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3 Overview of changes since NetworkManager-0.5.1
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6 This releases ushers in WPA support, as well as many other features, bug fixes,
9 We now require libnl, a netlink library (http://people.suug.ch/~tgr/libnl/) and wpa_supplicant, a WPA supplicant (http://hostap.epitest.fi/wpa_supplicant/).
11 Two new VPN modules are part of the distribution: openvpn and pptp.
14 * WPA and WPA2 support (Dan Williams)
15 * WPA Enterprise support (Robert Love)
16 * Rearchitecting, refactoring (Dan Williams)
17 * wpa_supplicant support (Dan Williams, Kay Sievers)
18 * NIS support (Robert Love)
19 * DHCP hostname support (Timo Hoenig)
20 * ISDN support, improve dial up support (Robert Love)
21 * Man pages (Robert Love)
22 * Survive DBUS and HAL restarts (Timo Hoening)
23 * Generate PID files (Dan Willians)
24 * Bug fixes and clean ups (the whole gang)
27 * New tray icon look and behavior (Robert Love, Dan Williams)
28 * New wireless security layer (Dan Williams)
29 * New "Enable Networking" toggle (Robert Love)
30 * Display speed of current connection (Robert Love)
31 * Bug fixes and clean ups (the whole gang)
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35 Overview of changes since NetworkManager-0.5.0
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39 * Don't drop the last scanned AP (Dan Williams)
40 * Broadcast state change when disconnected (Robert Love)
41 * The Slackware backend now builds (Nico)
42 * Don't install unsued config files (Dan Williams)
43 * Add a test for libnm_glib_unregister_callback (Christopher Aillon)
44 * Requires wireless-tools 28pre9 (Christopher Aillon)
47 * Use g_get_host_name () if we've got it (Christopher Aillon)
48 * Fix an unitialized variable (Robert Love)
49 * Fix sensitivity of VPN items (Robert Love)
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54 Overview of changes since NetworkManager-0.4.1
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58 * Initscripts are now generated
59 * Not waiting as long for scans to complete (Bill Moss).
60 * Fix several D-BUS object leaks (John Palmieri, Dan Williams,
62 * VPN now advertises state changes
63 * Make --without-named work (j@bootlab.org)
64 * Make --with-dhcdbd work correctly (j@bootlab.org)
65 * Fix timeout scan values (Bill Moss)
66 * Send notifications of device strength changing so clients do
68 * Don't return a UDI device if it doesn't exist (Tomislav Vujec)
69 * Strip whitespace from the VPN banner (Bill Moss)
70 * VPN Manager rewritten to better support signals (Dan Williams)
71 * Don't allow clients to determine what states we should be
72 scanning in, add logic to scan when we need to.
73 * Blacklist some common ESSIDs such that multiple access points
74 with these ESSIDs aren't treated as the same network.
75 * Support for D-BUS enabled named (Dan Williams)
76 * Only '#' is a valid comment in resolv.conf (Robert Love)
77 * Don't try to set auth mode on the AP from the allowed list if
79 * Add internal scanning code so we don't have to use iwlib's
80 code any longer (Dan Williams)
81 * libnm now uses guints instead of gints for its callback IDs.
82 * libnm_glib_unregister_callback () now works.
83 * Fix our scanning interval (Robert Love)
84 * Updates to backends for Gentoo, SuSE, RedHat, Debian, and
85 Slackware (Robert Love, Peter Jones, Bill Nottingham,
87 - Dialup support in RedHat backend
88 - ISDN support in SUSE backend
92 * The applet is no longer threaded (Dan Williams)
93 * Dialogs no longer block the UI when shown
94 * Passphrase dialog now treats Esc keypresses properly
95 * Create Network and Connect to Network dialogs now have
96 different window titles
97 * New icons for connecting to a network and to a VPN
99 * Context menu items have been cleaned up
100 * Pressing enter in the passphrase entry should activate the
102 * Fix icon animation smoothness
103 * Display more data in the Connection Information dialog
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109 Overview of changes since NetworkManager-0.3
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114 * Debian backend fixes, Thom May
115 * Build fixes, Thom May
116 * Better handling of encrypted devices, Dan Williams
117 * Better handling of user-selected access points, Dan Williams
119 NetworkManagerNotification:
121 * Simplified D-Bus code, Dan Williams
122 * Better error handling and feedback, Dan Williams
123 * Greatly simplify the locking to UI smoother, Dan Williams
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127 Overview of changes since NetworkManager-0.2
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132 * Lots of fixes, Dan Williams
133 * Support static IP addresses, Dan Williams
134 - Get broadcast address from config files, Robert Paskowitz
135 * Support for non-ESSID-broadcasting base stations, Dan Williams
136 * Only accept and manager 802.3 and 802.11 devices, Dan Williams
137 * Don't blow away an active wired connection on startup, Dan Williams
138 * Improve strength calculation, Dan Williams
139 * Constantly scanning behavior, Dan Williams
140 * add .pc file, Colin Walters
141 * move to syslog, Dan Willemsen
142 * Improve MD5 hashing of 128-bit passphrases, Colin Walters
143 * DBUS API docs, Dan Williams
144 * Cleanups, Colin Walters
145 * Trusted networks, Dan Williams
147 - Debian, Thom May and Mark Roach
148 - Slackware, Narayan Newton
149 * Fixes and functionality improvements in Gentoo backend, Robert Paskowitz
153 * Example python code, Bryan Clark.
154 * python test framework, Bryan Clark
158 * Trusted networks, Dan Williams
159 * Escape ESSIDs in gconf, Dan Williams
160 * Lifecycle improvements, John Palmieri
164 * New/Improved translations: da de sv en_CA nb no pa bs pt_BR wa gu es
174 Francisco Javier F. Serrador
175 Martin Willemoes Hansen
178 NetworkManagerNotification:
180 * Complete rewrite, Jonathan Blandford and John Palmieri
181 - Now a Notification area
183 - Hook up the "other network" dialog to do something
184 * New icons, Diana Fong