Lubomir Rintel announced that the development of the NetworkManager 1.8 major release kicked off with the availability of the first snapshot, versioned 1.7.2, for public testing.
NetworkManager 1.7.2 is out and is a development release that lets us get an early taste of what’s coming in the stable NetworkManager 1.8 build. Among the biggest new features added so far, we can mention support for handling PINs for PKCS#11 tokens as secrets and implementation of an MTU property for both CDMA and GSM connections.
There’s also a new option that allows users to disable selected Transport Layer Security (TLS) versions during EAP (Extensible Authentication Protocol) phase 1 authentication, as well as support for configuring the 802.1x authentication timeout to allow for faster fallback to other available network connections.
Settings of bonding devices can be modified on the fly
Another interesting change coming to the major NetworkManager 1.8 release is … (read more)
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