Seriously? More Wireshark Updates.

Right, so the packet sniffers got *another* release. Versions 4.4.10 and 4.6.0 are out now, because apparently things weren’t broken enough already. Mostly it’s a bunch of bug fixes – surprise, surprise. They patched some crashes (good, I guess, wouldn’t want your capture session to die mid-stream), addressed issues with certain file formats (because *of course* they did) and generally tidied up the mess that is packet analysis.

There’s a whole laundry list of dissectors updated. If you care about obscure protocols, go read the release notes yourself. I’m not spoon-feeding you this crap. It includes fixes for things like IEEE 802.11, QUIC, and a whole bunch of other acronyms that will probably never matter to your life.

Honestly, if you’re using Wireshark, you should be updating regularly anyway. But don’t expect miracles. It’s still Wireshark. It’ll still eat your RAM and make you question all of your life choices when trying to debug a complex network issue.

Related Anecdote: I once spent 18 hours tracing a routing loop with Wireshark, only to discover the problem was a misconfigured VLAN tag on a switch port. Eighteen *hours*. I swear, if I could have physically reached through the screen and throttled the engineer who did that… Anyway, update your damn software, maybe it’ll save you some grief. Maybe.

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