Wireshark 4.2.0: What's new in the latest development version
If you are less of those who spend their time changing and testing Distro GNU/Linux from time to time, and more of those who spend their time testing and learning about useful computer networking applications and maybe some Hacking, you will most likely like this news. And this October 5, the open source traffic analyzer called Wireshark has released its development version number 4.2.0 RC1, and it is now available for download and testing with interesting new features included.
Furthermore, and given that we have already addressed on previous occasions about what is wireshark and what are its basic and main characteristics, today we will focus purely on the new features of this development version, that is, "Wireshark 4.2.0 RC1".
Wireshark: New versions 4.0.2 and 3.6.10 now available
And, before starting this present publication about the news of the most recent development version released of the well-known Wireshark network protocol analyzer, i.e. "Wireshark 4.2.0 RC1", we recommend you explore the previous related post, at the end of it:
Wireshark is recognized worldwide as one of the most important and used network protocol analyzers in the world. Thanks to that, permite see what's happening on any network at an advanced level of detail. Therefore, it is used by both commercial and non-profit companies, as well as by government agencies and educational institutions, and even by individuals and IT professionals on a personal basis, such as sysadmins, pentesters, hackers and crackers (computer hackers). Wireshark: New versions 4.0.2 and 3.6.10 now available
What's new in Wireshark 4.2.0 RC1 and more
List of the most notable new features of Wireshark 4.2.0 RC1
From official announcement launch launch Wireshark 4.2.0 RC1 It is worth briefly mentioning the following interesting developments:
- The install target no longer installs development headers by default.
- Includes improvements related to package list sorting and generating valid UTF-8 results.
- Configuration files from companies, manufacturers, and services have been compiled to improve startup times.
- The Wireshark installation can be relocated to Linux (and other ELF platforms with relative RPATH support).
- It has a new display filter function to filter raw bytes and the display filter autocompletion is smarter by not suggesting invalid syntax.
- At the Tools level, MAC address blocks can now look up a MAC address in the IEEE OUI registry. And Browser (SSL Keylog) can start our web browser with the SSLKEYLOGFILE environment variable set to the appropriate value.
- And regarding Windows: it now supports dark mode, offers a Windows installer for Arm64, can be compiled on Windows using MSYS2, and can also be cross-compiled for Windows using Linux. Lastly, Windows installer file names are now in Wireshark format. - .exe.
In addition, includes several bug fixes for previously reported issues, Tales como el problem 18413, related to the RTP player when it doesn't play audio frequently on Windows builds with Qt6. And the problem 18510, related to the playback marker, when it doesn't move after resuming with Qt6.
About the current stable version 4.0.10 and 3.6.18
And if you are more into using stable versions, it is important to note that Wireshark, the day before the aforementioned launch, has also released the stable versions Wireshark 4.0.10 and 3.6.18. Which have installers available for Windows, macOS +10.14, plus the source code for Linux. And in both versions they include fixes to address an issue with macOS, Arm, and Intel packages.
And if you want to know and learn a little more about Wireshark, we also recommend you visit their Official website, explore your Documentation, Wiki y FAQ section.
In summary, Wireshark continues its unstoppable development to remain one of the best network packet analyzers available today. So when Wireshark 4.2.0 Now available as a stable version, it will have a lot to offer all those IT professionals who use it every day for their important computing tasks. And also to those who use it to learn and research about networks and other activities related to Hacking.
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