Re: ANN: NetworkManager 0.9.8.4

[Pavel Simerda <psimerda redhat com>]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Dan Winship" <danw gnome org>
> To: networkmanager-list gnome org
> Sent: Thursday, September 19, 2013 5:26:26 PM
> Subject: ANN: NetworkManager 0.9.8.4
>
> On behalf of the other Dan, I'm pleased to announce the release of
> NetworkManager 0.9.8.4, network-manager-applet 0.9.8.4, and the
> associated VPN plugins (including network-manager-vpnc 0.9.8.*6*,
> because 0.9.8.4 was discovered to have a major bug).

Thanks! I only had limited time to follow NetworkManager news during the past couple of weeks due to new 
appointments.

> This release includes all the standard sorts of minor fixes,
> enhancements, and translation updates (which you can read more about in
> the NEWS files), but in particular also contains a new API which is used
> by gnome-shell 3.10 and which should result in more accurate network
> status icons.
>
> Everyone is encouraged to upgrade to this new stable release.
>
> Except for people who are using BlueZ 5.
>
> This version of NetworkManager is being released now to support the
> GNOME 3.10 release, but it does not include support for BlueZ 5. There
> will be a 0.9.8.6 release "soon" (but probably after GNOME 3.10.0) that
> will support being compiled against BlueZ, but will only support PAN and
> not DUN. (That is, it will support the mode where the bluetooth device
> shares its own network connection with NM, but not the mode where the
> bluetooth device acts as a mobile broadband modem, and NM has to be told
> the details of its GSM/CDMA connection.) DUN support will hopefully
> return in the next stable release.

Does that mean that with Bluez 4 both PAN and DUN will be still supported with the upcoming releases?

Cheers,

Pavel

> http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/NetworkManager/0.9/
> http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/network-manager-applet/0.9/
> http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/NetworkManager-vpnc/0.9/
> http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/NetworkManager-openconnect/0.9/
> http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/NetworkManager-openvpn/0.9/
> http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/NetworkManager-pptp/0.9/
> http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/NetworkManager-openswan/0.9/
>
> Dan (no, the other one) and the NetworkManager Team
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