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diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 31f24506..096869b4 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,8 +1,50 @@ ============================================== +NetworkManager-0.9.4 +Overview of changes since NetworkManager-0.9.2 +============================================== + +This is a new stable release of NetworkManager. Notable changes include: + +* Better handling of WiFi devices via nl80211 when available (instead of WEXT) +* IP configuration is now non-blocking; waiting for IPv6 RA no longer blocks + the device from activating if IPv4 is ready and vice versa +* Addded support for firewall "zones" via FirewallD +* Added basic support for bonded interfaces +* WiFi connections are no longer locked to a specific MAC address if they are + "locally administered" addresses (ie, 02:::::) +* New state change reasons have been added for mobile broadband PIN errors +* Agent-owned secrets are now sent to agents for newly created connections +* Support for non-UTF8-encoded 802.1x passwords has been added +* libnm-glib now fetches some properties more aggressively (like active + connections, access points, etc) +* Added basic support for IP-over-Infiniband interfaces +* Added support for device plugins and converted WiMAX support to a plugin for + easier packaging and simpler dependencies +* Added support for VLAN interfaces +* Added support for 802.1x EAP-FAST authentication +* Added non-blocking mode and API to libnm-glib +* Linux Wireless Extensions (WEXT) support can be disabled at configure time + with --with-wext=no +* IPv6 Privacy Extensions are now enabled by default for new connections +* Support for checking Internet connectivity has been added +* The ifnet system config plugin rewrites config files less often +* A bug causing IPv6 address assignment to fail on newer kernels with libnl3 + has been fixed +* Fix a bug in the ifcfg-rh plugin with backticks in WPA passphrases +* Ensure connections that cannot be stored are ignored by the ifnet plugin +* Enable out-of-the-box IPv6 connectivity by allowing IPv4 to fail if IPv6 succeeds +* Allow proxying of DNSSEC data when using the dnsmasq local caching nameserver plugin +* Add support for multiple domain names sent from VPN plugins +* Removed support for WiFi Ad-Hoc WPA connections due to kernel bugs + + +============================================== NetworkManager-0.9.2 Overview of changes since NetworkManager-0.9.0 ============================================== +This is a new stable release of NetworkManager. Notable changes include: + * Support for libnl2 and libnl3 and various memory leak fixes * Bug fixes for the ifnet config plugin * Ensure IPv6 link-local DNS servers work correctly in the dnsmasq DNS plugin |