1 Summary of Changes from 1.0-pre5 to 1.0-pre6
2 ================================================
3 Christopher Aillon <caillon@redhat.com>
4 o Use $(libdir) instead of $(prefix)/lib for 64bit awesomeness.
6 Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
7 o Extend nl_msg to include source address, destination address
8 and the protocol being used.
9 o Make nl_send*() take a nl_msg instead of a nlmsghdr (API BREAK)
10 o Change callbacks to take a nl_msg instead of source address
11 and nlmsghdr (API BREAK)
12 o caches must specify the protocol they're hooked up from now on
13 if they intend to be associated with message types.
14 o cache_mngt_associate now takes the protocol besides the message
15 type to allow for multiple protocols to be supported (API BREAK)
16 o overwrite destination address in nl_send() when specified in the
17 message itself, allows for unbound addressing.
18 o Support for netlink based fib_lookup()
20 o Fix double nlmsg_free() in nl_recvmsgs() while receiving
21 a multipart message and the read was interrupted.
22 o Change cache operations to store names for message types.
23 o Provide interface to convert message type to character string.
24 o Add dp_dump_msgtype to prefix each dumped element with a
25 pretty printed message type.
26 o netlink fib lookup support
27 o nl_recvmsgs() debugging
28 o use nl_cachemngt_type2name() when pretty printing netlink header
29 o Routing protocol translations.
30 o Routing metric translations.
31 o Revised route dumping
32 o Nexthop flag translations.
33 o Add support for IFF_DORMANT
35 Petr Gotthard <petr.gotthard@siemens.com>
36 Siemens AG Oesterreich
37 o Fix access to obj after freeing it
38 o Fix u32 selector access after realloc()
39 o Fix missing out-of-memory error handling in various places
40 o Enhance nl-monitor to have group selection selectable and
41 demonstrate usage of select()
42 o Don't ignore IFF_RUNNING any longer
43 o fw classifier support
45 Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
46 o Fix conflicting types for __u64
47 o Fix printf format string warnings
49 o Deal with structure padding in nl_object_clone
51 o Set ce_msgtype in all parsed objects
52 o Fix addr flag filter
53 o Fix RTNLGRP definitions (was based on broken kernel version)
54 o Export nl_get_errno()
55 o Add function to get/set peer pid
57 o Add/export some missing accessor functions
58 o print /0 prefix in nl_addr2str()
59 o Fix invalid free in nl_addr_parse for AF_UNSPEC addresses
60 o Use __str2flags instead of __str2type in rtnl_link_str2flags()
61 o Make sure object and filter types match in nl_object_match()
62 o Add support for credential passing over netlink sockets (API BREAK)
63 o Add support for custom dump callbacks
64 o Add NL_DUMP_ENV format
66 Michael Biebl <biebl@teco.edu>
67 "Alex V. Myltsev" <avm@altlinux.ru>
71 Summary of Changes from 1.0-pre4 to 1.0-pre5
72 ================================================
73 Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
74 o Use minimized local copies for <linux/if.h>, <linux/if_arp.h>,
75 and <linux/if_ether.h> to avoid compile troubles with
76 applications including <net/if*.h>
77 Reported by Christopher Aillon.
79 Summary of Changes from 1.0-pre3 to 1.0-pre4
80 ================================================
81 Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
82 o Fix wrong rtnl_addr_set_prefixlen() external declaration,
83 reported by Dan Williams.
84 o Fix nl_addr_parse() to not change the original string
86 o Do not build documentation per default, but have the user
88 o Assume neighbours to be permanent, set NUD_PERMANENT if not
91 Summary of Changes from 1.0-pre2 to 1.0-pre3
92 ================================================
93 Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
94 o Fix SFQ parser to allocate qdisc options.
95 o Fix rule statistics dumping to not call itself.
96 o Complete Netem qdisc interface.
97 o Add rtnl_*_put() and rtnl_*_free() to increase readability.
98 o Cleanup of nl-* tools
99 o Fix inclusion guards of route/neightbl.h
100 o Fix nl_connect() to only modify rx/tx socket buffers if not
101 already modified by the user.
102 o Fix wrong nl_handle_alloc() prototype.
103 o Fix typo in route/addr.c causing label to be marked as
105 o Use ~0UL as default prefix length instead of 0.
106 o Fix neighbour message parser to correctly store core.
107 attributes and provide them again.
108 o Fix neighbour message parser to correctly guess address family.
109 to make it compatible with nl_addr_parse() and ether llc
111 o Add rtnl_route_table2str(), rtnl_route_str2table().
112 o Add nl_cache_nitems_filter() to find out if a filter produces
114 o Remove rtnl_rule_set_(dst|src)_str() (obsolete).
115 o Remove scope and protocol field of routing rule.
116 o Complete routing rules module.
117 o Move realms translations from route to rtnl module.
119 Summary of Changes from 1.0-pre1 to 1.0-pre2
120 ================================================
121 Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
122 o More API documentation
123 o Added flags argument to rtnl_addr_(add|build_add_request)().
124 o Added rtnl_addr_(set|get)_multicast().
125 o Moved scope translations routines from route/route.c to
126 route/rtnl.c, required by other modules as well.
127 o Removed old rtattr bits from rtnetlink-kernel.h
128 o Customized libnl.css for doxygen documentation
129 o Removed non-reentrant translation routines, only bloating
130 the code and too risky.
131 o Fixed wrong version number from 1.0-pre1.
132 o Reenabled unfinished policer module.
133 o Reworked TBF module, automatic caluclation of transmit times,
134 limit setable via latency, automatic cell size calculation,
135 options TLV generation. (untested)
136 o Renamed nl_xmittime() to rtnl_tc_calc_txtime().
137 o Renamde nl_build_rtable() to rtnl_tc_build_rate_table()
139 Petr Gotthard <petr.gotthard@siemens.com>,
140 Siemens AG Oesterreich
141 o Fix symlinks to libnl library files to be moveable
142 o Fix extern struct prototypes meant to be static.
143 o Add empty install target to src/Makefile
145 Simon Stelling <blubb@gentoo.org>
146 o Use LIBDIR instead of $(prefix)/lib for users to alllow librariers
147 into $(prefix)/lib64.
149 Summary of Changes from 0.5.0 to 1.0-pre1
150 ================================================
151 Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
152 o Uncountable number of changes, rewrite of certain modules,
153 several major API breakages
155 Petr Gotthard <petr.gotthard@siemens.com>,
156 Siemens AG Oesterreich
157 o added class_build, rtnl_class_build_add_request, rtnl_class_add
158 o added HTB (Hierachical Token Bucket) class support
159 o added nl_xmittime, nl_build_rtable
160 o added nl_data_append to realloc a nl_data structure
161 o added rtnl_rcopy_ratespec as reverse to rtnl_copy_ratespec
162 o fixed byte order conversion of rtnl_filter.protocol
163 o SuSE and Fedora Linux compile fixes
164 o fixed u32 classifier support
165 o added rtnl_u32_set_handle, rtnl_u32_set_classid, rtnl_u32_set_flags
166 and several rtnl_u32_add_key_... operations to u32 classifier
168 Summary of Changes from 0.4.4 to 0.5.0
169 ================================================
170 Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
172 o nl_cache_filter to manually filter on a object
173 o partial routing support
174 o routing rules support
175 o Propely set address family when setting addresses
176 o debug flag and some rare messages, more to come
177 o make error mesage verboseness configureable
178 o tc fixes to wait for ack
179 o cleanup and adaption of address code to latest internal API
181 o dozens of API breakages (better now than later)
183 Daniel Hottinger <hotti@hotti.ch>
184 o arch 64bit printf length modifier fixes
186 Baruch Even <baruch@ev-en.org>,
187 Mediatrix Telecom, inc. <ericb@mediatrix.com>
190 Summary of changes from 0.4.3 to 0.4.4
191 ================================================
192 Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>:
193 o overall cleanups for better code quality
194 o replace dump_(brief|full|with_stats) ops with
195 dump[NL_DUMP_MAX] array to allow further additions without
197 o add of send_ack callback, called whenever when oppenent
199 o make nl_parse_rtattr initialize the tb buffer like in the
200 kernel, caller must no longer take care of it.
201 o remove nl_addrnattr (obsolete)
202 o fixed nl_msg_append_raw to correctly calculate length
203 for raw data not aligned to NLMSG_ALIGN
204 o fix memory leak in nl_recv in case of errors
205 o correctly check sequence numbers if more than one message
206 was sent out before the answer is being received.
207 o add workaround for buggy netlink applications not properly
210 Summary of changes from 0.4.2 to 0.4.3
211 ================================================
213 Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>:
214 o use parser_param in nl_cache_parse
215 o EGP: dump nfilters attribute
216 o allow retrieving of filters attached to classes via
217 FILTER_CACHE_PARENT(C) cache argument
218 o filter message building API
220 Summary of changes from 0.4.1 to 0.4.2
221 ================================================
223 Baruch Even <baruch@ev-en.org>:
224 o memory leak fix in nl_parse_rtattr
225 o reset padding to 0 when appending raw data to a nl_msg
226 o avoid overwriting nlmsg ptr when buffer extending fails
228 o create symlinks libnl.so.0 and libnl.so
230 Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>:
231 o EGP classifier support
232 o avoid null pointer in printf call
233 o added nl_cache_parse to put nl_msg's into a cache
234 o added rtnl_filter_build to build a nl_msg filter message
235 o correctly install header files
236 o nl_msg_payload/nl_msg_payloadlen to access nl_msg payload
237 o nl_parse_nested macro to simplify nested TLV parsing
238 o NL_ERROR_ASSERT compile flag to assert(0) on errors
239 o rta alignment fix in nl_msg_append_tlv
240 o added nl_msg_parse_rtattr as shortcut for nl_parse_rtattr
242 o added nl_parse_nested for nested TLVs
243 o added RTA_ARRAY_ELEMS macro to calculate array length
245 o added nl_wait_for_ack to wait for the next ack
246 o added rtnl_link_build_change_request(...)
247 o added rtnl_neigh_build_*_request
248 o converted neighbour code to use nl_wait_for_ack
249 o cb_recvmsgs_ow callback to overwrite internal calls to
251 o cb_seq_check callback to overwrite default sequence checking
252 o added nl_parser_param as argument for message parsers including
253 a callback to be called upon successful parsing of a message.
254 Removes the requirement of having all parsed messages to be added
256 o added cb_recv_ow and nl_send_ow callbacks to overwrite internal
257 calls to nl_recv and nl_send.
259 Jamal Hadi Salim <hadi@cyberus.ca>
260 o Linux 2.4 compile fixes