WireShark 1.2.7 released

Wireshark is the world’s most popular network protocol analyzer. It has a rich and powerful feature set and runs on most computing platforms including Windows, OS X, Linux, and UNIX. Network professionals, security experts, developers, and educators around the world use it regularly. It is freely available as open source, and is released under the GNU General Public License version 2

Wireshark 1.2.7 (stable) has been released. Installers for Windows, Mac OS X 10.5.5 and above (Intel and PPC), and source code is now available.

JPEG - 27 kb

What’s New

Bug Fixes

  • SNMPv3 Engine ID registration. (Bug 2426)
  • Open file dialog always displayed when clicking anywhere on Wireshark. (Bug 2478)
  • tshark reports wrong number of bytes on big dumpfiles with -z io,stat. (Bug 3205)
  • Negative INTEGER number displayed as positive number in SNMP dissector. (Bug 3230)
  • Add support for FT_BOOLEAN fields to wslua FieldInfo. (Bug 4049)
  • Wireshark crashes w/ GLib error when trying to play RTP stream. (Bug 4119)
  • Windows 2000 support has been restored. (Bug 4176)
  • Wrong dissection on be_cell_id_list for bssmap. (Bug 4437)
  • Runtime Error when right-clicking field and selecting "Filter Field Reference". (Bug 4522)
  • In GSM SMS PDU TPVPF showing wrong. (Bug 4524)
  • Profinet: May be wrong defined byte meaning. (Bug 4525)
  • GLib-CRITICAL ** Message. (Bug 4547)
  • Certain EDP display filters trigger Wireshark/tshark runtime error. (Bug 4563)
  • Some NCP frames trigger "Dissector bug, protocol NCP". (Bug 4565)
  • The encapsulation abbreviation "bluetooth-h4" is ambiguous. (Bug 4613)