Hi folks, We’re nearly there! The first release candidate is available, which contains all the changes we’ve planned for the 2.3.7.0 final release. We’ll now enter a period of more extensive testing, to find any remaining critical bugs or regressions. In the best case, we’ll not find any and the final release will be identical to to this release candidate.
What changed?
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This release brings mostly bugfixes and a pile of Here’s a few
highlights:
- The Transmission torrent client was updated to version 2.71.
- Wifi channels 12 and 13 are now available in countries they are
allowed in
- OpenVPN is a lot more configurable (many thanks to Jon Spriggs for
contributing patches for most of these changes!).
- USB audio devices work again (this got broken in beta3).
- USB disk support improvements
For the complete list of changes, see the changelog:
http://download.fonosfera.org/RC/2.3.7.0_rc1/Changelog.txt
What about my feedback?
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We welcome more feedback about this release, so go ahead and comment or
post away. This does not just mean issues or problems: If you test a new
or fixed feature and it works for you, we’d like to know as well.
Feedback is welcome through various channels: comments on this blogpost,
the development mailing list, IRC or by creating a ticket on our trac:
http://trac.fonosfera.org/fon-ng/wiki/reportbugs
Note that at this point, we might not fix all bugs reported, but limit
to critical bugs or regressions that were introduced by the recent
releases. The goal here is to make as few changes as possible, to
minimize the chance of introducing new bugs again.
So, how do I upgrade?
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To install this release candidate, download the web upgrade tarball
here, navigate to your Fonera’s dashboard through “Settings” and then
“System” and upload the downloaded file there (under “Firmware update”).
Note that you should not unpack the file you download (and make sure
your browser doesn’t automatically unzip the file either, it should
remain a .tgz file).
The following versions are available. Note that because this is release
candidate, only the developer’s version is available, not the end user’s
version (but you can freely switch between versions without problems).
Be sure to pick the version for your hardware. If you pick the wrong
one, the firmware update will silently bail out and no upgrade will
happen (no error will appear either).
- 2.0g (FON2202) developer’s version:
http://download.fonosfera.org/RC/2.3.7.0_rc1/FON2202_2.3.7.0_rc1_DEV.tgz
- 2.0n (FON2303) developer’s version
http://download.fonosfera.org/RC/2.3.7.0_rc1/FON2303_2.3.7.0_rc1_DEV.tgz
It seems that in some cases, the 2.0g fails to flash a new firmware
through the webinterface due to insufficient free RAM. If you upload the
firmware through the webinterface, but that page keeps loading
indefinitely (and you do not get the updating countdown), you’re
probably seeing this issue as well. As a workaround, you can disable
windows file sharing (”Settings” -> “Fileserver” -> “Windows Network
Shares”) and/or the public Fonspot (”Settings” -> “FONSpot”) to free up
some memory. This should allow the 2.0g to successfully unpack the
firmware and start flashing it.
If the upgrade somehow fails and you need to recover, the new FAQ
section has recovery instructions:
https://fon.zendesk.com/entries/21439902-firmware-restore
Have fun!
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