From 0267b7ca7ac5e19d55313983e79eaf5ea7c76311 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Andreas Ziegler Date: Sun, 29 Dec 2019 16:07:21 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] docs: add v2018.2.4 release notes (cherry picked from commit 1e66cd905773a6271c11f712ae9fd8cf7ce38e9b) --- docs/index.rst | 1 + docs/releases/v2018.2.4.rst | 53 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 54 insertions(+) create mode 100644 docs/releases/v2018.2.4.rst diff --git a/docs/index.rst b/docs/index.rst index ae4a4df0..3052a6fe 100644 --- a/docs/index.rst +++ b/docs/index.rst @@ -75,6 +75,7 @@ Several Freifunk communities in Germany use Gluon as the foundation of their Fre :maxdepth: 1 releases/v2019.1 + releases/v2018.2.4 releases/v2018.2.3 releases/v2018.2.2 releases/v2018.2.1 diff --git a/docs/releases/v2018.2.4.rst b/docs/releases/v2018.2.4.rst new file mode 100644 index 00000000..bddae46d --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/releases/v2018.2.4.rst @@ -0,0 +1,53 @@ +Gluon 2018.2.4 +============== + +End of life +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +This will be the final release of the v2018.2.x series. Updating to the v2019.1.x release series is the recommended course of action, which should be fairly easy. + +Bugfixes +~~~~~~~~ + +* Fixes device alias for Ubiquiti UniFi AC LR. (`#1834 `_) + Autoupdates on this model were impossible before, since we were missing the proper device alias. + +* Add correct ath10k firmware package for OCEDO Koala. (`#1838 `_) + +* Fixes various batman-adv bugs with backports from 2019.4 and 2019.5 by updating the openwrt-routing packages feed + +Other changes +~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +* Linux kernel has been updated to either + + - 4.9.207 (ar71xx, brcm2708, mpc85xx) or + - 4.14.160 (ipq40xx, ipq806x, mvebu, ramips, sunxi, x86). + +Known issues +~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +* Default TX power on many Ubiquiti devices is too high, correct offsets are + unknown (`#94 `_) + + Reducing the TX power in the Advanced Settings is recommended. + +* The MAC address of the WAN interface is modified even when Mesh-on-WAN is + disabled (`#496 `_) + + This may lead to issues in environments where a fixed MAC address is expected + (like VMware when promiscuous mode is disallowed). + +* Inconsistent respondd API + (`#522 `_) + + The current API is inconsistent and will be replaced eventually. The old API + will still be supported for a while. + +* Frequent reboots due to out-of-memory or high load due to memory pressure on + weak hardware especially in larger meshes + (`#1243 `_) + + Optimizations in Gluon 2018.1 have significantly improved memory usage. + There are still known bugs leading to unreasonably high load that we hope to + solve in future releases.