From 88b2a95064675c5f86648053cf124265f5289095 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?Zbigniew=20J=C4=99drzejewski-Szmek?= Date: Wed, 7 Jul 2021 09:26:12 +0200 Subject: NEWS: add old entry about Type=ether Apparently it's an important feature for some folks: https://utcc.utoronto.ca/\~cks/space/blog/linux/NetworkdMACMatchesWidely. I think we considered this more of a bugfix, but it's somewhere on the border. Let's add this it's easier to discover. --- NEWS | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) (limited to 'NEWS') diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 9b1dc751bc..62563d8183 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -2484,6 +2484,11 @@ CHANGES WITH 245: for the [RoutingPolicyRule] section of .network files to configure source routing based on UID ranges and prefix length, respectively. + * The Type= match property of .link files has been generalized to + always match the device type shown by 'networkctl status', even for + devices where udev does not set DEVTYPE=. This allows e.g. Type=ether + to be used. + * sd-bus gained a new API call sd_bus_message_sensitive() that marks a D-Bus message object as "sensitive". Those objects are erased from memory when they are freed. This concept is intended to be used for -- cgit v1.2.1