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diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 2de014eb..72e53f8e 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,4 +1,48 @@ =============================================== +NetworkManager-1.0.2 +Overview of changes since NetworkManager-1.0 +=============================================== + +This is a new stable release of NetworkManager. Notable changes include: + +* Wi-Fi devices now indicate support for 2GHz and 5GHz frequencies +* "nmcli device" output now indicates physical port ID +* New config items added to the 'ifcfg-rh' plugin: + - IPV4_ROUTE_METRIC and IPV6_ROUTE_METRIC + - DEVTIMEOUT + - IPADDR and PREFIX are now supported for specifying address ranges of + shared IPv4 connections +* Dispatcher scripts now get a CONNECTION_FILENAME variable with the path + to the configuration file for the connection +* An example dispatcher script that is able to apply complex routing rules + (such as setting up policy-based routing) for 'ifcfg-rh' connections was + added to examples/dispatcher/. +* 'mode' key of Bond device options property now accepts numeric values +* Connection attempts for devices without carrier on startup now wait for + carrier to appear within a short timeout instead of failing + immediately. This makes system startup more robust. +* Bridge connectivity is now properly restored on resume from suspend +* The D-Bus name is acquired earlier during the daemon startup. This makes + it possible for the systemd service manager to optimize the service + startup so that services that require networking are activated sooner + contributing to faster system start up time. +* A lot of memory leak problems were fixed, resulting in reduced memory usage. + Many of them were discovered as a result of improvements in use of + Valgrind in the testing infrastructure. +* Management of 'teamd' daemon instances for Team devices is now more robust. +* The 'dnsmasq' daemon respawns when it terminates and it is configured for + management of DNS resolver configuration +* Hostnames that are not fully qualified are no longer sent to a DHCPv6 + server for a dynamic DNS update +* Connection UUIDs are now checked for uniqueness when connection + configurations are read +* Receipt of a NDP Router Advertisement can no longer lower the IPv6 hop + limit (CVE-2015-2924) +* Many other bugs were fixed +* Updates to Telugu, Turkish, Polish, German, Gujarati, Italian and Russian + translations + +=============================================== NetworkManager-1.0 Overview of changes since NetworkManager-0.9.10 =============================================== @@ -44,6 +88,7 @@ This is a new stable release of NetworkManager. Notable changes include: * The manpages, documentation, and API annotations have received many cleanups * Externally created virtual interfaces are no longer managed by NetworkManager until they are set "up" or activated via nmcli +* Team device support is now an optional plugin ============================================== @@ -89,7 +134,7 @@ This is a new stable release of NetworkManager. Notable changes include: * The dispatcher timeout has increased to 10 minutes, and new "pre-up" and "pre-down" events have been added which block activation until complete * NetworkManager no longer prevents Wake-on-LAN functionality from working -* PPPoE now requires userland "rp-pppoe" to work around kernel bugs with +* PPPoE now requires userland "rp-pppoe" to work around kernel bugs that prevent detecting server-side termination of the PPP link * An ARP announcement is now sent after IPv4 addresses are configured * Added a DNS plugin for dnssec-trigger for better DNSSEC operation |