Infix v26.05.0-rc1

Changes

• Upgrade Linux kernel to 6.18.33 (LTS)
• Upgrade Buildroot to 2025.02.14 (LTS)
• Upgrade FRR to 10.5.4
• Add support for Acer Connect Vero W6m, a low-cost COTS home router, based on the same hardware as Banana Pi BPI-R3, but with a Wi-Fi 6E (6 GHz band) chip.
• Add configurable channel-width in Wi-Fi configuration.
• Upgrade ieee802-ethernet-interface YANG model to revision 2025-09-10 (IEEE Std 802.3.2-2025), adding the standard phy-type and pmd-type operational leaves. Speed is now exposed via ietf-interfaces:speed (bps, RFC 8343); the now obsolete eth:speed is no longer returned
• Rework show interface summary output as layered protocol rows. When a port has link, a physical-medium row (e.g. 1000baseT, 10GbaseLR) appears above the ethernet row. VLAN, GRE, VXLAN and WiFi interfaces likewise get one row per protocol layer, with type-specific data on each (vid:, remote:, vni:, station ssid:, etc.), issue #530
• Add support for configurable auto-negotiation for Ethernet ports. A new advertised-pmd-types leaf-list replaces the fixed speed idiom for pinned link modes, issue #805. See the Ethernet Interfaces section in the User Guide for details. Existing configurations using fixed speed are migrated automatically on upgrade
• Add support for configurable MDI/MDI-X pinout on Ethernet ports. Needed on some PHYs where Auto-MDIX stops working once auto-negotiation is disabled
• New operational supported-pmd-types leaf-list on each Ethernet interface, exposing the set of PMD types currently supported
• New CLI command show operational, and optional XPath filtering for this and any of the other datastores, using [path /path/to/subtree]
• CLI show commands now surface human-friendly error messages instead of a raw Python exceptions, e.g., Interface "w" not found

Fixes

• Fix #1493: container with a physical interface not properly removed when switching to a configuration without containers
• Fix #1506: add documentation on how to configure VLAN interfaces, including stacked (Q-in-Q) VLAN interfaces, in a dedicated vlan.md
• Handle unclean daemon exits better, e.g., dbus-daemon crashing and leaving a stale pidfile behind, causing it to refuse to be restarted
• Fix occasional blank or garbled [ OK ] lines at startup
• Disallow multicast MAC addresses in custom MAC address configuration
• Fix broken Wi-Fi 6 GHz band configuration.
• Fix operational read of /containers failing and thereby aborting all operational get-data, including RESTCONF/NETCONF reads — for containers whose command contains shell metacharacters, e.g. sh -c "... && ..."
• WireGuard interfaces are now regenerated when a referenced keystore key changes: the asymmetric private-key, and the symmetric preshared-key at both peer-group and per-peer level
• Fix crash in operational data when a bridge has VLAN ranges configured: the kernel may report ranges (e.g. vlan 1 vlanEnd 3) from bridge vlan global show, which were not expanded, so show interface and other operational reads failed. Ranges are now expanded and listed correctly

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