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This release is pretty much 2.1.0 unless I broke something badly. Barring any problems, I’ll probably rename it and release it as 2.1.0 next week once I’ve updated the documentation. Then I can start on 2.2.

The changelog can be found on Gitweb – It’s mostly bugfixes and some random quirks that some messed up drivers need.

Probably the most boring release in ages

James

So it took more than a few days, but it’s in [testing].

The changes in this release:

netcfg v2.1.0 beta 2

• Remove driver specific hacks/quirks, and require them to be opt-in via config option
• Separate automagic connection code from net-profiles
• Fix various bugs (not all flyspray reports have been closed yet, will do tomorrow)
• Add option to run iwconfig with whatever arguments before connecting (all wireless setups)

More details on the netcfg2 git branch on projects.archlinux.org

Documentation for the changes is found on the Network Profiles development wiki page.

The plan from here?

Rather than going for a big change like jumping right to netcfg3 I’ll work on incremental releases.

My aim for this release is to focus on compatibility and getting everything working well as support for many drivers and configurations seems to be sucking now. After I’ve acheived  that to a reasonable standard I’ll move onto 2.2, where I’ll move to a wpa_supplicant and iputils based setup.

Lots of people are sorta interested in spaceflight and what’s happening but haven’t got much time to follow it or don’t know where to go. So before you get bored and close this tab/window…. see if one of the below links sounds interesting.

Some of these are great if you have five minutes and want to get a quick rundown on whats happening, others have so much content that you could spend hours reading.

Here’s a summary of what I’ve found to be the better websites on the internet, and what they cover. This list is by no means complete.

Planetary Exploration (Rovers on Mars, Landers, Orbiters, Exploration Probes)

• Planetary Society Blog – Daily updates on the big events in exploration, and a weekly run down of all the big missions.
• If you find an interesting mission, take a look at that mission’s individual website. Often they’ll have blogs or news updates, and more recently many have been twittering.

Manned Spaceflight (People in space, spacewalks. Space Shuttle, Space Station)

• SpaceflightNow – Good articles, daily updates. The video section is worth the subscription, even if you just get a month subscription during a shuttle mission.

• NASASpaceflight – Concise thorough articles, can be technical at times but breaks the best news first and with all the details. Good source to follow news on Project Constellation (Ares I/Orion) which will replace the Shuttle. The free video section is also very impressive.

Insider info (news before it breaks, technical details, internal documentation)

• Unmanned Spaceflight
• NASASpaceflight – For inside information, NASASpaceflight is again brilliant. An L2 subscription offers an incredible range of videos and information, from internal presentations to shuttle and crew manuals/checklists.

It’s in core.

I meant to move it there a while ago, but busy life and a few bugs held it back for a bit. There’ll be an update for it in the next few days too.

pacman -S core/netcfg