-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2012-8256 2012-05-22 15:48:25 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Name : NetworkManager Product : Fedora 17 Version : 0.9.4.0 Release : 9.git20120521.fc17 URL : http://www.gnome.org/projects/NetworkManager/ Summary : Network connection manager and user applications Description : NetworkManager is a system network service that manages your network devices and connections, attempting to keep active network connectivity when available. It manages ethernet, WiFi, mobile broadband (WWAN), and PPPoE devices, and provides VPN integration with a variety of different VPN services. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Update Information: This update contains the following fixes: * fixes a problem with terminating NM via SIGTERM * corrects number of issues in libnm-glib * fix nscd condrestart for systemd installations * ignores duplicates in NMIP[46]Config * handles 'biosdevname' interface names better in ifnet plugin * allows some same-state transitions in DHCP And it adds some enhancements: * possibility to connect to new Wi-Fi networks using nmcli * add native support for ADSL modems using PPPoE or PPPoATM * GUI allows appending manual DNS servers,domains in auto mode -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ChangeLog: * Mon May 21 2012 Jiří Klimeš <[email protected]> - 0.9.4.0-9.git20120521 - Update to git snapshot - nmcli: show progress for longer operations in --pretty mode - core: silently ignore duplicates in NMIP[46]Config (rh #820752) - backends: fix nscd condrestart for systemd installations (rh #805531) - dhcp: allow some same-state transitions (rh #810744) - ifnet: handle 'biosdevname' interface names better (bgo #674765) - core: add native support for ADSL modems using PPPoE or PPPoATM - core: unblock signals for child processes we spawn out of NM (rh #739836) - editor: allow appending manual DNS servers,domains in auto mode (bgo #611236) * Wed May 2 2012 Jiří Klimeš <[email protected]> - 0.9.4.0-8.git20120502 - Update to git snapshot - core: improve handling of POSIX signals using sigwait() (rh #739836) - core: ensure carrier is always on for devices that don't support detection (rh #816719) - libnm-glib: protect against potentially NULL changed property values (rh #808784) - cli: add ability to connect to new Wi-Fi networks from nmcli - cli: add ability to list user permissions for NM-authenticated operations -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References: [ 1 ] Bug #739836 - NetworkManager makes reboot take several minutes https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=739836 [ 2 ] Bug #820752 - Log flooded with IN6_ARE_ADDR_EQUAL assertion failures https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=820752 [ 3 ] Bug #805531 - NM tries to start non existent/unwanted scripts https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=805531 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update NetworkManager' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/. All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at https://fedoraproject.org/keys -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ package-announce mailing list [email protected] https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/package-announce
