wpa_supplicant version 2.2 available

[Ethan Glasser-Camp]

Currently version 2.1 is still the version slated to be shipped with utopic. It seems from http://w1.fi/wpa_supplicant/ that wpa_supplicant version 2.2 was released in 2014-06. Is it possible for 2.2 to be packaged?

Thanks!

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Dennis-martin-herbers (dennis-martin-herbers)]

I tracked down the issue where WiFi would fail after suspend in that it doesn't associate anymore (tries to connect but fails), and it's a bug in wpa-supplicant that was fixed in the current version (Ubuntu uses 2.1, newest is 2.3). Replacing Ubuntu's wpa-supplicant 2.1 with Debian's wpa-supplicant 2.3 and rebooting immediately fixed the issue.

https://packages.debian.org/sid/wpasupplicant

There are a lot of issues related to this that would be fixed by the new upstream release.

[Hans Joachim Desserud (hjd)]

On Ubuntu 14.04 and later releases, it looks like wpa_supplicant is built from the wpa source package, so I've marked that as also affected.

[Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre (cyphermox)]

Closing as fix released. I landed wpa 2.4 in wily.

As for wpasupplicant, closing as Won't Fix. Precise has an old wpasupplicant version but it's unlikely to get feature releases given the number of differences between versions.

[Vincent Gerris (vgerris)]

just wanted to note that 2.4 seems broken, at least in Fedora for some setups of wireless networks:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/network-manager-applet/+bug/1473088
a fix in 14.04 seems reasonable, maybe by upgrading to 2.3 if possible.