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 in to the outlet.

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 2.6.0-44 (Release Date: 3/14/20)

Note: This firmware will only be released for SuperPod Only networks. Networks with multiple hardware types will be supported in an upcoming release.

Bug fix - Fixed support for SSID with double backslash

Bug fix - Improve traffic processing logic

Bug fix - Decrease unexpected device reboots

Bug fix - Added further improvements for client roaming

SuperPod Firmware Version 2.6.0-39 (Release Date: 2/27/20)

Note: This firmware will only be released for SuperPod Only networks. Networks with multiple hardware types will be supported in an upcoming release.

New Feature - Added Plume Motion support.

New Feature - Allow utilization of Pod and PowerPods for motion detection sensors.

Enhancement - Auto-restart a process when its memory consumption is excessive.

Enhancement - Provide richer speed test statistics to the cloud for internal reporting.

Enhancement – Logging Improvements.

Bug fix - Correctly handle client packets during roaming to avoid service disruption when roaming from a Wi-Fi connected pod to another Wi-Fi connected pod.

Bug fix - Prevent possible crashes while processing DNS packets.

Bug fix - Prevent possible kernel crashes at system startup.

Bug fix - Prevent DNS packet related memory leaks.

Bug fix – Speed up network topology update time for better Wi-Fi service availability

Bug Fix - Fix so SSID/PSK update will not stop OpenSync from receiving Wi-Fi state updates.

Bug Fix - Fix a corner case where the fan would not start spinning on time.

Bug Fix - Restart the speed test app if it gets stuck.

Bug Fix - Handle a case where associated clients were not shown as connected.

Bug Fix - Fix IP Threat Protection corner case in Router Mode.

Bug Fix - Fix a regression in SuperPod speed test performance.

Bug Fix - Relaxed default UPnP port forwarding rules to allow ports below 1024.

Bug Fix - Fix for not removing an old port forwarding rule when a rule is modified.

Bug Fix – Speed up a slow roaming case for better experience on mobile device.

Bug Fix – Improve edge case that could impact DHCP request handling

SuperPod Firmware Version 2.4.3-98 (Release Date: 1/30/20)

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: 9/28/19)

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 - Improve throughput performance in router mode over backhaul links for SuperPod

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

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 crashs 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 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 - 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 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

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 optimize 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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