After 1.22.0 is released, merge it back into master so that
1.22.0 is part of the history of master. That means,
$ git log --first-parent master
will also traverse 1.22.0 and 1.22-rc*.
Also bump the micro version to 1.23.1-dev to indicate that this is
after 1.22.0 is out.
We always build with PolicyKit support enabled, because it has no
additional dependencies, beside some D-Bus calls.
However, in NetworkManager.conf the user could configure
"main.auth-polkit" to disable PolicyKit. However, previously it would
only allow to disable PolicyKit while granting access to all users.
I think it's useful to have an option that disables PolicyKit and grants
access only to root. I think we should not go too far in implementing
our own authorization mechanisms beside PolicyKit (e.g. you cannot
disable PolicyKit and grant access based on group membership of the
user). However, disabling PolicyKit can be useful sometimes, and it's
simple to implement a "root-only" setup.
Note one change is that when NetworkManager now runs without a D-Bus
connection (in initrd), it would deny all non-root requests. Previously
it would grant access. I think there should be little difference in
practice, because if we have no D-Bus we also don't have any requests to
authenticate.
(cherry picked from commit 6d7446e52f)
We always build with PolicyKit support enabled, because it has no
additional dependencies, beside some D-Bus calls.
However, in NetworkManager.conf the user could configure
"main.auth-polkit" to disable PolicyKit. However, previously it would
only allow to disable PolicyKit while granting access to all users.
I think it's useful to have an option that disables PolicyKit and grants
access only to root. I think we should not go too far in implementing
our own authorization mechanisms beside PolicyKit (e.g. you cannot
disable PolicyKit and grant access based on group membership of the
user). However, disabling PolicyKit can be useful sometimes, and it's
simple to implement a "root-only" setup.
Note one change is that when NetworkManager now runs without a D-Bus
connection (in initrd), it would deny all non-root requests. Previously
it would grant access. I think there should be little difference in
practice, because if we have no D-Bus we also don't have any requests to
authenticate.
After 1.20.0 is released, merge it back into master so that
1.20.0 is part of the history of master. That means,
$ git log --first-parent master
will also traverse 1.20.0 and 1.20-rc*.
Also bump the micro version to 1.21.1-dev to indicate that this is
after 1.20.0 is out.
The functionality of the ibft settings plugin is now handled by
nm-initrd-generator. There is no need for it anymore, drop it.
Note that ibft called iscsiadm, which requires CAP_SYS_ADMIN to work
([1]). We really want to drop this capability, so the current solution
of a settings plugin (as it is implemented) is wrong. The solution
instead is nm-initrd-generator.
Also, on Fedora the ibft was disabled and probably on most other
distributions as well. This was only used on RHEL.
[1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1371201#c7
After 1.18.0 is released, merge it back into master so that
1.18.0 is part of the history of master. That means,
$ git log --first-parent master
will also traverse 1.18.0 and 1.18-rc*.
Also bump the micro version to 1.19.1-dev to indicate that this is
after 1.18.0 is out.
This removes libnm-glib, libnm-glib-vpn, and libnm-util for good.
The it has been replaced with libnm since NetworkManager 1.0, disabled
by default since 1.12 and no up-to-date distributions ship it for years
now.
Removing the libraries allows us to:
* Remove the horrible hacks that were in place to deal with accidental use
of both the new and old library in a single process.
* Relief the translators of maintenance burden of similar yet different
strings.
* Get rid of known bad code without chances of ever getting fixed
(libnm-glib/nm-object.c and libnm-glib/nm-object-cache.c)
* Generally lower the footprint of the releases and our workspace
If there are some really really legacy users; they can just build
libnm-glib and friends from the NetworkManager-1.16 distribution. The
D-Bus API is stable and old libnm-glib will keep working forever.
https://github.com/NetworkManager/NetworkManager/pull/308
The 4th argument of AC_SEARCH_LIBS is a list of additional libraries,
not the name of the variable to hold the result which is always
ac_cv_search_$function. Also, we should ignore the result when it is
"none required".
Fixes: 1f2eeb85d8 ('build: rename $(LIBDL) to $(DL_LIBS) and modify detection')
This removes libnm-glib, libnm-glib-vpn, and libnm-util for good.
The it has been replaced with libnm since NetworkManager 1.0, disabled
by default since 1.12 and no up-to-date distributions ship it for years
now.
Removing the libraries allows us to:
* Remove the horrible hacks that were in place to deal with accidental use
of both the new and old library in a single process.
* Relief the translators of maintenance burden of similar yet different
strings.
* Get rid of known bad code without chances of ever getting fixed
(libnm-glib/nm-object.c and libnm-glib/nm-object-cache.c)
* Generally lower the footprint of the releases and our workspace
If there are some really really legacy users; they can just build
libnm-glib and friends from the NetworkManager-1.16 distribution. The
D-Bus API is stable and old libnm-glib will keep working forever.
https://github.com/NetworkManager/NetworkManager/pull/308
After 1.16.0 is released, merge it back into master so that
1.16.0 is part of the history of master. That means,
$ git log --first-parent master
will also traverse 1.16.0 and 1.16-rc*.
Also bump the micro version to 1.17.1-dev to indicate that this is
after 1.16.0 is out.
