The world's most popular open-source network protocol analyzer, Wireshark, has been upgraded to a new stable version of version 2.6, a major update that adds many new features and improvements, and supports new protocols.
Many UI improvements have been made since Wireshark 2.5, and Wireshark 2.6 appears to be the last version to support the legacy GTK+ GUI, as the development team announced that it won't be supported in the next Wireshark 3.0 major series,
New features in Wireshark 2.6 include support for HTTP request sequences, support for MaxMind DB files, support for Microsoft Network Monitor capture files, and LoRaTap capture interface support. IP map functionality has been removed in favor of GeoIP and GeoLite Legacy databases.
Also worth mentioning that Wireshark's Windows package is now built using Microsoft Visual Studio 2017. Of course, if you're upgrading from the stable Wireshark 2.4 series, you should know that Wireshark 2.6 brings even more cool new features, all of which can be viewed in the release notes.
Wireshark now supports dozens of new protocols
In version 2.6, Wireshark gained support for dozens of new protocols, including ActiveMQ Artemis core protocol, AMT (Automated Multicast Tunneling), AVSP (Arista Vendor Specific Protocol), Bluetooth Mesh, Broadcom Tags, CVS Cipher Server, Excentis DOCSIS31 XRA header and CAN-ETH.
F1 Application Protocol, F5 Node, FP Mux, GRPC (gRPC), IEEE 1905.1a, IEEE 802.11ax (High Efficiency WLAN (HEW)), IEEE 802.15.9 IEEE Recommended Specification for Key Management Protocol (KMP) Datagram Transmission, And Wireshark 2.6 also supports the IEEE 802.3br frame preemption protocol.
The list starts with ISOBUS, LoRaTap, LoRaWAN, Lustre File System, Lustre Network, Nano/RaiBlocks Encryption Protocol (UDP), Network Function Application Platform Interface (NFAPI) Protocol, New Radio Radio Link Control Protocol, New Radio Radio Resource Control Protocol And the NR (5G) MAC protocol.
Also, NXP 802.15.4 Sniffer Protocol, Object Security Constraining RESTful Environments (OSCORE), PFCP (Packet Forwarding Control Protocol), Protobuf (Protocol Buffers), QUIC (IETF), RFC 4108 Secure Firmware Software Using CMS Packet, Session Multiplexing Protocol and SolarEdge Monitoring Protocol.
Finally, Wireshark 2.6 supports the Steam In-Home Streaming Discovery protocol, the Wi-SUN FAN protocol, the Wi-Fi Device Provisioning protocol, as well as the Tibia, TWAMP and OWAMP protocols. You can now download Wireshark 2.6 for GNU/Linux, macOS and Windows here .
The original text comes from: https://www.linuxidc.com/Linux/2018-04/152059.htm
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