NetworkManager 1.50 Adds Support for Configuring Wi-Fi Channel Width in AP Mode
NetworkManager 1.50 is here four months after NetworkManager 1.48 and introduces support matching an OVS system interface by MAC address, the ability to specify a system OVS interface by MAC address, support for multiple gateways for a single network, and support for configuring the channel width in AP mode for Wi-Fi.
It also adds support for configuring veth interfaces in the nmtui command line interface, a timeout option to connectivity checking, support for reapplying the VLANs on bridge ports, the ability to retry hostname resolution when it fails, and support for using sysctl ipv6.conf.default for ip6-privacy.
An update:
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NetworkManager 1.50 Released, Supports veth Config in Terminal UI
A new version of NetworkManager – used by most GNU/Linux distributions (including Ubuntu) to manage wired and wireless network connections – was released this week. NetworkManager 1.50 won’t be included in Ubuntu 24.10 (that ships with v1.48) but I think some of the changes it makes may be worth knowing about all the same. Notably, NetworkManager 1.50 now formally deprecates support for dhclient in favour of its own internal DHCP client. The former is now no longer be built “…unless explicitely (sic) enabled, and will be removed in a future release.” Will this have a major issue?