Fedora 16 Update: NetworkManager-0.9.4-6.git20120521.fc16

[updates at fedoraproject.org]

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2012-8211
2012-05-22 01:50:25
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Name        : NetworkManager
Product     : Fedora 16
Version     : 0.9.4
Release     : 6.git20120521.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 contains the following fixes:
* don't restart NM on package updates
* fix carrier handling on devices that don't support it
* fix a problem with terminating NM via SIGTERM
* correct number of issues in libnm-glib
* fix nscd condrestart for systemd installations
* ignore duplicates in NMIP[46]Config
* handle 'biosdevname' interface names better in ifnet plugin
* allow some same-state transitions in DHCP

And it adds some enhancements:
* possibility to connect to new Wi-Fi networks using nmcli
* add native support for ADSL modems using PPPoE or PPPoATM
* GUI allows appending manual DNS servers,domains in auto mode

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ChangeLog:

* Mon May 21 2012 Jiří Klimeš <jklimes at redhat.com> - 0.9.4-6.git20120521
- Update to git snapshot
- nmcli: show progress for longer operations in --pretty mode 
- core: silently ignore duplicates in NMIP[46]Config (rh #820752)
- backends: fix nscd condrestart for systemd installations (rh #805531)
- dhcp: allow some same-state transitions (rh #810744)
- ifnet: handle 'biosdevname' interface names better (bgo #674765)
- core: add native support for ADSL modems using PPPoE or PPPoATM
- core: unblock signals for child processes we spawn out of NM (rh #739836)
- editor: allow appending manual DNS servers,domains in auto mode (bgo #611236)
* Wed May  2 2012 Jiří Klimeš <jklimes at redhat.com> - 0.9.4-5.git20120502
- Update to git snapshot 
- core: improve handling of POSIX signals using sigwait() (rh #739836)
- libnm-glib: protect against potentially NULL changed property values (rh #808784)
- cli: add ability to connect to new Wi-Fi networks from nmcli
- cli: add ability to list user permissions for NM-authenticated operations
* Mon Apr 30 2012 Dan Williams <dcbw at redhat.com> - 0.9.4-4.git20120403
- don't restart NM on upgrade or uninstall (rh #812967)
- libnm-glib: fix some segfaults when NM restarts due to rh #812967 (rh #806649)
- core: fix carrier handling on devices that don't support carrier detection (rh #816719)
* Thu Apr 19 2012 Dan Winship <danw at redhat.com> - 0.9.4-3.git20120403
- Fix IPv6 connectivity problems (rh #785772)
* 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 #739836 - NetworkManager makes reboot take several minutes
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=739836
  [ 2 ] Bug #820752 - Log flooded with IN6_ARE_ADDR_EQUAL assertion failures
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=820752
  [ 3 ] Bug #805531 - NM tries to start non existent/unwanted scripts
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=805531
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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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