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

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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