Download Wireshark 2.6.0

Version 2.6.0 of the open source protocol analyzer and packet niffer Wireshark has been released. With this program, various data packets and network protocols on the network can be analyzed. The program can also use previously saved data traffic as input. Wireshark runs on Windows, Linux, and macOS, with separate downloads for 32bit and 64bit versions of the operating systems. The following changes and improvements have been made in this release:

What’s New

Wireshark 2.6 is the last release that will support the legacy (GTK+) user interface. It will not be supported or available in Wireshark 3.0.

The following bugs have been fixed:

• Dumpcap might not quit if Wireshark or TShark crashes. (Bug 1419)

The following features are new (or have been significantly updated) since version 2.5.0:

• HTTP Request sequences are now supported.
• Wireshark now supports MaxMind DB files. Support for GeoIP and GeoLite Legacy databases has been removed.
• The Windows packages are now built using Microsoft Visual Studio 2017.
• The IP map feature (the “Map” button in the “Endpoints” dialog) has been removed.

The following features are new (or have been significantly updated) since version 2.4.0:

• Display filter buttons can now be edited, disabled, and removed via a context menu directly from the toolbar
• Drag & Drop filter fields to the display filter toolbar or edit to create a button on the fly or apply the filter as a display filter.
• Application startup time has been reduced.
• Some keyboard shortcut mix-ups have been resolved by assigning new shortcuts to Edit → Copy methods.
• TShark now supports color using the –color option.
• The “matches” display filter operator is now case-insensitive.
• Display expression (button) preferences have been converted to a UAT. This puts the display expressions in their own file. Wireshark still supports preference files that contain the old preferences, but new preference files will be written without the old fields.
• SMI private enterprise numbers are now read from the “enterprises.tsv” configuration file.
• The QUIC dissector has been renamed to Geye QUIC (quic → gquick).
• The selected packet number can now be shown in the Status Bar by enabling Preferences → Appearance → Layout → Show selected packet number.
• File load time in the Status Bar is now disabled by default and can be enabled in Preferences → Appearance → Layout → Show file load time.
• Support for the G.729A codec in the RTP Player is now added via the bcg729 library.
• Support for hardware timestamping of packets has been added.
• Improved NetMon .cap support with comments, event tracing, network filter, network info types and some Message Analyzer exported types.
• The personal plugins folder on Linux/Unix is ​​now ~/.local/lib/wireshark/plugins.
• TShark can print flow graphs using -z flow…
• Capinfos now prints SHA256 hashes in addition to RIPEMD160 and SHA1. MD5 output has been removed.
• The packet editor has been removed. (This was a GTK+ only experimental feature.)
• Support BBC micro:bit Bluetooth profile
• The Linux and UNIX installation step for Wireshark will now install headers required to build plugins. A pkg-config file is provided to help with this (see “doc/plugins.example” for details). Note you must still rebuild all plugins between minor releases (XY).
• The Windows installers and packages now ship with Qt 5.9.4.
• The generic data dissector can now uncompress zlib compressed data.
• DNS Stats now supports service level statistics.
• DNS filters for retransmissions and unsolicited responses have been added.
• The “tcptrace” TCP Stream graph now shows duplicate ACKS and zero window advertisements.
• The membership operator now supports ranges, allowing display filters such as tcp.port in {4430..4434} to be expressed. See the User’s Guide, chapter Building display filter expressions for details.

New Protocol Support

• ActiveMQ Artemis Core Protocol
• AMT (Automatic Multicast Tunneling)
• AVSP (Arista Vendor Specific Protocol)
• Bluetooth Mesh
• Broadcom tags (Broadcom Ethernet switch management frames)
• CAN-ETH
• CVS password server
• Excentis DOCSIS31 XRA header
• F1 Application Protocol
• F5ethtrailer
• FP Mux
• GRPC (gRPC)
• IEEE 1905.1a
• IEEE 802.11ax (High Efficiency WLAN (HEW))
• IEEE 802.15.9 IEEE Recommended Practice for Transport of Key Management Protocol (KMP) Datagrams
• IEEE 802.3br Frame Preemption Protocol
• ISOBUS
• LoRaTap
• LoRaWAN
• Luster Filesystem
• Luster Network
• Nano / RaiBlocks Cryptocurrency Protocol (UDP)
• Network Functional Application Platform Interface (NFAPI) Protocol
• New Radio Radio Link Control protocol
• New Radio Radio Resource Control protocol
• NR (5G) MAC protocol
• NXP 802.15.4 Sniffer Protocol
• Object Security for Constrained RESTful Environments (OSCORE)
• PFCP (Packet Forwarding Control Protocol)
• Protocol Buffer (Protocol Buffers)
• QUIC (IETF)
• RFC 4108 Using CMS to Protect Firmware Packages
• Session Multiplex Protocol
• SolarEdge monitoring protocol
• Steam In-Home Streaming Discovery Protocol
• Tibia
• TWAMP and OWAMP
• Wi-Fi Device Provisioning Protocol
• Wi-SUN FAN Protocol

Updated Protocol Support

• Too many protocols have been updated to list here.

New and Updated Capture File Support

• Microsoft Network Monitor

New and Updated Capture Interfaces support

• LoRaTap

The following downloads are available:
Wireshark 2.6.0 for Windows (32bit)
Wireshark 2.6.0 for Windows (64bit)
Wireshark 2.6.0 for PortableApps
Wireshark 2.6.0 for macOS 10.6 and above (64bit)
Wireshark 2.6.0 source code for Linux, Solaris and *BSD among others