Legacy Open Mesh: G200 Router firmware release notes

Topic

This article contains release notes for G200 router firmware.

Environment

  • Datto G200 Routers

Description

Releases

Release 2019-11-13

Version 1.3.2

Bug Fixes

  • Various bug fixes and improvements

Release 2019-10-29

Version 1.3.1

Improvements

  • Increased responsiveness of the router's DHCP server

Bug Fixes

  • Resolved an issue that prevented using Custom Traffic Policies to block inbound traffic based on the destination port number
  • Resolved an issue that introduced a delay before a router would receive configuration changes from Network Manager
  • Resolved an issue that could cause a router to fail to communicate with Network Manager until rebooted

Vulnerability Fixes

  • Updated the Linux kernel to address the TCP Sack Panic vulnerabilities (CVE-2019-11477, CVE-2019-11478, CVE-2019-11479).

Release 2019-07-15

Version 1.3.0

Improvements

  • Custom Site-to-Site VPN connections are now available
  • Improved pinhole reset button reliability

Bug fixes

  • Resolved an issue that allowed invalid PPPoE configurations to be set
  • Resolved an issue where OpenVPN connections would rarely create invalid routes
  • Updated Strongswan to address CVE-2018-16151 and CVE-2018-16152
  • Updated OpenSSL to address CVE-2019-1559

Release 2019-04-30

Version 1.2.2

Bug fixes

  • Resolved an issue where sometimes reset button presses wouldn't register correctly
  • Resolved an issue where port forward rules with more than one WAN IP would cause the router to stop checking in
  • Resolved an issue where Static WAN PPPoE configurations using the local configuration wizard were not working as intended
  • Disabled firewall component SIP ALG to resolve complications with certain VoIP services

Known issues

  • The setting for enabling NAT hairpinning is currently nonfunctional
  • High numbers of client devices requesting DHCP at the same time may experience issues getting a lease
  • Intra-LAN traffic is throttled based on WAN shaping configuration
  • Incoming port configuration for Custom Traffic Policies doesn't work as expected
  • Datto is aware of a known issue which prevents the use of Custom Site-to-Site VPN on G200 routers. Learn more in our Custom Site-To-Site VPN Connections Unavailable article

Release 2019-04-10

Known issue

Release 2019-01-23

Version 1.1.0

Bug Fixes

  • Resolved an issue where a router operating on LTE failover could not resolve hosts if it used an unreachable DNS server
  • Resolved an issue that prevented operators from saving static DNS server settings for router WAN interfaces
  • Resolved an issue that prevented PPPoE WAN traffic tagged with a VLAN ID from offloading
  • Resolved an issue that prolonged boot times for a router configured with one or more IPsec tunnels
  • Resolved an issue where advanced DHCP options 42 (NTP server) and 66 (TFTP) malfunctioned unless if an operator enabled option 33 (static route)

Known issues

  • The setting for enabling NAT hairpinning is currently nonfunctional
  • Large numbers of client devices requesting DHCP at the same time may experience issues getting a lease
  • Intra-LAN traffic is throttled based on WAN shaping configuration.
  • Incoming port configuration for Custom Traffic Policies doesn't work as expected
  • Datto is aware of a known issue which prevents the use of Custom Site-to-Site VPN on G200 routers. Learn more in our Custom Site-To-Site VPN Connections Unavailable article

Release 2018-12-06

Version 1.0.9

Improvements

  • LTE functionality update for the D200 router to the shared G200/D200 firmware line

Release 2018-11-16

Version 1.0.8

Bug Fixes

  • Resolved an issue which caused devices to display an LED indicating that traffic wasn't being passed in scenarios where traffic was being passed
  • Resolved an issue that prevented passing client traffic through IPSec VPN tunnels

Known Issue

  • Setting a DNS server under Global Router Settings results in DNS queries being refused

Release 2018-11-02

Version 1.0.7

Bug fixes

  • Security fixes

Improvements

  • Hub and Spoke Site-to-Site VPN support (Interface coming soon)

Known Issue

  • Setting a DNS server under Global Router Settings results in DNS queries being refused

Release 2018-08-16

Version 1.0.6

Bug Fixes

  • NAT hairpinning will function correctly even when the client is not on the same LAN as the server

Improvements

*User interface coming soon.

** PPPoE is not functional at this time when configured solely via the local WAN configuration wizard. A CloudTrax user interface will be added to ensure it functions correctly.

Release 2018-06-05

Version 1.0.5

Bug Fixes

  • DHCP DNS servers appended to DNS server list, instead of replacing them
  • Changed OpenVPN configuration to use lz4 compression instead of lzo compression
  • DHCP pool range would always start at the beginning of the subnet, regardless of CloudTrax setting
  • Static IP address wizard no longer worked after firmware upgrade

Improvements

  • Devices now use ntp.cloudtrax.com for network time
  • Additional DHCP options to enable/disable DHCP Server, and use Option 42,33 & 66