The current wpa version in debian testing includes the 5GHz band selection improvements patch backports: https://packages.qa.debian.org/w/wpa/news/20150906T154058Z.html
Would it be possible to also include these patches? As far as I've checked, they were not included in the ubuntu 2.4 version. (And you would be my best friend forever ;D) Or should I open a separate feature request asking for those patches? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to wpa in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1475633 Title: New upstream version 2.4 / please merge with Debian 8's wpa 2.3 Status in wpa package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Bug description: There are new wpa_supplicant versions 2.2, 2.3 and 2.4 which bring a horde of improvements to eg WiFi Direct (P2P) and others: http://w1.fi/cgit/hostap/plain/wpa_supplicant/ChangeLog The 2.3 is already part of the stable Debian 8.0 release so it would be useful to sync with at least that for 15.10 (and 16.04 LTS). --- Debian stable changelog --- wpa (2.3-1+deb8u1) jessie-security; urgency=high . * import "P2P: Validate SSID element length before copying it (CVE-2015-1863)" from upstream (Closes: #783148). wpa (2.3-1) unstable; urgency=medium . * New upstream release: - fixed by the new upstream version: + wpa: arbitrary command execution via action scripts (Closes: #765352). wpasupplicant: fixed wpa_cli action script execution to use more robust mechanism (CVE-2014-3686). hostapd: fixed hostapd_cli action script execution to use more robust mechanism (CVE-2014-3686). + wpasupplicant: MAC addressing changing broken after updating to 2.2-1 (Closes: #763775). + drop ap_config_c_fix-typo-for-capabilities, applied upstream. - backport "Include ieee802_11_common.c in wpa_supplicant build unconditionally" from HEAD, to fix a newly introduced FTBS on, at least, kfreebsd. * bump standards version to 3.9.6, no changes necessary. wpa (2.2-1) unstable; urgency=medium . * New upstream release: - import suggested changes from Gerald Turner <[email protected]> (see #718651 for details). + disable ACS for hostapd on kfreebsd-any (FTBS). - fixed by the new upstream version: + wpa_supplicant: OpenSSL: tls_connection_handshake - Failed to read (Closes: #561081). + wpasupplicant: new upstream release 2.2 (Closes: #718651). + wpasupplicant: -s option not documented in man page (Closes: #608135). - refresh patches: + drop 13_human_readable_signal.patch, applied upstream. + drop hostapd_fix-WDS-VLAN-bridge-handling.patch, applied upstream. + drop fix-spelling-s-algorith-algorithm.patch, applied upstream. - adapt build configs for hostapd/ wpa_supplicant 2.2: + sync with updated upstream defconfigs. + keep Hotspot 2.0 support disabled for the time being. + hostapd: keep sqlite3 support disabled for the time being. - update debian/copyright manually, the wpa v2 branch was relicensed from (BSD-3-clause || GPL-2) to BSD-3-clause only (for the most part). This doesn't change the licensing state as the BSD-3-clause license is compatible with GPL-2. * drop pre-wheezy /lib/init/rw/sendsigs.omit.d/ migration support, invert the versioned initscripts dependency to a versioned breaks relation. * migrate from /var/run/ to /run/. * adapt get-orig-source for wpa 2.2. * drop version qualifiers for libnl3 build dependencies, as they're fullfilled by wheezy. * drop version qualifiers for the lsb-base build dependency, as they're fullfilled by squeeze. * shorten short description for hostapd. * sort debian/control entries. * make lintian happy (invalid-short-name-in-dep5-copyright bsd) and call it BSD-3-clause. * enable DEBUG_SYSLOG and set DEBUG_SYSLOG_FACILITY=LOG_DAEMON, as requested by Cyril Brulebois <[email protected]> to improve logging options for d-i and netcfg (Closes: #761922). * fix various typos around "existence", thanks to A. Costa <[email protected]>, (Closes: #683636). * ap_config.c: fix typo for "capabilities". * remove no longer required lintian override (spelling-error-in-binary for the). To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/wpa/+bug/1475633/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
