ConnMan 1.10 was released Saturday, December 22nd, 2012.
The new big feature in this release is the VPN handling which is now done using a separate daemon
With the introduction of the standalone VPN daemon, ConnMan D-Bus interfaces have not been changed and the net.connman.Manager.ConnectProvider D-Bus method call works as before. The only update to the D-Bus method call is an enhancement where VPN connections which are already connected or are in the process of being connected are reported properly. ConnMan uses D-Bus to auto-activate the VPN daemon, and the VPN daemon will shut down automatically if there are no VPNs configured. The VPN daemon provides an Agent API where the daemon can request VPN specific information from the user. The VPN Agent API is described in doc/vpn-agent.txt with more information about the daemon available in doc/vpn-overview.txt, doc/vpn-manager-api.txt and doc/vpn-connection-api.txt.
A big thanks goes to Jukka Rissanen who pulled all of the VPN implementation together!
In addition to the VPN daemon, other noticable changes are:
- More robust DNS proxying when used behind an overly aggressive firewall (Forest Bond). The DNS proxy code was also improved for situations where interfaces were removed (Patrik Flykt).
- WiFi dongle removal fixes (Patrik Flykt)
- The experimental Session API has received initial policy plugin support (Daniel Wagner)
The next version of ConnMan will remove support for WiMAX as the code has not really been maintained for a long time. Also the settings migration code for ConnMan versions 0.77 and earlier is scheduled for removal. As ConnMan version 0.78 already implements the current format, we don't expect this to be a problem to anybody.
Thanks for all the hard work and bugfixes go to Daniel Wagner, Danny Jeongseok Seo, Emil Renner Berthing, Forest Bond, Johan Hedberg, Jukka Rissanen, Lucas De Marchi, Luiz Augusto von Dentz, Marcel Holtmann, Patrik Flykt, Syam Sidhardhan, Szymon Janc, BMW, Intel, ProFUSION, RapidRollout, Samsung and Tieto.
ConnMan 1.10 can be downloaded from:
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/network/connman/
ConnMan is available via git at:
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/network/connman/connman.git
Web interface to the git repository:
http://git.kernel.org/?p=network/connman/connman.git;a=summary