14 DAY TRIAL // On July 14, Lubomir Rintel announced the immediate availability for download of the fourth maintenance release of the stable NetworkManager 1.0 network connection management software for GNU/Linux operating systems.
According to the release notes, NetworkManager 1.0.4 is here to bring a more robust connection activation by automatically disabling the connection made on an active device when attempting to activate a connection on another device.
It is now possible to change various configuration options without having to restart the NetworkManager daemon, especially when changing the DNS, Connectivity, and Ignore-Carrier settings. Support for negation via the 'except:' match has been added to device specifiers in configuration files.
With this major update, NetworkManager is now capable of maintaining correct routing configurations when connecting multiple interfaces to the same network. Also, the firewall zone is now automatically added to the firewalld daemon for device-based VPN (Virtual Private Network) connections.
NetworkManager 1.0.4 brings numerous IPv6 improvements
There are numerous IPv6 improvements present in the NetworkManager 1.0.4 update, such as the ability to ignore the MTU setting from an IPv6 neighbor discovery router advertisements, the IPv6 privacy extensions are now enabled by default, ip6-privacy sysctl is now better handled, and IPv6 interface tokens are now primarily supported when attempting to create an interface identifier for IPv6 addressing.
Furthermore, NetworkManager will no longer recognize devices that have only an IPv6 link-local address as connected. Among other changes, we can mention that it is now possible to control the management of devices with udev rules, and slave connections can now be activated when attempting to activate a Bridge, Team, or Bond device, which is controlled through the 'connection.autoconnect-slaves' property.
Last but not least, NetworkManager now supports large configurations, hints and tab-completion for enumeration properties, support for multiple devices for 'nmcli device disconnect/delete' has been added to the nmcli component, and several bugs and crashes have been fixed. Download NetworkManager 1.0.4 right now from Softpedia.