On Sun, 19 Oct 2014, Ed Vance wrote to Sean Dennis:

 EV> I will take a look at their page and see if I can find a list of
 EV> the changes in later versions.

i'm sure that there's a huge list of them... i never ran etheral and have
no problems with the older wireshark interface...

 EV> I was just thinking if there isn't hardly any difference at all,
 EV> why grab Wireshark when Ethereal runs just fine when I use it.

bug fixes and module updates, mainly... there were some instances where
traffic could gain access or be missed by wireshark due to buffering
problems... it is highly recommended to use the latest version if at all
possible... especially when working with network traffic... it would not be
a good thing to have some infestation gain a foothold due to a bug in an
analysis tool like wireshark ;)

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