Wireshark: Releases, patches & end-of-life
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Lifecycle guide for Wireshark from Wireshark Foundation

All releases, patches, maintenance and support periods at a glance

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📅 Last update on 2026-03-06

What is Wireshark?

Automate product release and end-of-life managementWireshark is a network packet analyzer. A network packet analyzer presents captured packet data in as much detail as possible.
 

The entire lifecycle of Wireshark

The following figure shows you the visualised product life cycle of Wireshark. You can see all releases with the latest patch version, the long-term support characteristics (orange flag in the green circle, the periods for version provision, maintenance and support.
Wireshark (Wireshark Foundation) release, version and end-of-life information
XWireshark (Wireshark Foundation) release, version and end-of-life information
Figure: Release, patch and end-of-life cycle of product Wireshark (Wireshark Foundation)
 

Facts and figures about Wireshark

Product
Wireshark
Vendor
Wireshark Foundation
Latest version
4.6.4
Number of releases
34
Number of versions
686
Number of unstable versions
333
Number of versions affected by CVE
304
Licence
GPL-2.0 license
Licence details
https://github.com/wireshark/wireshark?tab=GPL-2.0-1-ov-file
 
 

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