This release fixes issues in the SMB and Q.931 dissectors that could make Ethereal and Tethereal crash. See application advisory for more details.

New and updated features

Many performance improvements have been made to the code. Most users should see a 2× to 3× performance increase when loading and working with capture files.

A "matches" display filter operator has been added. It is similar to the "contains" operator, but supports Perl-compatible regular expressions.

Tethereal can now dump packet data in XML (PDML) format.

The main application menus have been rearranged and the help windows have been revamped, along with a host of other UI enhancements.

The capture progress window now features bar graphs.

The GLib, GTK+, Net-SNMP, and zlib libraries that ship with the Windows installer have been updated.

New protocol support

BFD, CCSDS, CPFI, DCE/RPC {BUDB, EPM4, ICL_RPC, RS_PLCY, RS_PROP_ACCT} IGAP, ISO 8327-1 SES, MS Kpasswd, RTCFG, SEBEK,

Updated protocol support

ACN, AFP, ANSI A, ANSI MAP, ASN.1, BSMAP, BSSAP, CPFI, DCE/RPC {DCOM, EPM, NDR, SRVSVC, STAT, WKSSVC}, DCE/RPC, DHCP, DNS, DOCSIS, DSI, DTAP, ENTTEC, FC ELS, FC FZS, FC-SP, FC-SWILS, GIOP, GPRS NS, GSM A, GSM MAP, H.225, H.450, HTTP, ICMP, IPv6, IS-IS, ISAKMP, ISUP, Kerberos, LDAP, LDP, MIPv6, MMSE, MS Proxy, MTP3, NCP 2222, NTP, PIM, RADIUS, RANAP, RDM, RSVP, RTCP, RTP, SCCP, SDP, SIP, SMB, SMPP, SOCKS, SONMP, SRVLOC, SSL, TACACS, TCAP, TCP, TPKT, TZSP, UCP, WAP, WBXML, WLAN, WSP, WTP

Updated capture file support

AiroPeek v9 (2.x) support was added. Network Instruments Observer and Snoop support was updated.