RHBA-2021:1748 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

An update for nmstate is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.

Description

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat
Enterprise Linux 8.4 Release Notes linked from the References section.

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure all previously released errata
relevant to your system have been applied.

For details on how to apply this update, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 8 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 8 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian 8 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 8 aarch64

Fixes

• BZ - 1789246 - RFE: Support NetworkManager unmanaged interface
• BZ - 1811605 - Bond: fail to add updelay when miimon is set first
• BZ - 1812786 - Fail to create bond with 'active_slave' and 'updelay' both been set
• BZ - 1817925 - RFE: Differentiate running config and saved config
• BZ - 1822140 - RFE: Manage state for route rules
• BZ - 1837966 - RFE: Provide config option for route-table for dynamic ipv4 and ipv6
• BZ - 1841017 - RFE: Allow IP over InfiniBand (IPoIB) device to be configured
• BZ - 1855160 - Got failure when change bridge multicast-snooping from false to true
• BZ - 1855227 - Need to remove twice if a bridge slave was enslaved outside nmstate
• BZ - 1857366 - RFE - Support VRF interfaces in nmstate
• BZ - 1859193 - time out when remove 300 bridges and vlans
• BZ - 1862047 - RFE: Support ignoring certain interface when applying network state
• BZ - 1862702 - Fail to add runtime bond to NetworkManager after rollback
• BZ - 1865733 - RFE: Support creating OVS internal interface with the same name of OVS bridge
• BZ - 1867504 - RFE: Provide a way to configure ovs database tables
• BZ - 1867990 - Bond mode change deactivates the profile and in some cases removes the parent VLAN
• BZ - 1868574 - Report applied when creating ovs internal interface without ovs bridge
• BZ - 1871360 - Taking an interface absent does not ignore invalid ip
• BZ - 1872618 - nmstate sometimes fail to create desired connection when attaching many networks at once
• BZ - 1873217 - Failed when including lowercase in bridge option group-addr
• BZ - 1873698 - ovsdb: support to modify external_ids of system interface
• BZ - 1881287 - RFE: Promoting nmstate from TechPreview to Full Support
• BZ - 1886334 - libnmstate.show() crashes when OVS bridge, port and internal interface have the same name and managed by NM
• BZ - 1887518 - When adding host to RHV-M with LACP bond, '"ad_actor_system=00:00:00:00:00:00' is appended to bond configuration
• BZ - 1892178 - Cannot configure IP on member ports of a vrf device
• BZ - 1894139 - [RFE] Support VETH interface type
• BZ - 1896934 - Duplicate default route if interface configured manually with ipv4.gateway and metric
• BZ - 1900657 - Failure at nmstatectl show with ovs bridge port with vxlan at OCP 4.7
• BZ - 1903712 - OVS bridge port is deleted when creating a linux-bridge in an Openshift-SDN cluster
• BZ - 1904299 - sort the OVS ports by name
• BZ - 1906307 - Bond iface API doesn't provide means for selecting MAC used for the bond iface
• BZ - 1908724 - [SR-IOV] [i40e] After setting SR-IOV number of VFs, nmstate reports success before VFs links are created in kernel
• BZ - 1909729 - Only a default gw is supported per device
• BZ - 1915459 - RFE: Support bond vlan+srcmac tx hashing option
• BZ - 1915631 - failed to take a veth up and attach it to a vrf at the same time
• BZ - 1917813 - Creating vlan interface on top of a bond device at OVN Kubernetes fails
• BZ - 1920059 - Nmstate cannot remove old IPv6 default gateways
• BZ - 1930019 - [SR-IOV] nmstate shouldn't try to activate VF profiles
• BZ - 1931355 - [SR-IOV][i40e] nmstate returns before links are created, only when number of VFs is reduced
• BZ - 1931751 - "ERROR: State editing already in progress" returns 0 in bash
• BZ - 1932247 - Veths attached to nmstate controlled bridge become managed

CVEs

(none)

References

• https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/8/html/8.4_release_notes/index