Fedora 16 Update: NetworkManager-0.9.4-2.git20120403.fc16

[updates at fedoraproject.org]

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2012-5400
2012-04-06 20:51:46
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Name        : NetworkManager
Product     : Fedora 16
Version     : 0.9.4
Release     : 2.git20120403.fc16
URL         : http://www.gnome.org/projects/NetworkManager/
Summary     : Network connection manager and user applications
Description :
NetworkManager is a system network service that manages your network devices
and connections, attempting to keep active network connectivity when available.
It manages ethernet, WiFi, mobile broadband (WWAN), and PPPoE devices, and
provides VPN integration with a variety of different VPN services.

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Update Information:

This update fixes possible crashes of nm-applet (while initializing NMRemoteSettings) and fixes writing of MACADDR key by ifcfg-rh plugin.

This update brings upstream snapshot of NetworkManager 0.9.4.
Adds number of features:
* core: add support for bonding and VLAN interfaces
* core: add support for Internet connectivity detection
* core: add support for IPv6 Privacy Extensions
* core: add basic support for Infiniband IP interfaces
...

and fixes several bugs
- many IPv6 tweaks
- GObject introspection fixes
...
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ChangeLog:

* Wed Mar 28 2012 Jiří Klimeš <jklimes at redhat.com> - 0.9.4-2.git20120403
-libnm-glib: initialize GError, else NMRemoteSettings crash can occur (rh #809123)
* Wed Mar 28 2012 Jiří Klimeš <jklimes at redhat.com> - 0.9.4.0-1.git20120328
- Update to 0.9.4
* Wed Nov  9 2011 Dan Williams <dcbw at redhat.com> - 0.9.2-1
- core: fix possible crash when talking to ModemManager
- core: improve handling of rfkill on some machines (eeepc 1005HA and others)
- ifcfg-rh: don't use spaces in ifcfg file names (rh #742273)
- core: accept IPv6 Router Advertisements when forwarding is on
- core: bump dnsmasq cache size to 400 entries
- core: ensure IPv6 static routes are flushed when device is deactivated
- ifcfg-rh: fix changing WPA connections to WEP
- core: fix setting hostname from DHCP (rh #719100)
- libnm-glib: fix various GObject introspection issues (rh #747302)
- core: don't change routing or DNS if no devices are managed
- core: ensure IPv6 RA-provided routes are honored
* Wed Nov  9 2011 Adam Williamson <awilliam at redhat.com> - 1:0.9.1.90-5.git20110927
- Rebuilt for glibc (rh #747377)
- core: fix setting hostname from DHCP options (rh #719100)
- skip a release to keep up with F16
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #809123 - Unable to login to desktop after upgrading to NM-0.9.4-1.git20120328.fc16
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=809123
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
su -c 'yum update NetworkManager' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

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