Alt-F-0.1RC5 is released, Release Notes, Known issues

[Joao Cardoso]

=== June 25, 2016: Alt-F-0.1RC5 is released

This release fixes some bugs and adds a few new features.

Most Alt-F packages have been upgraded and they require RC5 to be installed.

Not all packages have been thoroughly tested, please report any issue.

All users are encouraged to upgrade.

Enjoy

Some user relevant news and fixes:

-DNS-327L-rev-Ax support. Some CPU capabilities are not yet used.

 Thanks to Fernando Gomes for donating it.

-Linux kernel upgraded to 3.18.28

-Basic support to btrfs

-Firmware Upgrader now optionally checks firmware file integrity using SHA1

-Most packages in the base firmware have been updated to their latest version,

 disk installable packages will follow, make your request.

-The ntp package was removed from firmware, due to lack of flash memory space,

 and is replaced by busybox ntpd.

-The All-F folder for disk-installable packages can now be de-activated or moved to another filesystem

-Most servers which were under inetd control can now be run standalone

 There are some pending issues when making the transition from inetd to server mode and vice-versa.

-minidlna removed from the DNS-321 base firmware due to lack of flash memory space

-Some webUI security vulnerabilities fixed, thanks to Ondřej Surý for reporting.

-Fixes for 8TB disks on the Disk Partitioner and Disk Wizard

-The Disk Partitioner can now handle out-of order (D-Link inherited) partitions

-Filesystems can now be forced to be checked on the next boot

-Allow to recreate swap and specify partition-based swap priorities and swap aggressiveness

-Support users cron jobs; if saved as ~/crontab.lst, they will automatically be started

-The user script to execute at powerup can be edited using the webUI

-The box-model-MAC-address is used as the default hostname on the first boot

-The orange disk leds will be turned on when (some) detected system errors are detected.

-Fix installed/pre-installed packages version conflict when firmware upgrade is detected

Known issues:

-On the Firmware Upgrade webUI of previous releases the TryIt button will not be able to try

 this release, you have to flash it.

-https, provided through stunnel, can fail the first time when in server mode; 

 stopping and restaring the stunnel service is usually enough to recover.

-The webUI does not supports disks reporting 4KB logical sector size;

 disks with 4KB physical sector size and reporting 512 bytes logical sizes, the majority, works fine.

-when upgrading some packages (rsync) its configuration files might be overwritten

-When using https the webUI can't embed some external or running services http web pages

 (and most https servers disable embedding for security reasons)

-smartd now displays errors on the Status page, but migh fail on its first start,

 use Submit in Services->System->smart->Configure to fix.

-kexec is not working on the 320/320L/325 (it fails even on linux-4.3.0)

-Debian in kexec mode only works on the DNS-321/323

-the iscsitarget package is not working on the DNS-327 and generates BUG kernel errors on other boxes.

-the cryptodev package is not working on the DNS-327

-to upgrade the kernel-modules package, the kernel-modules-armv5 package must be installed first

-the kernel-modules package don't automatically install/un-install the appropriate

 kernel-modules-armv5 or kernel-modules-armv7 package, you have to install/un-install them.

-If upgrading from previous releases, the ntp package will appear as installed, it can safely be removed.

[João Cardoso]

More know bugs and fixes:

1-DNS-321-rev-A1 and DNS-323-rev-C1 users need to apply a fix, read the 0.1RC5 displays error about fan speed on DNS321A topic.

2-python extensions or programs that depends on pyopenssl, such as pyload, sabnzbd and sickbeard, fail because the sslv2 protocol in not supported anymore in openssl.

Fixed: pyopenssl and python have been updated, see the RC5: Python SSL Broken topic

3-On some situations the Status page is blank, see the Status page blank on DNS 323 after RC5 upgrade topic

Fix: This is a symptom of issue 5 bellow.

4-When upgrading packages from previous Alt-F installs, some programs complain about libevent/libevent2, see the Transmission Not Working after RC5 update topic (which addresses also miss configuration)

Fix: uninstall libevent and install libevent2; stop all services before upgrading packages (this applies when upgrading any package with "lib" on its name).

5-On some situations there is network data corruption when reading files from the box on RC5. This is a kernel issue and all boxes models are affected.

Mandatory fix: see the WARNING: Network data corruption on RC5 post and apply the fix.

6-During a firmware upgrade procedure the webUI might not display the upgrade progress or errors if the Administrative HTTP or HTTPS servers run in "server mode".

Fix: see the WARNING: possible issue when upgrading firmware under RC3/RC4/RC4.1/RC5 post