Software Update: Wireshark 1.2.8

Wednesday version 1.2.8 of Wireshark was released. Wireshark is an open source protocol analyzer and packet sniffer, which can analyze various network protocols and data packets on the network. The program can also use previously saved data traffic as input. Since version 1.2.0, there have been separate downloads for 64bit versions of Windows, support for the c-ares resolver library has been added, and support has been improved for Mac OS X. In this update, the developers have made some bug fixes and some of the supported protocols updated. The full release notes can be found below:

Bug Fixes

• TThe DOCSIS dissector could crash. (Bug 4644), (bug 4646)
• HTTP parser limits with Content-Length. (Bug 1958)
• MATE dissector bug with GOGs. (Bug 3010)
• Changing fonts and deleting system time from preferences, results in wireshark crash. (Bug 3387)
• ERF file starting with record with timestamp=0.1 or 2 not recognized as ERF file. (Bug 4503)
• The SSL dissector can not correctly resemple SSL records when the record header is spit between packets. (Bug 4535)
• TCP reassembly can call subdissector with incorrect TCP sequence number. (Bug 4624)
• PTP dissector displays big correction field values ​​wrong. (Bug 4635)
• MSF is at Anthorn, not Rugby. (Bug 4678)
• ProtoField __tostring() description is missing in Wireshark’s Lua API Reference Manual. (Bug 4695)
• EVRC packet bundling not handled correctly. (Bug 4718)
• Completely unresponsive when run very first time by root user. (Bug 4308)

Updated Protocol Support

• DOCSIS
• HTTP
• SSL

Updated Capture File Support

• PROPERTY
• PacketLogger

The following downloads are available:
Wireshark 1.2.8 for Windows (32bit)
Wireshark 1.2.8 for Windows (64 bit)
Wireshark 1.2.8 for Windows (U3 version)
Wireshark 1.2.8 for PortableApps
Wireshark 1.2.8 for Mac OS X (Intel)
Wireshark 1.2.8 for Mac OS X (PPC)
Wireshark 1.2.8 source code for Linux, Solaris, FreeBSD and NetBSD among others