Wireshark 2.2.1 Network Protocol Analyzer Adds Ascend & K12 Capture File Support

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A total of 20 issues have been addressed since Wireshark 2.2

Wireshark 2.2.1 released

 

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 on 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 interesting 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 Wireshark 2.2.0 right now via official website. Please note that the Windows installers now ship with Qt 5.6.

Wireshark 2.2.1 Changelog

Spoiler

Flow Graph colored data arrows. (Bug 12065)
Capture File Properties under Statistics Grayed Out after Stopping a Capture. (Bug 12071)
Qt: Hidden columns displayed during live capture. (Bug 12377)
Unable to save changes to coloring rules. (Bug 12814)
Bad description for NBSS error code 0x81. (Bug 12835)
Live capture from USBPcap fails immediately. (Bug 12846)
Cannot decrypt EAP-TTLS traffic (not recognized as conversation). (Bug 12879)
Export packet dissections Option disabled after capturing traffic. (Bug 12898)
Failure to open file named with Chinese or other multiby

 

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