iproute2-6.12.0

[Bruce Dubbs]

New minor version.

[Bruce Dubbs]

Compatibility

A new release of iproute2 is done with each kernel version, but there is a wide range of compatibility. Newer versions of iproute2 will still work with older kernels, but there are some limitations.

Changes

• bridge: mst: fix a musl build issue
• bridge: mst: fix a further musl build issue
• arpd: use designated initializers for msghdr structure
• Update kernel headers
• tc: f_flower: add support for matching on tunnel metadata
• lib: utils: close file handle on error
• lib: names: check calloc return value in db_names_alloc
• ip/ipmroute: use preferred_family to get prefix
• ip: netconf: fix overzealous error checking
• ip: lwtunnel: tunsrc support
• man8: ip-route: update documentation
• iplink: fix fd leak when playing with netns
• ip/netkit: print peer policy
• bridge: add ip/iplink_bridge files to MAINTAINERS
• ip: nexthop: Support 16-bit nexthop weights
• uapi: update headers
• bridge: catch invalid stp state
• netem: swap transposed calloc args
• uapi: update of bpf.h
• uapi: update to bpf.h
• v6.12.0
• bridge: Remove duplicated textification macros
• ip: Move of set_netnsid_from_name() to namespace.c
• iplink: Fix link-netns id and link ifindex
• rdma: Fix help information of 'rdma resource'

[Bruce Dubbs]

Fixed at commit ea48456403:

Update to iana-etc-20241122.
Update to file-5.46.
Update to iproute2-6.12.0.
Update to libtool-2.5.4.
Update to linux-6.12.1.
Update to setuptools-75.6.0 (Python Module).
Update to wheel-0.45.1 (Python Module).