ANN: NetworkManager 1.0.0 released!

From: Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>

To: networkmanager-list gnome org

Subject: ANN: NetworkManager 1.0.0 released!

Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2014 11:42:09 -0600

Hi, I'm very happy to announce that after more than 10 years of development and 10 years of making the world a better place, NetworkManager 1.0 has been released! This release brings a more modern GObject-based client library, many bug fixes and updated translations, more flexible routing, hugely improved nmcli with password support, improved nmtui, a light-weight internal DHCP client, "configure and quit" mode, Bluetooth DUN support with Bluez5, VPN connection persistence, improved cooperation with external tools, expanded manpages and documentation, WWAN IPv6 support, and much much more. Full release notes are below... A huge thanks to everyone who contributed to this release (and there are many of you!), and to everyone who's been a part of the NetworkManager project over the past 10 years. Let's make the next 10 even better! Grab NetworkManager, the applet/editor, and the VPN plugins here: https://download.gnome.org/sources/NetworkManager/1.0/NetworkManager-1.0.0.tar.xz https://download.gnome.org/sources/network-manager-applet/1.0/network-manager-applet-1.0.0.tar.xz https://download.gnome.org/sources/NetworkManager-openconnect/1.0/NetworkManager-openconnect-1.0.0.tar.xz https://download.gnome.org/sources/NetworkManager-openswan/1.0/NetworkManager-openswan-1.0.0.tar.xz https://download.gnome.org/sources/NetworkManager-openvpn/1.0/NetworkManager-openvpn-1.0.0.tar.xz https://download.gnome.org/sources/NetworkManager-pptp/1.0/NetworkManager-pptp-1.0.0.tar.xz https://download.gnome.org/sources/NetworkManager-vpnc/1.0/NetworkManager-vpnc-1.0.0.tar.xz Cheers, Dan --------- This is a new stable release of NetworkManager. Notable changes include the following features and fixes. * New client library: libnm A new GObject-based client library, "libnm", has been written, merging the existing libnm-util and libnm-glib and simplifying the API while using modern GLib APIs (such as using GDBus rather than dbus-glib, and providing "gio-style" asynchronous operations). IP addresses, routes, hardware addresses, and other properties are now represented as strings rather than binary types, allowing much simplified code for most languages including C, Python, and Javascript. For more information see https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/NetworkManager/libnm libnm-util and libnm-glib are still available for backward compatibility, and the D-Bus interface remains fully compatible with 0.9.10. * New internal DHCP client A faster, lighter-weight internal DHCP client based on code from systemd-networkd has been added, and may be selected with the "dhcp=internal" option in NetworkManager.conf or in a configuration snippet. (Note that it does not yet support as many DHCP options as dhclient, and does not support DHCPv6.) * "Configure interfaces and then quit" mode A new 'configure-and-quit=yes' option has been added for environments with less dynamic network configuration. With this option set in NetworkManager.conf, available interfaces will be configured and NetworkManager will quit, spawning small "nm-iface-helper" processes for each interface that uses DHCP and/or IPv6, to preserve DHCP leases and IPv6 address lifetimes. No helper will be spawned for purely static IP configurations. * Improved cooperation with non-NetworkManager network configuration NetworkManager now does a better job of not interfering with devices which it did not create itself. (In particular, it no longer sets IFF_UP on externally-created devices.) * Improvements to nmcli nmcli now supports password requests and PolicyKit authorizations, allowing fully command-line based activation of connections that require passwords. (Note that activation of VPNs is not yet supported, because of the additional complexity of VPN password properties.) 'nmcli dev connect <interface>' will now automatically create a connection if none exists. This command is now a more useful shortcut to activate a network interface by device name. 'nmcli dev delete <interface>' lets you delete unused software devices (bridge, bond, team, etc). * IPv6 configuration improvements IPv6 router advertisement MTUs are now respected WWAN connections now support IPv6 if the modem and provider support IPv6. When running on 3.17 and later kernels, NetworkManager will handle IPv6 link-local address assignment to ensure that IPv6 connectivity is not enabled on interfaces that are "up" but not active. This means that until an IPv6-enabled connection is started, the interface will have no IPv6 link-local address. (If external tools add IPv6 addresses to the interface, NetworkManager will immediately create the IPv6 link-local address to ensure compliance with RFCs. IPv6 interface configuration that exists before NetworkManager starts is left unchanged.) Manually-configured static IPv6 configuration is kept even if automatic configuration fails. Previously, a connection configured for automatic IPv6 addressing (SLAAC) with additional static IPv6 addresses would fail if SLAAC failed, and the additional static IP addresses would be removed. * VPN connection persistence VPN connections can now persist across link changes and suspend/resume if their VPN plugin is updated to support this feature. (As of 1.0.0 none have been.) When links change or suspend/resume events occur, NetworkManager waits for the VPN plugin to re-establish connectivity, and only if the VPN plugin cannot do so is the VPN connection torn down. During the time that the VPN is reconnecting, NetworkManager will advertise a limited connectivity state rather than indicating full network connectivity. * iBFT/iSCSI support for all distros A new 'ibft' settings plugin has been added to support firmware-based iBFT/iSCSI configurations. (This functionality existed only for ifcfg-rh-based distributions in 0.9.10). To enable this plugin, it must be added to NetworkManager.conf or enabled with a configuration snippet. * Bluetooth DUN support Bluetooth DUN support now works again with Bluez 5.x, although the GNOME GUI utilities that normally configure DUN are still only supported with Bluez 4.x due to gnome-bluetooth limitations. * Improved handling of routes Devices and VPN connections now have individual default routes instead of one global default route through the highest priority device. You can adjust the priority of the default routes, and thus the default device, through the new "ipv4.route-metric" and "ipv6.route-metric" connection properties. * Documentation improvements The configuration syntax of the keyfile and ifcfg-rh plugins is now documented in the "nm-settings-keyfile" and "nm-settings-ifcfg-rh" man pages. The manpages, documentation, and GObject introspection bindings annotations have received many cleanups and enhancements. Automatically created connections are now deleted when their device goes away, preventing a build-up of stale software or default-DHCP connections * NetworkManager no longer causes the nl80211 kernel module to be loaded on systems with no Wi-Fi devices and 3.17 and later kernels * NetworkManager now talks to the "polkit" daemon directly via D-Bus and no longer links to polkit libraries, reducing disk footprint. Polkit support is used for fine-grained permission control and can also be disabled at build time.