NetworkManager 1.6 to Support Discovery and Configuration of Web Proxy Settings

While most of us are currently preparing to upgrade our GNU/Linux distributions to the recently released NetworkManager 1.4.4 stable build, the development team continues to work on the next major version, NetworkManager 1.6.

The NetworkManager 1.5.3 milestone, the second in the series, was released a few days ago for public testing. As usual, we took a look at the new changes to keep our users informed about the upcoming features of NetworkManager 1.6, which should land sometime in spring next year, close to the release of the GNOME 3.24 desktop.

As with any major milestone of any software project, closed-source or open-source, lots of exciting new features are on their way to enhance the overall experience of the application on users' computers. NetworkManager is already the most used network connection management tool for Linux-based o...