Switch default GUI from gtk3 to qt5. See What's New below for "why".
What’s New
Wireshark 2.6 is the last release that will support the legacy (GTK+)
user interface. It will not be supported or available in Wireshark
3.0.
Many user interface improvements have been made. See the “New and
Updated Features” section below for more details.
Bug Fixes
The following bugs have been fixed:
Dumpcap might not quit if Wireshark or TShark crashes. (Bug 1419[1])
New and Updated Features
The following features are new (or have been significantly updated)
since version 2.5.0:
• HTTP Request sequences are now supported.
• Wireshark now supports MaxMind DB files. Support for GeoIP and
GeoLite Legacy databases has been removed.
• The Windows packages are now built using Microsoft Visual Studio
2017.
• The IP map feature (the “Map” button in the “Endpoints” dialog)
has been removed.
The following features are new (or have been significantly updated)
since version 2.4.0:
• Display filter buttons can now be edited, disabled, and removed
via a context menu directly from the toolbar
• Drag & Drop filter fields to the display filter toolbar or edit
to create a button on the fly or apply the filter as a display
filter.
• Application startup time has been reduced.
• Some keyboard shortcut mix-ups have been resolved by assigning
new shortcuts to Edit → Copy methods.
• TShark now supports color using the --color option.
• The "matches" display filter operator is now case-insensitive.
• Display expression (button) preferences have been converted to a
UAT. This puts the display expressions in their own file.
Wireshark still supports preference files that contain the old
preferences, but new preference files will be written without the
old fields.
• SMI private enterprise numbers are now read from the
“enterprises.tsv” configuration file.
• The QUIC dissector has been renamed to Google QUIC (quic →
gquic).
• The selected packet number can now be shown in the Status Bar by
enabling Preferences → Appearance → Layout → Show selected packet
number.
• File load time in the Status Bar is now disabled by default and
can be enabled in Preferences → Appearance → Layout → Show file
load time.
• Support for the G.729A codec in the RTP Player is now added via
the bcg729 library.
• Support for hardware-timestamping of packets has been added.
• Improved NetMon .cap support with comments, event tracing,
network filter, network info types and some Message Analyzer
exported types.
• The personal plugins folder on Linux/Unix is now
~/.local/lib/wireshark/plugins.
• TShark can print flow graphs using -z flow…
• Capinfos now prints SHA256 hashes in addition to RIPEMD160 and
SHA1. MD5 output has been removed.
• The packet editor has been removed. (This was a GTK+ only
experimental feature.)
• Support BBC micro:bit Bluetooth profile
• The Linux and UNIX installation step for Wireshark will now
install headers required to build plugins. A pkg-config file is
provided to help with this (see “doc/plugins.example” for
details). Note you must still rebuild all plugins between minor
releases (X.Y).
• The Windows installers and packages now ship with Qt 5.9.4.
• The generic data dissector can now uncompress zlib compressed
data.
• DNS Stats now supports service level statistics.
• DNS filters for retransmissions and unsolicited responses have
been added.
• The “tcptrace” TCP Stream graph now shows duplicate ACKS and zero
window advertisements.
• The membership operator now supports ranges, allowing display
filters such as tcp.port in {4430..4434} to be expressed. See the
User’s Guide, chapter Building display filter expressions for
details.
New Protocol Support
ActiveMQ Artemis Core Protocol, AMT (Automatic Multicast Tunneling),
AVSP (Arista Vendor Specific Protocol), Bluetooth Mesh, Broadcom tags
(Broadcom Ethernet switch management frames), CAN-ETH, CVS password
server, Excentis DOCSIS31 XRA header, F1 Application Protocol,
F5ethtrailer, FP Mux, GRPC (gRPC), IEEE 1905.1a, IEEE 802.11ax (High
Efficiency WLAN (HEW)), IEEE 802.15.9 IEEE Recommended Practice for
Transport of Key Management Protocol (KMP) Datagrams, IEEE 802.3br
Frame Preemption Protocol, ISOBUS, LoRaTap, LoRaWAN, Lustre
Filesystem, Lustre Network, Nano / RaiBlocks Cryptocurrency Protocol
(UDP), Network Functional Application Platform Interface (NFAPI)
Protocol, New Radio Radio Link Control protocol, New Radio Radio
Resource Control protocol, NR (5G) MAC protocol, NXP 802.15.4 Sniffer
Protocol, Object Security for Constrained RESTful Environments
(OSCORE), PFCP (Packet Forwarding Control Protocol), Protobuf
(Protocol Buffers), QUIC (IETF), RFC 4108 Using CMS to Protect
Firmware Packages, Session Multiplex Protocol, SolarEdge monitoring
protocol, Steam In-Home Streaming Discovery Protocol, Tibia, TWAMP
and OWAMP, Wi-Fi Device Provisioning Protocol, and Wi-SUN FAN
Protocol
Updated Protocol Support
Too many protocols have been updated to list here.
New and Updated Capture File Support
Microsoft Network Monitor
New and Updated Capture Interfaces support
LoRaTap
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