Just a quick note that we’ve released the latest stable NetworkManager, version 1.0.4. This is mainly a bugfix release, though it does have a couple new features and larger changes. Some of those are:
- Some configuration options can now be changed without restarting the NM daemon. Those include the ‘dns’, ‘connectivity’, and ‘ignore-carrier’ settings.
- Devices that have only an IPv6 link-local address are no longer assumed to be connected; by default whenever an interface is set “up” the kernel will assign an IPv6 link-local address which could theoretically be used for communication. NetworkManager used to interpret this as the interface being available for network communication, while this is rarely what users want or expect.
- Correct routing is now maintained when two interfaces of the same priority are connected to the same network.
- udev rules can now be used to tell NetworkManager to manage or unmanage specific devices.
- Connections with children (bridge, bond, team, etc) can now optionally bring up their slave interfaces when the master is started.
- Many, many bugs and crashers have also been fixed in the core daemon, the libraries, and nmcli.
We’re well into the development cycle of NetworkManager 1.2 as well, where among other things, we’ll finally be moving to GDBus instead of dbus-glib. We’ll also have support for structured logging with journald, indicating that certain connections are metered, advertising LLDP-discovered information, built-in IPv4 link-local addressing to get rid of avahi-autoipd, improvements to Wi-Fi Access Point scanning, less verbose logging by default, improvements to DNS handling, and more. Look for it later this year!