A new version of Wireshark has been released recently by the Wireshark Team, it’s Wireshark 4.0.1, which contains several enhancements, new updates, and bug fixes.
Wireshark is one of the most widely used open-source free software packet analyzers that are currently available on the market, and it is available in a variety of options for different platforms.
There are many people who use Wireshark packet analyzers for the analysis of packets, not just network administrators only. As security analysts also use Wireshark packet analyzers for packet analysis purposes.
Several organizations make use of this tool to manage and monitor all the activities of their business operations on a regular basis.
Wireshark recently released its Wireshark 4.0.0 and the current Wireshark 4.0.1 is a quick update from the previous one.
Platform Support
For all the major platforms or operating systems, the Wireshark 4.0.1 packet analyzer is available and here below we have mentioned them:-
- Windows
- Linux
- macOS
- BSD
What’s new in Wireshark 4.0.1?
There are several primary purposes for using Wireshark as a network protocol analyzer, including:-
- Analysis
- Troubleshooting
- Education
- Development
Wireshark 4.0 and later do not have any official 32-bit Windows packages that you can install on your computer. Qt 5.12.2 is now the standard version that ships with Windows installers. The previous version of these packages was Qt 6.2.3, which was shipped by default.
This release removes the experimental syntax for the display filter used in Wireshark 4.0.0 that allowed literals to be displayed just using angle brackets <…>. You can use the colon prefix instead while dealing with byte arrays.
