14 DAY TRIAL // Today, October 5, 2016, the Wireshark development team announced the release of the first maintenance update for the Wireshark 2.2 series of the world's most popular network protocol analyzer software.
Announced a month ago, on September 7, Wireshark 2.2 was a major release that brought a large number of new features and improvements, such as support for SSL or TLS over TCP for the "Decode As" functionality, and the implementation of the "-d" option for "Decode As" to mimic the TShark functionality, or the ability to disable coloring rules instead of discarding them to provide backward compatibility with the coloring rule changes in Wireshark 2.2.
And today, Wireshark 2.2.1 is here to further improve the stability of the software in an attempt to address a bunch of bugs and security vulnerabilities that have been reported by users since Wireshark 2.2. For starters, the point release patches two important crashes, one for the Bluetooth L2CAP dissector and the other one for the NCP dissector. Then, it fixes 18 reported bugs that you can see in detail in the changelog attached at the end of the article.
Updated protocol and capture file support
Moreover, Wireshark 2.2.1 updates support for various protocols, among which we can mention TLS (Transport Layer Security), SSL (Secure Sockets Layer), ISUP (Integrated Services Digital Network User Part), 6LowPAN, CIP (Common Industrial Protocol), BT L2CAP, DCOM IRemUnknown, DMP (Direct Message Protocol), Diameter, NetFlow, EAP (Extensible Authentication Protocol), NCP (Network Control Program), NBT (NetBT protocol), and U3V (USB3 Vision).
Last but not least, the first maintenance update to the Wireshark 2.2 series brings support for the Ascend and K12 capture files. Again, if you're a tech-savvy reader interested in all the juicy details about the bugfixes incorporated in Wireshark 2.2.1, check out the release notes below. In the meantime, you can download the source and binary packages of Wireshark 2.2.1 for GNU/Linux, Microsoft Windows, and Mac OS X operating systems right now via our website. Please note that the Windows installers now ship with Qt 5.6.