A stable release of the interface for simplifying network settings has been published — NetworkManager 1.50.0. Plugins for VPN support (Libreswan, OpenConnect, Openswan, SSTP, etc.) are being developed within their own development cycles.
Key Innovations in NetworkManager 1.50:
- Support for the 'dhclient' utility has been deprecated and disabled at the build stage, with the recommendation to use the built-in DHCP client that has been the default since NetworkManager 1.20.
- A feature has been implemented to search for and specify system network interfaces OVS (Open vSwitch) by their MAC address.
- Support for configuring connection check timeouts has been added.
- Support for configuring network interfaces of virtual Ethernet devices (veth) has been added to the nmtui utility.
- The content of /etc/hosts is now considered when determining the hostname from the reverse zone in DNS.
- In the ip6-privacy configuration parameter, the use of sysctl ipv6.conf.default for changing kernel settings has been restored.
- Support for using multiple gateways in ndisc for a single network has been added.
- For wireless configurations in access point mode, support for configuring the wireless channel width (channel-width) has been introduced.
- Code has been added to block writing outdated settings with politically incorrect terms master, slave, and blacklist to the keyfile.
- A bug that caused a crash when processing specially formatted LLDP packets in debug mode has been fixed.
Source: opennet.ru
