[Ethereal-announce] Ethereal 0.9.6 source and installers released

[Gerald Combs <gerald@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ethereal 0.9.6 has been released.

Bugs Fixed

  A buffer overflow in the ISIS dissector has been fixed.  More
  information can be found at
  http://www.ethereal.com/appnotes/enpa-sa-00006.html.
    
  A bad TCP header could cause problems for the "Follow TCP Stream"
  feature.
  
  Setting "column.format" from the command line no longer crashes
  Ethereal and Tethereal.

  Problems with capture files being overwritten (e.g. if you try to save
  over the current capture file) have been fixed.

  An SMB conversation handling bug has been fixed.

  Thanks to Valgrind, several memory leaks have been fixed.

  Some problems with printing under Windows have been fixed.


New Features

  TCP sequence number analysis has been added.

  The DCE RPC NETLOGON dissector has received a major overhaul.

  Data types throughout the code have been cleaned up. 


New Procols

  CPHA, DOCSIS, NTLMSSP, Xyplex terminal server protocol, ZIP


Updated Prococols

  802.11, AFP, ASAP, BGP, CDP, CDPCP, CPHA, DDP, DCERPC, DCERPC NT, DCERPC
  REG, EPM, FTP, HCLNFSD, HTTP, IPX, ISAKMP, ISIS, IUA, Kerberos, L2TP,
  LLMNR, LSA, MMSE, MPLSCP, NBNS, NetBIOS, NETLOGON, NFS, NTLMSSP, PPP,
  Quake2, RADIUS, RSVP, RTCP, SAMR, SCSI, SDP, SIP, SMB, SMB Mailslot,
  SMTP, SPOOLSS, TCP, TDS, TNS, TPKT, Token Ring, VJ TCP, WINREG, WSP


Capture File Updates

CheckPoint Firewall-1 monitor file support and CoSine debug file support
were added.  Support for pppdump and Netmon files was updated.


Download Sites

The source code and Windows installer can be downloaded immediately from
the following locations:

Main site:

Source: 

  http://www.ethereal.com/distribution/ethereal-0.9.6.tar.gz
  http://www.ethereal.com/distribution/ethereal-0.9.6.tar.bz2

Windows installer: 

  http://www.ethereal.com/distribution/win32/ethereal-setup-0.9.5.exe

Solaris installers: 

  http://www.ethereal.com/distribution/solaris/

SourceForge:

  http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=255  


The mirror sites listed at http://www.ethereal.com/download.html#sources
should be updated shortly.