14 DAY TRIAL // Today, September 7, 2016, the development team behind the world's most popular network protocol analyzer, Wireshark, has proudly announced the release of a new major stable version, namely Wireshark 2.2.
After being in development for the past couple of months, Wireshark 2.2.0 has finally hit the stable channel, bringing with it a huge number of improvements and updated protocols. For those of you who have never heard of Wireshark, we want to shed some light and say that it's an open-source network vulnerability scanner used by security researchers and network administrators for development, analysis, troubleshooting, as well as education purposes.
Release highlights Wireshark 2.2.0 include support for SSL or TLS over TCP for the "Decode As" feature, the ability to disable coloring rules instead of discarding them to provide backward compatibility with the coloring rule changes in Wireshark 2.2, the implementation of the "-d" option for "Decode As" to mimic the TShark functionality, which now supports export of network packets in the JSON format, as well as support for the -j, -J, and -l flags to the Qt graphical interface.
The Firewall ACL Rules dialog has returned
The list of new features integrated in Wireshark 2.2 continues with the return of the Firewall ACL Rules dialog, support for switching between File Format and Capture dissection of the current capture file, the ability to view packet bytes as YAML, ASCII, UTF-8, HTML, ISO 8859-1, Image, Raw, or a C array, along with support for displaying them as EBCDIC. Also worth mentioning are the addition of UTF-16 support to the Follow Stream dialog, and a brand new Bluetooth Device Details dialog.
New protocols are supported as well, as support for existing ones has been updated. "Wireshark is able to display the format of some types of files (rather than displaying the contents of those files). This is useful when you’re curious about, or debugging, a file and its format. To open a capture file (such as PCAP) in this mode specify 'MIME Files Format' as the file’s format in the Open File dialog," reads the release notes, which have been attached at the end of the article for your viewing pleasure.
Download Wireshark 2.2.0 for GNU/Linux, Mac OS X, and Microsoft Windows right now via our website.