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What’s New

Bug Fixes

If you are upgrading Wireshark 4.2.0 or 4.2.1 on Windows you will need to download and install Wireshark 4.2.6 or later by hand.

A regression in the TCP Stream Graph "Time Sequence (tcptrace)" receive window line behavior introduced in 4.2.5 and 4.0.15 has been fixed. Issue 19846

The following vulnerability has been fixed:

The following bugs have been fixed:

  • RADIUS dissector’s dictionary loading broken in many ways. Issue 6466.

  • 3.4 → 3.6.5 ASCII display is broken on CentOS 7. Issue 18096.

  • Funnel/Lua: Closing child window disconnects buttons of parent. Issue 18386.

  • Lua detection fails with Alpine Linux: missing: LUA_LIBRARIES. Issue 19841.

  • vnd.3gpp.5gnas payloads of type SMS not decoded inside HTTP2 5GC. Issue 19845.

  • TCP Stream Graphs green sliding window line not displayed correctly. Issue 19846.

  • Wireshark window doesn’t fully fit on screen on small resolutions and can’t be resized properly on Russian language. Issue 19861.

  • Wireshark started from command line doesn’t set gui.fileopen_remembered_dir correctly on Windows. Issue 19891.

  • Wireshark expects wrong length for DHCP Relay Agent Information Source Port Suboption.