Wireshark 4.4.8

Wireshark is the world's most popular network protocol analyzer. A network packet analyzer will try to capture network packets and tries to display that packet data as detailed as possible.

Razvan Serea News Reporter Neowin · Jul 17, 2025 08:20 EDT with 0 comments

Wireshark

Wireshark is a network packet analyzer. A network packet analyzer will try to capture network packets and tries to display that packet data as detailed as possible. You could think of a network packet analyzer as a measuring device used to examine what's going on inside a network cable, just like a voltmeter is used by an electrician to examine what's going on inside an electric cable (but at a higher level, of course). In the past, such tools were either very expensive, proprietary, or both. However, with the advent of Wireshark, all that has changed. Wireshark is perhaps one of the best open source packet analyzers available today.

Deep inspection of hundreds of protocols, with more being added all the time
Live capture and offline analysis
Standard three-pane packet browser
Multi-platform: Runs on Windows, Linux, OS X, Solaris, FreeBSD, NetBSD, and many others
Captured network data can be browsed via a GUI, or via the TTY-mode TShark utility
The most powerful display filters in the industry
Rich VoIP analysis
Read/write many different capture file formats
Capture files compressed with gzip can be decompressed on the fly
Live data can be read from Ethernet, IEEE 802.11, PPP/HDLC, ATM, Bluetooth, USB, Token Ring, Frame Relay, FDDI, and others (depending on your platfrom)
Decryption support for many protocols, including IPsec, ISAKMP, Kerberos, SNMPv3, SSL/TLS, WEP, and WPA/WPA2
Coloring rules can be applied to the packet list for quick, intuitive analysis
Output can be exported to XML, PostScript®, CSV, or plain text

Wireshark 4.4.8 changelog:

The following bugs have been fixed

Renegotiated DTLS session is not being decrypted. Issue 20362.
Wireshark is completely stuck in initialization because androiddump recv() is blocked. Issue 20526.
Fuzz job UTF-8 encoding issue: fuzz-2025-06-20-7318.pcap. Issue 20585.
Crash when showing packet in new window after reloading Lua plugins with a certain gui.column.format preference. Issue 20588.
Bug in UDS dissector with Service ReadDataByPeriodicIdentifier Response. Issue 20589.
Packet diagram doesn’t show non-standard field value representations. Issue 20590.
Packet diagram shows representation twice when field type is FT_NONE. Issue 20601.
application/x-www-form-urlencoded key parsed incorrectly following a name-value byte sequence with no '=' Issue 20615.
DNP3 time stamp was unable to work after epoch time(year 2038) Issue 20618.

Updated Protocol Support