Release 2.2.12.0

Notable Fixes

• CM: Fixed logic in connectivity checks for faster detection of broken connectivity, and to switch between IPv4 and IPv6 promptly

• QM: Fixed MQTT reconnect logic

Platform Support

• Fixed a memory leak in osync_nl80211_scan_results_fetch() (platform/qca)

Release 2.2.11.0

Notable Enhancements

• NM: Reduced the number of ‘ip’ calls during status updates

Notable Fixes

• WM: Fixed an out of bounds crash (core, platform/qca)

Platform Support

• Vendor templates updated according to changes in core and other layers

Release 2.2.10.0

Notable Fixes

• CM: Revised asynchronous resolution logic and stability checks for improved handling of failures

• CM, PM: Additional fixes for offline recovery mode

• FSM: Fixed a crash caused by a table overflow

• FSM: Fixed whitelist update logic (dns_parse)

• FSM: Optimized FQDN request categorization

• FCM: Fix for under-reporting of flows in LAN statistics

• MAPTM: Included upstreamed fixes

• QOS: Adjusted the code to dynamically apply QoS configuration to interfaces when they are created (lnx_qos)

Notable Enhancements

• Added macro wrappers and utility functions for improved memory handling

• ovsh: The WHERE statement now supports ‘includes’ and ‘excludes’

Platform Support

• QOS: Extended support for “shared” classes for Broadcom platforms (core, platform/bcm)

• Added handling of events needed to properly handle open network (e.g. captive portal) clients on Broadcom 11ac drivers (platform/bcm)

• Fixed incorrect handling of DEAUTH_IND and DISASSOC_IND (platform/bcm)

• Added a check in SNR calculation to prevent negative values  (platform/bcm)

• Additional fixes and adjustments for Broadcom SDK 5.04L.02 (platform/bcm)

Release 2.2.9.0

Notable Fixes

• CM: Fix for restoring uplink connection in router mode

• CM: Multiple fixes of link detection and monitoring

• FSM: Fixed a crash when unloading a DPI plugin

• QOS: Added a default queue to prevent losing traffic not caught by any other queue

Platform Support

• QOS: Added support for “shared” classes in the default Linux backend (core, requires a patch for tc/qdisc)

• Fixed Multi-PSK (re-)configuration, which caused connectivity disruptions (platform/bcm)

• Adjusted handling of multi_ap field in Wifi_VIF_Config to prevent toggling the radio when creating a station (platform/bcm)

• Fixed code for setting a channel, which sometimes led to unnecessary channel switch-ups (platform/bcm)

• Added a workaround for scan failures with 160 MHz channels (platform/bcm)

• Added a target for BCM947622DVT reference board using BCM SDK 5.04L.02 (opensync-vendor-bcm-template)

Release 2.2.8.0

Notable Fixes

• NM: Fixed a crash in odhcp6_client cleanup

• MAPTM, NM: Additional fixes for MAP-T

• WANO: Resolved multiple issues related to using PPPoE over VLAN

• CM: Filter unexpected DNS query results which caused disconnects

• CM: Fixed erroneous expression in util_get_link_ip()

Platform Support

• Minor fixes and adjustments to support Broadcom SDK 5.04L.02 (core, platform/bcm)

• Fixed a problem with noise floor reporting for DFS channels (platform/bcm)

• Improved handling of occasional scan failures on DFS channels (platform/bcm)

Release 2.2.7.0

New Features

• Introduces a new manager (QOSM, or QoS Manager), which facilitates bandwidth throttling:

  • Generic Linux backend using tc and qdiscs

  • Broadcom Archer QoS backend (platform/bcm)

  • Updated and extended NFM (NetFilter Manager)

  • Added firewall support to NM

Notable Enhancements

• NM: Added support for no_flood option for captive portal interfaces

• CPM: Added support for TLS with tinyproxy

• FCM: Added flags in network_metadata to properly classify traffic to or from the device

Notable Fixes

• WANO: Fixed problems with static IPs and multiple default routes

• CM: Fixed an issue with uplink recovery

• CM: Fixed two regression bugs in WDS backhaul handling

• CM: Fixed status update for BT payload

• PM: Fixed issues with healthcheck in offline recovery mode

• PM, FSM: Properly mark last active object version in case of downgrades

• CPM: Enabled auto-restart for tinyproxy

• Fixed neigh_table module dependency (FSM, FCM)

Platform Support

• Made paths for PPPoE binary (pppd) configurable to resolve issues on certain platforms (provided in Kconfig in core)

• Temporarily disabled MU OFDMA/MIMO for 11ax due to issues with the current driver (platform/bcm)

Release 2.2.6.1

Notable Enhancements

• NM: Revised uplink handling and added support for control of hardware-accelerated IGMP snooping and IGMP proxy

Notable Fixes

• Fixed a bug in ds_list_iinsert, which manifested itself in erroneous steering behavior

• PM: Fixed several memory leaks and potential crashes

• PM, FSM: Fixed incorrect behavior when removing an object

Platform Support

• Implemented hardware-accelerated IGMP snooping and IGMP proxy for BCM SDK 5.02L.07 (platform/bcm)

Release 2.2.6.0

Notable Fixes

• CM: Reworked ares code which caused occasional crashes

• CM: Reworked event handling to fix issues with lease expiration and other transitions

• CM: Revised uplink type detection and state handling

• CM: Revised and cleaned up offline recovery logic

• WANO: Implemented a plugin for quick detection of ethernet clients

• WANO: Fixed timing issues with odhcp6c and pipeline state handling

• NM: Ignore TAP interfaces for IPv6_Neigbor reports to prevent duplicates

• NM: Fixed two potential crashes

• PM: Object manager interface cleaned up

• PM: Fixes and enhancements of pm_objm

• PM: Added missing include statements in pm_led.c

• FCM: Fixed faulty code for filtering of broadcast/multicast flows (introduced in release 2.0.5.0)

• FCM: Memory leak fixes

• Revised the workaround in ct_stats which underreported the flows in some situations

Platform Support

• Added noise floor retrieval for QSDK 11.2 (platform/qca)

• Changed WLC_E_ASSOC handling to be able to properly handle captive portal clients (platform/bcm)

• Use ioctl rather than wlctl to be able to set an SSID that starts with a ‘-’ (platform/bcm)

Release 2.2.5.0

Notable Fixes

• CM: Fixed cloud connection handling for dual-stack mode

• CM: Revised uplink state logic (nodes erroneously ended up in recovery mode)

• CM: Added recovery mode also for gateway in bridge mode

• CM: Fixed IPv6 DHCP handling in bridge mode

• CM, WANO: Fixed issues with daisy-chaining

• NM: Added missing update of vlan_id in Wifi_Inet_State

• PM: Fixed version change detection in pm_objm

• Added a workaround in ct_stats to be able to handle flows with incorrect zone ID

Notable Enhancements

• Kernel crash reporting logic now uses regex to handle additional ‘suspect entries’

Release 2.2.4.0

Notable Fixes

• WM: Fixed a corner-case crash in hapd_bss_get_wps()

• WANO related fixes:

  • Refactored WANO connection manager and implemented plugin pipeline freezing (all plugins are stopped when an interface is added to a bridge)

  • Implemented a retry mechanism (pipeline restart) for interface provisioning

  • Fixed a problem with interface resets

  • Fixed if_type labeling (was incorrectly forced to ‘eth’ in some plugins)

• CM: Changed handling of uplink ‘limp state’ which caused problems when reconnecting the uplink

• NM: Improved the logic for fallback to polling on netlink socket failures to prevent missed events

• FSM: Added timeouts for FSM/QM communication to prevent problems in case of connectivity issues

• FSM: Skip UDP packets with no payload (a workaround for misbehaving clients)

Platform Support

• Implemented target functions for reporting of radio temperatures and txchain status on Broadcom devices (platform/bcm)

• Adjusted rx_report processing for a different behavior in newer driver versions (platform/bcm)

• Configuration update for QSDK SPF 11.2 (platform/qca)

• Synchronized recent fixes from 11ac code to 11ax code (platform/qca)

Release 2.2.3.0

Notable Fixes

• Adjusted handling of IPv6 routes and removed the workaround introduced in version 2.2.2.0

• Cleanup of hard-coded configuration parameters in CM and MAPTM

• CM: Fixed a race condition which sometimes caused erroneous creation of GRE interfaces

• BM: Fix for incorrectly reported BAND_STEERING_ATTEMPT events

• Fixed incorrect handling of process exit status in execsh_fn_a()

• Improved behavior for unhandled tree iteration errors

Notable Enhancements

• Fixed schema header files generation to maintain the order of the fields

Platform Support

• Revised the fix for incorrect handling of probe requests (platform/bcm)

Release 2.2.2.0

Notable Enhancements

• Added support for both ‘upstream’ and ‘reverse’ proxying for the captive portal feature

• Some helper scripts that were previously supplied in vendor templates were moved to core and/or platform layer for easier maintenance

Notable Fixes

• A workaround was added in odhcp6c.sh to prevent breaking tcp sessions with the ‘ip route replace’ command

• MAC reporting is now enabled only for interfaces that have the Wifi_Inet_Config:map_reporting column set to ‘true’. Previously the list of eligible interfaces was hard-coded during build-time. If the mac_reporting column is unset, it is considered to be ‘false’.

• Fixes of handling of IPv6 addresses for connecting to the cloud

• Fixed a race condition when updating Wifi_VIF_State

Platform Support

• Fixed a problem with 802.11k neighbor reports on some drivers (platform/bcm)

Release 2.2.1.0

New Features

• Added basic MAP-T support using new OSN APIs (osn_mapt) and a separate manager (MAPTM, or MAP-T Manager):

  • osn_mapt currently only supports the CERNET implementation (typically used on Broadcom platforms)

  • The MAPTM manager partially manages WAN links (DHCPv4/DHCPv6) and is therefore incompatible with WANO or CM WAN management mode

Notable Fixes

• CM: Fixed a potential hang during a connectivity check

Platform Support

• Fixed incorrect handling of probe requests in some situations (platform/bcm)

• Fixed incorrect calculation in off-chan surveys (platform/bcm)

Release 2.2.0.0

New Features

• Introduces a new manager (WAN Orchestrator), which takes over WAN interface management from CM:

  • modules for DHCPv4, DHCPv6, static IPv4, PPPoE, VLAN

  • extendable architecture

  • support for removal of the br-wan bridge (CM)

• Added a new manager (CPM, or Captive Portal Manager) for captive portal support with dedicated SSID and separate zones for authenticated and non-authenticated clients

• Platform Manager (PM) extended with a module for downloading optional/upgradable packages:

  • a default filesystem object management API implementation (src/lib/objmfs) is available in core

  • osp_dl API does not have an implementation in core yet

• New osp_unit API replaces ‘entity’ target API

• Vendor and hardware information is advertised in OVSDB

• FSM/FCM features and enhancements:

  • additional FSM plugin (src/lib/arp_parse) for IP to MAC mapping of static IPs

  • additional FCM plugin (src/lib/intf_stats) for per-interface bandwidth statistics

  • support for application blocking

Notable Enhancements

• Added support for IPv6 connections to cloud

• Added expected throughput for MU-MIMO (core, platform/qca, platform/bcm)

• Improved RSSI accuracy via noise floor handling

• Recovery of GW functionality in case of internet outage (using persistent storage for basic configuration parameters)