dhcpcd-discuss

Re: dhcpcd-8.1.2 released

Nico Schottelius

Wed Nov 13 16:07:52 2019

Very nice, thanks for the quick release!

Best regards from Switzerland,

Nico

Roy Marples <roy@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Hi List
>
> dhcpcd-8.1.2 has been released with the following changes:
>  * hooks: STOPPED is now run on timeout and exit
>  * musl: Fix build
>  * Linux: Validate RTM_NEWADDR/RTM_DELADDR messages
>  * BSD: Use IP_REVCIF rather than IN_PKTINFO
>  * build: address sanitisation is enabled for debug builds
>  * build: Improve detection of dlsym requirements
>  * DHCP: When rebinding, ensure we have a DHCP ARP state
>  * RA: Sort routers when reachability changes
>  * RA: Apply hoplimit, reachable and retrans timer values to kernel
>  * RA: Warn if advertised MTU > interface MTU
>  * OpenBSD: Fix carrier detection for OpenBSD-6.6
>  * dhcpcd: Report SSID connection to when we gain carrier
>  * DHCP: Fix corruption of address flags when renewing
>
> The last issue was the cause of the recent report about dhcpcd pegging
> a CPU, so this is quite an important upgrade from 8.1.1
>
> ftp://roy.marples.name/pub/dhcpcd/dhcpcd-8.1.2.tar.xz
> https://roy.marples.name/downloads/dhcpcd/dhcpcd-8.1.2.tar.xz


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