Wireshark 4.2.6 Official Release - Network Debugging and Packet Capture Tool

Wireshark, the world's most popular network protocol analyzer, is used for troubleshooting, analysis, development, and education. It is released by the Wireshark Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting protocol analysis education.

The latest official release, version 4.2.6, is now available. Users on versions 4.2.0 or 4.2.1 need to manually download and install the 4.2.6 package as automatic updates are not supported for these versions.

Users are recommended to update to the latest version to enhance stability and security. Given Wireshark's professional nature, it might have a steep learning curve for beginners. For occasional packet analysis needs, alternative software like Fiddler could be considered.

Download the latest version of Wireshark: https://www.wireshark.org/download.html

Fixed Vulnerabilities:

• wnpa-sec-2024-10: Fixed a crash in the SPRT parser, issue 19559.

Resolved Bugs:

• Fixed issues with RADIUS dictionary loading, issue 6466.
• Resolved ASCII display corruption on CentOS 7 from versions 3.4 to 3.6.5, issue 18096.
• Fixed a bug where closing a child window in Funnel/Lua would disable buttons on the parent window, issue 18386.
• Addressed a failed Lua detection on Alpine Linux due to missing LUA_LIBRARIES, issue 19841.
• Resolved an issue where payloads of type SMS in vnd.3gpp.5gnas were not decoded within HTTP2 5GC, issue 19845.
• The green sliding window line in TCP Stream Graphs was not displaying correctly, issue 19846.
• Wireshark windows could not fully fit on screens with small resolutions and had resizing issues in Russian environments, issue 19861.
• Wireshark launched from the command line did not correctly set gui.fileopen_remembered_dir on Windows, issue 19891.
• Fixed incorrect length expectation for the DHCP Relay Agent Information Source Port sub-option, issue 19909.
• The SIP P-Access-Network-Info header was not decoded correctly, issue 19917.

New Features and Updates:

• No new features or updates in this release.

New Protocol Support:

• No new protocols supported in this release.

Updated Protocol Support:

• DHCP
• E.212
• MySQL
• NAS-5GS
• PKT CCC
• ProtoBuf
• RADIUS
• RLC-LTE
• RTP
• SIP
• SPRT
• Thrift
• Wi-SUN

New and Updated Capture File Support:

• log3gpp

Updated File Format Decoding Support:

• No updated file format support in this release.