This release fixes a large number of security issues discovered by Timo Sirainen and others. See the application advisory for more details.

New and updated features

Ethereal now supports a system-wide color filter file.

Support for the GNU ADNS library has been added. ADNS allows asynchronous DNS lookups.

"Decode As..." functionality has been added to Tethereal via the "-d" flag.

The HTTP, FTP, POP, SMTP, IMAP, and ACAP requests and responses are now shown in the protocol tree.

New protocols

distcc, EtherNet/IP, MSRPC ATSVC, RTNET/TMDA

Updated protocols

802.11, AIM, BGP, CLNP, COTP, CPHA, DCERPC, DNS, EAPOL, Ethernet, FDDI, GSSAPI, IP, ISAKMP, ISIS, LDAP, LSP, M2PA, MAPI, Modbus, NDPS, NFS, NTLMSSP, OSI, OSPF, OpenBSD pflog, PPTP, RMCP, RMI, RPC, RTP, SCSI, SCTP, SIP, SMB, SMPP, SMTP, SNMP, SPNEGO, TACACS, TCP, TSP, WBXML, WSP, WTP

Updated capture file support

HP-UX nettl, VMS UCX$TRACE