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NetworkManager 1.0.6 Exposes Metered Connections, Configures WoL

Written by Michael Larabel in GNOME on 27 August 2015 at 03:48 PM EDT. 13 Comments

The GNOME team responsible for NetworkManager have announced the release of NetworkManager 1.0.6 as yet another update prior to NetworkManager 1.2.

NetworkManager 1.0.6 features improved robustness, improves capture portal detection,WiFi connections are now preferred over mobile broadband connections, exposing information if a connection is metered, and NetworkManager can now configure Wake-On-LAN for Ethernet hardware.

More details on NetworkManager 1.0.6 can be found via this blog post by Lubomir Rintel.

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