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diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS new file mode 100644 index 00000000..b27a9b2e --- /dev/null +++ b/NEWS @@ -0,0 +1,236 @@ +============================================== +NetworkManager-0.7.0 +Overview of changes since NetworkManager-0.6.6 +============================================== + +This is a new major stable release of NetworkManager. Notable changes include: + +* Multiple active devices +* Internet connection sharing +* Support for many mobile broadband devices +* Full static IP support +* More reliable connections +* Rich, flexible D-Bus API +* Boot-time connections (no logins required) + + +============================================== +NetworkManager-0.6.2 +Overview of changes since NetworkManager-0.6.2 +============================================== + +0.6.2 is a bug fix release. Note that NetworkManager no longer automatically +runs dhcdbd if it is not running. This means that it is now the system's +responsibility to start dhcdbd prior to NetworkManager, e.g. in the +distribution's NetworkManager initscript. + +* NetworkManager + * Many, many bug fixes (Everyone) + * Dynamic WEP Support (Robert Love) + +* nm-applet + * Many bug fixes (Everyone) + + +============================================== +NetworkManager-0.6.1 +Overview of changes since NetworkManager-0.6.0 +============================================== + +0.6.1 is a minor bug fix release. + +* NetworkManager + * Improved activation cancelation (Dan Williams) + * Workarounds for non-WPA drivers (Dan Williams) + * Fix WPA Enterprise crasher (Robert Love) + +* nm-applet + * Hide password entry fields by default (Robert Love) + * Add toggle to show/hide password field (Robert Love) + * Add 'Remove' option to right-click menu (Robert Love) + +============================================== +NetworkManager-0.6.0 +Overview of changes since NetworkManager-0.5.1 +============================================== + +This releases ushers in WPA support, as well as many other features, bug fixes, +and clean ups. + +We now require libnl, a netlink library (http://people.suug.ch/~tgr/libnl/) and +wpa_supplicant, a WPA supplicant (http://hostap.epitest.fi/wpa_supplicant/). + +Two new VPN modules are part of the distribution: openvpn and pptp. + +* NetworkManager + * WPA and WPA2 support (Dan Williams) + * WPA Enterprise support (Robert Love) + * Rearchitecting, refactoring (Dan Williams) + * wpa_supplicant support (Dan Williams, Kay Sievers) + * NIS support (Robert Love) + * DHCP hostname support (Timo Hoenig) + * ISDN support, improve dial up support (Robert Love) + * Man pages (Robert Love) + * Survive DBUS and HAL restarts (Timo Hoening) + * Generate PID files (Dan Willians) + * Bug fixes and clean ups (the whole gang) + +* nm-applet + * New tray icon look and behavior (Robert Love, Dan Williams) + * New wireless security layer (Dan Williams) + * New "Enable Networking" toggle (Robert Love) + * Display speed of current connection (Robert Love) + * Bug fixes and clean ups (the whole gang) + +============================================== +NetworkManager-0.5.1 +Overview of changes since NetworkManager-0.5.0 +============================================== + +* NetworkManager + * Don't drop the last scanned AP (Dan Williams) + * Broadcast state change when disconnected (Robert Love) + * The Slackware backend now builds (Nico) + * Don't install unsued config files (Dan Williams) + * Add a test for libnm_glib_unregister_callback (Christopher Aillon) + * Requires wireless-tools 28pre9 (Christopher Aillon) + +* nm-applet + * Use g_get_host_name () if we've got it (Christopher Aillon) + * Fix an unitialized variable (Robert Love) + * Fix sensitivity of VPN items (Robert Love) + + +============================================== +NetworkManager-0.5.0 +Overview of changes since NetworkManager-0.4.1 +============================================== + +* NetworkManager + * Initscripts are now generated + * Not waiting as long for scans to complete (Bill Moss). + * Fix several D-BUS object leaks (John Palmieri, Dan Williams, + Christopher Aillon) + * VPN now advertises state changes + * Make --without-named work (j@bootlab.org) + * Make --with-dhcdbd work correctly (j@bootlab.org) + * Fix timeout scan values (Bill Moss) + * Send notifications of device strength changing so clients do + not have to poll. + * Don't return a UDI device if it doesn't exist (Tomislav Vujec) + * Strip whitespace from the VPN banner (Bill Moss) + * VPN Manager rewritten to better support signals (Dan Williams) + * Don't allow clients to determine what states we should be + scanning in, add logic to scan when we need to. + * Blacklist some common ESSIDs such that multiple access points + with these ESSIDs aren't treated as the same network. + * Support for D-BUS enabled named (Dan Williams) + * Only '#' is a valid comment in resolv.conf (Robert Love) + * Don't try to set auth mode on the AP from the allowed list if + it's NULL (Bill Moss) + * Add internal scanning code so we don't have to use iwlib's + code any longer (Dan Williams) + * libnm now uses guints instead of gints for its callback IDs. + * libnm_glib_unregister_callback () now works. + * Fix our scanning interval (Robert Love) + * Updates to backends for Gentoo, SuSE, RedHat, Debian, and + Slackware (Robert Love, Peter Jones, Bill Nottingham, + j@bootlab.org) + - Dialup support in RedHat backend + - ISDN support in SUSE backend + - Other fixes + +* nm-applet + * The applet is no longer threaded (Dan Williams) + * Dialogs no longer block the UI when shown + * Passphrase dialog now treats Esc keypresses properly + * Create Network and Connect to Network dialogs now have + different window titles + * New icons for connecting to a network and to a VPN + (Diana Fong) + * Context menu items have been cleaned up + * Pressing enter in the passphrase entry should activate the + default action. + * Fix icon animation smoothness + * Display more data in the Connection Information dialog + (Robert Love) + + +============================================ +NetworkManager-0.3.1 +Overview of changes since NetworkManager-0.3 +============================================ + +NetworkManager: + + * Debian backend fixes, Thom May + * Build fixes, Thom May + * Better handling of encrypted devices, Dan Williams + * Better handling of user-selected access points, Dan Williams + +NetworkManagerNotification: + + * Simplified D-Bus code, Dan Williams + * Better error handling and feedback, Dan Williams + * Greatly simplify the locking to UI smoother, Dan Williams + +============================================ +NetworkManager-0.3.0 +Overview of changes since NetworkManager-0.2 +============================================ + +NetworkManager: + + * Lots of fixes, Dan Williams + * Support static IP addresses, Dan Williams + - Get broadcast address from config files, Robert Paskowitz + * Support for non-ESSID-broadcasting base stations, Dan Williams + * Only accept and manager 802.3 and 802.11 devices, Dan Williams + * Don't blow away an active wired connection on startup, Dan Williams + * Improve strength calculation, Dan Williams + * Constantly scanning behavior, Dan Williams + * add .pc file, Colin Walters + * move to syslog, Dan Willemsen + * Improve MD5 hashing of 128-bit passphrases, Colin Walters + * DBUS API docs, Dan Williams + * Cleanups, Colin Walters + * Trusted networks, Dan Williams + * New Backends: + - Debian, Thom May and Mark Roach + - Slackware, Narayan Newton + * Fixes and functionality improvements in Gentoo backend, Robert Paskowitz + +Python: + + * Example python code, Bryan Clark. + * python test framework, Bryan Clark + +NetworkManagerInfo: + + * Trusted networks, Dan Williams + * Escape ESSIDs in gconf, Dan Williams + * Lifecycle improvements, John Palmieri + +Translations: + + * New/Improved translations: da de sv en_CA nb no pa bs pt_BR wa gu es + - Thanks to: + Kjartan Maraas + Christian Rose + Adam Weinberger + Amanpreet Singh Alam + Akagic Amila + Raphael Higino + Pablo Saratxaga + Ankit Patel + Francisco Javier F. Serrador + Martin Willemoes Hansen + Hendrik Brandt + +NetworkManagerNotification: + + * Complete rewrite, Jonathan Blandford and John Palmieri + - Now a Notification area + - Simpler menu + - Hook up the "other network" dialog to do something + * New icons, Diana Fong |