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| − | Draft release notes for 3.10
| + | == 3.13 (TBC.2017)== |
| − | | + | * Backport kernel fix for CVE-2016-5195 (Dirty Cow vulnerabilty); |
| − | * Add support for large hard disks (> 2^32 sectors [~2TB with 512-byte logical sectors]);
| + | * Backport kernel fix for CVE-2016-10229 (arbitrary code execution via UDP traffic); |
| − | * Update SATA driver to (hopefully) overcome rare drive initialisation problem;
| + | * Do not attempt to use DNS during modinit/setup_hosts. |
| − | * RFC 1323 TCP window scaling is disabled by default (cf. the tcpfix package);
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| − | * Add support for automatically mounting GPT disks connected via USB; | |
| − | * Add new Safe Mode which disables almost all custom firmware components - useful for troubleshooting without having to load stock firmware (which isn't possible with large drives). Safe Mode can be enabled via the web interface diagnostics page or telnet menu and disabled in the same way;
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| − | * Initial web interface installation (CFW Bootstrap) now tests repository connectivity using TCP instead of ICMP;
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| − | * Updated ''fix-disk'': | |
| − | ** Add support for GPT partitioned disks;
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| − | ** For AF drives with a pending/unreadable logical sector, fix-disk now checks and attempts to repair the entire physical sector;
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| − | ** Backup copies of the disk partition table are now kept in flash to aid future recovery;
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| − | ** The 6 most recent fix-disk logs are retained for inspection rather than just the last;
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| − | * Updated telnet menu:
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| − | ** All options are now words rather than numbers;
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| − | ** New ''gptf'' option to re-format the internal hard disk using the GPT scheme;
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| − | ** New ''safe'' option to toggle safe mode;
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| − | ** New ''upgrade'' option to upgrade all installed packages;
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| − | ** New ''webif'' option to install the initial web interface (if missing);
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| − | ** New ''fixweb'' option to re-enable web server and re-install the web interface; | |
| − | * Updates to bootstrap web pages (those shown during boot or when in different modes):
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| − | ** HTML format fixes;
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| − | ** Served images are now browser-cacheable;
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| − | ** The initial web page shown before the disk is initialised now says that the system is still initialising and will automatically refresh to the standard web interface once it's running. If no disk is found within 20 seconds then an appropriate page is shown;
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| − | ** Web pages are shown when in maintenance or safe modes with an option to restart in normal mode;
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| − | * Set system clock from front panel ''Micom'' early in boot sequence (required for bootstrap caching);
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| − | * Provide consistent and deterministic behaviour if multiple boot modes are selected together (''Maintenance mode'' wins followed by ''Safe'', then ''Reset'' and finally ''RMA'');
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| − | * New ''boot.log'' file consolidates messages from boot-time;
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| − | * Include ''gdisk'', ''sgdisk'' and ''sfdisk'' utilities for partition table management;
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| − | * Include basic ''vi'' and ''more'' commands in flash;
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| − | * Remove some unused/non-working/superseded commands from flash (''fsck'', ''syslogd'', ''klogd'', ''inetd'').
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