Re: NEWS entries / Announcement mails

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Fri, 2010-08-06 at 18:56 +0200, Dominique Leuenberger wrote:
> >>> On 08/06/2010 at 6:44 PM, Daenyth Blank <daenyth gmail com> wrote:
> > On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 11:52, Dominique Leuenberger
> > <Dominique Leuenberger tmf-group com> wrote:
> >> Hi everybody,
> >>
> >> I know you're all busy coding and enhancing NM, which is a good thing per
> >> se. Yet I would like to ask if anybody could once in a while spend some time
> >> extending the NEWS file or create a Announcement mail when a new version
> >> gets out?
> > 
> > Like this? 
> > http://blogs.gnome.org/dcbw/2010/08/02/determination-that-is-incorruptible/
> 
> Thanks, exactly something like this :)
> 
> Is there something similar to this for
> - NetworkManager-openvpn
> - NetworkManager-pptp
> - gnome-network-applet
> - NetworkManager-vpnc
> - ModemManager
> 
> ? As those certainly did get some love to on the road to 0.8.1, but it's at best related to what NM itself received.

Release announcement sent, bad Dan for the lag.  These days most
changelogs are redundant given great git history and web interfaces to
git.  Almost nobody updates them anymore.  What's usually missing is a
good overview of the changes that's lighter than the git history but
hits the hilights.

For the VPN plugins... all of them got updated translations, and
additionally:

- vpnc: added the "Force NAT-T" option
- openvpn: support for tun-mtu, fragment, and mss-fix options, PKCS#12
and PKCS#8 private keys, RIPEMD-160 HMAC auth, and better handling of
unencrypted private keys
- pptp: fix for MPPE and auth method GUI jitter and suppression of some
annoying PPTP warning messages
- openconnect: support proxy, 'key-from-fsid' settings, and Cisco Secure
Desktop thingy

Dan