The latest version of Wireshark brings numerous new features

Sep 21, 2014 20:14 GMT  ·  By

Wireshark, the best network protocol analyzer that offers users the means to capture and interactively browse the traffic running on a computer network, is now at version 1.21.1.

The developers of Wireshark have released a small update for the application that fixes quite a few issues. There are no new features, because this is just a maintenance release, but users should upgrade nonetheless.

According to the changelog, Wireshark no longer crashes during the remote capture (rpcap) configuration, 802.11 capture now decrypts/decodes the DHCP response, the progress line in "VOIP RTP Player" now works properly, an MIPv6 Service Selection Identifier parse error has been fixed, the 802.11 BA sequence number decode has been fixed, the Ethernet OAM (CFM) frames including TLV’s are no longer wrongly decoded as malformed, and the MAC address name resolution has been repaired.

The application allows for deep inspection of hundreds of protocols, live capture and offline analysis, multi-platform support, powerful display filters, decompression on the fly for gzip packages, and decryption support for many protocols, including IPsec, ISAKMP, Kerberos, SNMPv3, SSL/TLS, WEP, and WPA/WPA2.

A complete list of changes, fixes, and new features can be found in the official announcement. You can download the source code for Wireshark 1.12.1 right now from Softpedia.