Fedora 18 Update: wireshark-1.8.6-4.fc18

[updates at fedoraproject.org]

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2013-4487
2013-03-27 19:42:53
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Name        : wireshark
Product     : Fedora 18
Version     : 1.8.6
Release     : 4.fc18
URL         : http://www.wireshark.org/
Summary     : Network traffic analyzer
Description :
Wireshark is a network traffic analyzer for Unix-ish operating systems.

This package lays base for libpcap, a packet capture and filtering
library, contains command-line utilities, contains plugins and
documentation for wireshark. A graphical user interface is packaged
separately to GTK+ package.

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Update Information:

fix crash, when setting up a new capture while we are still running a live capture
return to gtk2, wireshark 1.8.x is not gtk3 ready
upgrade to 1.8.6
see http://www.wireshark.org/docs/relnotes/wireshark-1.8.6.html
fix dns cleanup crash
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ChangeLog:

* Wed Mar 27 2013 Peter Hatina <phatina at redhat.com> 1.8.6-4
- fix capture crash (#894753)
* Tue Mar 19 2013 Peter Hatina <phatina at redhat.com> 1.8.6-3
- fix dns resolving crash (#908211)
* Mon Mar 18 2013 Peter Hatina <phatina at redhat.com> 1.8.6-2
- return to gtk2, stable branch 1.8 is not gtk3 ready
* Tue Mar 12 2013 Peter Hatina <phatina at redhat.com> - 1.8.6-1
- upgrade to 1.8.6
- see http://www.wireshark.org/docs/relnotes/wireshark-1.8.6.html
* Tue Feb  5 2013 Peter Hatina <phatina at redhat.com> - 1.8.5-2
- fix gtk3 layout issues
- NOTE: there may be some windows with broken layouts left
* Thu Jan 31 2013 Peter Hatina <phatina at redhat.com> - 1.8.5-1
- upgrade to 1.8.5
- see http://www.wireshark.org/docs/relnotes/wireshark-1.8.5.html
* Mon Dec  3 2012 Peter Hatina <phatina at redhat.com> - 1.8.4-1
- upgrade to 1.8.4
- see http://www.wireshark.org/docs/relnotes/wireshark-1.8.4.html
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #894753 - [abrt] wireshark-gnome-1.8.4-1.fc18: capture_input_new_packets: Process /usr/sbin/wireshark was killed by signal 6 (SIGABRT)
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=894753
  [ 2 ] Bug #908211 - tshark crashes
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=908211
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
su -c 'yum update wireshark' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

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