flexiWAN Release 5.1.1¶

Release 5.1.1 includes:

flexiManage release 5.1.20
flexiEdge release 5.1.22

Release Notes:¶

flexiWAN is the world’s first open source SD-WAN & SASE with a modular and open architecture offered as a cloud service in a SaaS business model.

Version 5.1.1 was released on Dec, 2021. This version introduces new features such as Quality based routing, AI based network healing, Pure IPSec tunnels to peer devices, as well as scalability enhancements.

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:¶

Quality based routing
AI based network healing
Peering to cloud services (e.g. Cloud Security, Network aggregation GWs)
Performance and scale improvements
flexiEdgeUI - troubleshooting network connectivity
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¶

List of REST API Changes¶
API	Changes	Backward Compatible?
GET /devices	Add sort, order and filter query parameters	Yes
GET /devices	Add response type to query parameters to control the size of the response	Yes
GET /devices	Add number of pending notifications to the response	Yes
DELETE /devices	Allow to delete multiple devices matching a filter	Yes
GET /devices interfaces	Add an indication if rate limited due to public IP/port changes	Yes
PUT /devices/{id}	Fix type for deviceSpecifficRulesEnabled -> deviceSpecificRulesEnabled	No
GET /devices/{id}/tunnels	New API to get specific device tunnels	Yes
GET /tunnels	Add sort, order and filter query parameters	Yes
ALL /tunnels	Allow device/interface B to be null in case of peer connection	Yes
ALL /tunnels	Add N/A as tunnel status in case devices are not connected	Yes
GET /tunnels /devices/{id}/tunnels	Add tunnelStatus (Connected/Not Connected/Pending), isPending, pendingReason to the tunnel response	Yes
GET /jobs	Add filter parameters	Yes
DELETE /jobs	Allow to delete by filter parameters	Yes
GET/POST /peers	New API to get and add peer connections to the system	Yes
PUT/DELETE /peers/{id}	New API to modify and remove peer connections	Yes
GET /notifications	Add sort, order and filter query parameters	Yes
GET /notifications	Add device ID to notification response	Yes
DELETE /notifications	Allow to delete multiple notifications matching a filter	Yes
ALL /mlpolicies	Add link-quality to actions for path selection Quality Based Routing	Yes

Known Issues¶

List of Known Issues¶
Title	Description
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
Tunnel loss and RTT during heavy load	During heavy traffic load, loss and RTT calculation might represent biased values
On unstable/slow connections some jobs may be presented as failed on timed out although succeeded	In most of the cases, the jobs have succeeded and the system recovers 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
Peer connections on multiple WAN interface	When using peer connection via multiple WAN interfaces, the source IP might be of another WAN