Month: February 2022

Netplan v0.104 is now available

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I’m happy to announce that netplan.io version 0.104 is now available on Github and has been uploaded into the next Ubuntu LTS release, code name “Jammy”: netplan.io 0.104-0ubuntu1! This is a big release that has been brought to you by 10 contributors around the globe.

Changelog:

  • Enable embedded-switch-mode setting on SmartNICs (#253)
  • Permit multiple patterns for the driver globs in match (#202), LP#1918421
  • Improve routing capabilities (#248), LP#1892272, LP#1805038
  • Support additional link offload options for networkd (#225) (#242), LP#1771740
    • receive-checksum-offload, transmit-checksum-offload, tcp-segmentation-offload,
      tcp6-segmentation-offload, generic-segmentation-offload, generic-receive-offload,
      large-receive-offload
  • Consolidate enum-to-string arrays (#230)
  • Handle differing ip6-privacy default value for NetworkManager (#263)
  • YAML state tracking (--state rootdir) for DBus API and netplan try (#231), LP#1943120
  • Support ConfigureWithoutCarrier (ignore-carrier) for networkd (#215)
  • Move primary git branch master to main
  • Documentation improvements (#226)
  • Compatibility for glib-2.70 (#235)
  • Cleanup Makefile, install only public headers
  • Improve test reliability & enable integration testing CI for autopkgtests
  • Netplan get to use the libnetplan parser (#252)
  • libnetplan:
    • introduce the notion of NetplanState (#232)
    • use an explicit parser context (#233)
    • expose coherent generator APIs (#239)
    • improve overall error handling (#234)
    • consolidation of YAML parsing into the library (#241, #249, #250, #251)
  • Restrict the symbol export to a determined public API (#227)
    • WARNING: We dropped some internal symbols from the API that we know
      have no external consumers (that we are aware of)
    • 0.103: _serialize_yaml, contains_netdef_type, tmp, validate_default_route_consistency
    • 0.102: cur_filename, netplan_netdef_new
    • 0.100: address_option_handlers, is_hostname, validate_ovs_target, wireguard_peer_handlers
    • 0.99: current_file, is_ip4_address, is_ip6_address, missing_id,
      missing_ids_found, parser_error, validate_backend_rules, validate_netdef_grammar,
      yaml_error

Bug fixes:

  • Fix removal of defunct OVS vlan interfaces (#256), LP#1959147
  • Make ConfigManager cleanup on destruction (#259), LP#1959729
  • Do not write unvalidated YAML from keyfile (#247), LP#1952967
  • Disable temporary address generation for real with NetworkManager (#244), LP#1948027
    • this is a slight change in behavior for NM, but is in line with the docs
      and implementation of the networkd backend renderer
  • Ignore empty YAML hints and delete files on set network=null (#246), LP#1946957
  • Wait for ‘netplan try’ to be ready in DBus API (#245), LP#1949893
  • Initialize self.state in apply (#243), LP#1949104
  • Driver fallback to nl80211 and/or wext for wpa_supplicant (#240), LP#1814012
  • Handle missing gateway in keyfile routes, keep dns-search fallback (#238)
  • Make it possible to unset a whole devtype subtree (#236), LP#1942930
  • Fix normalization of multiple keys on a single dict in tests (#229)
  • Add default-routes feature flag
  • Fix memory leaks, dangling pointers & overall cleanup of API data (#228)
  • Small whitespace and formatting fixes & shipping EditorConfig (#224)