Wireshark 4.4 Released with Automatic Profile Switching, Many Improvements
Highlights of Wireshark 4.4 include automatic switching of profiles by associating a display filter with a configuration profile, support for Lua 5.3 and Lua 5.4, the ability to implement display filter functions as libwireshark plugins, and the ability to translate display filters to pcap filters.
This release also adds support for defining custom output fields for the tshark -e command using any valid field expression, along with support for defining custom columns using any valid field expression, such as display filter functions, packet slices, arithmetic calculations, logical tests, raw byte addressing, and protocol layer modifiers.
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Wireshark 4.4 Packet Analyzer Debuts with Major Enhancements
Wireshark, a leading free and open-source packet analyzer for network troubleshooting, analysis, and software and communications protocol development, just released its latest 4.4 version.
One of the significant upgrades is the series of improvements to its graphing dialogs. Users will notice substantial enhancements in I/O Graphs, Flow Graphs, VoIP Calls, and TCP Stream Graphs.
These dialogs boast increased responsiveness, reduced memory utilization, and more detailed and scalable visual representations.
Notably, the capability to handle smaller intervals—down to 1 microsecond—and support for more graph item buckets has been integrated, providing users with more precise and extensive data analysis options.