Wireshark has announced the release of version 4.4.8, marking the eighth maintenance update for the 4.4 series of its popular open-source network protocol analyzer for Linux, macOS, and Windows. This update does not introduce new network protocol support but enhances existing support for a variety of protocols, including ASTERIX, DLT, DNP 3.0, and many others.
The update addresses several critical bugs, such as fixing a crash that occurred when displaying packets in a new window after reloading Lua plugins, a bug related to the renegotiated DTLS session decryption, and another that resulted in the packet diagram displaying the representation multiple times for fields set as FT_NONE. Other fixes involve issues with UDS dissector responses and a DNP3 timestamp malfunction after epoch time.
Additionally, Wireshark 4.4.8 resolves a bug causing the application to freeze on startup when utilized within an Android emulator, an encoding issue with UTF-8, and a parsing problem with form-urlencoded keys.
For a comprehensive overview of the changes and specific technical updates, users can refer to the release notes. The new version is available for download from the official website or can be installed as a Flatpak app via Flathub.