From 65e522ee163b7fd4534edc99e5ac3e8535ca76fc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Beniamino Galvani Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2016 11:12:25 +0200 Subject: release: update NEWS --- NEWS | 51 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 51 insertions(+) (limited to 'NEWS') diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 2ef521bd09..52df99085e 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,3 +1,54 @@ +============================================ +NetworkManager-1.4 +Overview of changes since NetworkManager-1.2 +============================================ + +This is a new stable release of NetworkManager. Notable changes include: + +* The MAC address assigned to a device can now be set according to + different policies: preserve, permanent, random, stable +* NetworkManager now waits for IPv6 DAD to terminate before completing + the activation +* Added support for setting IPv6 tokenized interface identifiers + through the 'ipv6.token' connection property +* Added a 'Reload' D-Bus method to reload configuration and reapply + DNS configuration +* NetworkManager now follows symlinks when accessing resolv.conf and + rc-manager is set to 'file' +* Added support for oFono as modem manager +* The 'may-fail' property of ipv4 and ipv6 settings is now respected + more accurately +* The timeout for requests of secrets to agents has been increased + from 25 to 120 seconds +* Name servers passed to dnsmasq now specify an egress interface to + avoid problems with multiple active connections +* Reverse DNS entries for IPv6 are now added to dnsmasq, and IPv4 + reverse entries now honor the network prefix +* A new 'dns-priority' property of ipv4 and ipv6 settings can be used + to tweak the order of servers in resolv.conf when multiple + connections are active +* configure script accepts --enable-{address,undefined}-sanitizer + options to build NetworkManager with GCC sanitizers +* The default resolv.conf manager can now be specified at build time + using the --with-config-dns-rc-manager-default configure option +* NetworkManager is now compiled with --gc-sections to reduce + executable size +* Added a new 'VPN_PLUGIN' logging domain +* It is now possible to change the configuration currently applied on + a device with 'nmcli device modify' +* nmcli invoked without parameters shows an overview of the current + network configuration +* The 'nmcli connection add' syntax has been extended and is now + possible to pass properties (e.g. 'ipv4.dns') along with aliases +* nmtui now returns to initial menu after a sub-form exits +* Improved bash autocompletion for nmcli +* Now devices are disconnected before the system suspends, executing + dispatcher scripts. This allows external applications to be notified + of the change in connectivity +* Dispatcher scripts are now called also when connectivity status + changes +* Many other fixes and improvements + ============================================ NetworkManager-1.2 Overview of changes since NetworkManager-1.0 -- cgit v1.2.1