From ea5d3f01f63d4e02713d3113e3fda046964c92ba Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Martin Weinelt Date: Sun, 23 Jun 2019 20:39:36 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] docs: Add v2018.2.2 release notes --- docs/index.rst | 1 + docs/releases/v2018.2.2.rst | 69 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 70 insertions(+) create mode 100644 docs/releases/v2018.2.2.rst diff --git a/docs/index.rst b/docs/index.rst index 0b20bfd0..cbf43228 100644 --- 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.