NetworkManager Community Meetup
summary
Release notes for NetworkManager 1.30 land in Fedora 34 and Debian unstable with concrete changes: WPA3 Enterprise stronger authentication, virtual ethernet support, and big initrd generator improvements that let NetworkManager manage networking early in boot. CI and testing ramp up, and integration with nm-state and Ansible role enables automated profile creation and rollbacks. WireGuard gains nmtui and nm-applet support, bridges gain a copy-mac-from property, and VPN tips include using negative DNS priority to enforce VPN DNS; work on safer VPN plugins is planned.
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chapters (13)
- 0:00Welcome
- 1:30NetworkManager 1.30 highlights
- 6:15nmstate introduction
- 7:41Q&A bridging interfaces
- 13:05WireGuard in nmtui
- 21:03Hot-plugging network cards
- 22:15Shreya on WireGuard
- 25:39Marketing NetworkManager features
- 31:02Documentation improvements
- 37:03Community channels
- 40:22Code walkthroughs for contributors
- 42:09VPN plugin plans
- 47:00Final Q&A
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