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diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 834dc94f..63284c3f 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,13 +1,53 @@ -============================================== -NetworkManager-1.6.2 -Overview of changes since NetworkManager-1.6.0 -============================================== +============================================ +NetworkManager-1.8 +Overview of changes since NetworkManager-1.6 +============================================ This is a new stable release of NetworkManager. Notable changes include: -* Fixed build warnings with GCC 7 -* Multiple bug fixes in NetworkManager, nmcli and nm-online including - several crashes. +* Default routes set by devices that failed connectivity checks are now + penalized with a higher metric +* nmcli is now able to produce output more friendly for machine parsing +* The slaves available at the time a master connection is activated are + 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 + need to reactivate a connection +* The failures to activate a connection now communicate better error + responses to nmcli +* Dropped dependency on libgudev +* Reverse Path filtering is now disabled in multihoming configurations where + it would interfere with legitimate network traffic +* libcurl is used instead of libsoup for connectivity checking, resulting in + 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 ============================================ NetworkManager-1.6 @@ -476,6 +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 |