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From: Thomas Petazzoni via buildroot <buildroot@buildroot.org>
To: Titouan Christophe <titouan.christophe@mind.be>
Cc: buildroot@buildroot.org,
	 Giulio Benetti <giulio.benetti@benettiengineering.com>
Subject: Re: [Buildroot] [PATCH] package/wireshark: bump to the latest upstream v4.6.9
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2026 23:08:28 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <arrXRtDO_Fb9QAgJ@windsurf> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260928154804.1214400-1-titouan.christophe@mind.be>

On Mon, Sep 28, 2026 at 05:48:04PM +0200, Titouan Christophe via buildroot wrote:
> Wireshark 4.6 is the current Stable version, while 4.4 is the Old Stable,
> see https://www.wireshark.org/download.html
> 
> See the major changes from Wireshark 4.4 to 4.6 in these release notes:
> https://www.wireshark.org/docs/relnotes/wireshark-4.6.0.html. Of notable
> interest, libxml2 is now a required dependency.
> 
> This is not considered a security update because all important security fixes
> that landed in Wireshark 4.6 patch releases are also available in
> Wireshark 4.4.19 (currently in Buildroot).
> 
> Side discussion: Wireshark 4.2 is now EOL, see
> https://www.wireshark.org/docs/wsug_html/#ChIntroEndOfSupportPlanning
> As of today, Buildroot LTS 2025.02.x distributes Wireshark 4.2, and
> therefore we should consider bumping it to 4.4.19, or even apply this
> patch to bump to Wireshark 4.6.9 which will be supported for longer.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Titouan Christophe <titouan.christophe@mind.be>

Applied to master, thanks!

Best regards,

Thomas Petazzoni
-- 
Thomas Petazzoni, co-owner and CEO, Bootlin
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering and training
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2026-09-28 15:48 [Buildroot] [PATCH] package/wireshark: bump to the latest upstream v4.6.9 Titouan Christophe via buildroot
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