wireshark.org
7. https://wiresharkfoundation.org
8. https://www.wireshark.org/faq.html