2021-12-29 release

[little-dude]

Versioning

• audit 0.4.0 -> 0.6.0 (botched 0.5.0 release)
• ethtool 0.1.0 -> 0.2.0
• genetlink 0.1.0 -> 0.2.0
• netlink-packet-audit 0.2.2 -> 0.4.0 (botched 0.4.0 release)
• netlink-packet-core 0.2.4 -> 0.4.1 (botched 0.3.0 release, 0.4.0 was published with downgraded dependencies to break cycles)
• netlink-packet-generic 0.1.0 -> 0.2.0
• netlink-packet-route 0.8.0 -> 0.10.0 (botched 0.9.0 release)
• netlink-packet-sock-diag 0.1.0 -> 0.3.0 (botched 0.2.0 release)
• netlink-packet-utils 0.4.1 -> 0.5
• netlink-packet-wireguard NULL -> 0.1.0
• netlink-proto 0.7.0 -> 0.9.1 (botched 0.8.0 release, 0.9.0 was published with downgraded dev-dependences to break cycles)
• netlink-sys 0.7.0 -> 0.8.1 (0.8.0 was published with downgraded dev-dependencies to break cycles)
• rtnetlink 0.8.1 -> 0.9.0

Breaking Changes

• netlink-packet-route:
  • add InfoBridge::VlanInfo (https://github.com/little-dude/netlink/pull/212 https://github.com/little-dude/netlink/pull/213)
• rtnetlink:
  • add LinkGetRequest::match_name to filter links by name more efficiently, and remove LinkGetRequest::set_name_filter (https://github.com/little-dude/netlink/pull/208)
• refactor netlink_packet_core::traits::NetlinkSerializable and netlink_packet_core::trait::NetlinkDeserializable such that they are not generic (https://github.com/little-dude/netlink/pull/195/, specifically https://github.com/little-dude/netlink/pull/195/commits/94c263282d9a34d01422513de6a7f683ac08addc)
• netlink-proto: Add new type parameter for Connection which represents the socket (https://github.com/little-dude/netlink/pull/195, specifically 944307ce292682283891f41db8a0ec4706419664)

New Features

• new netlink-packet-wireguard crate for the wireguard netlink protocol (https://github.com/little-dude/netlink/pull/191)
• new rich_nlas feature for netlink-packet-route that enables parsing more message types (https://github.com/little-dude/netlink/pull/199 https://github.com/little-dude/netlink/pull/205)
• rtnetlink:
  • add NeighbourAddRequest::add_bridge helper to create a bridge interface (https://github.com/little-dude/netlink/pull/203)
  • allow the requests to be built with the NLM_F_REPLACE flag to optimize "create or update" operations (https://github.com/little-dude/netlink/pull/202)
  • add helper to create macvlan links (https://github.com/little-dude/netlink/pull/194)
• netlink-packet-utils: add parse_ip function

Bug fixes

• fix UB in unsafe code (https://github.com/little-dude/netlink/pull/195/ specifically 7e6cfd743bf822e917e260eb24fbf5b2c541922e)
• fix netlink_sys::SmolSocket::recv error handling (https://github.com/little-dude/netlink/pull/195/ specifically 1cd3e0fbb8d77d6b9c4fe43b8c4aa745fa6ba66c)
• various fixes in the netlink-proto encoder (https://github.com/little-dude/netlink/pull/168)