From d1fe2d56adffa9307b25d5080ce08aab63388070 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Matthias Schiffer Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2018 20:15:46 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] docs: add v2018.1.4 release notes --- docs/index.rst | 1 + docs/releases/v2018.1.4.rst | 49 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 50 insertions(+) create mode 100644 docs/releases/v2018.1.4.rst diff --git a/docs/index.rst b/docs/index.rst index 74125f74..b3956997 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/v2018.1.4 releases/v2018.1.3 releases/v2018.1.2 releases/v2018.1.1 diff --git a/docs/releases/v2018.1.4.rst b/docs/releases/v2018.1.4.rst new file mode 100644 index 00000000..e9597288 --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/releases/v2018.1.4.rst @@ -0,0 +1,49 @@ +Gluon 2018.1.4 +============== + +Bugfixes +~~~~~~~~ + +* Fix regression in autoupdater version comparison function + + Due to a regression in Gluon 2018.1, the autoupdater would incorrectly + consider certain version strings equal and not attempt to upgrade. + In particular, any string and its prefix were considered equal when the + prefix did not end with a digit. For example, the following relations were + not evaluated correctly: + + * ``1.0`` < ``1.0.1`` + * ``1.0~pre`` < ``1.0`` + +* Fix unintended difference between autoupdater version comparison and dpkg/opkg + + Alphanumeric characters were considered less than end-of-string, when the + intended bahaviour (as implemented by dpkg and opkg) is that only ``~`` is + less than end-of-string. This broke relations like the following: + + * ``1.0`` < ``1.0a`` + * ``1.0a`` < ``1.0ab`` + * ``1.0a`` < ``1.0a1`` + + +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.