From: "John W. Linville" <linvi...@tuxdriver.com> Date: Thu, 4 Jun 2020 14:35:39 -0400
> ethtool version 5.7 has been released. > > Home page: https://www.kernel.org/pub/software/network/ethtool/ > Download link: > https://www.kernel.org/pub/software/network/ethtool/ethtool-5.7.tar.xz > > Release notes: > > * Feature: ethtool: Add support for Low Latency Reed Solomon > * Fix: ethtool.c: Report transceiver correctly > * Feature: features: accept long legacy flag names when setting features > * Feature: refactor interface between ioctl and netlink code > * Feature: netlink: use genetlink ops information to decide about > fallback > * Feature: netlink: show netlink error even without extack > * Feature: ethtool: add support for newer SFF-8024 compliance codes > * Feature: Rewrite printf() due to -Werror=format-security > > This should be my last release as maintainer of ethtool. Michal > Kubecek has graciously agreed to take-on that responsibility, and I > have every confidence that he will do a great job in that capacity > for our community. > > Thanks, Michal! Thank you John for steering the ethtool ship all of this time and thanks Michal for helping us with this important networking tool.
