flexiWAN Release 4.2.2¶
Release 4.2.2 includes:
flexiManage release 4.2.16
flexiEdge release 4.2.14
Release Notes:¶
flexiWAN is the world’s first open source SD-WAN with a modular and open architecture.
Version 4.2.1 was released on Aug, 2021. This version introduces security firewall, Advanced OSPF configuration and static routes redestributions, bridge configuration on LAN, and bug fixes. Version 4.2.2 released on October and include critical bug fixes.
There are three options for hosting flexiManage, each relevant for companies with a different set of requirements. All of these options come with support services.
SaaS model in a shared environment - flexiManage hosted by flexiWAN
Dedicated environment - a dedicated, white-label deployment just for you
Self-hosting - self-hosting of flexiManage is typically best for large service providers
More information about these 3 options and in order to understand which of these is best for you, please read this blog post. Pricing information can be found here.
Please contact us for further questions.
New in this release:¶
Security firewall
Ability to setup a LAN bridge configuration
Advanced OSPF configurations
Static routes redistributions
Scale improvements
Coredump saving for better troubleshooting
Other Bug fixes
Supported and Planned Features¶
The list of supported and planned features description can be found in the Feature Overview page
Please send us your feature needs and prioritization.
REST API changes in this release¶
API |
Changes |
Backward Compatible? |
|---|---|---|
GET /jobs |
Add pargination with sort and order new fields |
Yes |
Firewall Policies, PUT /devices/{id} |
New set of APIs to provision firewall policies and device specific policies |
No |
ALL /devices/{id} |
Add OSPF configuraiton |
Yes |
ALL /devices/{id} |
Change device connection status to deviceStatus (instead of status) |
No |
ALL /devices/{id} |
New error field to reflect access to flexiEdge errors |
Yes |
ALL /devices/{id} |
Change WifiAvailableNetworks to InterfaceOperationResponse |
No |
GET /devices/{id}/routes |
Add destination and protocol fields to show multi-path |
No |
ALL static routes |
Allow to configure static route redestribution |
Yes |
GET /configuration/restServers |
Return list of servers |
Yes |
ALL /devices/{id} - Interfaces |
Change static route interface to ifName |
No |
Known Issues¶
Title |
Description |
|---|---|
UI hangs on Redis failure |
When redis fails, UI might hang and not complete the request |
During login, the username email is case sensitive |
The email used in account creation and login is case sensitive |
Slow websocket connection during heavy load |
During heavy traffic load, device connection to flexiManage may be impacted |
On unstable/slow connections some jobs may fail on timeout |
In most cases the system recover itself by re-syncing the configuration |
Switching WiFi from 2.4Ghz to 5Ghz doesn’t restart DHCP server |
To restart the DHCP server for the WiFi interface, stop and start the flexiEdge router |
Inbound WAN ICMP with small identifier is dropped |
Inbound WAN ICMP with Identifier smaller or equal to 1024 may be dropped |