network-manager-applet/NEWS

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network-manager-applet-1.8.24
Overview of changes since network-manager-applet-1.8.22
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* Fixed external UI mode without interactive secrets.
* Ad-Hoc networks now support WPA2 authentication.
* Support for SAE authentication (WPA3 Personal) was added.
* Fixed applet operation on graphical servers other than X11 (such as
  Wayland).
* Various other bug fixes and enhancements.
* Added EXPERIMENTAL libnma-gtk4 library for use with GTK4.
  Not recommended for production use!
* Updated translations.

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network-manager-applet-1.8.22
Overview of changes since network-manager-applet-1.8.20
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* The applet's secret agent can now utilize external UI mode for VPN plugins
  that support it.
* The Wi-Fi-related items in the applet menu are now sorted more reasonably.
* Various improvements to the Mobile Wizard and Certificate Chooser
  usability.
* Render a QR code in the applet's connection info dialog.
* Improved the applet's info dialog appearance.
* Updated translations.

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network-manager-applet-1.8.20
Overview of changes since network-manager-applet-1.8.18
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* Build of libnm-gtk, a libnm-glib compatibility library, is disabled by
  default. It can be enabled by passing --with-libnm-gtk to configure
  script. Nobody should need it by now. Users that still use this are
  encouraged to let us know before the libnm-glib support is removed for good.
* Improve the mobile broadband wizard (issue#15).
* Fix a bug in the wifi dialog that made widgets disappear when
  selecting a different device (rh#1665653).
* Support secret agent hints needed when using IWD as wireless
  backend.
* Update Brazilian Portuguese, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Danish,
  French, Lithuanian, Polish, Russian, Slovak and Turkish
  translations.

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network-manager-applet-1.8.18
Overview of changes since network-manager-applet-1.8.16
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* libnma: fix wrongly showing hidden GUI elements, which
  causes connection editing to behave wrong (issue#20).
* libnma, c-e: fix translation issues in GUI due to missing
  gettext domain (bgo#792285).
* Update Croatian, German, Indonesian, Italian, Kazakh, and Turkish
  translations.

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network-manager-applet-1.8.16
Overview of changes since network-manager-applet-1.8.14
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* Fix various issues that causes GtkApplication to quit at the wrong time.
* Read the Mobile Providers database from a build-time determined location.
* Modernize Gtk+ 3.0 use in preparations for Gtk+ 4.0.
* Update Brazilian Portuguese, Polish, Turkish, German translation.

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network-manager-applet-1.8.14
Overview of changes since network-manager-applet-1.8.12
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* Fix an applet crash on disconnect.
* Fix VPN icons in AppIndicator mode.
* Provide (limited) secret agent service even when a keyring is unavailable.
* Fix saving of connections with "always ask" EAP secrets.
* Register editor windows as GtkApplication windows, so that the editor
  quits at the right time with --edit option.
* The AppStream metadata is now in /usr/share/metainfo as recommended by the
  specification.
* Updated Catalan translation.

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network-manager-applet-1.8.12
Overview of changes since network-manager-applet-1.8.10
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* Allow creation of PPPeE connection without a parent interface.
* Add an option to set a connection as Metered.
* Make the form layout consistent with GNOME UI style.
* Convert editor into a GtkApplication with an app menu.
* Fix a potential crash in the certificate picker with no modules.
* Fix build warnings with GCC 8.
* Support building against Ayatana AppIndicator.
* Updated Brazilian Portuguese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Esperanto,
  French, German, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian,
  Polish, Russian, Serbian and Spanish translations.

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network-manager-applet-1.8.10
Overview of changes since network-manager-applet-1.8.8
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This is a new stable release of network-manager-applet.  Notable changes include:

* Don't request secrets for Bluetooth connections. Works around a bug in GNOME
  Shell secret agent.
* Fix a bug that caused invalid connections to be non-editable (and thus not
  fixable).

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network-manager-applet-1.8.8
Overview of changes since network-manager-applet-1.8.6
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This is a new stable release of network-manager-applet.  Notable changes include:

* Fix loading of secrets when editing a VPN connection.
* Fixes to the experimental Meson support.
* Update to then Japanese, Indonesian, Polish, Croatian and Danish translations.

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network-manager-applet-1.8.6
Overview of changes since network-manager-applet-1.8.4
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This is a new stable release of network-manager-applet.  Notable changes include:

* Added an option to build with Meson build system.
* Wi-Fi client connections now support setting a band and a channel too.
* Setting IPv6 address generation mode is now supported.
* Fixed a possible crash after editing Wi-Fi connections.
* Updated Danish, Dutch and German translations.

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network-manager-applet-1.8.4
Overview of changes since network-manager-applet-1.8.2
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This is a new stable release of network-manager-applet.  Notable changes include:

* nm-c-e: Major rework of the nm-connection-editor UI.
* nm-c-e: Add support for MACsec.
* nm-c-e: Add support for new PPPoE connections not limited to ethernet.
* nm-c-e: Add support for bridge's group-forward-mask property.
* applet: Fix nm-applet's status icon when a VPN has the default route.
* applet: Always center dialogs on the screen.
* libnma: Fix handling empty password for certificate chooser.
* po: Updated Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Galician, Indonesian, Italian,
  Kazakh, Lithuanian, Polish, Brazilian Portuguese, Punjabi, Romanian,
  Serbian, Spanish translations.
* Various bugfixes and minor improvements.

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network-manager-applet-1.8.2
Overview of changes since network-manager-applet-1.8.0
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This is a new stable release of network-manager-applet.  Notable changes include:

* It is now possible to secure the connections that use TLS, TTLS and
    PEAP authentications by specifying a Domain name to verify the remote
    certificate subject against.
* The TTLS and PEAP EAP methods now utilize the certificate chooser
    that is capable of choosing an object from a PKCS#11 token.
* When activating a VPN connection, the routes to the VPN server are now
    added whichever device has a default route regardless of its kind.
* The applet now lists the Wi-Fi network connection profiles even if they
    are enslaved to another connection.
* Fixed a crash after editing a connection with 802.1x security setting.
* Updated Italian, Spanish and Japanese translations.

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network-manager-applet-1.8
Overview of changes since network-manager-applet-1.4.6
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This is a new stable release of network-manager-applet.  Notable changes include:

* Warn editor users if certificates have wrong SELinux labels
* Added a PKCS#11 capable certificate chooser to EAP-TLS
* Request Wi-Fi scan when showing the menu and update the scan
    result list dynamically.
* Prevent the use from opening a file open dialog if they don't have
    permission to edit connections (e.g. in the login manager session)
    (CVE-2017-6590)
* Fix broken libnma's pygobject library
* Add version macros to libnma.

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network-manager-applet-1.4.6
Overview of changes since network-manager-applet-1.4.4
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This is a new stable release of network-manager-applet.  Notable changes include:

* Avoid unnecessarily requesting permission to access firewalld
* Warn when editing a connection that has properties we don't recognize
    Useful when running with newer NetworkManager daemon
* API documentation for libnma is now built
* Added build options to enable LTO and section garbage collection
* Bug fixes
* Updated Brazilian, Catalan, Danish, Italian, Polish and Serbian
    translations

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network-manager-applet-1.4.4
Overview of changes since network-manager-applet-1.4.2
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This is a new stable release of network-manager-applet.  Notable changes include:

* Added the capability to start inport of a VPN connection from the command line
    with "nm-connection-editor --import" option
* Allow editing of Ethernet link properties, such as link speed or duplex 
    setting
* Added support for creating and editing IP tunnel connections
* Added support for editing Proxy setting whe built with NetworkManager 1.6
    or newer
* Added support for TTLS/MSCHAPV2 method
* Improved the cloned MAC address selection
* Lot of bug fixes
* Translation updates

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network-manager-applet-1.4.2
Overview of changes since network-manager-applet-1.4.0
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This is a new stable release of network-manager-applet.  Notable changes include:

* Removed UI property that required gtk3 >= 3.16
* Added a workaround for broken strict matching with old Jansson
    versions

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network-manager-applet-1.4
Overview of changes since network-manager-applet-1.2.0
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This is a new stable release of network-manager-applet.  Notable changes include:

* Added support for multiple VPN connections
* Added new pages for changing team and team-port configurations
* Improved error reporting in the wireless security page
* A single VPN plugins now supports the creation of multiple
    connection types
* Fixed some crashes

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network-manager-applet-1.2
Overview of changes since network-manager-applet-1.0.0
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This is a new stable release of network-manager-applet.  Notable changes include:

* Ported to libnm, GDBus
* Added new libnm-based client library (libnma)
* Add support for libappindicator
* Translation updates
* Numerous crasher and memory leak bugs were fixed

The following features were backported to 1.0.x releases from 1.0.0 to 1.0.10
are also present in network-manager-applet-1.2:

* Bluetooth page in connection editor is now populated with available Bluetooth
  devices
* Added hotspot support to the editor
* Password widgets now emits a signal for secret flag changes
* The connection validation errors are now communicated in a tooltip
* The editor is now able to edit the VLAN flags
* Added option to set MTU of Team devices
* Added AppData for nm-connection-editor
* Setting MTU for a bond device is now supported
* Connecting to a wireless network from the NetworkManager applet no longer
    results in an attempt to create system-wide connections.  This fixes the
    ability to connect to a wireless network for non-privileged user
* The master interface name is used instead of master connection UUID for
   slave connections created with nm-connection-editor.  This fixes
   compatibility of the ifcfg configuration files with the legacy network
   service
* It is now possible to specify an interface name instead of a MAC address
    when editing a connection using nm-connection-editor
* The WWAN connections now have IPv6 enabled by default
* libnm-gtk includes functions for password storage selection, which eases
    implementation of password GUI for VPN plugins and other users
* The applet is no longer started in GNOME 3
* STP controls are no longer displayed if STP is disabled
* Improved accessibility for screen reader users


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network-manager-applet-1.0
Overview of changes since network-manager-applet-0.9.10
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This is a new stable release of network-manager-applet.  Notable changes include:

* Added support for editing Bluetooth mobile broadband connections
* Added support for IPv6 mobile broadband connections
* Allow IPv6-only configuration for more connection types
* The applet and editor are no longer shown in GNOME 3, which has its own
    network indicator and control panel


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network-manager-applet-0.9.10
Overview of changes since network-manager-applet-0.9.8
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This is a new stable release of network-manager-applet.  Notable changes include:

* Added controls for IPv6 privacy extensions
* Added support for VPN hints for new/additional secrets during connection
* Added support for Data Center Bridging and FibreChannel over Ethernet configuration
* Improved connections to new hidden WiFi networks
* Allow slaves VLANs/slaves of more device types
* Added support for changing password flags
* Passwords/secrets now default to user-agent storage instead of system-wide storage
* Added support for editing Team connections
* Rework CA certificate warnings to be less annoying


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network-manager-applet-0.9.8
Overview of changes since network-manager-applet-0.9.6
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This is a new stable release of network-manager-applet.  Notable changes include:

* Rework connection editor main UI to better support different connection types
* Add connection editor support for WiMAX, Infiniband, Bond, and VLAN connections
* Suggest "seen BSSIDs" for WiFi BSSID entry
* Add connection editor support for autoconnect VPN connections
* Add a "General" page to the connection editor and move general options to it
* Fix GNOME Bluetooth plugin for recent versions of GNOME Bluetooth and the
    GNOME Control Center
* Add LTE and HSPA+ icons to the applet
* Fix connection editor command-line passing to already-running instance
* Suppress nm-applet notifications when GNOME Shell is running
* Ensure 802.1x passwords default to "agent owned" and not system-wide
* Default to using system CA certificates for new connections
* Add support for ModemManager 0.7/0.8
* Fix a crash when editing IP addresses with the XIM input framework
* Fix handling of connection Zone when firewalld is active
* Fix saving a connection when ignoring a missing CA certificate


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network-manager-applet-0.9.6
Overview of changes since network-manager-applet-0.9.4
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This is a new stable release of network-manager-applet.  Notable changes include:

* Fixed UI mnemonics
* Various crash and stability fixes
* Allow appending DNS servers and domains in automatic addressing mode
* Fix defaults for PPP echo values
* Show IPv6 addressing page for VPN plugins that support it
* Port to GSettings and split out 0.8 -> 0.9 migration code into standalone tool
* Recognize PKCS#12 certificates imported from Firefox
* Pre-fill CDMA username/password in the mobile broadband wizard
* Only handle VPN secrets for GNOME Shell 3.3 and lower


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network-manager-applet-0.9.4
Overview of changes since network-manager-applet-0.9.2
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This is a new stable release of network-manager-applet.  Notable changes include:

* Fix interaction of single-connection edit mode with PolicyKit
* Add EAP-FAST support
* Make editor connection list sortable
* Ensure mobile broadband provider list is sensitized correctly
* More flexible build-time warnings with --enable-more-warnings=[yes|no|error]
* Removed unused PolicyKit configure check
* Lazily initialize the notification service for faster startup
* Fix various memory leaks
* Warn user if CA certificate is left blank in the editor for 802.1x
* Disabled creation of WPA-protected Ad-Hoc WiFi networks due to kernel bugs


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network-manager-applet-0.9.2
Overview of changes since network-manager-applet-0.9.0
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This is a new stable release of network-manager-applet.  Notable changes include:

* New private library for wireless and mobile dialogs
* iso-codes package used for translated country names in the mobile broadband wizard
* Select user's home directory by default for VPN import
* Show VPN details in the Connection Information dialog
* Allow auto-unlocking of GSM modems
* Fix crash of Bluetooth widget after pairing