2021-06-29 18:38:39

by Stephen Hemminger

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Subject: [ANNOUNCE] iproute2 5.13

It's been too hot here, but still Linus manages to get a kernel out.
So its time for another version of iproute2. This is a small release
must be the weather.

Note: iproute2 is now maintained on the "main" branch.
There are parallel copies (both updated) on kernel.org and github.

As always, it is recommended to always use the latest iproute2.
Do not treat iproute2 like perf and require matching packages.
The latest code will always run on older kernels (and vice versa);
this is possible because of the kernel API/ABI guarantees.
Except for rare cases, iproute2 does not do maintenance releases
and there is no long term stable version.


Download:
https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/net/iproute2/iproute2-5.13.0.tar.gz

Repository for current release
https://github.com/shemminger/iproute2.git
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/network/iproute2/iproute2.git

And future release (net-next):
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/network/iproute2/iproute2-next.git

Contributions:

Andrea Claudi (1):
lib: move get_task_name() from rdma

Baowen Zheng (1):
police: add support for packet-per-second rate limiting

Ben Hutchings (2):
utils: Fix BIT() to support up to 64 bits on all architectures
devlink: Fix printf() type mismatches on 32-bit architectures

Chunmei Xu (1):
ip-nexthop: support flush by id

Cooper Lees (1):
Add Open/R to rt_protos

David Ahern (2):
Update kernel headers
Update kernel headers

Florian Westphal (2):
mptcp: add support for event monitoring
libgenl: make genl_add_mcast_grp set errno on error

Hoang Le (1):
tipc: use the libmnl functions in lib/mnl_utils.c

Ido Schimmel (3):
nexthop: Add ability to specify group type
nexthop: Add support for resilient nexthop groups
nexthop: Add support for nexthop buckets

Nikolay Aleksandrov (7):
bridge: rename and export print_portstate
bridge: add parse_stp_state helper
bridge: vlan: add option set command and state option
libnetlink: add bridge vlan dump request helper
bridge: vlan: add support for the new rtm dump call
bridge: monitor: add support for vlan monitoring
bridge: vlan: dump port only if there are any vlans

Paolo Abeni (1):
mptcp: add support for port based endpoint

Parav Pandit (4):
devlink: Use library provided string processing APIs
utils: Introduce helper routines for generic socket recv
devlink: Use generic socket helpers from library
devlink: Add error print when unknown values specified

Petr Machata (2):
json_print: Add print_tv()
nexthop: Extract a helper to parse a NH ID

Roi Dayan (1):
devlink: Fix link errors on some systems

Roman Mashak (1):
ss: update ss man page

Sabrina Dubroca (1):
ip: xfrm: add support for tfcpad

Stephen Hemminger (4):
uapi: update kernel headers to 5.13-rc6
man: fix syntax for ip link property
uapi: update headers to 5.13
v5.13.0

Tony Ambardar (1):
ip: drop 2-char command assumption