Plume Cloud Release Notes

Plume makes regular updates to the cloud in order to add new features and fix issues. Most updates do not have a visible impact on the behaviour of your network and new features often require updates to the Plume app for you to access them.

The updates listed below are changes that you may see affect the behaviour of your network.

The following updates have been made to the Plume cloud as of August 5th, 2021 (version 1.78):

Fixed: AppTime 30 Day and 12 Months averages rollover was based on UTC (not local time).
Note: Additional new features and improvements of this build are targeted for our ISP partners and Support.

The following updates have been made to the Plume cloud as of July 15th, 2021 (version 1.77):

New: Anytime a new account is created or a reset your password, you need to apply these new rules:
- Minimum Length: characters 8
- Character Classes;
- passwords must have characters of at least 2 classes. The character classes are:
- Uppercase letters (A-Z)
- Lowercase letters (a-z)
- Numbers (0-9)
- Non-alphanumeric character (!@#$%^&*()_+-=[]{}|')
  This change is due to the global certification for a password complexity policy
Note: Additional new features and improvements of this build are targeted for our ISP partners and Support.

The following updates have been made to the Plume cloud as of June 23rd, 2021 (version 1.76):

Note: Additional new features and improvements of this build are targeted for our ISP partners and Support.

The following updates have been made to the Plume cloud as of June 3rd, 2021 (version 1.75):

New: Enhanced auto-provisioning code, such that a WAN IP lookup is used to determine to which partner the gateway belongs. This is designed to prevent malicious attackers from abusing a user with access to a specific auto-provisioned location.
Specifically, with matching WAN-IP information present, gateways feature auto-provisioning so that now mobile app users can claim a gateway to existing locations for the multi-tenant clouds.
Note: Additional new features and improvements of this build are targeted for our ISP partners and Support.

The following updates have been made to the Plume cloud as of May 13th, 2021 (version 1.74):

Note: Additional new features and improvements of this build are targeted for our ISP partners and Support.

The following updates have been made to the Plume cloud as of April 21st, 2021 (version 1.73):

New: Speedtest enhancements (specify a subset of OOKLA servers).
Fixed: Replace and localize the "max-username" 422 status code to be: "You have reached the maximum limit of 30 Wi-Fi passwords".
Note: Additional new features and improvements of this build are targeted for our ISP partners and Support.

New: Characters ö,ä,ü,ß were accepted for Wi-Fi PSK were set up, but not supported by Windows PC. They will now be rejected by the APIs.
New: New customers default to basic mode without a membership.
New: Introduced a new manager (WAN Orchestrator), which takes over WAN interface management from CM modules for DHCPv4, DHCPv6, static IPv4, PPPoE, VLAN extendable architecture support.
Fixed: WAN Orchestrator: switching WAN and LAN port on Gateway pod caused losing Gateway detection for the location for VSB.
Fixed: Disabled long tag usage on older device firmware.
Fixed: fsm-redirect-addrs Openflow tag should not contain domains.
Fixed: Bypass Multicast traffic from Conntrack.
Fixed: Write the final cs kick Type to S3 ("location-device-steer").
Fixed: Logging issue where 503 is reported as 500 due to Null pointer.
Fixed: Location Agent crash if firmware upgrade is triggered on uninitialized location.
Fixed: After changing topology (service vaps) multicast to unicast is not set.
Fixed: Addressed Devices are not able to ping each other if the shared device is connected by Ethernet and the second device is in the guest zone.
Fixed: Updated channel regulatory constraints for AU/NZ to include 5GHz channels 149, 153, 157, 161.
Note: Additional new features and improvements of this build are targeted for our ISP partners and Support.

The following updates have been made to the Plume cloud as of September 10th, 2020 (version 1.62):

New: Cloud to mitigate issues and support the mobile app and other API clients in their efforts to educate the consumer about MAC randomization.
New: Fixed the maximum number of claimed pods to the total number of pods claimed at the time of entering basic mode for accounts that have their subscription expired.
New: A stricter selection of DFS channel 124 (for avoiding 10 min CAC).
New: Platform configs files in memory are no longer kept after parsing, saving memory.
New: Customer's Data Deletion Request implemented for motion data for privacy laws.
New: Remove br-wan on the Controller side.
New: Include channel bandwidth in vap v2 state API.
Fixed: After Controller restarts clients in Internet Only zone were unable to resolve DNS.
Fixed: claimKey value should be set in Node_Config ovsdb table for cell.
Fixed: E0 country code was considered US regulatory domain, causing many optimization failures.
Note: Additional new features and improvements of this build are targeted for our ISP partners and Support.

The following updates have been made to the Plume cloud as of August 14th, 2020 (version 1.61.2):

New: Monitor ARP messages to complete IP address to MAC address mapping for devices providing a static IP address. The mapping is used to identify devices behind IP traffic.
New: Enable live updating the signatures used for application detection on a running system, as opposed to requiring a re-flash of the platform firmware.
New: Device airtime metrics added to QoE APIs.
New: Updated SNR extrapolation methods between UL and DL directions.
New: Reworked Dispatch/FSM table rules.
New: Orchestrator will no longer decide what to filter out from "nol" list. The "nol" list from Orchestrator to Optimizer will be no longer be empty. The Optimizer will make the decision for (DFS and non-DFS) channel selections.
New: Rework Dispatch/FSM table rules.
New: Configure VSB heaven/hell/purgatory restrictions.
New: Report VSB access zone for connected devices.
New: Configure VSB access zones.
Fixed: Improved steering shuffles and adds Wi-Fi stats application data back into Batch.
Fixed: Optimizer applies a backoff on DFS channel selection after repeated CAC timeouts/failures.
Fixed: Controller now provides "linkStates" to the Optimizer, which includes failure count per channel.
New: Added a check for Firmware reporting incorrect NSS.
New: QoE computation of rx and tx Airtime percentage per device.
New: Controller provides "linkStates" to the Optimizer, which includes failure count per channel.
That same framework will be used to report CAC timeouts.
New: Filtered out 0 byte IP flow reports to reduce the volume of reports.
New: Optimized how we configure AppTime the device.
New: GDPR - get/deletion of data associated with HomeAway states.
New: Customer, awlan, reports, notifications: added missing config file to health checks.
New: Moved some logs from info to debug, to reduce log space used by controller logging.
New: Improvements to handle CAC timeouts and link failure counts.
New: Update log-pull functionality to support direct S3 uploading (requires OpenSync 2.2 firmware)
Fixed: Issue causing iPhone XS and 6S not connecting to INTERNET ONLY zone.
Fixed: Node KV configs cannot be configured sometimes during startup.
Fixed: DNS issues for Guest and Internet Only clients on leaf pods.
Fixed: Secondary VAPs not getting configured automatically.
Fixed: QoE alerts in RTI service not getting updated.
Fixed: IP-Flows are not getting tagged by Walleye.
Fixed: Remove field "unknownFields" from all Controller API responses.
Fixed: Privacy mode is not clearing the FCM_Filter table
Fixed: Client Steering directed kick did not follow the throughput Change Mbps requirement from the model. Now uses throughput Change Mbps from device type config for a directed kick instead of from ‘application.conf’.
Fixed: Locations missing bandwidth consumption for devices occurring only after the mobile app user has hidden 140+ devices from their API view.
Fixed: Update Broadband Speed Offline Job to use new schema version (2.0.0)
Fixed: GDPR retrieval of Motion events limited to first 10 events
Fixed: Controller did not support channel 64 on 5GL.
Note: Additional new features and improvements of this build are targeted for our ISP partners and Support.

The following updates have been made to the Plume cloud as of June 11th, 2020 (version 1.58.0):

New: WDS / MAP 4-Addr Backhaul Cloud Support (requires OpenSync 2.0).
New: Implemented reboot count and reboot reason statistics.
New: Cohort config added for zero wait DFS.
New: The Plume Cloud supports a basic mode of features for users who let their Plume membership expire. Basic mode provides similar services to that of a traditional wireless router, without Plume Membership exclusive features (Plume AI Security, Plume Motion, HomePass, etc.)
New: Enabled device typing for devices with locally administered MACs.
New: Plume Motion now has the ability to create a zone name (room). Scans to update sounding devices, updating all notifications to reflect a zone's name instead of the device name. The presentation should take into account a tablet layout.
New: Hourly Counts for security events up to a 30-day period have been optimized to retrieve devices that have been online in the last 30 days instead of all devices that have been online for the entire year.
New: IConfigure FCM lanstats plugin for collecting L2 stats for an entire location from Controller.
New: Option to trigger notifications to customers about an Evil Brother network
Fixed: Issue causing client steering to be effectively disabled due to a race condition causing the "initialization" of Client Steering Manager to not get.
Fixed: This was impacting locations with 40+ devices as requests are made in parallel to the Controller. Requests have been serialized
Note: Additional new features and improvements of this build are targeted for our ISP partners and Support.

The following updates have been made to the Plume cloud as of May 5th, 2020 (version 1.56):

New: Updated device type display name logic to use Host names for Windows and Android systems when available.
New: Optimizer now uses the reported channel gain/SNR to select topology without factoring the power/noise level per device model.
New: Ability for support to initiate at any time a speed test with a specific OOKLA server ID
New: Multicast to Unicast conversion on Wifi Interface for wireless IPTV use cases
New: Data for tracking connectivity stats per client per band
New: If there is an established network uplink via DHCP, IGMP Proxy Configuration will forward join and other IGMP frames from the LAN into the uplink WAN and forward the returned multicast stream into the customers LAN, (PPPoE for uplink not covered)
New: Allow wifi stack to continue operation on main channel and at the same time run background CAC (Channel Availability Check
New: Motion & People at Home Push Notifications loc-keys enhancement
New: Network overview related metrics and Data is being sent to regional Plume servers in production for improved health monitoring.
New: Allow Interference improvements thresholds (at least for GW only locations) to be runtime configurable
New: Enhance the Interference improvement thresholds for low interference single Gateway pod locations
Fixed: Customer API was allowing blank ipv4 and ipv6 DNS addresses and was passing through to controller which was causing the locations to not initialize correctly and was preventing them from coming online.
Fixed: proxy was configured on the wrong interface.
Note: Additional new features and improvements of this build are targeted for our ISP partners and support.

The following updates have been made to the Plume cloud as of March 25th, 2020 (version 1.54):

New: Allow users to override IPv6 DNS servers with custom ones.
New: When a location with multiple hardware types are configured as gateways, Plume will prefer designating SuperPods as the master gateway to enforce proper feature capabilities.
New: Allow controller to enable/disable backhaul based on the location’s configuration.
Fixed: Increase HTTP client buffer size to avoid timeouts during surge of outgoing queries to controller (usually in nightly optimizations).
Fixed: Model name and version persistence when a node connects.
Fixed: Issue with People at Home push notifications not being sent to the app and Plume Motion alerts arming/disarming occurring when there is a People at Home change.
Fixed: Reduced load on database due to IP Threat queries.
Fixed: Resolved regression in 1.53 where optimizations would not always select the strongest links between nodes, which led to failed optimizations.
New: Added API health check for Plume Motion services.
Note: Additional new features and improvements of this build are targeted for our ISP partners and support.

The following updates have been made to the Plume cloud as of January 30th, 2020 (version 1.52.0):

New: Always fallback to default client steering profile if a custom device type profile is not found.
New: Introduce integration plug in to Advanced IoT Protection for increased accuracy.
New: Internal feature flag added and use DeviceType API.
New: (OpenSync) Change CODA-4582 init condition from wan-ip to radios.
New: (OpenSync) Change UBC1322 init condition from wan-ip to radios
New: (OpenSync) Optimization of device type syntax.
Fixed: (OpenSync) ICMPv6 packets are dropped when traversing CT. This causes Neighbor Discovery protocol (ICMPv6) to not work on occasion.
Fixed: Device Type Health check reports incorrect failure counts.
Fixed: Device Type fails to reload Device Detector models.
New: Fixes and APIs for support personnel to better support GDPR requests.
Note: Additional new features and improvements of this build are targeted for our ISP partners.

The following updates have been made to the Plume cloud as of December 17th, 2019 (version 1.46.1):

New: Set IPv6 prefix on_link state to true by default.
New: Remove DHCP option 26 from DHCPv6_Server.
New: Optimizer to skip the 2.4 GHz channel assignment for clients -5 GHz-only locations when the 2.4 GHz band is missing in the original topology.
New: Remove DHCP option 26 from DHCPv6_Server.
Fixed: Missing preferred and valid lifetime in IPv6_Prefix table.
Fixed: Devices classified incorrectly as Home devices when they are Guest zone.
Fixed: Can not buy pods from app.
Fixed: Support activating DFS mode backhaul only disables DFS completely.
Fixed: Device typing issue for IPv6 only clients
Fixed: Controller does not properly resend the Openflow Rules if it fails
Fixed: Inbound IP Threat detection doesn't work reliably due to Openflow Rule issues.

The following updates have been made to the Plume cloud as of October 16th, 2019 (version 1.47.0):

New: Allow user to override Ipv6 DNS servers with custom ones
New: Mobile Alerts are aggregated into a single notification when multiple intrusion attempts are detected.
Improved: Improved statistics and graphs for support personnel.
Fixed: 802.11k -Speculative kick takes 5-6 minutes to get the result, which causes the following directed kick to be ignored.
Fixed: Issue with device typing API not returning proper device category.
Note: Additional new feature and improvements of this build are targeted for our ISP partners

The following updates have been made to the Plume cloud as of September 11th, 2019 (version 1.46.0):

New: Radar rate tracked to improve optimizations for DFS events.
Fixed: Speed test metrics not being available for support personnel
Fixed: QoE stats displayed incorrect number of hops for support personnel
Fixed: Back off period for Client Steering not expiring for client devices with a high Frequency of trouble events.
Fixed: Speculative kick being issued even if the client is already probing.
Fixed: Icons not always updated after being typed.
Fixed: IOT devices attempting to open too many connections when Frozen.
Fixed: Speculative kick being issued even if the client is already probing.
Fixed: Restarting controller disables Iot Device IP FlowStats.
Note: Additional new feature and improvements of this build are targeted for our ISP partners

The following updates have been made to the Plume cloud as of September 5th, 2019 (version 1.45.1):

New: API for Subscription Changes
Improved: Improved QoE device typing and capability reporting for support personnel.
Fixed: Redirector lookups get into retry loop.
Fixed: Empty Band and Client steering events table not populating for support personnel
Fixed: IP-Threat detection is not getting enabled on the pod in some instances.
Note: Additional new feature and improvements of this build are targeted for our ISP partners

The following updates have been made to the Plume cloud as of August 22nd, 2019 (version 1.44.1):

New: Ipv6 LAN DHCP added support to disable configuration
New: Added enforcement to custom DNS settings that prevents users from specifying two of the same DNS servers.
Improved: Updated QoE metrics and improved calculations for Support personnel.
Improved: Changed interference calculation per location based on the busiest time frame to improve optimizations.
improved: No radar optimizations should be triggered while DFS Is disabled in a location
Fixed: Device Freeze fixes including: using time zone based on GeoIP, instead of defaulting to Pacific and scheduler for SCHOOLNIGHTS at client level does not actually freeze client.
Fixed: Scheduled upgrades not starting on time because Customer API for Controller initialization did not include time zone.
Fixed: Node connections unstable as Optimization keeps failing on firmware 2.4.1-23
Fixed: Remove category 50 or whitelist youtube.com for Adultandsensitive filter
Fixed: Frozen devices reporting DNS Queries to Anomaly Detector even though not under Advanced IoT Protection
Fixed: Bandwidth Usage on pod shows different values than Bandwidth Usage for device
Fixed: High Client Steering Trouble events per client, no expiry of backoff period.
Fixed: DFS channels still being present when DFS has been disabled
Note: Additional new feature and improvements of this build are targeted for our ISP partners

The following updates have been made to the Plume cloud as of August 1st, 2019 (version 1.43.1):

Improved: Improved failed optimization reporting sent to support.
Improved: Improved QoE device typing and capability reporting for support.
Fixed: Pod and device Health now being displayed in the app.
Fixed: DFS channels are no longer present present when DFS disabled.
Fixed: Device Freeze fixes including using time zone based on GeoIP, instead of defaulting Pacific
Fixed: Radar optimizations no longer triggered while DFS Is disabled in a location
Note: Additional new feature and improvements of this build are targeted for our ISP partners

The following updates have been made to the Plume cloud as of May 20th, 2019 (version 1.41.1):

New: Limited the number of pods that can be associated to a single packID.
New: Client device rapid reconnect events are reported.
New: 15 minute storage policy implemented for Realtime Insights.
Improved: Improved onboarding analytics being sent to support.
Fixed: Adblocking is no longer deleted is the Adolescent Content Access policy is implemented by support.
Note: Additional new feature and improvements of this build are targeted for our ISP partners

The following updates have been made to the Plume cloud as of May 4th, 2019 (version 1.39.6):

Note: This build is primarily targeted for our ISP partners
Improved: Improved user experience for Advanced IoT Protection
Fixed: Devices are now removed from quarantine if Advanced IoT Protection is disabled at the location level

The following updates have been made to the Plume cloud as of April 10th, 2019 (version 1.38.3):

Note: This build is primarily targeted for our ISP partners
Improved: Improved accuracy of metrics available to support personnel to assist with troubleshooting.
Improved: Use IP instead of DNS name for controller manager address.

The following updates have been made to the Plume cloud as of March 19th, 2019 (version 1.37.4):

New: Support for advanced IoT Protection features added.
Fixed: Device Typing issue caused by devices missing certain features
Fixed: Improved accuracy of reasons for blocked websites in Secure and Protect
Fixed: Swipe action for unblocking websites in app

The following updates have been made to the Plume cloud as of February 19th, 2019 (version 1.36.3):

New: Off channel scan toggle based on hardware model
Fixed: Bug that causes anomaly detection to fail to initialize
Fixed: Bug that causes Amazon device OS detection issue
Fixed: Device Typing issue causing inconsistent naming of Roku 4 4400X
Fixed: Improved device typing of LiFX Colour 1000 light bulb

The following updates have been made to the Plume cloud as of January 21st, 2019 (version 1.35):

New: Sticky 11v kick contains the recommended neighbor list
New: Include loop parameter into Ethernet dry run check
Fixed: Home AP active on both 5GU and 5GL
Fixed: Optimizations potentially getting stuck after link expiry

The following updates have been made to the Plume cloud as of December 18th, 2018 (version 1.34):

New: Support for IGMP Snooping auto mode
New: Add controller support for UPNP sniffing and IGMP
Improved: Change to location-level approved/blocked website logic applies to people/devices
Improved: Enable DNS based Device Typing
Fixed: Device Type failing to start up due to missing private IP

The following updates have been made to the Plume cloud as of October 29th, 2018 (version 1.32):

New: Implemented minimum firmware version for onboarding (2.2.0-30 / 1.0.0-30)
Fixed: Bug that causes Speed Test to occasionally fail to complete
Fixed: Bug that prevented setup of custom Device Freeze schedules

The following updates have been made to the Plume cloud as of September 2018 (version 1.31):

New: Ethernet backhaul support when Network is in Router Mode
Improved: Removed client traffic from interference calculations to reduce unnecessary optimizations and improve effectiveness of overnight optimizations
Improved: Added the ability to blacklist a website, without the need for content filtering to be enabled.

The following updates have been made to the Plume cloud as of September 2018 (version 1.30):

New: Support for content filtering and parental control
Improved: 802.11kv steering sends neighbor lists required by Android devices for proper steering
Improved: New device typing improvements
Improved: Gain threshold settings adjusted to improve weak links

The following updates have been made to the Plume cloud as of Jul 31st, 2018 (version 1.28):

Improved: Device typing accuracy has been improved
Fixed: Device freeze issues with School Night, Bedtime, and custom end times

The following updates have been made to the Plume cloud as of June 30th, 2018 (version 1.27.2):

New: Networks that are constantly using more than 10 Mbps will now be treated as being idle (less than 10 Mbps being used) after 4 days, so that optimizations and ISP speed tests can be run.

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Plume Cloud Release Notes