v2014.4.rst



Gluon 2014.4

Added (and removed) hardware support

Buffalo
WZR-HP-AG300H / WZR-600DHP
WZR-HP-G450H


D-Link
DIR-615 (E1) support had to be dropped


TP-LINK
CPE210/220/510/520 (v1)
TL-MR3040 (v2
TL-WA750RE (v1)
TL-WA801N/ND (v2)
TL-WA850RE (v1)
TL-WR703N (v1)
TL-WR710N (v1)
TL-WR1043N/ND (v2)


New features

OpenWrt Barrier Breaker
Switching to the new OpenWrt release 14.09 ("Barrier Breaker") has yielded
lots of updates for both the kernel and most packages. Besides better
performance, this has also greatly improved stability (far less out-of-memory
issues!).

Modular config mode
The old gluon-config-mode package has been split into five
small packages, each providing a single section of the config
mode form. This simplifies removing or replacing parts of the wizard.
See the Site changes section for details.

Experimental support for batman-adv compat 15
As batman-adv has broken compatiblity starting with batman-adv 2014.0
(bumping the "compat level" to 15), Gluon users must decide which
batman-adv version to use. The package for the old batman-adv version
gluon-mesh-batman-adv has been renamed to gluon-mesh-batman-adv-14,
the new version can be used with gluon-mesh-batman-adv-15.
Please note that batman-adv compat 15 still isn't tested very well
(and there are known bugs in the current release 2014.3), so for now
we still recommend using compat 14 in "production" environments.

fastd v16
Besides other new features and bugfixes, fastd v16 support the new
authentication method "UMAC". We recommend switching from the old
salsa2012+gmac and null+salsa2012+gmac methods to the new
salsa2012+umac and null+salsa2012+umac as UMAC is
much faster and even more secure than GMAC.

Private WLAN
The new package gluon-luci-private-wifi allows to configure a private WLAN
with WPA-PSK in the expert mode which is bridged with the WAN uplink.

Embedding SSH keys
Using gluon-authorized-keys it is possible to embed predefined SSH
public keys to firmware images. If gluon-config-mode-* is left out
images will be ready to mesh after the first boot with SSH running for
further configuration.

Status page resolves nodenames
The tools gluon-announced and gluon-neighbour-info are now
available. Using them enables the status page to resolve hostnames and
IPs of a nodes' neighbours.
This will also work on devices with multiple wireless interfaces.