NetworkManager 1.4 Adds Support for Setting IPv6 Tokenized Interface Identifiers

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  • Post Updated: April 3, 2024

Today, August 24, 2016, Lubomir Rintel released the final build of the NetworkManager 1.4 open-source network connection manager software used by default in almost all GNU/Linux distributions.

NetworkManager 1.4 is now the latest stable and most advanced version of the widely-used software, replacing the NetworkManager 1.2 release, and promising to add many improvements to keep the quality of the application as high as possible, but also to fix those annoying issues reported by users from the previous maintenance update.

The biggest new features of NetworkManager 1.4 are the ability to set IPv6 tokenized interface identifiers by using the ‘ipv6.token’ connection property, support for oFono as modem manager, a new ‘VPN_PLUGIN’ logging domain, as well as support for automatic disconnection of network devices before the operating system suspends.

“Now devices are disconnected before the system suspends, executing dispatcher scripts. This allows external applications … (read more)

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