Customised Firmware Release Notes

2.15 (21/01/2013)

• New version of fix-disk courtesy of xyz321.
  • Add option for automatic repair of suspect/corrupt disk sectors;
  • Improve partition type detection by testing EXT2/3 backup superblocks;
  • Additional diagnostic output.
• Improve behaviour of environment initialisation, particularly in the presence of a faulty disk (based on a patch from xyz321);
• Maintenance mode now waits for full network initialisation before shutting down the Humax software (should help with wireless connections);
• Maintenance mode now displays system IP on front panel once the network is initialised (last 12 characters on HDR, part after last . on the HD);
• Prevent mod environment initialisation if disk is not formatted with EXT2/3;
• Update embedded telnet menu to v1.05;
  • better PIN entry;
  • improved answer processing;
  • flash disk conversion (FAT -> EXT2) (See Converting a USB Flash Drive to EXT2 on a HD-Fox T2).
• Update busybox version in flash to 1.20.2;
• Replace standalone binaries with busybox applets:
  • mkswap, stty, swapoff, swapon, tee;
• Add new busybox applets to flash:
  • clear, date, fsync, rmdir, sync;
• Replace busybox applets with standalone binaries:
  • hdparm
• Add new standalone utilities to flash:
  • smartctl, e2fsdump
• Move RMA flag location so that installation of official firmware will remove it;
• Add date stamps to various log files;
• Miscellaneous bug fixes.

2.14 (19/11/2012)

• Telnet server now automatically converts Windows new line sequences (patch from xyz321);
• Telnet server now properly handles client window size changes (patch from xyz321);
• By default, the telnet server will display a menu system rather than a system command line prompt;
• Option to revert to the previous telnet server behaviour (with webif >= 0.10.0-4 - Settings->Expert mode telnet server);
• fix-disk works properly if CFW installed whilst the hard disk cannot be mounted (patch from xyz321);
• fix-disk works properly if run more than once in the same maintenance mode session (patch from xyz321).

2.13 (31/10/2012)

• Fix race condition bug in maintenance mode which stopped it initialising properly on occasion if a disk was slow to mount;
• Front panel feedback for maintenance mode (MAINTENANCE on HDR, UtiL on HD);
• Add parameters to fix-disk to allow selective partition checking, magic number check skip and additional file system check options;
• Add persistent log file for fix-disk;
• Add RMA (Return to Manufacturer) mode to allow for complete removal of custom firmware.

2.12 (01/9/2012)

• Unified release, downloads available for Humax firmware 1.02.20 and 1.02.29 (not 1.02.27 nor 1.02.28);
• Include additional file system and disk utilities (gfdisk, tune2fs, debugfs, badblocks);
• Include swap management utilities (mkswap, swapon, swapoff - provided by xyz321);
• Include native fix-disk utility (HDR only - written by xyz321);
• Add resume argument to settop startup script.

2.11 (03/6/2012)

• Unified release, downloads available for Humax firmware 1.02.20, 1.02.27 and 1.02.28

2.10 (14/4/2012)

• Packaged as a ZIP file;
• Updates to support Humax firmware 1.02.27;
• Show custom firmware version on LCD screen during boot;

(Idea taken from the Foxsat custom firmware - thanks Raydon/Adrianf26/Partridge)

• Remove reservation sync utility from firmware (now separate package);
• Maintenance boot now works properly with a corrupt disk.

2.00 (23/2/2012)

• Various bug fixes and updates.

1.17 (24/1/2012)

• Fix bug with settop restart (that was causing problems for DHCP users who use HDR Mode).

1.16 (22/1/2012)

• Adds hooks to allow packages to take action should the main Humax software crash.

1.15 (5/1/2012)

• No longer replace the built-in FTP server (see http://hummy.tv/forum/threads/1014/);
• Include ext file system utilities (mke2fs, e2fsck);
• Ability to boot in maintenance mode;
• Several minor bug fixes.

1.14 (18/11/2011)

• Improve package installation from USB drives;
• Add support for installing package bundles from USB (see Manually loading Features from USB);
• Support installing packages from NTFS formatted USB drives;
• Fix bug with IP address detection for wireless connected devices.

1.13 (9/10/2011)

• Fix problem with boot framework initialisation.

1.12 (9/10/2011)

• Additional boot environment hooks.

1.11 (31/8/2011)

• Include boot-time reservation sync service.