Release Notes 2.0.3

Release Date: December 11, 2017

What's New

The 2.0.3 release is a small incremental update that includes all hotfixes from prior releases and addresses all known support cases at the time of release.

Note: The 2.0.3 release officially supports our new 1U rack-mount platforms, the Conductor 500 and HIPswitch 500 hardware platforms. The new 500-Series platforms are only supported on version 2.0.3 and later. No previous versions of the software are supported.
Important: To enable serial-over-IP in 2.0.3, download and apply Hotfix 6933, available on the Software Downloads page.

Upgrade Considerations

The 2.0.3 release includes all hotfixes from prior releases and addresses all known support cases at the time of release.

Note: You can now upgrade directly to 2.0.3 from either 1.12.x or 2.0.x.
We recommend you upgrade to 2.0.3 if:

You want to take advantage of performance and stability increases in the 2.0.3 update, especially for the recently added features in 2.0 and above:

  • Support for the HIPswitch 500
  • Support for the Conductor-500
  • Smart Device Groups

You were impacted by any issues discovered in prior releases, especially if you have any of the following:

  • HIPswitch reporting issues, such as health data and traffic stats
  • Conductor port configuration issues
  • Monitoring notification issues

Extensive testing was conducted both in-house and with selected development partners, in lab and in production environments to ensure that performance is equivalent to 2.0.2. Additionally, 2.0.3 should be more stable than all prior releases.

Fixes

ID Component Description
DEV-6872 HIPswitch Improved how a HIPswitch manages port configuration changes by attempting to validate the new configuration and reverting to the previous configuration if the Conductor is unavailable.
DEV-6737 Conductor Fixed an issue where the Blink LED option on the HIPswitch > Diagnostics > Data capture page did not work correctly.
DEV-6709 Conductor Fixed an issue where a notification would return 500 Internal Server Error.
DEV-6654 Conductor Fixed an issue where a HIPswitch no longer reports traffic stats until the HIPswitch was rebooted in cases where the HIPswitch was deleted and then came back online.
DEV-6513 HIPserver, Windows Fixed an issue where the HIPserver running on Windows 2012 R2 would stop responding.
DEV-6338 BaseOS Fixes dnsmasq security issues for DHCP and diagnostic mode:
  • CVE-2017-14491
  • CVE-2017-14492
  • CVE-2017-14493
  • CVE-2017-14494
  • CVE-2017-14495
  • CVE-2017-14496
DEV-6293 HIPswitch-Cellular Fixed an issue where HIPswitches would go off-line if non-standard characters were used in the HIPswitch name.
DEV-6286 HIPswitch Fixed a bug where disabling Allow Pings on the HIPswitch > Local Devices > Firewall page would not immediately block incoming pings.
DEV-6282 HIPswitch, HA Fixed an issue where promoting a secondary HIPswitch to primary could cause the HIPswitch to lose the secondary IP address.
DEV-6268, DEV-6630 Conductor Fixed an issue setting policy for an overlay where the same HIPswitch appears in multiple joined device groups, requiring a restart of the IF-MAP service.
DEV-6181 Conductor UI Static route entries in the Conductor have been updated with additional validation and clearer messaging.
DEV-6174 Conductor A Smart Device Group monitoring a HIPswitch group now correctly adds devices activated from a HIP invite.
DEV-5857 HIPswitch Fixed an issue where a HIPswitch 200 diagnostic report would not display CPU temperature.
DEV-5531 API Fixed an issue where a read-only administrator could reboot a HIPservice from the Try it Out! section in the API docs.

Known Issues

ID Component Description
DEV-6928 HIPswitch The LCD panel on HIPswitch hardware continues to display Diagnostic Mode when restarting the HIPswitch. This will be fixed in a later release.
DEV-6927 Diagnostic mode A Conductor using non-standard port configurations may not respond to a ping once ports have been changed. Browser access to the diagnostic mode UI on port 1 is not affected.
DEV-6919 Conductor A HIPservice Smart Device Group device matching rule displays null (ID) when the HIPservice does not have a name.
DEV-6913 Diagnostic mode Performing a factory reset on a HIPswitch 500 in diagnostic mode occasionally does not clear IP and Conductor addresses.

Workaround: Use the reset button on the front of the HIPswitch 500 to perform a factory reset.

DEV-6912 Conductor HIPswitches using AES-128 encryption cannot communicate with peers when the ESP transform is set to SHA-256 in the Conductor advanced settings. The option to use AES-128 will be removed in a later release.
DEV-6894 Conductor The creation of event monitors and actions are not added to the PCI User Activities Report.
DEV-6888 Conductor In the Conductor UI, port assignments for the HIPswitch 500 are not sorted correctly when expansion modules are in place.
DEV-6887 Conductor The creation of a HIPrelay rule is not added to the PCI User Activities Report.
DEV-6882 HIPswitch 500 The SFP+ expansion module for the HIPswitch 500 does not display port assignments correctly in diagnostic mode.

Workaround: Use the Conductor to configure and manage HIPswitch 500 expansion modules.

DEV-6881 HIPswitch, Conductor The LCD panels in the HIPswitch 500 and Conductor-500 are 16-characters wide. Messages are currently formatted for a 20-character LCD screen and may be truncated or display on more than one line. This will be fixed in a later release.
DEV-6879, DEV-6883 HIPswitch, Conductor The diagnostic mode ping function is currently not functional.
DEV-6226 Conductor Currently a fully qualified domain name cannot be used for local or peer replication addresses on an HA Conductor pair.
DEV-6195 Conductor The Conductor incorrectly displays an option to check bandwidth for HIPclients in diagnostic view. This option is not supported for HIPclients and will not function correctly if selected.
DEV-6196 Conductor When configuring the Conductor URL in diagnostic mode, you are able to enter an invalid IP address without receiving an error message. This will be fixed in a later release.
DEV-6172 Conductor When assigning a 1.x.x.x local device IP address to a HIPclient, the Conductor may continue to display the previous IP of the device.
DEV-6155 Conductor, HIPswitch If you add HIPswitches using different encryptions (AES-256 and AES-256 with GCM) to an overlay, they cannot communicate with each other.

Workaround: Configure any HIPswitches you want to use in the same overlay to use the same default encryption.

DEV-6089 HIPclient, Windows The Windows HIPclient and HIPserver will not connect to a standby Conductor after HA Failover and will report as offline.
DEV-6130 HIPclient, Windows Setting or removing a Local Device IP on a Windows HIPclient may cause the client to report that the HIPservice is not running.

Workaround: Restart the HIPclient to resolve the issue.

DEV-5832, DEV-5673 HIPswitch Device NAT functionality currently does not work with layer 2 traffic.
DEV-5530, DEV-5441 Conductor UI In some cases, Allow incoming pings (ICMP) and SYN Flood Protection on the Firewall page may be disabled and won't toggle.

Workaround: Refresh your browser to resolve the issue.

DEV-5529 HIPswitch If you add an invalid overlay route to a HIPswitch from the Conductor UI, the route will not be created on the HIPswitch and you will not receive a warning.

Workaround: None

DEV-5526 Conductor UI The Conductor will show devices that become active in real-time, but the UI does not detect when active devices become inactive.

Workaround: Refresh your browser

DEV-5448 Conductor UI Clicking the HA Edit Settings followed by the Swap Roles button for a secondary HA-paired HIPswitch will cause the UI to stop responding.

Workaround: Refresh your browser.

DEV-5434 Conductor UI Clicking Detect Devices repeatedly on the HIPswitch properties page will generate excess traffic.

Workaround: Give the Conductor time to complete the operation.

DEV-5430 Conductor After configuring a Conductor for the first time, you may receive a Lost connection to the original server message if you select Return to settings too quickly.

Workaround. Wait at least 20 seconds before selecting Return to settings.

DEV-5428 Conductor UI When you create a SDG with Ignore auto-discovered devices until accepted checked, then unchecked after creation, the SDG will not pick up non-accepted devices.

Workaround: None

DEV-5368 Conductor UI Import devices has been removed from 2.0 and later. An improved version of the feature will be added in a future update.

Workaround: Tempered Networks Support can provide a tool enabling you to import a CSV, if required.

DEV-5343 Conductor UI If you try and log in after your session has timed out, you may receive the following error:

The change you wanted was rejected.

Workaround: Refresh your browser and log in.

DEV-5008 PCI Reporting PCI Reporting shows the UUID reference instead of the name when generating a PCI report from Settings > Advanced > PCI Reporting > Downloads > User Activities Report > .

Workaround: To view names, you can download object references from the same page where you generated the PCI report.

DEV-4846 HIPswitch If a HIPswitch is in port dual-use mode and device discovery is enabled, the HIPswitch will report an error.

Workaround: None

DEV-4573 Conductor Cloud HIPswitches may not display the correct icon in the user interface if they are on firmware version 1.12.3 or below.

Workaround: None.

DEV-4537 Conductor When demoting a master Conductor to standby, the processing screen may not correctly update.

Workaround: Refresh your browser.

DEV-4188 HIPswitch (Cellular) In the Graphs section of the Reporting tab, several graphs are available to older HIPswitch 200g models with an Option Cellular card that are not applicable, such as LTE, CDMA, Cell temperature, etc. These graphs will not display data.
DEV-2417 Conductor UI The password reset email link defaults to the first web enabled interface, and will be successful only if an administrator configures the first interface with a publicly-facing default route.

Workaround: None.

DEV-1994 HIPswitch When modifying an existing serial over IP configuration, you must reboot the HIPswitch to apply the new configuration settings.