14 DAY TRIAL // Beniamino Galvani was proud to announce the release and general availability of a new maintenance update to the stable NetworkManager 1.2 series of the open source network connection manager software for GNU/Linux distributions.
NetworkManager is the most used network connection manager, adopted by almost all Linux-based operating systems on the market, and NetworkManager 1.2.6 is now the most advanced release of the 1.2 stable series, coming four months after the NetworkManager 1.2.4 update to fix a few bugs and regressions reported by users since then.
Probably the most important change in the NetworkManager 1.2.6 update is the ability to activate multiple PPPoE network connections at the same time, which wasn't possible with NetworkManager 1.2.4 or a previous release. Additionally, it looks like the software can now be built without polkit support, which is being used for controlling system-wide privileges.
NetworkManager 1.2.6 coming soon to a distro near you
Other than that, NetworkManager 1.2.6 fixes the emission of NM-style PropertiesChanged signals and deprecates them for PropertiesChanged on the "org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties" interface, and addresses an issue that might have caused network devices to remain unmanaged after the Linux OS was resumed from sleep state.
Various other small issues have been resolved as well in this minor update, and the full changelog is attached below for your reading pleasure. NetworkManager Applet was also updated to version 1.2.6 with better support for handling 802.1X secrets in both the connection editor and the applet, updated translations, and other minor improvements.
NetworkManager 1.2.6 is now available for download as a source archive from our website if you fancy compiling it yourself, and it's coming soon to a distro near you, so make sure you update NetworkManager to version 1.2.6 as soon as it lands in the stable repos of your Linux OS.