diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index fe4ead87..b7480947 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ the future development of Gluon. Please refrain from using the `master` branch for anything else but development purposes! Use the most recent release instead. You can list all releases by running `git tag` -and switch to one by running `git checkout v2018.2.1 && make update`. +and switch to one by running `git checkout v2018.2.2 && make update`. If you're using the autoupdater, do not autoupdate nodes with anything but releases. If you upgrade using random master commits the nodes *will break* eventually. diff --git a/docs/index.rst b/docs/index.rst index d2ba050f..3ba2f537 100755 --- a/docs/index.rst +++ b/docs/index.rst @@ -71,6 +71,7 @@ Several Freifunk communities in Germany use Gluon as the foundation of their Fre :caption: Releases :maxdepth: 1 + releases/v2018.2.2 releases/v2018.2.1 releases/v2018.2 releases/v2018.1.4 diff --git a/docs/releases/v2018.2.2.rst b/docs/releases/v2018.2.2.rst new file mode 100644 index 00000000..dd02bee0 --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/releases/v2018.2.2.rst @@ -0,0 +1,69 @@ +Gluon 2018.2.2 +============== + +Removed hardware support +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +Support for the Onion Omega has been removed since the device does not +have an ethernet port, and even with the ethernet shield connected the +interface would not have been configured. + +Bugfixes +~~~~~~~~ + +* Fixes vulnerabilities that allowed for remote crashes and denial of service attacks through the Linux kernels + TCP selective acknowledgement implementation. (CVE-2019-11477, CVE-2019-11478 and CVE-2019-11479) + +* Fixes a bug in the image generation for the Netgear R6120 where the OverlayFS might not be created on boot as + the JFFS2 end-of-filesystem marker was omitted by the vendor firmware. This resulted in the router not being + able to save its configuration and seemingly "being stuck" in config-mode. (`#1722 `_) + +* Fixes oddities in the calculation of non-wireless clients published through respondd on batman-adv networks. + Previously both the kernel wifi layer and batman-adv were consulted, which led to issues because they use + different timeout values. (`#1676 `_) + +* Fixes doubled batman-adv management overhead, introduced with Gluon v2017.1. A timer in batman-adv was + wrongly started twice, resulting in each node emitting not one but two OGMs from the same originator per 5 seconds. + (`#1446 `_) + +* Fixes an issue, where services provided by a node (such as DNS resolver or status-page) + might become unavailable due to other misbehaving nodes on the same layer 2 segment. + (`#1659 `_) + +* Fixes traffic shaping not working correctly when using tunneldigger, as well as the migration between fastd + and tunneldigger (`#1736 `_) + + +Other changes +~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +* Linux kernel has been updated to 4.9.182 or 4.14.128, depending on the target + + +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 specially 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. diff --git a/docs/user/getting_started.rst b/docs/user/getting_started.rst index 99840525..1f728bbd 100644 --- a/docs/user/getting_started.rst +++ b/docs/user/getting_started.rst @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ Gluon's releases are managed using `Git tags`_. If you are just getting started with Gluon we recommend to use the latest stable release of Gluon. Take a look at the `list of gluon releases`_ and notice the latest release, -e.g. *v2018.2.1*. Always get Gluon using git and don't try to download it +e.g. *v2018.2.2*. Always get Gluon using git and don't try to download it as a Zip archive as the archive will be missing version information. Please keep in mind that there is no "default Gluon" build; a site configuration @@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ Building the images ------------------- To build Gluon, first check out the repository. Replace *RELEASE* with the -version you'd like to checkout, e.g. *v2018.2.1*. +version you'd like to checkout, e.g. *v2018.2.2*. ::