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Wireshark for Mac

Wireshark 4.6.1

  -  135 MB  -  Open Source

Sometimes latest versions of the software can cause issues when installed on older devices or devices running an older version of the operating system.

Software makers usually fix these issues but it can take them some time. What you can do in the meantime is to download and install an older version of Wireshark 4.6.1.


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What's new in this version:

Fixes:
- wnpa-sec-2025-05 BPv7 dissector crash
- wnpa-sec-2025-06 Kafka dissector crash

The following bugs have been fixed:
- L2CAP dissector doesn’t understand retransmission mod
- DNS HIP dissector labels PK algorithm as HIT length
- clang-cl error in "packet-zbee-direct.c
- Writing to an LZ4-compressed output file might fail
- endian.h conflics with libc for building plugins
- TShark crash caused by Lua plugin
- Wireshark stalls for a few seconds when selecting specific messages
- TLS Abbreviated Handshake Using New Session Ticket
- Custom websocket dissector does not run
- WINREG QueryValue triggers dissector bug in packet-dcerpc.c
- Lua: FileHandler causing crash when reading packets
- Apply As Filter for field with FT_NONE and BASE_NONE for a single byte does not use the hex value
- Layout preference Pane 3 problem with selecting Packet Diagram or None
- TCP dissector creates invalid packet diagram
- Too many nested VLAN tags when opening as File Format
- Omnipeek files not working in 4.6.0
- Support UTF-16 strings in the IsoBus dissector for the string operations
- SNMP getBulkRequest request-id does not get filtered for correctly
- Fuzz job issue: fuzz-2025-11-12-12064814316.pcap
- UDP Port 853 (DoQ) should be decoded as QUIC

Updated Protocol Support:
- 802.11 Radiotap, AC DR, ASN.1 BER, ASN.1 PER, BPv7, BT L2CAP, CFM, Darwin, DNS, DTLS, EAPOL-MKA, HTTP, HTTP3, ISObus VT, KRB5, LTP, NAS-EPS, NETDFS, NMEA 0183, P1, RPC_NETLOGON, RTSE, SGP.22, SGP.32, SMB, SNMP, TCP, TECMP, TFTP, VLAN, WINREG, X509AF, X509SAT, and ZBD