NetworkManager/NEWS
Christopher Aillon acddcf4a4c 2005-10-19 Christopher Aillon <caillon@redhat.com>
* NEWS:
	* configure.in:
	NetworkManager 0.5.1 release


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NetworkManager-0.5.1
Overview of changes since NetworkManager-0.5.0
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* NetworkManager
* Don't drop the last scanned AP (Dan Williams)
* Broadcast state change when disconnected (Robert Love)
* The Slackware backend now builds (Nico)
* Don't install unsued config files (Dan Williams)
* Add a test for libnm_glib_unregister_callback (Christopher Aillon)
* Requires wireless-tools 28pre9 (Christopher Aillon)
* nm-applet
* Use g_get_host_name () if we've got it (Christopher Aillon)
* Fix an unitialized variable (Robert Love)
* Fix sensitivity of VPN items (Robert Love)
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NetworkManager-0.5.0
Overview of changes since NetworkManager-0.4.1
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* NetworkManager
* Initscripts are now generated
* Not waiting as long for scans to complete (Bill Moss).
* Fix several D-BUS object leaks (John Palmieri, Dan Williams,
Christopher Aillon)
* VPN now advertises state changes
* Make --without-named work (j@bootlab.org)
* Make --with-dhcdbd work correctly (j@bootlab.org)
* Fix timeout scan values (Bill Moss)
* Send notifications of device strength changing so clients do
not have to poll.
* Don't return a UDI device if it doesn't exist (Tomislav Vujec)
* Strip whitespace from the VPN banner (Bill Moss)
* VPN Manager rewritten to better support signals (Dan Williams)
* Don't allow clients to determine what states we should be
scanning in, add logic to scan when we need to.
* Blacklist some common ESSIDs such that multiple access points
with these ESSIDs aren't treated as the same network.
* Support for D-BUS enabled named (Dan Williams)
* Only '#' is a valid comment in resolv.conf (Robert Love)
* Don't try to set auth mode on the AP from the allowed list if
it's NULL (Bill Moss)
* Add internal scanning code so we don't have to use iwlib's
code any longer (Dan Williams)
* libnm now uses guints instead of gints for its callback IDs.
* libnm_glib_unregister_callback () now works.
* Fix our scanning interval (Robert Love)
* Updates to backends for Gentoo, SuSE, RedHat, Debian, and
Slackware (Robert Love, Peter Jones, Bill Nottingham,
j@bootlab.org)
- Dialup support in RedHat backend
- ISDN support in SUSE backend
- Other fixes
* nm-applet
* The applet is no longer threaded (Dan Williams)
* Dialogs no longer block the UI when shown
* Passphrase dialog now treats Esc keypresses properly
* Create Network and Connect to Network dialogs now have
different window titles
* New icons for connecting to a network and to a VPN
(Diana Fong)
* Context menu items have been cleaned up
* Pressing enter in the passphrase entry should activate the
default action.
* Fix icon animation smoothness
* Display more data in the Connection Information dialog
(Robert Love)
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NetworkManager-0.3.1
Overview of changes since NetworkManager-0.3
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NetworkManager:
* Debian backend fixes, Thom May
* Build fixes, Thom May
* Better handling of encrypted devices, Dan Williams
* Better handling of user-selected access points, Dan Williams
NetworkManagerNotification:
* Simplified D-Bus code, Dan Williams
* Better error handling and feedback, Dan Williams
* Greatly simplify the locking to UI smoother, Dan Williams
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NetworkManager-0.3.0
Overview of changes since NetworkManager-0.2
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NetworkManager:
* Lots of fixes, Dan Williams
* Support static IP addresses, Dan Williams
- Get broadcast address from config files, Robert Paskowitz
* Support for non-ESSID-broadcasting base stations, Dan Williams
* Only accept and manager 802.3 and 802.11 devices, Dan Williams
* Don't blow away an active wired connection on startup, Dan Williams
* Improve strength calculation, Dan Williams
* Constantly scanning behavior, Dan Williams
* add .pc file, Colin Walters
* move to syslog, Dan Willemsen
* Improve MD5 hashing of 128-bit passphrases, Colin Walters
* DBUS API docs, Dan Williams
* Cleanups, Colin Walters
* Trusted networks, Dan Williams
* New Backends:
- Debian, Thom May and Mark Roach
- Slackware, Narayan Newton
* Fixes and functionality improvements in Gentoo backend, Robert Paskowitz
Python:
* Example python code, Bryan Clark.
* python test framework, Bryan Clark
NetworkManagerInfo:
* Trusted networks, Dan Williams
* Escape ESSIDs in gconf, Dan Williams
* Lifecycle improvements, John Palmieri
Translations:
* New/Improved translations: da de sv en_CA nb no pa bs pt_BR wa gu es
- Thanks to:
Kjartan Maraas
Christian Rose
Adam Weinberger
Amanpreet Singh Alam
Akagic Amila
Raphael Higino
Pablo Saratxaga
Ankit Patel
Francisco Javier F. Serrador
Martin Willemoes Hansen
Hendrik Brandt
NetworkManagerNotification:
* Complete rewrite, Jonathan Blandford and John Palmieri
- Now a Notification area
- Simpler menu
- Hook up the "other network" dialog to do something
* New icons, Diana Fong