1.7.1 released
Written for wicd by David Paleino on 2012-02-02
WICD 1.7.1 has been released tonight!
Here's the NEWS entry:
Changes for Packagers:
- You will now want to use the --python option to setup.py configure to
make sure the right Python (python2.x) is used. With the Python 3
transition in progress, the lack of uniformity across distros made it
difficult to find a solution that works everywhere. As a result, the
python executable path can be set (for subprocesses launched by Wicd)
with the --python option to setup.py configure, and patching of the
shebang lines may be required if `which python` is not python2.x.
- If you handle translations in your packaging process, setup.py now
needs 'pybabel' and 'xgettext' binaries. Please provide them during
the build process.
- setup.py now accepts three more parameters: --dbus-service=, --systemd=
and --logrotate=. Please set them accordingly to the paths of your
distribution.
Major Changes:
- (New) upstream author: David Paleino :)
- The translations are now handled by Rosetta, in Launchpad.
- Implemented support for wired connections needing authentication with
wpa_supplicant (thanks Joe MacMahon!)
- Support 'Never show networks' (thanks Robin Becker!)
- Mask out sensitive information in the logfile (CVE-2012-0813)
Minor Changes:
- Now uses gtkbuilder instead of libglade
- Fixed bug in script macro expansion
- Fixed typo in EAP-fast template
- Applied 1 patch from Archlinux (thanks Rémy Oudompheng)
- Fixed Python 2.7 support
- Works if Python3 is the default Python
- Applied 14 patches from Debian (big thank you to everyone
who contributed):
- Includes translations in source tarball
- Improved documentation
- Fixed resolv.conf permissions
- Ignore configparser errors
- Several others, please see CHANGES for more details
- Proper localization of all the code has been put in place -- every part
of the UIs and the daemon should be translated/
- Fixed various bugs with 'unicode in ESSID' handling
- Implemented rfkill-support
- Generalized libc linking using ctypes' find_library()
- Fixed wireless connecting status message, now shows the correct ESSID
- Support wifi-channels with more than 2 digits
- Implemented in-GUI password hiding
- Implemented -t/--tray to only run the wicd-gtk tray icon
- Support alternative ifconfig output style
