From 8e3a90ff65c1878a45ab504848398637ee458879 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Martin Weinelt Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2018 20:15:31 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] docs: add v2018.1.2 release notes --- README.md | 2 +- docs/index.rst | 1 + docs/releases/v2018.1.2.rst | 58 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ docs/user/getting_started.rst | 4 +-- 4 files changed, 62 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) create mode 100644 docs/releases/v2018.1.2.rst diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 91bac8d0..3c1445b6 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ 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 v2018.1.1 && make update`. +and switch to one by running `git checkout v2018.1.2 && 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 f31c2132..429d7e73 100644 --- a/docs/index.rst +++ b/docs/index.rst @@ -70,6 +70,7 @@ Several Freifunk communities in Germany use Gluon as the foundation of their Fre :caption: Releases :maxdepth: 1 + releases/v2018.1.2 releases/v2018.1.1 releases/v2018.1 releases/v2017.1.8 diff --git a/docs/releases/v2018.1.2.rst b/docs/releases/v2018.1.2.rst new file mode 100644 index 00000000..7658b616 --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/releases/v2018.1.2.rst @@ -0,0 +1,58 @@ +Gluon 2018.1.2 +============== + +Bugfixes +~~~~~~~~ + +* Fix a bug leading to missing IPv6 addresses in respondd announcements + (`#1523 `_) + + The pattern that was used to match addresses from /proc/net/if_inet6 + did not expect interface indexes growing past two characters. + +* Mark ipq806x target as broken for unstable client WiFi + (`#1505 `_) + + Station connections to the QCA9880 radio on the TP-Link C2600s are frequently + disconnected, leading to an abysmal user experience. + +* Fix button behaviour on FRITZ!Box 4020 + (`#1544 `_) + + Buttons were triggering an instant reboot into config mode, fix by setting + buttons to active low instead of active high. + +* Prevent caching of redirects on config mode and status page + (`#1530 `_) + + As the path to both config mode and status page were changed between versions + users could be affected by a redirect to a no more valid URL. + +* batman-adv has received two bugfixes, which were `backported `_ from v2018.4 + +Other changes +~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +* Linux kernel has been updated to v4.4.153 + +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 promicious 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 315a80c6..31fc0c1d 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. *v2018.1.1*. Always get Gluon using git and don't try to download it +e.g. *v2018.1.2*. 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. *v2018.1.1*. +version you'd like to checkout, e.g. *v2018.1.2*. ::