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What's new in NetworkManager 1.22.4

Jan 13, 2020
  • Fix behavior of internal DHCP client when the server sends a NAK.
  • Support 31-bit prefixes on IPv4 point-to-point links according to RFC 3021.
  • Fix memory leak parsing RequestScan D-Bus method arguments.

New in NetworkManager 1.22.2 (Dec 27, 2019)

  • Fix multiple issues in the internal DHCP client, including wrong parsing of search domains and classless routes options, and failures in obtaining and renewing the lease with certain server configurations.
  • Export NM_CAPABILITY_OVS capability on D-Bus and in libnm to indicate that the OVS plugin is loaded.
  • Fix libnm annotations for nm_sriov_vf_get_vlan_ids() to allow the usage of the function through GObject introspection.

New in NetworkManager 1.20.8 (Nov 25, 2019)

  • Fix handling of system CA certificates in the ifcfg parser.
  • Handle ReachableTime and RetransTimer from IPv6 Router Advertisements.
  • Fixed setting of MTU according to its parent device for some device types.
  • Various fixes for the initramfs configuration genertor.

New in NetworkManager 1.20.6 (Nov 7, 2019)

  • Fix updating agent-owned VPN secrets.
  • Adjust IWD support to new D-Bus path of IWD 1.0.
  • Introduce an 'optional' property in the 802-1x setting to allow the activation to proceed in case of missing authenticator.
  • Fix ARP announcements for IP addresses configured on interfaces.
  • Use proper interface when adding s390 specific details in initrd generator.
  • Don't disable PMF on Wi-Fi connections using SAE.
  • Properly handle uint16 property types in libnm.

New in NetworkManager 1.21.3 (Nov 3, 2019)

  • core: declare "startup complete" when device reaches "connected" state, even if IP addressing methods did not yet fully complete. This changes behavior for unblocking "NetworkManager-wait-online.service", and "network-online.target" earlier. If this causes issues in your setup, you may need to configure "ipv4.may-fail=no" or "ipv6.may-fail=no", which delays reaching "connected" state for the address family accordingly.

New in NetworkManager 1.20.4 (Sep 30, 2019)

  • Fix crash related to Wi-Fi-P2P.
  • Support rd.znet option in initrd generator to support s390.
  • Fix not creating default-wired-connection when a suitable profile exists which is not tied to the device by interface-name.
  • tui: support WPA3-Personal (SAE).
  • Fixes for OLPC Mesh Wi-Fi.
  • Various bug fixes. Notably, fix unit test and build issues.

New in NetworkManager 1.20.2 (Sep 5, 2019)

  • Don't ask wpa_supplicant to attempt to enable FT if the interface doesn't support it.
  • Various bug fixes and improvements.
  • French, Japanese, Korean, Polish and Simplified Chinese translation updates.

New in NetworkManager 1.18.2 (Jul 29, 2019)

  • Add compatibility with out-of-tree wireshark module on 5.2 kernels
  • Fix parsing of BOOTIF= variables in initrd.
  • Accept numeric IPv4 prefix in place of a mask when parsing a command line in initrd.
  • Don't check connectivity of unconfigured devices.
  • Fix PKCS#12 handling in the ifcfg-rh plugin.
  • Avoid waiting for udev to see software devices created by NetworkManager.
  • Don't attempt to stop management daemon for Team devices created externally to NetworkManager.
  • Use FQDN for persistent hostname on Slackware.
  • Restore IPv6 configuration of a device when its link goes back up.
  • Fix management status of software devices on system suspend.
  • Make nmcli not print certificate blobs if --show-secrets is not used.
  • Fix MTU reapply.

New in NetworkManager 1.19.4 (Jun 14, 2019)

  • Rework parsing team JSON config in libnm and stricter validate settings. With this NetworkManager rejects settings that it considers invalid while still allowing setting arbitrary JSON config directly.

New in NetworkManager 1.19.3 (Jun 5, 2019)

  • Drop deprecated setting "main.monitor-connection-files" in NetworkManager.conf. This setting has no more effect and was disabled by default for a long time. Instead, after changes load files explicitly with `nmcli connection load` and `nmcli connection reload`.

New in NetworkManager 1.19.1 (Apr 23, 2019)

  • The libnm-glib library, deprecated in favor of libnm since NetworkManager 1.0, and disabled by default since NetworkManager 1.12 has now been removed.
  • The DHCP client now defaults to "internal". The default can be overriden at build time by using the --with-config-dhcp-default option of the configure script or at run time by setting the main.dhcp option in the configuration file.

New in NetworkManager 1.16.0 (Mar 20, 2019)

  • Check connectivity per address family.
  • Support "main.systemd-resolved" to let NetworkManager configure DNS settings in systemd-resolved without making it the main DNS plugin of NetworkManager.
  • Write "/var/run/NetworkManager/no-stub-resolv.conf" with original nameservers. That is useful with caching DNS plugins like "systemd-resolved" or "dnsmasq" where "/var/run/NetworkManager/resolv.conf" refers to localhost.
  • Change default "ipv4.dhcp-client-id" setting for the internal DHCP plugin from "duid" to "mac". This is a change in behavior on upgrade when using the internal DHCP plugin (unless the default is overwritten in "NetworkManager.conf" or specified per connection profile).
  • Improve handling of DHCP router options with internal DHCP plugin. For one, accept multiple routers and add a default-route to each. On D-Bus expose the original DNS and NTP servers without cleaning up local nameservers.
  • Allow binding a connections lifetime to the DBus client that activated it.
  • Add support for establishing Wi-Fi Direct connections (Wi-Fi P2P).
  • Add support for WireGuard VPN tunnels to NetworkManager. D-Bus API and libnm support all options. nmcli supports creating and managing WireGuard profiles, with the exception of configuring and showing peers.
  • Add initrd generator to be used by dracut and use it as new way of handling iBFT.
  • Deprecated "plugins.monitor-connection-files" setting in NetworkManager.conf. This option will have no effect in future versions.
  • Add AP and Ad-hoc support for iwd Wi-Fi backend.
  • Warn about invalid settings in "NetworkManager.conf".
  • Support announcing "ANDROID_METERED" DHCP option for shared mode.
  • Support SAE authentication as used for 802.11s Meshing and WPA3-Personal.
  • NetworkManager is no longer installed as D-Bus activatable service.
  • Mark docker bridges as unmanaged via udev rule.
  • Add new PolicyKit permission "org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.wifi.scan" for controlling Wi-Fi scanning.

New in NetworkManager 1.14.6 (Feb 25, 2019)

  • Fix memory corruption in internal DHCPv6 client (CVE-2018-15688).
  • No longer limit number of search entires in resolv.conf to 6.
  • Support restricting NetworkManager.conf device configuration based on used DHCP plugin.
  • Add "${MAC}" specifier for connection.stable-id. This uses the current MAC address for seeding the stable generation of MAC address, DHCP client-id or IPv6 stable-privacy interface identifier.
  • Support special value "duid" for "ipv4.dhcp-client-id". This generates an RFC4361-compliant client-id like the internal DHCP client used to do by default. Previously, there was no explicit name for such a client-id and it was not usable with dhclient DHCP plugin. This also generates the same client-id as systemd-networkd does by default.
  • Support and use a new kind of secret-key in "/var/lib/NetworkManager/secret_key". The secret-key represents the identity of the machine that is used for various purposes like generating IPv6 stable privacy addesses. It is now combined with "/etc/machine-id" so that changing only the machine-id results in new identifiers. That matters for example when cloning a virtual machine. Previously, the user hard to prune NetworkManager's secret-key to get a new identity, now regenerating machine-id suffices. Secret-keys generated by earlier versions of NetworkManager are not affected and keep their previous behavior.
  • Fix the DHCP client-ids based on the MAC address of IPoIB/infiniband devices.
  • Fix restoring IP configuration after interface went down.
  • No longer let NetworkManager touch rp_filter setting. The rp_filter sysctl must now be set outside of NetworkManager according to the admin's preference. Note that a strict rp_filter may break valid use-cases and interacts badly with connectivity checking.
  • Various bug fixes and improvements.

New in NetworkManager 1.15.2 (Jan 23, 2019)

  • Fix a bug that could cause NetworkManager to crash after checking connectivity status.
  • Correctly apply a default (-1) metric from DHCP.
  • Multiple fixes for IWD Wi-Fi backend.
  • Multiple fixes for builds with Meson build system.
  • Fix a crash with OLPC XO-1 mesh Wi-Fi.
  • Fix handling "serial.parity" and "serial.send-delay" properties in nmcli.
  • Improve auto-selecting device when activating a connection profile and don't auto-select unmanaged devices when activating multi-connect profile.
  • Avoid expiring the lifetime of IPv6 addresses from router advertisements.

New in NetworkManager 1.14.4 (Oct 24, 2018)

  • Fix a crash in nmcli when a device is removed while being disconnected.
  • Fix a crash in ifupdown (Debian) configuration plugin.
  • Fix a daemon crash when a generated connection doesn't validate.
  • Fix a memory leak in dhclient DHCP plugin.
  • Fix line editing in nmcli password prompts.
  • Fix a RPATH in bluetooth and wwan plugin when built with Meson (otherwise they wouldn't find libnm-wwan.so).

New in NetworkManager 1.13.3 (Aug 15, 2018)

  • Support activating profile multiple times via connection.multi-connect setting.
  • Add match setting to restrict a profile to devices based on a list of interface names with globbing supported.
  • Add support for ethtool offload features.

New in NetworkManager 1.12.2 (Jul 25, 2018)

  • Fix missing symbols in libnm ABI for settings.
  • Fix a regression that disallowed activations of VPN connections with a device specified.
  • Robustness fixes to connectivity checking.

New in NetworkManager 1.10.10 (Jun 16, 2018)

  • Fix crash during reapply of connection settings
  • Minor bugfixes

New in NetworkManager 1.11.4 (May 31, 2018)

  • Improved support for configuration checkpoint, including support in libnm.
  • Added capability to set IP Tunnel configuration flags.
  • The systemd-resolved DNS plugins now supports MDNS.
  • systemd-resolved and dnsmasq DNS plugins now honor the DNS priority setting.
  • Wi-Fi devices now support FILS for speedier roaming support.
  • Add support for "onlink" routes
  • More robust connectivity checking.
  • Dropped the obsolete "ifnet" settings plugin
  • Try harder to generate reasonable human-readable names for devices even if the hwdb contains garbage.
  • Add an "overview" option to hide default values in nmcli, resulting in more concise output.
  • Reworked the inner workings of D-Bus interface for better resource efficiency.
  • Add support for configuring nmcli coloring via terminal-colors.d(5).
  • Added experimental support for Meson build system
  • Added initial IWD Wi-Fi daemon support

New in NetworkManager 1.10.8 (May 14, 2018)

  • Fix connectivity timeout handling (bgo #794464)
  • Retry activating devices when the parent becomes managed (rh #1553595)
  • Correctly set the rp_filter value (rh #1565529)
  • A fix to ensure teamd is respawned after daemon restart (rh #1551958)
  • Better handle DHCP expiry (bgo #783391)
  • Fix configuration of IPv6 over master interfaces (rh #1575944)
  • Other various bug fixes including possible crashes
  • Updated translations

New in NetworkManager 1.11.3 (Apr 25, 2018)

  • A non-hexadecimal DHCPv4 client-id is now properly passed to dhclient with the first byte (type) set to zero, as stated in the documentation. This represents a change in behavior since previous versions where the first character of the string was used as type. The internal client is not affected by the change.

New in NetworkManager 1.10.6 (Mar 12, 2018)

  • ovs: fix compilation issue of OVS plugin and various fixes
  • team: add support for team runner "random"
  • core: cleanup activation of device (rh #1537160)
  • dhcp: retry indefinitely to renew the lease (rh #1503587)
  • core: fix blocking autoconnect for no-secrets (rh #794014)
  • libnm: mark async results as cancelled (bgo #794088)
  • Various bug fixes including possible crashes.
  • Updated translations.

New in NetworkManager 1.10.4 (Feb 14, 2018)

  • Load jansson at runtime. This solves a clash with json-glib that caused a gnome-control-center crash, but also gets rid of a hard dependency.
  • Correct nmcli exit values after receiving a signal.
  • Fix libnm secret agent asynchronous initialization.
  • Add a default route for a modem even if it didn't sent a gateway.
  • Improve communication of DAD failures.
  • Remember device default metrics across daemon restarts.
  • Various bug fixes including possible crashes.
  • Updated translations.

New in NetworkManager 1.10.2 (Dec 16, 2017)

  • Added support for 'onlink' IPv4 routes attribute.
  • Wait longer for the carrier to come up after a MTU change.
  • Implemented abstraction for team connections that exposes team configuration items as distinct properties.
  • Added basic support for tc queueing disciplines and filters.
  • Introduced an Update2() D-Bus method to update connection settings with more flexibility.
  • Many bug fixes and improvements.

New in NetworkManager 1.10.0 (Nov 12, 2017)

  • * NetworkManager includes now basic OpenVSwitch support, good enough to be capable of setting up simple OpenVSwitch configurations.
  • * Added support for activating PPP connections on non-Ethernet interfaces.
  • * It is now possible to authenticate to a Wi-Fi network using WPS (Wi-Fi Protected Setup).
  • * Implemented support for Wi-Fi PMF (Protected Management Frames, 802.11w), which can be configured via the wifi-sec.pmf property.
  • * Now the maximum rate of wireless access points supporting 802.11 is properly calculated and exposed on D-Bus.
  • * Background scanning is now disabled for non-WPA-Enterprise Wi-Fi networks.
  • * Added support for the Bluetooth NAP (Network Access Point) profile.
  • * Added support for disabling connectivity checking via the D-Bus interface.
  • * The internal DHCP client now understands the domain-search option.
  • * Bridge connections support the group-forward-mask property.
  • * NetworkManager can now configure multiple IPv6 default routes received through RA and each gets configured with the announced preference.
  • * It is possible to specify the routing table for each static route.
  • * Support specifying a explicit routing table for any non-static-route, including routes from DHCP, device-routes, IPv6 autoconf.
  • * Device are left configured when a user sets them as unmanaged by NetworkManager.
  • * New connection.auth-retry property to configure how often authentication is prompted before failing the configuration.
  • * The platform code that handles synchronization with kernel status via netlink has been reworked and is more efficient.
  • * Allowed the update of connections that have an associated ifcfg-rh routing rules file.
  • * Non-UTF8 properties are now escaped when they are exported on D-Bus.
  • * NetworkManager-wait-online.service now starts NetworkManager.service if needed.
  • * The MAC address for bond connections can be changed in nmtui.
  • * Fixed dependency problems when setting the MTU of VLAN and master devices.
  • * The systemd-resolved DNS plugin properly handles the DNS priority setting.
  • * Fixed setting a DHCP timeout greater than 60 seconds (dhclient).
  • * Fixed some memory leaks.
  • * Many other bug fixes and improvements.

New in NetworkManager 2.0 Beta (Nov 9, 2017)

  • * NetworkManager includes now basic OpenVSwitch support, good enough to be capable of setting up simple OpenVSwitch configurations.
  • * Added support for activating PPP connections on non-Ethernet interfaces.
  • * It is now possible to authenticate to a Wi-Fi network using WPS (Wi-Fi Protected Setup).
  • * Implemented support for Wi-Fi PMF (Protected Management Frames, 802.11w), which can be configured via the wifi-sec.pmf property.
  • * Now the maximum rate of wireless access points supporting 802.11 is properly calculated and exposed on D-Bus.
  • * Background scanning is now disabled for non-WPA-Enterprise Wi-Fi networks.
  • * Added support for the Bluetooth NAP (Network Access Point) profile.
  • * Added support for disabling connectivity checking via the D-Bus interface.
  • * The internal DHCP client now understands the domain-search option
  • * Bridge connections support the group-forward-mask property.
  • * NetworkManager can now configure multiple IPv6 default routes received through RA and each gets configured with the announced preference.
  • * It is possible to specify the routing table for each static route.
  • * Support specifying a explicit routing table for any non-static-route, including routes from DHCP, device-routes, IPv6 autoconf.
  • * Device are left configured when a user sets them as unmanaged by NetworkManager.
  • * New connection.auth-retry property to configure how often authentication is prompted before failing the configuration.
  • * The platform code that handles synchronization with kernel status via netlink has been reworked and is more efficient.
  • * Allowed the update of connections that have an associated ifcfg-rh routing rules file.
  • * Improve bash completion for nmcli.
  • * Non-UTF8 properties are now escaped when they are exported on D-Bus.
  • * NetworkManager-wait-online.service now starts NetworkManager.service if needed.
  • * The MAC address for bond connections can be changed in nmtui.
  • * Fixed dependency problems when setting the MTU of VLAN and master devices.
  • * The systemd-resolved DNS plugin properly handles the DNS priority setting.
  • * Fixed setting a DHCP timeout greater than 60 seconds (dhclient).
  • * Fixed some memory leaks.
  • * Many other bug fixes and improvements.

New in NetworkManager 1.8.2 (Jul 7, 2017)

  • Fix bug blocking startup wrongly waiting for carrier.
  • Fix handling of non UTF-8 strings in libnm and fix non NUL terminated string.
  • Handle DNS priority for systemd-resolved DNS plugin.
  • Fix assuming master devices as they wait for slaves to activate.
  • Fix reading managed state from device state file.
  • Fix crash activating bluetooth or WWAN connection.
  • No longer add a direct route to the DHCP server.
  • Several bug fixes and improvements

New in NetworkManager 1.8.0 (May 10, 2017)

  • Default routes set by devices that failed connectivity checks are now penalized with a higher metric
  • nmcli is now able to produce output more friendly for machine parsing
  • The slaves available at the time a master connection is activated are enslaved in a stable order, making the automatic MAC address for Bonding devices more predictable.
  • Hostname management is now more flexibly configured
  • Support for additional route options (pref-src, src, tos, window, cwnd, initcwnd, initrwnd, mtu, lock-window, lock-cwnd, lock-initcwnd, lock-initrwnd, and lock-mtu).
  • Fixed detection of EAP-FAST support in wpa_supplicant
  • Support for handling PINs for PKCS#11 tokens as secrets
  • GSM and CDMA connections now have a MTU property
  • An option to disable selected TLS versions during EAP phase 1 authentication
  • The 802.1x authentication timeout is now configurable to allow a faster fallback to other connections
  • Persist managed state of device until reboot. This improves seamless take over of a previously managed device after restart of NetworkManager.
  • Better handle devices that are externally managed by somebody else by consistently generating an in-memory connection to reflect the external state.
  • Expose SRIOV capability of a device on D-Bus and support configuring the number of virtual functions via NetworkManager.conf.
  • Support matching networking devices via new "driver:" device spec in NetworkManager.conf.
  • Introduced support for creating and managing dummy links
  • The teaming devices now support setting a hardcoded MAC address
  • Settings of bonding devices can now be modified on-the-fly, without the need to reactivate a connection
  • The failures to activate a connection now communicate better error responses to nmcli
  • Dropped dependency on libgudev
  • Reverse Path filtering is now disabled in multihoming configurations where it would interfere with legitimate network traffic
  • libcurl is used instead of libsoup for connectivity checking, resulting in a smaller dependency footprint
  • With DNS mode "rc-manager=symlink", don't write /etc/resolv.conf as a symlink if it already exists as a regular file.
  • Support attaching user-data in form of key-value pairs to connection profiles.
  • Fix accpeting fully qualified name for ipv4.dhcp-hostname setting.
  • Make NetworkManager more forgiving to failure to change the MAC address during scanning.
  • Many bug fixes and improvements

New in NetworkManager 1.7.2 (Mar 27, 2017)

  • Fixed detection of EAP-FAST support in wpa_supplicant
  • Support for handling PINs for PKCS#11 tokens as secrets
  • GSM and CDMA connections now have a MTU property
  • An option to disable selected TLS versions during EAP phase 1 authentication
  • The 802.1x authentication timeout is now configurable to allow a faster fallback to other connections
  • Introduced support for creating and managing dummy links
  • The teaming devices now support setting a hardcoded MAC address
  • Settings of bonding devices can now be modified on-the-fly, without the need to reactivate a connection
  • The failures to activate a connection now communicate better error responses to nmcli
  • Dropped dependency on libgudev
  • Reverse Path filtering is now disabled in multihoming configurations where it would interfere with legitimate network traffic
  • libcurl is used instead of libsoup for connectivity checking, resulting in a smaller dependency footprint
  • With DNS mode "rc-manager=symlink", don't write /etc/resolv.conf as a symlink if it already exists as a regular file.
  • Many bug fixes and improvements

New in NetworkManager 1.4.4 (Dec 19, 2016)

  • Order in which IP addresses are configured is now preserved so that primary address is selected correctly
  • Don't deconfigure devices we can take over on shutdown. Makes it possible to restart without connection disruption for most device types
  • Avoid reading the permanent MAC address before the device is initialized by UDEV. This avoids a race where NetworkManager might detect the MAC address of the wrong interface.
  • Fixed race condition when renaming interfaces, for example as done by UDEV for persistent interface naming. This could cause detecting a Wi-Fi interface as ethernet.
  • Fixed a race condition in libnm that could cause a client hang if a last value from a property of object array type disappeared
  • Fixed a possible nmcli hang on D-Bus object fetch failure
  • Other fixes and improvements

New in NetworkManager 1.2.6 (Dec 4, 2016)

  • Fixed emission of NM-style PropertiesChanged signals and deprecated them for PropertiesChanged on "org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties" interface.
  • Fixed a bug that caused devices to stay unmanaged after resume from sleep.
  • Fixed build without polkit support.
  • Fixed a regression that prevented the activation of multiple PPPoE connections at the same time.
  • Other bug fixes.

New in NetworkManager 1.5.2 (Nov 6, 2016)

  • Introduced Vala bindings for libnm.
  • NetworkManager would now keep most connections up on shutdown (except Wi-Fi connections, VPN connections and other kinds that can't be assumed on startup)
  • The checkpoint/restore connection can now also remove new connections and disconnect devices that were activated since the checkpoint was taken.
  • The configuration is now read from /run/NetworkManager/conf.d as well. This is useful for handing over configuration discovered on system startup to NetworkManager.
  • New connection.autoconnect_retries property that allows fine-tuning the autoconnect behavior.
  • Support for configuration and discovery of Web Proxy settings with PacRunner service.
  • Support for systemd-resolved local DNS forwarder backend.
  • Fix emission of NM-style PropertiesChanged signals and deprecate them for PropertiesChanged on "org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties" interface.
  • Change the meaning of unset "cloned-mac-address" settings from "permanent" to "preserve". This changes the default value and affects existing connections during upgrade that did not explicitly configure cloned-mac-address. This has the effect that externally configured MAC addresses are preserved by default instead of setting the permanent address (bgo#770611).

New in NetworkManager 1.4.2 (Oct 2, 2016)

  • Fixed emission of NM-style PropertiesChanged signals and deprecated them for PropertiesChanged on "org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties" interface
  • Fixed race condition in the communication between NetworkManager and the DHCP helper which caused loss of events
  • Added workaround for failures in changing MAC address with some wireless drivers
  • Improved bash autocompletion
  • Restored check on JSON syntax when built with Jansson support
  • Fixed a regression in the serialization of empty "cloned-mac-address" property in libnm
  • Other fixes and improvements

New in NetworkManager 1.4 (Aug 24, 2016)

  • 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
  • Added ability to create a configuration checkpoints and rolling back changes after a timeout.
  • NetworkManager now follows symlinks when accessing resolv.conf and rc-manager is set to 'file'
  • Added support for oFono as modem manager
  • The devices now exposes counters of transferred data
  • 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' and 'nmcli device reapply'
  • 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

New in NetworkManager 1.2.4 (Aug 3, 2016)

  • The timeout for requests of secrets to agents has been increased from 25 to 120 seconds.
  • NetworkManager now follows symlinks when accessing resolv.conf and 'rc-manager=file'.
  • Added new values 'symlink' and 'unmanaged' to rc-manager configuration option.
  • It is now possible to configure the default rc-manager option at compile time.
  • 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.
  • Added a 'Reload' D-Bus method to reload configuration and reapply DNS configuration.
  • Now devices are disconnected before the system suspends, executing dispatcher scripts. This allows external applications to be notified of the change in connectivity.
  • Devices without L3 configuration are not more put in DOWN state on shutdown.
  • MTU settings are now applied also to devices without IPv4 configuration.
  • Improved VPN support in nmcli.
  • Many bug fixes.

New in NetworkManager 1.2.2 (May 11, 2016)

  • The dnsmasq DNS management mode now uses D-Bus API of dnsmasq to make signal nameserver changes.
  • Hostname is now correctly read on Slackware.
  • IPv6 addresses for default wired connections now stay stable.
  • Reading portname on s390 systems on 4.4 kernels and newer has been corrected.
  • nmcli no longer warns about version mismatches.
  • Updated translations.
  • Improved developer documentations.
  • Multiple minor bugfixes.

New in NetworkManager 1.2.0 (Apr 20, 2016)

  • Added an option to enable use of random MAC addresses for Wi-Fi access point scanning (defaults to disabled). Controlled with 'wifi.mac-address-randomization' property (MAC_ADDRESS_RANDOMIZATION key in ifcfg files).
  • Wi-Fi scanning now utilizes wpa_supplicant's AP list.
  • Added support for Wi-Fi powersave, configured with POWERSAVE key in ifcfg files.
  • Added support for creation of more types of software devices: tun & tap, macvlan, vxlan and ip tunnels (ipip, gre, sit, ip6ip6 and ipip6).
  • The software devices (bond, bridge, vlan, team, ...) can now be stacked arbitrarily. The nmcli interface for creating master-slave relationships has been significantly improved by the use of 'master' argument to all link types.
  • RFC7217 stable privacy addressing is now used by default to protect from address-based host tracking. The IPv6 addressing mode is configured with IPV6_ADDR_GEN_MODE key in ifcfg files.
  • Improved route management code to avoid clashes between conflicting routes in multiple connections.
  • Refactored platform code resulting in more robust interface to platform, less overhead and reduced memory footprint.
  • Improved interoperability with other network management tools. The externally created software devices are not managed until they're activated.
  • The Device instances now exist for all software connections and the platform devices are now only created when the device is activated. This makes it possible for connections with device of same name not to clash unless they're activated concurrently. The links are now not unnecessarily present unless the connection is active, avoiding pollution of the link namespace.
  • NetworkManager now correctly manages connectivity in namespace-based containers such as LXC and Docker.
  • Support for configuring ethernet Wake-On-Lan has been added.
  • Added LLDP listener functionality and related CLI client commands. Enabled via LLDP option in ifcfg files.
  • CLI secret agent has been extended with support for VPN secrets.
  • The command line client now utilizes colors for its output.
  • The command line client now sorts the devices and properties for better clarity.
  • Numerous improvements to Bash command completion for nmcli.
  • NetworkManager relies on less external libraries. The use of dbus-glib has been replaced with gio's native D-Bus support and libnl-route is no longer used.
  • Dependency on avahi-autoipd has been dropped. Native IPv4 link-local addressing configuration based on systemd network library is now used instead.
  • Hostname is now managed via systemd-hostnamed on systemd-based systems.
  • Management of resolv.conf can be changed at runtime, private resolv.conf is always written in /run.
  • NetworkManager can now write DNS options to resolv.conf.
  • Added an option to enable the old-fashioned /etc/resolv.conf handling
  • (using a symlink)
  • Updated version of systemd network library used for internal DHCP and IPv4 link-local support.
  • Support for event logging via audit subsystem has been added.
  • Support for native logging via systemd-journald has been added taking advantage of its structured logging.
  • Live reconfiguration of IP configuration after changing the settings without reactivation of the device with "nmcli device reapply" command and via D-Bus API.
  • The API for VPN plugins now supports multiple simultaneous connections. Most popular VPN plugins have been updated to support this functionality.
  • The libnm library now provides API to access VPN service definitions.
  • New DHCP_FQDN key in ifcfg files to configure the full FQDN to be sent to the DHCP servers.
  • The timeout for DHCP requests can now be modified using the 'ipv4.dhcp-timeout' property.
  • Added multicast_snooping option to BRIDGING_OPTS ifcfg key.
  • Added support for detecting duplicate IPv4 addresses, with a timeout configurable through the ipv4.dad-timeout connection property.
  • Fixed a race condition that could potentially lead to unauthorized access to connection secrets (CVE-2016-0764).
  • dnsmasq configuration for shared connections can now be extended by placing custom files in /etc/NetworkManager/dnsmasq-shared.d/.
  • Generic devices are no longer assumed unless explicitly requested by user.
  • The reorder-header VLAN flag setting is now honored; to keep backwards compatibility in behavior, an existing REORDER_HDR=0 ifcfg-rh key is ignored; the flag must be disabled with VLAN_FLAGS=NO_REORDER_HDR.
  • NetworkManager now checks the connection data from client for validity and gracefully handles unknown properties in client. This improves interoperability between the server and clients of different versions.
  • The activation of a VLAN device with a virtual parent that is inactive now results in a parent being activated first.
  • The server name used with 802.1x authentication can now be constrained to a particular domain suffix (CVE-2006-7246).
  • Fair amount of bugs was fixed and robustness was generally improved.

New in NetworkManager 1.2 Beta (Jan 20, 2016)

  • Added an option to enable use of random MAC addresses for Wi-Fi access point scanning (defaults to disabled). Controlled with 'wifi.mac-address-randomization' property (MAC_ADDRESS_RANDOMIZATION key in ifcfg files).
  • Wi-Fi scanning now utilizes wpa_supplicant's AP list.
  • Added support for Wi-Fi powersave, configured with POWERSAVE key in ifcfg files.
  • Added support for creation of more types of software devices: tun & tap, maxvlan, vxlan and ip tunnels (ipip, gre, sit, isatap, vti, ip6ip6, ipip6, ip6gre and vti6).
  • The software devices (bond, bridge, vlan, team, ...) can now be stacked arbitrarily. The nmcli interface for creating master-slave relationships has been significantly improved by the use of 'master' argument to all link types.
  • RFC7217 stable privacy addressing is now used by default to protect from address-based host tracking. The IPv6 addressing mode is configured with IPV6_ADDR_GEN_MODE key in ifcfg files.
  • Improved route management code to avoid clases between conflicting routes in multiple connections.
  • Refactored platform code resulting in more robust interface to platform, less overhead and reduced memory footprint.
  • Improved interoperability with other network management tools. The externally created software devices are not managed until they're activated.
  • The Device instances now exist for all software connections and the platform devices are now only created when the device is activated. This makes it possible for connections with device of same name not to clash unless they're activated concurrently. The links are now not unnecessarily present unless the connection is active, avoiding pollution of the link name space.
  • NetworkManager now correctly manages connectivity in namespace-based containers such as LXC and Docker.
  • Support for configuring ethernet Wake-On-Lan has been added.
  • Added LLDP listener functionality and related CLI client commands. Enabled via LLDP option in ifcfg files.
  • CLI secret agent has been extended with support for VPN secrets.
  • The command line client now utilizes colors for its output.
  • The command line client now sorts the devices and properties for better clarity.
  • Numerous impovement to Bash command completion for nmcli.
  • NetworkManager relies on less external libraries. The use of dbus-glib has been replaced with gio's native D-Bus support and libnl-route is no longer used.
  • Dependency on avahi-autoipd has been dropped. Native IPv4 link-local addressing configuration based on systemd network library is now used instead.
  • Hostname is now managed via systemd-hostnamed on systemd-based systems.
  • Management of resolv.conf management can be changed at runtime, private resolv.conf is always written in /run.
  • DNS options in resolv.conf are now honored.
  • Updated version of systemd network library used for internal DHCP and IPv4 link-local support.
  • Support for event logging via audit subsystem has been added.
  • Support for native logging via systemd-journald has been added taking advantage of its structured logging.
  • Live reconfiguration in IP configuration after changing the settings without reactivation of the device with "nmcli device reapply" command and via D-Bus API.
  • The API for VPN plugins now supports multiple simultaneous connections. Most popular VPN plugins have been updated to support this functionality.
  • The libnm library now provides API to access VPN service definitions.
  • Fair amount of bugs was fixed and robustness was generally improved.
  • New DHCP_FQDN key in ifcfg files to configure the full FQDN to be sent to the DHCP servers.
  • Added multicast_snooping option to BRIDGING_OPTS ifcfg key.

New in NetworkManager 1.0.10 (Dec 23, 2015)

  • Added support for handling VPN secrets to nmtui and nmcli agent.
  • Fixed a regression that caused NetworkManager to ignore external deletion of a device with master.
  • Fixed glitches with older versions of glib (prior to 2.36.0).
  • Fixed build with most recent versions of libsoup.
  • Fixed busy retry loop on non-transient errors from wpa_supplicant.
  • Improvements to testing infrastructure.
  • Updates to German, Galician, Occitan, Turkish, Ukrainian, Brazilian, Swedish, Polish and Italian translations.

New in NetworkManager 1.0.8 (Nov 24, 2015)

  • MTU indicated by a VPN gateway is now properly applied.
  • Fixed MSS setting when MTU changes.
  • The default route is properly restored on device disconnect.
  • Build with older toolchains has been fixed.
  • The team devices can now properly be enslaved to bridges.
  • Failed DHCP attempts for assumed connections are now retried after a timeout.
  • Default wired connection is now created after udev registers the device.
  • Support for Bluetooth DUN devices with Bluez 5 has been fixed.
  • The ipv6.ignore-auto-dns property is now properly honored making it possible to override automatically obtained name servers.
  • Invalid permanent MAC adddresses as reported by some devices are now ignored.
  • Device links reported by more recent versions of Linux kernel that reside in different network namespaces are no longer confused with links in the namespace NetworkManager runs in.
  • MAC address changes of VLANs enslaved to a bond are now properly propagated to the master device.
  • Fixed error handling for teaming devices with invalid configuration.
  • Wi-Fi AP list is now updated correctly after AP mode has been used.
  • Management of a device is not attempted until the device has been registered with udev.
  • The error handling for VPN secret agents is now significantly more robust.
  • Detection of s390 CTC devices now works properly.
  • A GATEWAY property in /etc/sysconfig/network now no longer affects non-static connections.
  • Added support for IPv6-only VPN connections.
  • The systemd service now uses HUP signal to reload configuration.
  • Change VLAN default flags to set REORDER_HDR for new connections.
  • nmtui is now able to ignore automatically configured routes.
  • Numerous bash shell autocompletion fixes for nmcli.
  • Allow setting IPv6 and PPP settings for GDM and CDMA connections via nmcli.
  • Added support for adding ADSL connections in nmcli.
  • Numerous crash fixes.
  • Updates to Swedish, Italian and Polish translations.

New in NetworkManager 1.0.6 (Aug 28, 2015)

  • Improved capture portal detection.
  • Default route through WiFi connection is now preferred to Mobile Broadband if both are available.
  • Expose a flag to determine whether a particular connection is metered via API and client tools.
  • Add support for locking connections to a channel within a particular band.
  • Add support for configuring Wake-on-LAN capabilities.
  • Allow overriding the MTU for team device.
  • Usual pile of bug fixes and robustness improvements.

New in NetworkManager 1.0.4 (Jul 14, 2015)

  • The MTU setting from an IPv6 neighbor discovery Router Advertisements is now ignored if applying it would result in invalid configuration.
  • Some configuration options can now be changed without restarting the daemon. Notably, this applies to 'dns', 'connectivity' and 'ignore-carrier' settings.
  • The connection activation was made more robust. If an active connection is reactivated, the device it's active on takes precedence. If an attempt is made to activate a connection on a different device than it is active on, the activation proceeds removing the connection from the active device.
  • The device specifiers in configuration files now support negation via 'except:' match.
  • Devices that only have IPv6 link-local address are no longer assumed to be connected.
  • nmcli now provides hints and tab-completion for enumeration properties.
  • If the IPv6 interface tokens are set they are honored when creating an interface identifier for IPv6 addressing.
  • NetworkManager now maintains correct routing configuration when multiple interfaces are connected to the same network.
  • The management of devices can now be controlled with udev rules. The veth devices as well as the virtual Ethernet devices of various virtualization tools (VMWare, VirtualBox, Parallels Workstation) are now ignored by default.
  • The IPv6 privacy extensions are now enabled by default and handling of the ip6-privacy sysctl has been improved.
  • Activating a Bond, Bridge or Team device can now optionally activate the slave connections as well. The behavior is controlled with 'connection.autoconnect-slaves' property.
  • The platform support code has been refactored, resulting in better scalability in large configurations.
  • Changes to network interfaces configuration done outside NetworkManager are now picked up and exposed to the user via NetworkManager API and tools.
  • A connection can now optionally leave externally configured default route in place instead of overriding it. The behavior is controlled with 'ipv4.never-default' and 'ipv6.never-default' properties.
  • Multiple crasher and memory leak bugs in the daemon were fixed.
  • Multiple bugs that could cause the client tools to hang or crash were fixed.
  • nmcli allows multiple devices for 'nmcli device disconnect/delete'.
  • Firewall zone is added to firewalld for device-based VPN connections too.

New in NetworkManager 1.0.2 (May 5, 2015)

  • This is a new stable release of NetworkManager. Notable changes include:
  • Wi-Fi devices now indicate support for 2GHz and 5GHz frequencies
  • nmcli device" output now indicates physical port ID
  • new config items added to the 'ifcfg-rh' plugin:
  • - IPV4_ROUTE_METRIC and IPV6_ROUTE_METRIC
  • - DEVTIMEOUT
  • - IPADDR and PREFIX are now supported for specifying address ranges of shared IPv4 connections
  • Dispatcher scripts now get a CONNECTION_FILENAME variable with the path to the configuration file for the connection
  • An example dispatcher script that is able to apply complex routing rules (such as setting up policy-based routing) for 'ifcfg-rh' connections was added to examples/dispatcher/.
  • 'mode' key of Bond device options property now accepts numeric values
  • Connection attempts for devices without carrier on startup now wait for carrier to appear within a short timeout instead of failing immediately. This makes system startup more robust.
  • Bridge connectivity is now properly restored on resume from suspend
  • The D-Bus name is acquired earlier during the daemon startup. This makes it possible for the systemd service manager to optimize the service startup so that services that require networking are activated sooner contributing to faster system start up time.
  • A lot of memory leak problems were fixed, resulting in reduced memory usage. Many of them were discovered as a result of improvements in use of Valgrind in the testing infrastructure.
  • Management of 'teamd' daemon instances for Team devices is now more robust.
  • The 'dnsmasq' daemon respawns when it terminates and it is configured for management of DNS resolver configuration
  • Hostnames that are not fully qualified are no longer sent to a DHCPv6 server for a dynamic DNS update
  • Connection UUIDs are now checked for uniqueness when connection configurations are read
  • Receipt of a NDP Router Advertisement can no longer lower the IPv6 hop limit (CVE-2015-2924)
  • Many other bugs were fixed
  • Updates to Telugu, Turkish, Polish, German, Gujarati, Italian and Russian translations

New in NetworkManager 1.0.0 (Dec 19, 2014)

  • A new 'libnm' GObject-based client library to replace libnm-util/libnm-glib
  • IP address, IP route, hardware address, and other properties are now represented as strings
  • Based on GIO's GDBus bindings instead of dbus-glib
  • Uses modern GObject APIs including GAsyncResult and GVariant
  • For more information see https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/NetworkManager/libnm
  • Devices and VPN connections now have individual default routes. Priorities are handled through configurable route metrics.
  • nmcli now supports password requests and PolicyKit authorizations
  • A faster, lighter-weight (though less capable) internal DHCP client has been added and may be selected with the "dhcp=internal" option. It supports fewer DHCP options and does not yet support DHCPv6.
  • A new 'configure-and-quit=yes' option has been added for environments with less dynamic network configuration
  • When running on 3.17 and later kernels, NetworkManager handles IPv6LL address assignment to ensure that IPv6 connectivity is not enabled until intentionally configured by the user
  • NetworkManager no longer causes the nl80211 kernel module to be loaded on systems with no Wi-Fi devices
  • Bluetooth DUN support now works with Bluez 5.x
  • VPN connections can now persist across link changes and suspend/resume if their VPN plugin supports this feature
  • A new 'ibft' settings plugin has been added to support firmware-based iBFT/iSCSI configurations. This functionality has been moved to 'ibft' from the 'ifcfg-rh' plugin.
  • IPv6 router advertisement MTUs are now respected
  • NetworkManager no longer requires polkit libraries at runtime when Polkit support is enabled, and Polkit can be disabled at build time too
  • Automatically created connections are now deleted when their device goes away
  • 'nmcli dev connect' now attemts to create a connection if none exists
  • Manually configured static IPv6 configuration is kept even if SLAAC fails
  • Manpages for the 'keyfile' and 'ifcfg-rh' plugins now describe their configuration syntax and available options
  • WWAN connections now support IPv6 if the modem and provider support IPv6
  • Software devices (bridge, bond, team, etc) can now be deleted from the D-Bus API or with nmcli
  • The manpages, documentation, and API annotations have received many cleanups
  • Externally created virtual interfaces are no longer managed by NetworkManager until they are set "up" or activated via nmcli

New in NetworkManager 0.995.0.0 (Dec 13, 2014)

  • A new 'libnm' GObject-based client library to replace libnm-util/libnm-glib
  • IP address, IP route, hardware address, and other properties are now represented as strings
  • Based on GIO's GDBus bindings instead of dbus-glib
  • Uses modern GObject APIs including GAsyncResult and GVariant
  • For more information see https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/NetworkManager/libnm
  • Devices and VPN connections now have individual default routes. Priorities are handled through configurable route metrics.
  • nmcli now supports password requests and PolicyKit authorizations
  • A faster, lighter-weight (though less capable) internal DHCP client has been added and may be selected with the "dhcp=internal" option. It supports fewer DHCP options and does not yet support DHCPv6.
  • A new 'configure-and-quit=yes' option has been added for environments with less dynamic network configuration
  • When running on 3.17 and later kernels, NetworkManager handles IPv6LL address assignment to ensure that IPv6 connectivity is not enabled until intentionally configured by the user
  • NetworkManager no longer causes the nl80211 kernel module to be loaded on systems with no Wi-Fi devices
  • Bluetooth DUN support now works with Bluez 5.x
  • VPN connections can now persist across link changes and suspend/resume if their VPN plugin supports this feature
  • A new 'ibft' settings plugin has been added to support firmware-based iBFT/iSCSI configurations. This functionality has been moved to 'ibft' from the 'ifcfg-rh' plugin.
  • IPv6 router advertisement MTUs are now respected
  • NetworkManager no longer requires polkit libraries at runtime when Polkit support is enabled, and Polkit can be disabled at build time too
  • Automatically created connections are now deleted when their device goes away
  • 'nmcli dev connect' now attemts to create a connection if none exists
  • Manually configured static IPv6 configuration is kept even if SLAAC fails
  • Manpages for the 'keyfile' and 'ifcfg-rh' plugins now describe their configuration syntax and available options
  • WWAN connections now support IPv6 if the modem and provider support IPv6
  • Software devices (bridge, bond, team, etc) can now be deleted from the D-Bus API or with nmcli
  • The manpages, documentation, and API annotations have received many cleanups

New in NetworkManager 0.9.8.9 (Apr 3, 2014)

  • Fixed two problems that could result in gnome-shell showing incorrect icons. (In particular, fixed the problem where the network icon would disappear when certain VPNs were activated.)
  • Dispatcher scripts now receive correct IPv6 addresses, and also correct DHCP information on lease-change events.
  • NetworkManager no longer tries to start ModemManager itself on systemd-using systems
  • Activating a second ethernet connection while another is already active will now not move the default route.
  • Fixed some edge cases where one user could deactivate a connection owned by another.
  • Fix handling of dhcp-send-hostname property with ifcfg-rh
  • DHCP now works even if you have a global dhclient.conf that specifies a (non-NetworkManager) script to run
  • The dhcpcd backend now requests that dhcpcd only do DHCPv4, fixing some WWAN devices that don't react well to seeing IPv6 packets.
  • Fixed the default value of bridge priority
  • The D-Bus policy file has been updated to include the NetworkManager-iodine VPN plugin
  • It is possible to specify the path to dnsmasq at build time
  • Removed a GLib 2.32 dependency that accidentally snuck into 0.9.8.8
  • Fixed a bunch of memory leaks
  • Fixed a bunch of miscellaneous crashes
  • Removed some less-useful bits of logging output

New in NetworkManager 0.9.8.8 (Oct 11, 2013)

  • Fixes to the BlueZ code
  • A few memory leak fixes
  • Minor docs fixes

New in NetworkManager 0.9.8.6 (Oct 1, 2013)

  • Now supports BlueZ 5. If you are still using BlueZ 4, configure with --enable-bluez4 to disable BlueZ 5 support and enable BlueZ 4 support. (It is not possible to build with support for both versions.).

New in NetworkManager 0.9.8.4 (Sep 14, 2013)

  • Removed some spurious warnings
  • Root clients running outside a login session now have the right permissions
  • WiFi AP mode and EAP-FAST support are now detected correctly
  • Bonding config removes inappropriate options when switching modes
  • Fix reading of bond connections with keyfile plugin
  • Fix hang when dbus-daemon restarts
  • Fix crash when VPN disconnection fails
  • The dispatcher now exposes IPv6 VPN info, and IPv4/IPv6 DNS search domains
  • Build fix to support dhcpcd 6.x
  • Fix crash on startup when no dhcp client is available
  • Fix device descriptions when using the latest udev
  • Fix some possible obscure problems at startup
  • Always clear the default route correctly when disconnecting mobile broadband
  • Keyfile plugin now ignores more emacs temporary files
  • When using dnsmasq, pass all nameservers to it, not just the first
  • Kill dhclient if nm-dhcp-client-action encounters a fatal error
  • Fix dispatcher systemd unit install
  • Make ifcfg-rh VLAN parsing match initscripts better
  • Change threshold for WiFi background scanning under WPA Enterprise
  • Fix crash when deleting a currently-active connection
  • Fix ifcfg-rh's handling of IPV6_DEFAULTGW
  • Fix manager State transitions when connectivity checking is enabled
  • Add Connectivity property to distinguish portals from "limited connectivity"
  • Add PrimaryConnection and ActivatingConnection properties to simplify UI code
  • Old connection files containing UUIDs without hyphens work again

New in NetworkManager 0.9.8.2 (Jun 8, 2013)

  • Yet another new stable bugfix release, recommended for everyone. Many bug fixes and memory optimizations in Wi-Fi, IPv6, D-Bus API, PPPoE, mobile broadband, and more!

New in NetworkManager 0.9.7.997 (Feb 11, 2013)

  • libnl 3.2.7 or later is required
  • The internal crashdump handling has been removed
  • A DHCPv6 DUID is now generated from /etc/machine-id and sent to the DHCPv6 server
  • Bond interfaces now wait for a ready slave before starting automatic IP configuration
  • The kernel WiFi rfkill state is now synced to the user-requested WirelessEnabled state at startup

New in NetworkManager 0.9.7.995 (Jan 16, 2013)

  • New AvailableConnections property for Device objects
  • Better handling of various rfkill/Airplane Mode switches
  • Fixed handling of DNS servers for some mobile broadband devices
  • Don't duplicate various IPv6 routes added by the kernel
  • Ensure buggy ethernet driver carrier indications are handled correctly
  • Fix crash in dnsmasq plugin when no nameservers were present
  • Add support for 4G LTE network modes
  • Fix signal handling when daemonizing at startup
  • Don't autoconnect to WiFi networks that have never successfully connected
  • Only request new WiFi secrets during the initial association or when the secrets are known to be wrong, not every time the connection randomly fails
  • Add capability to autoconnect VPN connections when a parent connection succeeds
  • Add configure-time option for "permissive" system connection editing policy
  • Various libnm-glib fixes for asynchronous usage
  • Fix gateway handling when given with secondary IP addresses
  • Optionally listen to systemd for suspend/resume events instead of UPower
  • Fix 'seen-bssids' property when retrieving WiFi connections via D-Bus
  • Add support for AP-mode WiFi hotspots (instead of just Ad-Hoc)
  • Add a "slaves" property to Bond devices
  • Add support for ModemManager 0.7/0.8
  • Allow more human-readable formatting of IP address in keyfile connections
  • Drop support for dhclient v3
  • Add support for DHCPv6 server-side Dynamic DNS
  • Add support for bridge master devices and bridge ports
  • Fix canceling secrets requests in GUI agents
  • Always enable Proactive Key Caching (PKC, also called OKC) for WPA Enterprise WiFi configurations

New in NetworkManager 0.9.6.4 (Oct 27, 2012)

  • Add libnm-glib API to get bond interface slaves
  • Fix detection of some ACPI-based laptop airplane-mode/rfkill switches
  • Fix a crash when a VLAN interface is removed
  • Fix a regression setting the Device 'driver' and 'firmware' properties
  • Fix a stale-properties issue with libnm-glib when device state changes
  • Ignore cached/cloned route notifications from the kernel
  • Work around buggy kernel driver carrier notifications
  • Fix a crash with dnsmasq local caching nameserver functionality when no nameservers are present
  • Add "Speedport W 501V" to list of manufacturer default SSIDs
  • Various documentation fixes
  • Fix routing setup if gateway is not given with the first IP address
  • Enhance nmcli for additional VLAN and bonding functionality
  • Fix possible crash when removing OLPC Mesh devices

New in NetworkManager 0.9.5.96 (Jul 24, 2012)

  • Fix various crashes and issues in the ifcfg-rh system settings plugin
  • Fix race with multiple interfaces running DHCP at the same time
  • Add Linux From Scratch (LFS) support

New in NetworkManager 0.8.5.91 (Jul 29, 2011)

  • Fix handling of WINS server address in libnm-glib
  • Fix checks for s390 CTC device types
  • Fix export of nm_device_get_ip_iface() in libnm-glib
  • Fix export of IPv6 DNS GValue conversion functions in libnm-glib
  • Recognize and manage platform 'gadget' devices
  • Send only "short" hostname, not FQDN, to DHCP servers
  • Allow "_" as a valid character for GSM APNs
  • Handle shared connections in the ifnet plugin
  • Fix Ad-Hoc frequency selection for user-created Ad-Hoc networks
  • Allow failed connections to be retried when Ethernet carrier bounces
  • Allow usage of paths for certificates and keys in the keyfile plugin
  • Fix crash requesting system VPN secrets
  • Add ability to blacklist certain MAC addresses for wired & wifi connections
  • Ensure users are authorized to share wifi networks (CVE-2011-2176)

New in NetworkManager 0.8.3.995 (Feb 24, 2011)

  • Preliminary support for Exherbo Linux
  • Logging fixes to suppress unnecessary messages
  • Ensure removed devices are cleaned up
  • Fix potential 64-bit crash updating timestamps
  • IPv6 setup, routing, and compliance fixes
  • Handle reverse DNS lookups with local caching nameserver configurations
  • No longer updates /etc/hosts when hostname changes
  • Request WPAD option from DHCP servers
  • Shutdown crash fixes
  • nmcli support for WWAN connections
  • Persistent hostname sent to DHCP servers by default
  • Allow disabing PPP support at build time
  • Memory leak fixes

New in NetworkManager 0.8.2 (Nov 5, 2010)

  • Native local caching nameserver support using dnsmasq
  • Automatically detect addition and removal of new VPN plugins
  • Support for handling suspend/resume signals from UPower
  • Ensure users are allowed to enable/disable WiFi and networking
  • Ensure WiFi enable state is perserved across reboot and suspend
  • Better handling of /etc/hosts and preservation of custom hostnames
  • Support for the systemd session management service
  • Better handling of 'keyfile' system connection errors
  • Support for S390 network devices

New in NetworkManager 0.8.2 Beta 1 (Nov 5, 2010)

  • Native local caching nameserver support using dnsmasq
  • Automatically detect addition and removal of new VPN plugins
  • Support for handling suspend/resume signals from UPower
  • Ensure users are allowed to enable/disable WiFi and networking
  • Ensure WiFi enable state is perserved across reboot and suspend
  • Better handling of /etc/hosts and preservation of custom hostnames
  • Support for the systemd session management service
  • Better handling of 'keyfile' system connection errors
  • Support for S390 network devices * and much more...