Subject: [ANNOUNCE] iproute 4.8

From: Stephen Hemminger <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 9 Oct 2016 19:05:07 -0700

Release of iproute2 for Linux 4.8, slightly late because of netdev.

Update to iproute2 utility to support new features in Linux 4.8.
Includes support for MACSEC and ILA.
Plus the usual array of documentation and minor fixes.

Source:
  http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/net/iproute2/iproute2-4.8.0.tar.gz

Repository:
  git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/shemminger/iproute2.git

Report problems (or enhancements) to the [email-masked] mailing list.

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Andrey Jr. Melnikov (1):
      iproute: disallow ip rule del without parameters

David Ahern (1):
      ip rule: Add support for l3mdev rules

Davide Caratti (5):
      macsec: fix input of 'port', improve documentation of 'address'
      man: ip.8: add missing 'macsec' item to OBJECT list
      macsec: fix byte ordering on input/display of 'sci'
      tc: don't accept qdisc 'handle' greater than ffff
      macsec: fix input range of 'icvlen' parameter

Eric Dumazet (1):
      ip: report IFLA_GSO_MAX_SIZE and IFLA_GSO_MAX_SEGS

Gustavo Zacarias (1):
      ss: fix build with musl libc

Hangbin Liu (5):
      nstat: add sctp snmp support
      gitignore: Ignore 'tags' file generated by ctags
      ip route: check ftell, fseek return value
      misc/ss: tcp cwnd should be unsigned
      ip: Use specific slave id

Hannes Frederic Sowa (1):
      iptuntap: show processes using tuntap interface

Igor Ryzhov (1):
      fix netlink message length checks

Iskren Chernev (1):
      iproute: fix documentation for ip rule scan order

Jamal Hadi Salim (2):
      actions: skbedit add support for mod-ing skb pkt_type
      tc classifiers: Modernize tcindex classifier

Jiri Benc (2):
      vxlan: group address requires net device
      tunnels: use macros for IPv6 address comparison

Liping Zhang (1):
      ipmonitor: fix ip monitor can't work when NET_NS is not enabled

Nikolay Aleksandrov (1):
      ip: route: fix multicast route dumps

Or Gerlitz (1):
      devlink: Add e-switch support

Phil Sutter (4):
      man: ip-link.8: Document missing geneve options
      ip-link: add missing {min,max}_tx_rate to help text
      ip-route: Prevent some double spaces in output
      iproute: fix documentation for ip rule scan order

Richard Alpe (2):
      tipc: fix UDP bearer synopsis
      tipc: refactor bearer identification

Roman Mashak (3):
      police: add extra space to improve police result printing
      police: improve usage message
      police: bug fix man page

Roopa Prabhu (2):
      bridge: print_vlan: add missing check for json instance
      bridge: print_vlan: add missing check for json instance

Sabrina Dubroca (4):
      libgenl: introduce genl_init_handle
      macsec: show usage even if the module is not available
      fou: show usage even if the module is not available
      ila: show usage even if the module is not available

Simon Horman (1):
      iproute2: correct port in FOU/GRE example

Stephen Hemminger (14):
      minor header update from net-next
      fib_rules.h update header file
      iprule: whitespace cleanup
      update kernel headers (net-next)
      update kernel header (4.7 net-next)
      update headers files to current net-next
      include: update net-next XDP headers
      update kernel headers
      update BPF headers
      devlink: whitespace cleanup
      remove useless return statement
      ip: iptuntap cleanup
      update kernel headers from 4.8-rc4
      v4.8.0

Sushma Sitaram (1):
      tc: f_u32: Fill in 'linkid' provided by user

Thomas Graf (1):
      tuntap: Add name attribute to usage text

Tom Herbert (6):
      ila: Support for checksum neutral translation
      ila: Support for configuring ila to use netfilter hook
      ip6tnl: Support for fou encapsulation
      gre6: Support for fou encapsulation
      fou: Allowing configuring IPv6 listener
      ipila: Fixed unitialized variables

WANG Cong (1):
      tc: fix a misleading failure

Xin Long (1):
      ip route: restore_handler should check tb[RTA_PREFSRC] for local networks

Yotam Gigi (2):
      tc: Add support for the matchall traffic classifier.
      tc: man: Add man entry for the matchall classifier.

anuradhak (1):
      bridge: Fix garbled json output seen if a vlan filter is specified