Re: Wireshark 3.4.5 is now available

[Graham Bloice <graham.bloice () trihedral com>]

The Wireshark release policy can be found on the wiki page: ReleasePolicy ·
Wiki · Wireshark Foundation / wireshark · GitLab
<https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark/-/wikis/Development/ReleasePolicy>

TL;DR; Only bugfixes are backported from master to a stable branch.
Increasing dissector support for more protocol coverage is a grey area.

On Sun, 25 Apr 2021 at 08:46, Roland Knall <rknall () gmail com> wrote:

> Normally it is a cut-off date. Exceptions are only made for bigger
> bug-fixes and security fixes
>
> Am 25.04.2021 um 09:37 schrieb Constantine Gavrilov <CONSTG () il ibm com>:
>
> A quick question. I have been working on nvme dissector and I see that
> some changes from dev tree are in and some are left out.
>
> How  is release selection made? Is it a cut-off date or manual choice?
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> From:        Gerald Combs <gerald () wireshark org>
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> Date:        04/21/2021 09:49 PM
> Subject:        [EXTERNAL] [Wireshark-dev] Wireshark 3.4.5 is now
> available
> Sent by:        "Wireshark-dev" <wireshark-dev-bounces () wireshark org>
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> I'm proud to announce the release of Wireshark 3.4.5.
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>  What is Wireshark?
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