AC Wave 1 (HeliOS: Spark, SunSpot, SkyFire, Gateway) Follow

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1.3.0 Beta1 Downloads

• Added Auto-WDS support.
• Added channel list selection support.
• Added VLAN tagged internet source support.
• Added DAE for RADIUS MAC auth support.
• Added DFS channel availability check notification.
• Added band steering support.
• Reworked wireless statistics collection methods.
• Fixed radio channel utilization calculation.
• Updated WR channel ranks to be avoided in ACS
• Fixed OOMs on Spark/SunSpot under stress conditions.
• Fixed watchdog reset during assoc/disassoc flood.
• Fixed kernel crashes during radio recovery.
• Fixed GW-AC1200 firmware upgrade issues.
• Fixed wifi clients hostname/IP address retrieval.

• Improved device (de)registration to/from cloud handling.
• Updated clients info caching methods.
• Fixed interface state reporting in statistics.
• Updated client probe caching method.
• Improved periodic task scheduling and execution.
• Fixed service watchdog process duplication.

SR3 1.2.3 Change Log

• Fixed a network config migration from 1.1.X FW versions.
• Fixed periodic services lockup, causing stats refresh problems.

• Fixed an issue where in rare cases, a troubleshooting file task initiated from the Cloud would cause the device to go offline.
• Updated the channel list regulations for the TW country code.
• Added improvements for wireless driver debugging.

• Fixed Spark AC750 reset button function.
• Fixed cloud connection issues caused by disabling a VAP
• Fixed assoc timestamp statistics, causing wrong client connection dates in the cloud.
• Fixed incorrectly reported radio statistics.
• Updated probe request push interval to 15 seconds.

• Fixed system logging related crashed on client disassoc.
• Improved kernel panic handling to avoid deadlocks.
• Fixed wireless driver events mangling.
• Add Tx queue stopping, causing OOM on packet flood.
• Updated client record locking, avoiding races in driver.
• Added FS020U LTE dongle support.
• Fixed SSID configuration, causing invalid "ghost" SSIDs when SSIDs contain spaces.
• Update troubleshooting information collection.
• Statistics reporting to Cloud fixes and improvements.
• Improved IP addresses validation in GUI.
• Fixed wifi scheduler excessive radio reload.
• Fixed max TxPower limitation in GUI.
• Improved clients accounting resulting in crash on certain devices.

• No wifi bandsteering support.
• No WDS support.
• This firmware was disabled due to an issue where disabled SSIDs would cause the device to disconnect from the cloud.

• In some cases only applicable to Cloud-managed devices that inherit site-level settings, upgrading to a 1.2.0 beta firmware will cause a config override to be created for the max client count setting for your device's wireless VAPs.  A workaround to fix this issue will be added to the Cloud on Wednesday July 4, 2018.
• No wifi bandsteering support.
• No WDS support.
• GW-AC1200 client mode RF silence after remote disassoc.
• GW-AC1200 system panic on rapid assoc/disassoc for long time periods
• Channel Tx/Rx utilization on WiFi bursts reports spurious values.

Beta2 Change Log

• Fixed client mode connectivity issues.
• Fixed RADIUS TX/RX stats on accounting stop event.
• Fixed hotspot login redirect issues.
• Added "Smart Isolation" strict internet access mode.
• Fixed firewall configuration for the PPPoE interface.
• Fixed wireless statistics during DFS CAC period.
• Added Cloud connectivity and statistics fixes.
• Fixed client probe request startup.
• Fixed SNMP statistics.

• No wifi bandsteering support.
• No WDS support.
• GW-AC1200 system panic on rapid assoc/disassoc for long time periods
• GW-AC1200 client mode RF silence after remote disassoc.

Beta1 Downloads

Beta1 Change Log

• Improved TxPower control for SunSpot/SkyFire products.
• Added Huawei E3372 LTE dongle support.
• Fixed DHCP IP addresses assignment on management VLAN interface.
• Patched "Client" mode assoc/disassoc race condition.
• Fixed accounting interim interval configuration.
• Fixed wireless group rekey when TKIP+CCMP security used (causing some clients to loose their link).
• Fixed firewall configuration races (causing various connectivity issues on config reload).
• Fixed dnsmasq configuration races (causing DHCP server to not always start in rare cases).
• Improved throughput 

• No client probe push support.
• No wifi bandsteering support.
• No WDS support.
• GW-AC1200 system panic on rapid assoc/disassoc for long time periods
• EAP accounting missing data traffic in stop packet.

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Change Log

• Added Scheduled Wifi support (this feature is configurable through the IgniteNet Cloud)
• Added support for the Family Zone Cyber Safety add-on (this feature is configurable through the IgniteNet Cloud)
• Added backup RADIUS server support for wireless client EAP authentication
• Fixed some client session reporting bugs
• Improved IP address detection
• Fixed an issue where the default gateway was missing when changing certain networking settings when using WDS Client mode
• Fixed an issue where only one PPTP session could be opened when choosing the "Route to internet" network behavior
• Fixed an issue where clients could hang after associating to a different radio on the same AP
• Fixed some bugs related to 5 GHz autochannel selection
• Fixed an issue where the 5 Ghz radio might not recover after a DFS event
• Allow multicast traffic to pass between the AP and its bridged clients
• Updated the management agent to report the management VLAN DHCP-assigned IP to the Cloud
• Added additional alert support to the management agent: 1) Alert when customization files (such as logo, terms and condition) for the local hotspot splash page are out of sync; 2) Alert when the device fails to play a media stream, 3) Alerts for task failures for longer-running tasks, such as required software package installation for add-ons
• Fixed some small web configuration UI validation related bugs

• Fixed some bugs related to hostapd/auto-channel failures
• Restored RPS capability for GW-AC1200
• Feature: Added network/IP flows logging to the services page of the UI (and in the cloud)

• Added support to change the RADIUS Interim Update Timeout to the wireless settings
• Added support for DFS alerts (reported to the Cloud)
• Fixed an issue where an AP's WAN IP address didn't show up on the cloud when Management VLAN was enabled
• Adjusted DFS channel selection behavior
• Added initial support for BLACKBX.io
• Added an initial fix for decreased throughput due to mixed 11ac and 11n clients

• Fixed incorrect wireless interface MAC address reporting issue for devices operating in Client mode
• Fixed a sysupgrade bug introduced in 1.1.5 SR3 Beta
• Fixed routing of management VLAN packets
• Fixed hotspot configuration, causing premature service restart
• Fixed ContentShield configuration problems resulting in wrong WEB page redirection
• Fixed small hotspot whitelist management issue, which resulted in mobile devices not showing the "Sign in to the hotspot" page automatically

• Patched KRACK vulnerabilities

• Fixed an issue with the management agent that caused it to become stuck in rare cases while reading the system status.  This bug would cause the device to show up as offline on the Cloud, but still appear to be operating normally from the local web UI.

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Change Log

• Added additional captive portal options. Read more on the blog .
• Added support for Management VLAN
• Added support for VLAN passthrough
• Added a new wireless setting: "block multicast forwarding"
• Added a new wireless setting for SSIDs that are hotspot-controlled: "walled garden per SSID"
• Added Media streaming/alarms support
• Added 3G/LGE Dongle support

• Fixed some DFS-related issues that affected some non-US regulatory regions.
• Fixed some tx power related bugs that may have affected a select group of SkyFires, SunSpots, and Sparks
• Fixed bug where changing MTU wasn't taking affect in all cases
• Optimized hotspot traffic tunnel performance
• Other small UI validation bugs were fixed

• Fixed a bug where the ap_mac field of the client probe request data message was empty. (MR1-Feb 23)
  
  

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Change Log 

• Major client WDS stability improvements
• Added client OS detection
• Added audio streaming support for Sparks and Sunspots (configurable from the Cloud)
• The troubleshooting file collection procedure was updated to remove passwords and keys from the configuration
• Added client probe request data push settings [aka Presence API] (configurable from the cloud)
• Fixed WPA-EAP Radius MAC Auth UI issues
• Exposed remote syslog settings on the System page
• Fixed a radsec-related issue where the secondary RADIUS server was not being used when the first was unavailable
• Telnet and SSH access are now disabled from over the WAN by default
• Minor regulatory power changes for India and Japan
• Added some additional hotspot/coovachilli-related settings (default landing page, swap octets, etc)
• Cloud agent: added certificate validation
• Cloud agent: improved configuration versioning
• Cloud agent: added ability to connect to the Cloud's XMPP servers on port 443 in addition to the standard 5222 port
• Other misc bug fixes and improvements
  
  

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Change log

• Network IP range conflict detection and resolution
• Added Dynamic VLAN support
• Complete device UI redesign
• Added Radius MAC Authentication support
• Exposed firewall and port forwarding rules
• Added radsec support to hotspot (coova chilli)
• Added support for ContentShield
• Added max STA limit to wireless settings
• improved client session handling in the cloud mgmt agent
• 5 Ghz power levels were lower than they should have been on Spark/Sunspot for some countries
• Bandsteering improvements
• Fixed some stats overflow bugs which caused spikes in client data and utilization > 100% on the cloud
• New LED colors for stand alone mode
• Improved client WDS mode robustness
• Auto channel improvements
• Fix empty packet capture file bug (only in some cases)

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Change log

Changes:

• We've finished our upgrade to a more modern platform that has a newer Linux kernel, updated packages, and more improved stability
• All products will now report hostname and ip address, even for bridge mode