ANN: NetworkManager 0.8.4 released

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

Hi,

I'm pleased to announce the release of the latest stable version of
NetworkManager, version 0.8.4.  This release contains a number of new
features and many bug fixes.  Notable improvements are:

- [core] IPv6 setup, addressing, and routing fixes
- [core] Improvements to DNS and local-caching-nameserver setups
- [core] No longer updates /etc/hosts when hostname changes
- [core] Request more options (including WPAD) from DHCP servers
- [core] Persistent hostname now sent to DHCP servers by default
- [core] Fixed WWAN enable/disable handling
- [core] Allows use of paths for certificates in configuration keyfiles
- [nm-applet] Allows MD5 as a wired 802.1x method
- [nm-applet] Show IPv6 information in Connection Info dialog
- [nm-applet] Fix crashes due to missing icons
- [editor] Fixes for connection editor insensitivity issues
- [openconnect] better handling of private keys
- [openvpn] better handling of unencrypted private keys
- [openvpn] fix issues with HTTP proxies
- [openvpn] handle secrets for system connections
- [pptp] fix issues with VPN server pools
- [vpnc] import/export fixes
- [vpnc] allow configuration of IKE DH Group option
- and a lot more...

A huge thanks to everyone who helped out with this release: Jiří Klimeš,
Michael Biebl, Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre, Ozan Çağlayan, Robby Workman, Mu
Qiao, Pierre Ossman, Mikhail Efremov, Andrey Borzenkov, Karsten Hopp,
Ionut Biru, Robert Piasek, Torsten Spindler, Richard Hughes, Radek
Vykydal, Canek Peláez Valdés, Wulf C. Krueger, and anyone I've
forgotten.

Tarballs are available here:

http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/NetworkManager/0.8/NetworkManager-0.8.4.0.tar.bz2
http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/network-manager-applet/0.8/network-manager-applet-0.8.4.tar.bz2
http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/NetworkManager-openconnect/0.8/NetworkManager-openconnect-0.8.4.tar.bz2
http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/NetworkManager-openvpn/0.8/NetworkManager-openvpn-0.8.4.tar.bz2
http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/NetworkManager-pptp/0.8/NetworkManager-pptp-0.8.4.tar.bz2
http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/NetworkManager-vpnc/0.8/NetworkManager-vpnc-0.8.4.tar.bz2

And with that, lets get 0.9 out the door and make it rock!

Dan