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.
Pod Firmware Version 3.0.1-54 (Release Date: 02/18/21)
- Enhancement - Updated Walleye plugin to version 1.35.7 (OpenSync)
- Enhancement - Improved Cloud connection logic handling in dual-stack networks: IPv4 and IPv6
- Enhancement - Platform - updated app detection signature file for digital well being
- Enhancement - Added multicast HW support
- 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 - Platform - updated app detection signature file for digital well being
- Bug Fix - Adjusted handling of IPv6 routes and removed workaround introduced in version 2.2.2.0 (OpenSync)
- Bug Fix - Fixed kr00k (CVE-2020-3702) vulnerability
- Bug Fix - Fixed radio & VIF relationship upon OVSDB updates in Exchange Manager (XM) (OpenSync)
- Bug Fix - Fixed Walleye reporting with URL based on different network protocols (OpenSync)
- Bug Fix - Fixed faulty code for broadcast/multicast flow filtering in Flow Control Manager (FCM, introduced in release 2.0.5.0) (OpenSync)
- 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 - Prevented possible memory leaks in traffic processing modules
- Bug Fix - Fixed internal cache bug in band and client steering
- Bug Fix - Improved WAN handling logic in IPv6 SLAAC networks
Pod Firmware Version 3.0.1-36 (Release Date: 11/1/20)
- Enhancement - Minor WiFi client statistics improvements
- Enhancement - Speedtest stability improvements
Pod 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
- Bug Fix - Fix rare case of misconfigured 2.4G radio channel
Pod 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 issue where DNS packets could become stuck in rare cases for v1 Pods
- Bug fix - Fixed reporting of client and band steering events
- Bug fix - Fix PSK skipped by WPS
- Bug fix - Prevent possible deadlock of traffic processing module
- Bug fix - Fixed acceleration of bridged client packets for v1 Pods
- 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
Pod Firmware Version 2.4.3-119 (Release Date: 3/20/20)
- Bug Fix - Improved method of checking local router connectivity
- Bug Fix - Resolved issue that caused clients to take longer than expected to associate
- Bug Fix - Memory leak fix
- Bug Fix - Avoid edge case manager crash
- Bug Fix - Fix a regression in topology change
- Bug Fix - Fix a case of a failure during client roaming
- Bug Fix - Improve the reliability and robustness of the Plume AI security content filtering and IP Threat protection
Pod Firmware Version 2.4.3-98 (Release Date: 1/30/20)
- 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.
- Bug Fix - Update for performance issues Pods in some cases.
- Bug Fix - Pods were not including their own channels in 802.11k neighbor reports to improve device steering.
- 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.
- Enhancement - Reduced firmware image size
Pod Firmware Version 2.4.3-72 (Release Date: 9/28/19)
- New Feature - Add OVS bridging acceleration support
- New Feature - Introduce advanced steering back-off
- Enhancement - Reduce air congestion
- Enhancement - Improve 802.11k roaming experience
- Enhancement - Improved DFS experience
- Enhancement - Handle steering clients who try to associate even after authentication was rejected
- Enhancement - Update speed test
- Enhancement - Improve 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 2.4G
- Enhancement - Add support for cloud-configured steering during backoff periods
- Enhancement - Speed up the connection of wireless leafs
- 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
Pod Firmware Version 2.2.1-59 (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
Pod Firmware Version 2.2.1-46 (Release Date: 4/12/19)
- No Changes - Version increased to match SuperPod
Pod Firmware Version 2.2.1-38 (Release Date: 3/13/19)
- Bug Fix - Fix misconfiguration due to radar events in the 5G band
- Bug Fix - Improve robustness of DNS filtering
Pod Firmware Version 2.2.1-29 (Release Date: 2/22/19)
- Bug Fix - Fix regression in the reliability of the detection of wired clients on leaf pods
- Bug Fix - Resolve crash for pod manager
- Enhancement - Cloud notification when eth is removed
- Enhancement - Skip link checking during refreshing state
- Bug Fix - Changes for ethernet switch getting stuck
- Enhancement - Resolve speed test not running issue
- Bug Fix - Recovery script for manager
- Bug Fix - Protect against potential driver crash
- Enhancement - Reduce memory consumption of speed tests
- Bug Fix - Resolve interoperability issue between station and AP
- Bug Fix - Fix driver crash
Pod Firmware Version 2.2.1-8 (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 an 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 - 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
Pod Firmware Version 2.2.0-45 (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 were 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 healthcheck bug causing reboot when unable to establish internet connection
- Bug Fix - Fix case where fan would become loud
- Bug Fix - Speedtest crash resulting in 0 Mbps
- Enhancement - Content Filtering white-listing works faster
- Enhancement - Device Typing efficiency
Pod Firmware Version 2.2.0-37 (Release 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 optimize accurately
Pod Firmware Version 2.2.0 (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
Pod Firmware Version 2.0.0 (Release Date: 4/4/18)
- Improved: Updated the kernel and Wi-Fi drivers on the Pod resulting in higher throughput performance, especially on 2.4GHz links in the core network
- Improved: Tuned RTS/CTS settings to improve performance in busy or congested Wi-Fi environments
- Improved: Reduced support of 802.11b only clients to improve overall 2.4GHz airtime in the network
- Fix: Ethernet connected clients lost their connection triggered by a network controller restart
- Fix: Numerous device connection interoperability issues, mostly related to 2.4GHz only IoT devices
- Fix: Rare race condition, which may cause network optimization changes to fail
- Fix: Bug which may delay the time in which an Ethernet backhaul link becomes active after a Pod reset
Pod Firmware Version 1.8.1 (Release Date: 12/6/17)
- Fix: DNS check issues seen on some outdated residential gateways
- New: Added leaf pod gateway mode detection Ethernet link - seamless gateway to leaf pod and vice versa transition
- New: Added support for firmware OTA (Over The Air) encrypted image upgrade
- New: Added loop detection support
Pod Firmware Version 1.8.0 (Release Date: 10/27/2017)
- Improved: Preventative patches for WPA2 KRACK exploit
- Improved: Wi-Fi driver stability
- Fix: Wi-Fi network will continue to broadcast during Internet outages
- Fix: Resolved interoperability issues affecting certain clients
Pod Firmware Version 1.6 (Release Date: 8/4/2017)
- New: Band Steering enabled on supported devices
- New: Added Device Freeze Feature
- Improved debugging capabilities
- Improved topology change stability
- Improved Wi-Fi statistics collection
- Fix: All known speed test issues
- Fix: Special character issue in Wi-Fi password
Pod Firmware Version 1.4.2 (Release Date: 6/9/2017)
- Fix: Speed test implementation fixed to reduce random DL values of zero
- Fix: DHCP client on WAN fix for Cisco router RV325
Pod Firmware Version 1.4.1 (Release Date: 5/17/2017)
- Improved Channel Switch Announcement (CSA), the feature used to change channels
- Improved topology robustness in high traffic environments
- Improved logging for debugging
Pod Firmware Version 1.2.1-14 (Release Date: 2/17/2017)
- New: Clients list extended to include Ethernet-connected clients report
- New: Supports submission of user defined primary and secondary DNS server
- Fix: Fixed UPnP mode report to the cloud
- Fix: Fixed connected client list to show all clients connected to the Pod
- Performance improvement on 5G Wi-Fi connections
- Other bug fixes were added
Pod Firmware Version 1.2.0-9 (Release Date: 1/25/2017)
- New: Added double-blink LED pattern on Pod when network is optimizing
- Pod firmware upgrade process has been improved
- Self-healing/recovery has been improved
- Improved speed of Pod power-on and network formation
- Cloud communication improved for better reliability
- Improved debugging capabilities
- Fix: A rare failure of 5G Wi-Fi initialization at Pod power-on
- Fix: An issue that causes on-boarding to not find a Pod via bluetooth
- Fix: Bug that was causing Pods to be disconnected from cloud
- Fix: Bug that was causing Pod to not properly sync date and time. This may have caused statistic reporting problems which could have resulted in a non-optimal topology.
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