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Netplan v0.107 is now available

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I’m happy to announce that Netplan version 0.107 is now available on GitHub and is soon to be deployed into a Linux installation near you! Six months and more than 200 commits after the previous version (including a .1 stable release), this release is brought to you by 8 free software contributors from around the globe.

Highlights

Highlights of this release include the new configuration types for veth and dummy interfaces:

network:
  version: 2
  virtual-ethernets:
    veth0:
      peer: veth1
    veth1:
      peer: veth0
  dummy-devices:
    dm0:
      addresses:
        - 192.168.0.123/24
      ...

Furthermore, we implemented CFFI based Python bindings on top of libnetplan’s API, that can easily be consumed by 3rd party applications (see full cffi-bindings.py example):

from netplan import Parser, State, NetDefinition
from netplan import NetplanException, NetplanParserException

parser = Parser()

# Parse the full, existing YAML config hierarchy
parser.load_yaml_hierarchy(rootdir='/')

# Validate the final parser state
state = State()
try:
    # validation of current state + new settings
    state.import_parser_results(parser)
except NetplanParserException as e:
    print('Error in', e.filename, 'Row/Col', e.line, e.column, '->', e.message)
except NetplanException as e:
    print('Error:', e.message)

# Walk through ethernet NetdefIDs in the state and print their backend
# renderer, to demonstrate working with NetDefinitionIterator &
# NetDefinition
for netdef in state.ethernets.values():
    print('Netdef', netdef.id, 'is managed by:', netdef.backend)
    print('Is it configured to use DHCP?', netdef.dhcp4 or netdef.dhcp6)

Changelog:

Bug fixes:

Netplan 0.106.1 stable release

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We are happy to announce that Netplan 0.106.1 is available for download on Ubuntu Mantic Minotaur and Debian testing.

This release includes some improvements in our documentation and CI infrastructure and a number of bug fixes.

What’s new in Netplan 0.106.1?

Documentation

Infrastructure

  • canonical/setup-lxd GitHub action. The autopkgtest environment creation was standardized to use Canonical’s setup-lxd action.
  • Snapd integrations tests with spread. A new test set for the Snapd integration with Netplan was introduced using the spread tool.
  • DBus. A number of DBus integration tests were added to the Debian package.

New features

  • Keyfile parser improvements. Our Network Manager keyfile parser (the capability of loading Network Manager configuration to Netplan YAML) was expanded to support all the types of tunnels supported by Netplan.

Misc

  • Ubuntu’s Code of Conduct 2.0 was added to the code repository.
  • We added a new bash autocompletion script with all the Netplan’s subcommands.
  • The new release package was synchronized with Debian.

Bug fixes

  • Keyfile parser. This release contains a couple of important fixes for the NetworkManager integration stability: 1) adding WPA enterprise connections is now working fine and new test cases were added to the package; 2) a WireGuard peer with allowed IPs that don’t include the network prefix are now accepted.
  • Netplan parser. A number of memory leaks and stability issues were fixed.
  • DBus. An issue related to how directory paths are built in the Netplan DBus service was causing issues in the Snapd integration and was fixed.

For the complete list of changes please consult the debian/changelog file in https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/netplan.io/+changelog

Netplan v0.106 is now available

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I’m happy to announce that Netplan version 0.106 is now available on GitHub and is soon to be deployed into an Ubuntu/Debian/Fedora installation near you! Six months and 65 commits after the previous version, this release is brought to you by 4 free software contributors from around the globe.

Highlights

Highlights of this release include the new netplan status command, which queries your system for IP addresses, routes, DNS information, etc… in addition to the Netplan backend renderer (NetworkManager/networkd) in use and the relevant Netplan YAML configuration ID. It displays all this in a nicely formatted way (or alternatively in machine readable YAML/JSON format).

Furthermore, we implemented a clean libnetplan API which can be used by external tools to parse Netplan configuration, migrated away from non-inclusive language (PR#303) and improved the overall Netplan documentation. Another change that should be noted, is that the match.macaddress stanza now only matches on PermanentMACAddress= on the systemd-networkd backend, as has been the case on the NetworkManager backend ever since (see PR#278 for background information on this slight change in behavior).

Changelog

Bug fixes:

Netplan v0.105 is now available

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I’m happy to announce that Netplan version 0.105 is now available on GitHub and is soon to be deployed into an Ubuntu/Debian installation near you! Six month and exactly 100 commits after the previous version, this release is brought to you by 7 free software contributors from around the globe.

Changelog

  • Add support for VXLAN tunnels (#288), LP#1764716
  • Add support for VRF devices (#285), LP#1773522
  • Add support for InfiniBand (IPoIB) (#283), LP#1848471
  • Allow key configuration for GRE tunnels (#274), LP#1966476
  • Allow setting the regulatory domain (#281), LP#1951586
  • Documentation improvements & restructuring (#287)
  • Add meson build system (#268)
  • Add abigail ABI compatibility checker (#269)
  • Update of Fedora RPM spec (#264)
  • CI improvements (#265, #282)
  • Netplan set uses the consolidated libnetplan YAML parser (#254)
  • Refactor ConfigManager to use the libnetplan YAML parser (#255)
  • New netplan_netdef_get_filepath API (#275)
  • Improve NetworkManager device management logic (#276), LP#1951653

Bug fixes

Updated: Openmoko Community Survey 2011

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Update 9.1.2012: results are updated.

As the year 2011 nears it’s end, we – the Openmoko Community – did a poll [0] about which is the most popular hardware and which is the most popular software in our community. The poll was open for one week now and we got votes from 73 people.

I decided to close the poll now and release the results to the public. To create a ranking I gave 1 point to a “YES” vote and 0.5 points to a “(YES)” vote. The maximum (100%) is 73 points.

Rankings

Software Side:

1. SHR                  112.5 points    (61%)
2. QtMoko                99.5 points    (54%)
3. Debian                75.5 points    (41%)
4. Other Distro          40.0 points    (22%)


Hardware Side:

1. Om GTA02             158.5 points    (86%)
2. Goldelico GTA04       71.0 points    (38%)
3. Nokia N900            34.0 points    (18%)
4. Other Device          26.0 points    (14%)
5. Palm Pre (+variants)  14.5 points    ( 8%)
6. Om GTA01               9.5 points    ( 5%)
7. Google Nexus S         7.0 points    ( 4%)

Conclusion

On the software side SHR is still the most popular distro, directly followed by QtMoko. Quiet a few people commented, that they intend to code their own software/GUI mostly to educated themselves.

On the hardware side the Om GTA02 is the clear winner (which was expected). Surprisingly the Goldelico GTA04 is the 2nd most interesting device in this community, even though very few people have one, yet. Still, most of the developers already own one and you should get yours soon [1], as it seems to become a common target of this community. The Palm Pre, Om GTA01 and Google Nexus S got very few points and thus are probably not worth to support…

Happy New Year

Now, i’d like to wish all you Open Hard- and Software-Enthusiasts out there a good start into the year 2012. I hope the GTA04 project will flourish in 2012 and will help our community to grow and free the phone again!

Links

[0] http://www.doodle.com/sh6insnivnvqyz7h
[1] http://www.handheld-linux.com/wiki.php?page=GTA04 Group Tour

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[update] ArchLinux auf Lenovo 3000

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Dieser Beitrag soll Erfahrungen, Tips und Tricks bzgl. der Installation und dem Betrieb von Arch Linux (Wikipedia: Arch Linux) auf einem Lenovo 3000 N200 Laptop festhalten und zu Verfügung stellen. Nach 2 Jahren Ubuntu Linux war der Umstieg ein (im Nachhinein absolut lohnenswerter) nötiger Schritt nachdem Ubuntu mit Version Gutsy hier bei gleichbleibenden Softwarepaketen erstens etwas langsamer und instabiler wurde, zweitens die Suspend- und Hibernatemodi des neu angeschafften Lenovo 3000 N200 (noch) nicht unterstützt werden. Ein Hinweis von Slyon zum richtigen Zeitpunkt reichte aus – Arch Linux ist sehr angenehm, die Installation klingt schwieriger als sie wirklich ist – und wenn der Codename mit ‘Don’t panic’ ein Zitat eines meiner Lieblingsautoren enthält muss das ja auch was werden…

(ein Artikel vom CoreBlog)

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KDE4 in Ubuntu Hardy!

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KDE4 IconIn letzter Zeit gab es viele Gerüchte, dass KDE4 im kommenden Ubuntu 8.04 “Hardy Heron” sein wird. Doch nun ist es offiziel. KDE4 wird in Hardy sein, auch wenn ohne Long Term Support.

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Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon Download

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Ubuntu GlassyLiebe Ubuntu-Community!

Es dauert nicht mehr lange bis die neue Ubuntu version (7.10) Gutsy Gibbon im finalen Zustand am 18. Oktober zum Download bereit steht. Deshalb möchte ich hiermit einen Rundruf starten, damit zum Tag des Releases auch jeder das neue Ubuntu downloaden kann und nicht ewig warten muss, weil die Ubuntu-Server total überlastet sind (wie beim Release von 7.04).

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