[ANNOUNCE] iproute2 6.12 release

From: Stephen Hemminger
Date: Tue Nov 19 2024 - 13:01:55 EST


This is regular release of iproute2 corresponding to the 6.12 kernel.
Release is smaller than usual less activity.

Download:
https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/net/iproute2/iproute2-6.12.0.tar.gz

Repository for current release
https://github.com/shemminger/iproute2.git
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/network/iproute2/iproute2.git

And future release (net-next):
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/network/iproute2/iproute2-next.git

Contributions:

Dario Binacchi (3):
bridge: mst: fix a musl build issue
bridge: mst: fix a further musl build issue
arpd: use designated initializers for msghdr structure

David Ahern (2):
Update kernel headers
Update kernel headers

Davide Caratti (1):
tc: f_flower: add support for matching on tunnel metadata

Denis Kirjanov (2):
lib: utils: close file handle on error
lib: names: check calloc return value in db_names_alloc

Hangbin Liu (1):
ip/ipmroute: use preferred_family to get prefix

Jakub Kicinski (1):
ip: netconf: fix overzealous error checking

Justin Iurman (2):
ip: lwtunnel: tunsrc support
man8: ip-route: update documentation

Nicolas Dichtel (1):
iplink: fix fd leak when playing with netns

Nikolay Aleksandrov (2):
ip/netkit: print peer policy
bridge: add ip/iplink_bridge files to MAINTAINERS

Petr Machata (1):
ip: nexthop: Support 16-bit nexthop weights

Stephen Hemminger (6):
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

Tobias Waldekranz (1):
bridge: Remove duplicated textification macros

Xiao Liang (2):
ip: Move of set_netnsid_from_name() to namespace.c
iplink: Fix link-netns id and link ifindex

wenglianfa (1):
rdma: Fix help information of 'rdma resource'