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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2016-a900784da3
2016-11-30 03:54:58.965887
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Name : ethtool
Product : Fedora 25
Version : 4.8
Release : 1.fc25
URL :
http://ftp.kernel.org/pub/software/network/ethtool/
Summary : Settings tool for Ethernet NICs
Description :
This utility allows querying and changing settings such as speed,
port, auto-negotiation, PCI locations and checksum offload on many
network devices, especially of Ethernet devices.
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Update Information:
ethtool 4.8 =========== * Feature: QSFP Plus/QSFP28 Diagnostics Information
Support * Feature: Enhancing link mode bits to support 25G/50G/100G *
Feature: add support for 1000BaseX and missing 10G link mode * Fixes: address
Coverity issues 1363118 - 1363125 ethtool 4.6 =========== * Feature:
Support register dump on Intel X550 NICs (-d option) * Fix: Correct some
reported register offsets on Intel 10GbE NICs (-d option) * Feature: Add IPv6
support to NFC (-n, -N, -u and -U options) * Feature: Add support for
ETHTOOL_xLINKSETTINGS ioctls (no option and -s option) * Feature: Use netlink
socket when AF_INET not available ethtool 4.5 =========== * Tests: Fix
missing function declarations when building tests * Tests: Fix return type of
test_free() prorotype * Feature: Add PHY statistics support (--phy-statistics
option) * Doc: Properly indent sub-options in man page * Feature: Support
setting default Rx flow indirection table (-X option) * Fix: Use 'sane' kernel
type definitions on 64-bit architectures * Fix: Don't ignore fread() return
value (-d option) * Fix: Heap corruption when dumping registers from a file
(-d option) * Fix: Stricter input validation for EEPROM setting (-E option)
* Fix: Fix strict-aliasing compiler warnings in marvell.c * Tests: Fix use of
uninitialised variable in test_realloc() * Tests: Fix compiler warning in
test-features.c
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References:
[ 1 ] Bug #1317497 - ethtool-4.8 is available
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1317497
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This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use
su -c 'dnf upgrade ethtool' at the command line.
For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at
http://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html#upgrade-command-label
All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the
GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at
https://fedoraproject.org/keys
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