Plume will be releasing software updates from time to time. These updates will happen automatically, on a rolling basis. It may take up to a week from release for your location to receive the update.
Your Pods must be connected to the Plume network to receive the software updates. If any of your Pods are offline, please plug or re-plug them back into the outlet.
SuperPod Firmware Version 3.2.2-72 (Release Date: 4/26/21)
- Bug Fix - Fixed Wireless Manager crashes after receiving MAC addresses of more than 64 connected clients from virtual access points. (OpenSync}
- Bug Fix - Reduced backhaul link stabilization time. This results in a shorter required time for the leaf pods to come online. (SuperPod-AX)
- Bug Fix - Fixed connectivity issues on the 5GL radio. After the fix, SuperPod-AX again responds to the client probe and authentication requests. (SuperPod-AX)
- Bug Fix - Fixed system log floods with radar detection messages. (SuperPod-AX)
- Bug Fix Fixed global pod Pv6 address refreshing after expired valid time. (OpenSync)
SuperPod Firmware Version 3.2.2-69
- Bug Fix - Reduced backhaul link stabilization time. This results in a shorter required time for the leaf pods to come online. (SuperPod-AX)
- Bug Fix - Fixed connectivity issues on the 5GL radio. After the fix, SuperPod-AX again responds to the client probe and authentication requests. (SuperPod-AX)
- Bug Fix - Fixed system log floods with radar detection messages. (SuperPod-AX)
- Bug Fix - Fixed global pod IPv6 address refreshing after expired valid time. (OpenSync)
SuperPod Firmware Version 3.2.2-55 (Release Date: 3/27/21)
- Enhancement - Added WHERE statements with the "includes" and "excludes" conditions to ovsh.(OpenSync)
- Bug Fix - Fixed leaf connectivity issue in case of disabled IPv6 radvd service.
- Bug Fix - Fixed leaf issue with slow switching from unsecured to secure backhaul. (OpenSync)
- Bug Fix Fixed band steering issue caused by inconsistent authentication request blocking policy. (OpenSync BCM)
SuperPod Firmware Version 3.2.2-39 (Release Date: 2/18/21)
- Enhancement - Two-way Bluetooth communication temporarily unavailable
- Enhancement - Fixed claiming Pods in real-time
- Enhancement - Walleye plugin updated to version 1.36.2
- Enhancement - Added multicast HW support
- Enhancement - Platform - updated app detection signature file for digital well being
- Enhancement - Improved Pod reboot reason reporting in case of power cycle events
- Enhancement - Improved Cloud connection logic handling in dual-stack networks: IPv4 and IPv6
- Enhancement - Additional improvements for WAN link recovery
- Enhancement - Improved loop handling
- Enhancement - Improved recovery logic
- Enhancement - Additional improvements for WAN link recovery
- Enhancement - Improvements to speed test results
- Enhancement - Improved security patch
- Bug Fix - Fixed internal cache bug in band and client steering
- Bug Fix - Ignored non-routable IPv6 addresses when connecting to the cloud
- Bug Fix - Improved WAN handling logic in IPv6 SLAAC networks
- Bug Fix - Prevented possible memory leaks in traffic processing modules
- Bug Fix - Fixed app detection logic for apps that enable the use of services in specific IPv4 networks
- Bug Fix - Prevented possible crashes caused by incorrect handling of IGMP/MLD Proxy configuration
- Bug Fix - Improved handling of Ethernet clients
- Bug Fix - Prevented possible crashes during the initial Cloud connection phase in IPv6- E
enabled networks - Bug Fix - Fixed possible data loss in two-way BLE communication
- Bug Fix - Various bug fixes during boot up
- Bug Fix - Multiple crash fixes for SuperPod managers
- Bug Fix - Fix for performance drops
- Bug Fix - Fix for potential memory leaks
SuperPod Firmware Version 3.0.1-36 (Release Date: 11/1/20)
- Enhancement - Speedtest stability improvements
- Enhancement - Minor WiFi client statistics improvements
- Enhancement - Additional improvements for WAN link recovery
SuperPod Firmware Version 3.0.1-20 (Release Date: 8/05/20)
- Enhancement - Improved kernel crash reports
- Enhancement - Minor WPS related improvements
- Enhancement - Improve network connectivity with certain ISP gateways
- Enhancement - Improved WAN ethernet connection recovery logic
- Bug Fix - Fixed speed test performance degradation caused by certain ISP gateways
- Bug Fix - Prevent possible crashes
SuperPod Firmware Version 3.0.0-46 (Release Date: 6/20/20)
- Enhancement - Improve security of Motion modules
- Enhancement - Optimized CPU usage
- Enhancement - Improve configurability of client traffic processing services
- Enhancement – Added reboot reason logging and reporting to improve support
troubleshooting - Enhancement – Added IGMP/MLD proxy support required by some IPTV services
- Bug fix - Fixed reporting of client and band steering events
- Bug Fix - Properly disable WPS after client is connected for SuperPods
- Bug fix - Fix PSK skipped by WPS
- Bug fix - Prevent possible deadlock of traffic processing module
- Bug fix - Prevent possible crashes in tunnel creation logic during topology change
- Bug fix - Prevent possible crashes during traffic processing
- Bug fix - Fixed UPNP packet handling error
- Bug fix - Improve client steering logic
- Bug fix - Fixed LED handling
- Bug Fix - Improved GRE interface handling during topology changes
- Bug Fix - Improved DFS channel handling during topology changes
- Bug Fix - Fixed a potential manager crashes
- Bug Fix - Fixed a potential memory leak
- Bug Fix - Fixed Pod-to-pod roaming issue causing video call failures
SuperPod Firmware Version 2.4.3-98 (Release Date: 1/31/20)
- Bug Fix - SuperPod recovery failure when using Eth1 port with fixed MAC to IP address assignment in WAN DHCP server.
- Bug Fix - Handle IP Threat Protection with IPv6 WAN IP address
- Bug Fix - Added robustness for IP Threat Protection corner case when the network is configured Router Mode.
- Bug Fix - IPv6 default route on the router not getting updated in all cases.
- Bug Fix - Avoid an unnecessary recovery reboot to increase uptime.
- Bug Fix - Handle a corner case to increase uptime robustness when recovery requires a hard reboot.
- Bug Fix - Fix a condition that causes a rare kernel crash.
- Bug Fix - Occasional FSM crashes that can affect uptime.
- Bug Fix - Occasional CM process crashes that can affect uptime.
- Bug Fix - Reduced a DNS resolution timeout that caused failures in the security plugin.
- Bug Fix - Fix corner case that could cause leaf pod topology changes to fail.
- Enhancement - Removed a no-longer necessary restart of the Ethernet driver to improve port uptime.
- Enhancement - Upstream router connectivity is tested when the router does not reply to pings to prevent unnecessary loss of connectivity in some failure conditions.
SuperPod Firmware Version 2.4.3-72 (Release Date: 10/24/19)
- New Feature - Initial IP Threat Protection support
- New Feature - LAN IPV6 support in Router Mode
- New Feature - IPV4/IPV6 Dual Stack support in Router mode
- Enhancement - Improved throughput performance in router mode over backhaul links for SuperPod
- New Feature - Add OVS bridging acceleration support
- New Feature - Introduced advanced steering back-off
- Enhancement - Reduced air congestion
- Enhancement - Improved 802.11k roaming experience
- Enhancement - Improved DFS experience
- Enhancement - Handle steering clients who try to associate even after authentication was rejected
- Enhancement - Update Ookla speed test app
- Enhancement - Improved performance of static GRE backhaul links
- Enhancement - Improved memory compaction for robustness
- Enhancement - Upgrades to multiple managers
- Enhancement - Adjust threshold for allowing clients to connect on 2.4GHz
- Enhancement - Add support for cloud-configured steering during backoff periods
- Enhancement - Speed up the connection of wireless leaf pods
- Enhancement - Improved categorization for security and content events
- Bug Fix - Fix a race condition resulting in incorrect backhaul configuration
- Bug Fix - Various manager crashes and memory leaks
- Bug Fix - Fix for a popular camera brand disconnecting during optimization
- Bug Fix - Fix for a topology optimization issue
- Bug Fix - Fix a case where recovering from Ethernet or internet problems fails to restore the correct switch configuration
SuperPod Firmware Version 1.0.1-60 (Release Date: 9/5/19)
- Bug Fix - Platform - Disable Ethernet power save, to avoid interoperability issues
SuperPod Firmware Version 1.0.1-59 (Release Date: 5/23/19)
- Bug Fix - Only include BSSIDS that are currently active in the 11v BTM (Improved iPhone performance on iOS 12)
- Bug Fix - Handle a corner case when a recovery reboot is happening shortly after recovery succeeds (Full recovery time can take up to 20 minutes)
- Bug Fix - Limit how often a band steering request is sent
- Enhancement - Notify the cloud of client connection even if it moved BSSIDs on the same AP
- Bug Fix - Improve robustness of DNS resolutions when DNS reputation service is not responding
- Bug Fix - Retain the ability to recover from network problems in leaf pods
SuperPod Firmware Version 1.0.1-46 (Release Date: 4/12/19)
- Bug fix - Fix stuck Dakota Ethernet switch when operating in Bridge Mode
- Enhancement - Correctly identify the platform when applying SuperPod specific healthcheck tests
- Bug Fix - Fix for issue of clients connected to the Gateway pod are unable to connect to the internet
SuperPod Firmware Version 1.0.1-38 (Release Date: 3/13/19)
- Bug fix - Avoid reboot due to poor ethernet link
- Bug Fix - Fix misconfiguration due to radar events in the 5G band for DFS
- Bug Fix - Improve robustness of DNS filtering
- Bug Fix - Fix regression in the reliability of the detection of wired clients on leaf pods
- Bug Fix - Resolve crash for pod manager
- Enhancement - Skip link checking during refreshing state
- Bug Fix - Fix onboarding cases using eth1
- Bug Fix - platform changes for Ethernet switch getting stuck
- Bug Fix - Recovery script for manager
- Bug Fix - Protect against potential driver crash
- Enhancement - Reduce memory consumption of speed tests
- Bug Fix - Fix driver crash
- Enhancement - Remove unnecessary debug messages
- Bug Fix - Fix crashes on pod managers
- Minor enhancements and fixes
SuperPod Firmware Version 1.0.1-8 (Release Date: 1/21/19)
- Bug Fix - Fix potential memory leak
- Bug Fix - Fix logic problem that would falsely report client as not configured
- Bug Fix - Simplified log messaging
- Enhancement - Add support to report blocked DNS queries
- Bug Fix - Resolved delay in sending some packets
- Bug Fix - Handle a case that could result in crash
- Bug Fix - Fix potential kernel crash
- Enhancement - Debugging logs improvement
- Bug Fix - Fixed crash for Pod managers
- Bug Fix - Resolved corner case when client would exit back-off after re-connecting on 5 GHz
- Bug Fix - Don't continue BTM retries if client reconnects
- Bug Fix - Account for major clock drift adjustment for recording timestamps
- Bug Fix - Don't issue DHCP Request during dry-run
- Enhancement - Acceleration used in router mode for performing NAT (Enhanced Connection Manager)
- Enhancement - Memory, CPU, and FS statistics now reported every 2 minutes to debug logs
- Bug Fix - Ethernet clients should be applied to correct VLAN when appropriate
- Bug Fix - Fixed memory leak
- Bug Fix - Improved DNS handling robustness
SuperPod Firmware Version 1.0.0-45 (Release Date: 11/19/18)
- Bug Fix - Fix memory leak when processing HTTP
- Bug Fix - Improve handling of malformed DNS packet
- Bug Fix - Avoid rare kernel crash
- Bug Fix - Fix issue where an unsolicited DNS response could be looped
- Bug Fix - Fix a possible memory leak
- Bug Fix - Fix a crash when periodically flushing DNS request queue
- Bug Fix - Resolve case where network stayed offline when Internet up-link connection was restored
- Bug Fix - Small performance improvement by reverting to previous OVS version
- Bug Fix - Content Filtering Fix-up source MAC of forwarded DNS responses
- Bug Fix - Improved device logs
- Bug Fix - DNS health check bug causing reboot when unable to establish internet connection
- Bug Fix - Fix case where fan would become loud
- Bug Fix – Speed test crash resulting in 0 Mbps
- Enhancement - Content Filtering white-listing works faster
- Enhancement - Device Typing efficiency
SuperPod Firmware Version 1.0.0-37 (Release Date: 11/05/18)
- Fix: Customers experiencing intermittent performance degradation due to Flow Service Manager (FSM) crashing. FSM is partly responsible for Secure & Protect feature on the pods.
- Fix: Connectivity Manager intermittently crashes which causes the pod to disconnect
- Fix: DFS backhaul channels would fall back to 2.4Ghz due to RADAR events. Note: this will only apply to customers in EU
- Fix: Memory leak in Stats Manager would report invalid stats to the cloud which may cause the system not to optimise accurately
SuperPod Firmware Version 1.0.0 (Release Date: 9/28/18)
- New: Added support for IGMP Snooping
- New: Added support for 802.11v BSS Transition Management and 802.11k RRM Beacon Report during steering
- New: Native speed test utility
- Improved: Steering capabilities
- Fix: Steering will ignore disconnections if on the wrong band
- Fix: Devices that use 10 Mbps over Ethernet now stable
- Fix: Various bugs fixed that resulted in a stuck Ethernet Port
- Fix: Pods can be connected to other Pods so long as one of them is connected to a router. Including if Plume is acting as a Router. (Ethernet backhaul)
- Other minor bug fixes and improvements
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