Alt-F-0.1RC4.1 is released, Release Notes, Known issues

[João Cardoso]

=== February 3, 2015: Alt-F-0.1RC4.1 is released

This is mainly a maintenance release, with all fixes for the RC4 applied

and with some other minor fixes and improvements.

All users are encouraged to upgrade.

The DNS-320L/LW-rev-Ax and the DNS-320-rev-Bx support is now complete.

The circuit boards for the DNS-320L-rev-Ax and DNS-320-rev-Bx are

identical apart from a smaller amount of memory in the DNS-320-rev-Bx,

so any of them can use the other firmware.

If you are running the vendor's firmware you don't have to follow the

bellow described procedure.

If however you have flashed 0.1RC4 or the experimental releases and

applied any fix or patch, you have to manually removed them before upgrading.

In the future this will happens automatically when upgrading, but for now

you have to save and execute a file in the box. Rolling fixes back might

not work as expected.

You also have to disable the "boot user script" if you are using it to apply

any fix or patch to the DNS-320-rev-Bx or to the 320L/LW-rev-Ax boxes.

Create a file with the text between the two '-----------' lines below,

being sure that #!/bin/sh is at the file first line and column. Then

telnet or ssh the box and login as the 'root' user using the same

password as in the webUI and execute it by typing in the command line:

dos2unix /path/to/saved/file

sh /path/to/saved/file

e.g. if you named the file 'fix' and saved it in '/mnt/sda2':

dos2unix /mnt/sda2/fix

sh /mnt/sda2/fix

-----------8<---------

#!/bin/sh

if aufs.sh -s; then

 aufs.sh -n

 for i in $(find /rootmnt/ro /rootmnt/sqimage -type f 2> /dev/null | sed "s|^/rootmnt/[^/]*/||"); do

  if test -f /Alt-F/$i && ! grep -q $i /etc/settings /usr/lib/ipkg/info/*.list; then

   rm -f /Alt-F/$i

  fi

 done

 aufs.sh -r

fi

---------->8---------

Some relevant user-related changes since RC4:

-add temperature hysteresis parameter

-make fanctl() implement several fan control modes (Auto/always off/always slow/always fast)

-exchange left/right bay for DNS320L

-parse drive family/model name with embeded quotes

-turn the blue USB led off only when there are no USB attached devices

-don't turn on usb led by default

-handle xz compressed debian packages

-activate disk leds on disk access;

-support ppp and usb attached device names

-support swap over RAID

-create directories for fixe affected files so fixes will they survive a reboot/poweroff

-download only new fixes

-rollback fixes if they were removed from the repository

-don't allow rollbacking a fix if it is required by an applied fix

-add fixes RemoveAll button

-sys utils: don't fail if the System Configuration log is not found

-Mail webUI: sanitize "from/to" entries

-inetd webUI: fix ticket 328: Inetd "Boot Enabled" disables itself.

-Disk Wizard: fix ticket 358: Disk Wizard fails creating RAID with 6TB disks

-Filesystem Maintenance: fix display of unmounted devices

-backup: allow excluding files/directories by using .rsync-filter files, using '-F --delete-excluded' rsync options

[João Cardoso]

Know issues:

1-Under Disk->Filesystem whole disk devices such as 'sda', 'sdb', might appear with an fs type of "none" in red, along with normal entries such as 'sda2' or 'sdb3'. This allows formatting the whole disk, destroying the other disk partitions filesystems. If this happens for you, *DON'T* create/format the whole 'sda' or 'sdb' disk or you will loose all other disk data.

2-Kexec is not working  on the DNS-320/320L/325, so Debian can't be kexec, only chroot.