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author | Thomas Haller <thaller@redhat.com> | 2017-05-10 10:16:27 +0200 |
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committer | Thomas Haller <thaller@redhat.com> | 2017-05-10 13:19:16 +0200 |
commit | 8f6d6d2f08497028a321dca4d29f323d2de1655f (patch) | |
tree | 973a54fb4da55cb805222e5e3174a46434d90f1c | |
parent | e3451b5bd6395242bbee008551a03c4aa935d834 (diff) |
release: update NEWS
-rw-r--r-- | NEWS | 25 |
1 files changed, 20 insertions, 5 deletions
@@ -1,12 +1,9 @@ ============================================ -NetworkManager-1.7.90 (1.8-rc3) +NetworkManager-1.8 Overview of changes since NetworkManager-1.6 ============================================ -This is a snapshot of NetworkManager 1.8 development series. -USE AT YOUR OWN RISK. NOT RECOMMENDED FOR PRODUCTION USE! - -Notable changes included in this snapshot so far include: +This is a new stable release of NetworkManager. Notable changes include: * Default routes set by devices that failed connectivity checks are now penalized with a higher metric @@ -15,12 +12,24 @@ Notable changes included in this snapshot so far include: enslaved in a stable order, making the automatic MAC address for Bonding devices more predictable. * Hostname management is now more flexibly configured +* Support for additional route options (pref-src, src, tos, window, cwnd, + initcwnd, initrwnd, mtu, lock-window, lock-cwnd, lock-initcwnd, lock-initrwnd, + and lock-mtu). * Fixed detection of EAP-FAST support in wpa_supplicant * Support for handling PINs for PKCS#11 tokens as secrets * GSM and CDMA connections now have a MTU property * An option to disable selected TLS versions during EAP phase 1 authentication * The 802.1x authentication timeout is now configurable to allow a faster fallback to other connections +* Persist managed state of device until reboot. This improves seamless take over + of a previously managed device after restart of NetworkManager. +* Better handle devices that are externally managed by somebody else by + consistently generating an in-memory connection to reflect the external + state. +* Expose SRIOV capability of a device on D-Bus and support configuring the + number of virtual functions via NetworkManager.conf. +* Support matching networking devices via new "driver:" device spec in + NetworkManager.conf. * Introduced support for creating and managing dummy links * The teaming devices now support setting a hardcoded MAC address * Settings of bonding devices can now be modified on-the-fly, without the @@ -34,6 +43,10 @@ Notable changes included in this snapshot so far include: a smaller dependency footprint * With DNS mode "rc-manager=symlink", don't write /etc/resolv.conf as a symlink if it already exists as a regular file. +* Support attaching user-data in form of key-value pairs to connection profiles. +* Fix accpeting fully qualified name for ipv4.dhcp-hostname setting. +* Make NetworkManager more forgiving to failure to change the MAC address during + scanning. * Many bug fixes and improvements ============================================ @@ -503,6 +516,8 @@ This is a new stable release of NetworkManager. Notable changes include: * Add support for ModemManager 0.7/0.8 * Allow more human-readable formatting of IP address in keyfile connections * Drop support for dhclient v3 +* Move PPP support to a separate plugin, so that it can be packaged separately + and reduce the dependency on the core package. * Add support for DHCPv6 server-side Dynamic DNS * Add support for bridge master devices and bridge ports * Fix canceling secrets requests in GUI agents |