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Change Log

All notable changes to the project are documented in this file.

v24.04.2 - 2024-05-15

Changes

  • Add small delay in U-Boot to allow stopping boot on reference boards
  • Document how to provision the bootloader and Infix on a blank board
  • Use initial hostname from /etc/os-release as configuration fallback

Fixes

  • Fix build regressions in cn9130_crb_boot_defconfig caused by upgrade to Buildroot v2024.02 and recent multi-key support in RAUC and U-Boot
  • Fix provisioning script after changes to make GRUB loading more robust
  • Fix missing /etc/resolv.conf, as noticed by avahi-daemon, when a user calls no system from the CLI
  • Fix #428: loss of admin account after upgrade to v24.04
  • Fix #429: failing to load startup-config does not trigger the fail secure mode, causing the system to end up in an undefined state

v24.04.1 - 2024-05-03

Changes

  • Default web landing page refactored into a Buildroot package to make it possible to overload from customer repos.
  • Enable DCB support in aarch64 kernel (for EtherType prio override)
  • Topology mapper improvements, including option for deterministic reproduction of logical to physical mappings
  • New version of gencert tool, for self signed HTTPS certificates. This allows dropping dependency on building a host rust toolchain
  • Issue #374: add timestamps to dagger .log files

Fixes

  • Add missing LICENSE hash for factory reset tool
  • Fix #424: regression, root user can log in without password

v24.04.0 - 2024-04-30

News: this release marks the first major upgrade of the underlying Buildroot to the latest LTS release, v2024.02. This caused a few small regressions in the release cycle, all known issues have been addressed.

Also worth highlighting, as of this release the Infix Classic variant has been dropped. It was the legacy Infix with manual configuration of the system using a persistent /etc. May be resurrected later as a separate project. Going forward Infix' focus is entirely on NETCONF.

Finally, the YANG Status section has been dropped for this release, the idea is to generate supported features from the models and include in future releases.

Changes

  • Bump the base Buildroot version to v2024.02 LTS
  • Bump the base Linux kernel version to 6.6 LTS
  • Drop Classic variant to reduce overhead, simplify build & release processes, and focus on NETCONF for Arm64 and Amd64 platforms
  • Add hostname restrictions to ietf-system, and infix-dhcp-client models. Max 64 characters on Linux systems
  • Add mDNS CNAME (alias) advertisement, e.g., infix.local in addition to the default infix-c0-ff-ee.local. Note: this is build-specific and does not change if system hostname is changed
  • Add mDNS browser web application, https://network.local that shows all mDNS devices on the LAN. The network.local mDNS name is also a CNAME, so with multiple Infix devices, only one will act as the mDNS browser
  • Add temporary landing page to web server for https://infix.local
  • Add web console using ttyd, https://infix.local:7681
  • Add support for disabling web services using CLI
  • The bridge model now has built-in validation of port memberships, i.e., a port must be a bridge member to be used in VLAN filtering
  • The bridge model only permits the bridge itself to be a tagged member of VLANs -- meaning, the only way to set an IP address on such bridges is to use a VLAN interface on top
  • A VLAN filtering bridge now validates that no IP address has been set. Use a VLAN interface on top for that (see above)
  • Restructure documentation, let first page in doc/ be table of contents
  • Scripting Infix, new document on how to script Infix from remote, e.g., for production or from a container
  • Introduction, update documentation now that the admin user's default login shell is /bin/bash
  • System documentation, first outline of how to change hostname, add users, add system administrator users, changing login banner, change the system default editor, and more
  • Network documentation, add section on VETH pairs
  • Container documentation:
    • CLI prompts have been updated to match the examples used in other parts of the User Guide
    • Default route example for static container interfaces
    • How to upgrade a container image
  • As a follow-up to port speed/duplex/autoneg support added in v24.02, this release ensures flow-control is always disabled on all Ethernet ports, as described in the IEEE Ethernet interfaces YANG model
  • Add support for core dumps, saving them in /var/crash, max one dump per process, for use with future support tarballs
  • Add support for multicast snooping, both IPv4 (IGMP) and IPv6 (MLD) in bridge setups, including offloading to switchdev
  • Add support for acting as passive (proxy) or active IGMP querier
  • Add support for static multicast filters, MAC, IPv4 and IPv6 groups are supported -- multicast snooping must be enabled
  • Include Buildroot legal-info in releases, i.e., licenses, sources with patches, as well as csv files for packages and toolchain
  • Drop shell command from CLI to allow confining users
  • The CLI copy command now allows absolute paths
  • Local resolver, dnsmasq, had port 53 visible from external nmap scans, even though it dropped non-local requests, it now only binds to the loopback interface reduce number of externally visible ports
  • Kernel log messages, of severity error or higher, now log directly to the console. This may cause some annoyance but has been enabled to ease debugging, in particular issues where the system crashes before the syslog daemon has flushed logs to disk. (Logs are still saved to log files as well.)
  • Issue #325: Add support for multiple administrator users by opening up basic NETCONF ACM support. See documentation for details
    • Any user can be added to the admin NACM group
    • Any user not in the admin group is not allowed to have a login shell other than the CLI (or disabled). POSIX shell, e.g., Bash is reserved for system administrators
  • Issue #327: Remove IPv6LL from bridge port interfaces
  • Issue #358: translate YANG model's LOWER-LAYER-DOWN -> LINK-DOWN in CLI show interfaces command
  • Issue #360: document factory-config, startup-config, and the various failure modes in the system
  • Issue #361: document how a privileged container can break out of its confinement and run host commands, e.g., call sysrepocfg
  • Issue #365: add limited support for container capabilities, e.g., to enable CAP_NET_RAW to allow containers to use ping. This allows users to avoid enabling privileged mode
  • Issue #367: setting date/time over NETCONF now saves system time also to the RTC, which otherwise is only saved on reboot or power-down
  • Issue #369: Remove limitation that the routing instance must be named 'default'

Fixes

  • confd: Fix memory leak when operating on candidate configuration
  • probe: Fix crash on systems without USB
  • Reduced syslog errors for accesses no non-existing xpaths
  • Fix bogus warning about not properly updating /etc/motd in new motd-banner setting, introduced in v24.02.0
  • infix-routing model: the enable configuration setting for OSPF, in default-route-advertise has been obsoleted and replaced by enabled
  • Fix #328: when setting up a VLAN filtering bridge, the PVID for bridge ports defaulted to 1, making it impossible to set up "tagged-only" ports which drop ingressing untagged traffic
  • Fix #329: VLAN inference for interfaces named eth0.1, i.e., VID 1 on lower-layer-if eth0. Only affects automatic inference in the CLI, entering the values manually (CLI/NETCONF) not affected by this bug
  • Fix #331: inconsistent naming of 'enabled' in infix-routing.yang
  • Fix #349: minor changes to bridge-port settings, like setting pvid when you forget it, did not take without a reboot
  • Fix #353: impossible to remove bridge port with no bridge-port
  • Fix #358: MAC address no longer shown for bridge interfaces in CLI show interfaces command
  • Fix #365: not possible to run ping from container
  • Fix #366: static routes from container host interfaces do not work. Documentation updated with an example
  • Fix #368: upgrading oci-archive:/ images fail because system thinks the image can be pulled from a localhost registry. Documentation has also been updated, describing various methods and how to upgrade them
  • Fix #370: despite the documentation stating containers must explicitly declare network settings, Infix v23.02 had a late regression that reverted back to the podman default: network behind a CNI bridge (firewalled and NAT:ed, hidden from the rest of the network)
  • Fix #375: k8s-logger, used for containers, does not exit properly and causes 100% CPU load when container stop or are restarted. Also in this issue: handle ip/route additions to container networks at runtime
  • Fix #384: segfault in helper function when disabling the DHCP client using no dhcp-client from the CLI
  • Fix #391 Creating VLAN interface in the CLI with "edit interface vlanN" does not set VLAN id to N.
  • Fix #404: lldpd should be disabled on internal interface dsa0
  • Fix #406: an overly restrictive when expression in the bridge YANG model prevented users from adding VLAN interfaces as bridge ports. E.g., creating interface eth0.10 and adding that to br0
  • Fix #412: after starting up with DHCP client enabled on any interface set dhcp-client enabled false does not bite at runtime
  • Fix #414: spelling error in infix-hardware.yang, leaf node coutry
  • Fix #415: startup-config owned by root user and group instead of admin. The file ownership is now adjusted on every boot
  • Fix #416: admin user cannot perform a factory reset with RPC using sysrepocfg tool over SSH
  • Fix bogus syslog warning about not updating /etc/motd properly

v24.02.0 - 2024-03-01

Note: the root account is disabled in official builds. Only the admin user can log in to the system. This can be changed, but only in developer builds: make menuconfig -> System configuration -> [*]Enable root login with password

YANG Status

Infix devices support downloading all YANG models over NETCONF, including models with submodules. As a rule, standard models are used as long as they map to underlying Linux concepts and services. All exceptions are listed in Infix specific models, detailing deviations and augmentations.

Currently supported models:

  • ieee802-ethernet-interface:

    • Toggle port speed & duplex auto-negotiation on/off
    • Set port speed and duplex when auto-negotiation is off
    • Query port speed/duplex and auto-negotiation status (operational)
    • Frame counters:
    YANG Linux / Ethtool
    out-frames FramesTransmittedOK
    out-multicast-frames MulticastFramesXmittedOK
    out-broadcast-frames BroadcastFramesXmittedOK
    in-total-octets FramesReceivedOK
    + FrameCheckSequenceErrors
    + FramesLostDueToIntMACRcvError
    + AlignmentErrors
    + etherStatsOversizePkts
    + etherStatsJabbers
    in-frames FramesReceivedOK
    in-multicast-frames MulticastFramesReceivedOK
    in-broadcast-frames BroadcastFramesReceivedOK
    in-error-undersize-frames undersize_pkts
    in-error-fcs-frames FrameCheckSequenceErrors
    in-good-octets OctetsReceivedOK
    out-good-octets OctetsTransmittedOK

  • ietf-hardware:

    • Populates standard hardware model from corresponding data in device EEPROMs
    • augments:
      • Initial support for USB ports
      • Vital Product Data (VPD) from device EEPROMs (ONIE structure)
    • infix-hardware: Deviations and augments

  • ietf-system:

    • augments:
      • Message of the Day (MotD) banner, shown after SSH or console login. Please note: the legacy motd has been replaced with motd-banner os of v24.02. Use CLI text-editor to modify the latter
      • User login shell, default: /bin/false (no SSH or console login)
      • State information for remotely querying firmware version information
    • deviations:
      • timezone-name, using IANA timezones instead of plain string
      • UTC offset, only support per-hour offsets with tzdata
      • Usernames, clarifying Linux restrictions
      • Unsupported features marked as deviations, e.g. RADIUS
    • infix-system-software: firmware upgrade with install-bundle RPC

  • ietf-interfaces:

    • deviation to allow read-write if:phys-address for custom MAC address
    • ietf-ip: augments
      • IPv4LL similar to standardized IPv6LL
    • ietf-ip: deviations (not-supported) added for IPv4 and IPv6:
      • /if:interfaces/if:interface/ip:ipv4/ip:address/ip:subnet/ip:netmask
      • /if:interfaces/if:interface/ip:ipv6/ip:address/ip:status
      • /if:interfaces/if:interface/ip:ipv4/ip:neighbor
      • /if:interfaces/if:interface/ip:ipv6/ip:neighbor
    • ietf-routing: Base model for routing
    • ietf-ipv4-unicast-routing: Static unicast routing, incl. operational data, i.e., setting static IPv4 routes and reading IPv4 routing table
    • ietf-ipv6-unicast-routing: Static unicast routing, incl. operational data, i.e., setting static IPv6 routes and reading IPv6 routing table
    • ietf-ospf: Limited support for OSPFv2, with additional support for injecting default route, and route redistribution. Underlying routing engine in use is Frr. Includes operational status + data (routes). See infix-routing model for detailed list of deviations
    • infix-ethernet-interface: deviations for ieee802-ethernet-interface
    • infix-routing: Limit ietf-routing to one instance default per routing protocol, also details unsupported features (deviations) to both ietf-routing and ietf-ospf models, as well as augments made to support injecting default route in OSPFv2
    • infix-if-bridge: Linux bridge interfaces with native VLAN support
    • infix-if-type: deviation for interface types, limiting number to supported types only. New identities are derived from default IANA interface types, ensuring compatibility with other standard models, e.g., ieee802-ethernet-interface.yang
    • infix-if-veth: Linux VETH pairs
    • infix-if-vlan: Linux VLAN interfaces, e.g. eth0.10

  • infix-containers: Support for Docker containers, incl. operational data to query status and remotely stop/start containers

  • infix-dhcp-client: DHCPv4 client, including supported options

  • Configurable services:

Changes

  • New hardware support: NanoPi R2S from FriendlyELEC, a simple two-port router

  • Static routing support, now also for IPv6

  • Dynamic routing support with OSPFv2, limited (see infix-routing.yang for deviations), but still usable in most relevant use-cases. If you are using this and are interested in more features, please let us know!

    • Multiple area support, including different area types
    • Route redistribution
    • Default route injection
    • Full integration with Bidirectional Forward Detection (BFD)
    • Operational status, including but not limited to:
      • OSPF Router ID
      • Neighbor status
      • OSPF routing table
      • Interface type, incl. passive status
    • For more information, see doc/networking.md

  • Support for disabling USB ports in startup-config (no auto-mount yet!)

  • Initial support for Docker containers, see documentation for details:

    • Custom Infix model, see infix-containers.yang for details
    • Add image URL/location and volumes/mounts/interfaces to configuration, the system ensures the image is downloaded and container created in the background before launching it. If now networking is available the job is queued and retried every time a new network route is learned
    • Status and actions (stop/start/restart) available in operational datastore
    • Possible to move physical switch ports inside container, see docs
    • Possible to bundle OCI archives in Infix image, as well as storing any file content in factory-config to override container image defaults

  • IEEE Ethernet interface:

    • Support for setting port speed/duplex or auto-negotiating
    • New per-port counters, augments to IEEE model added in infix-ethernet.yang: in-good-octets, out-good-octets

  • Many updates to DHCPv4 client YANG model:

    • new options, see infix-dhcp-client.yang for details:
      • Default options: subnet, router, dns+domain, hostname, broadcast, ntpsrv
      • Set NTP servers, require NTP client in ietf-system to be enabled, will be treated as non-preferred sources, configured prefer servers wins
      • Learn DNS servers, statically configured servers always takes precedence
      • Install routes, not only from option 3, but also options 121 and 249
    • Support for ARP:ing for client lease (default enabled)
    • Configurable route metrics, by default metric 100 to allow static routes to win over DHCP routes, useful for backup DHCP connections

  • IETF Hardware data: added YANG model for vital product data representation, and augments for initial USB support (enable/disable)

  • IETF System:

    • the motd augment in infix-system.yang for Message of the Day has been marked as obsolete and replaced with motd-banner. The new setting is of type binary and allows control codes and multi-line content to be stored. The legacy motd will remain for the foreseeable future and takes precedence over the new motd-banner setting
    • new text-editor augment in infix-system.yang to select the backend for the new text-editor command: emacs, nano, or vi

  • Many updates to the test system, Infamy, incl. new Quick Start Guide in updated doc/testing.md to help new developers get started

  • Add htop to default builds, useful for observing and attaching (strace)

  • Change the default shell of the admin user from clish to bash. Change required for factory production and provisioning reasons. Only affects the built-in default, customer specific factory-config's are not affected!

  • CLI: the set command on a boolean can now be used without an argument, set boolean sets the boolean option to true

  • CLI: new command change, for use with ietf-system user passwords, starts an interactive password dialog, including confirmation entry. The resulting password is by default salted and hashed using sha512crypt

  • CLI: new command text-editor, for use with binary fields, e.g., content for file mounts in containers, or the new motd-banner:

      admin@infix-c0-ff-ee:/config/system/> text-editor motd-banner
  ... exit with Ctrl-x Ctrl-c ...
  admin@infix-c0-ff-ee:/config/system/> show
  motd-banner VGhpcyByZWxlYXNlIHdhcyBzcG9uc29yZWQgYnkgQWRkaXZhIEVsZWt0cm9uaWsK;

  • CLI: new admin-exec command show ntp [sources]

  • CLI: new admin-exec command show dns to display DNS client status

  • CLI: new admin-exec command show ospf [subcommand]

  • CLI: new admin-exec command show container [subcommand]

  • CLI: new admin-exec command show hardware only USB port status for now

  • CLI: updates to the show interfaces command to better list bridge VLANs

Fixes

  • Fix #177: ensure bridge is not bridge port to itself
  • Fix #259: failure to copy factory-config startup-config in CLI
  • Fix #278: allow DHCP client to set system hostname (be careful)
  • Fix #283: hostname in DHCP request adds quotation marks
  • Fix #294: drop stray v from version suffix in release artifacts
  • Fix #298: drop privileges properly before launching user shell in CLI
  • Fix #312: race condition in ipv4_autoconf.py, causes test to block forever
  • Backport upstream fix to netopeer2-server for fetching YANG models that refer to submodules over NETCONF
  • CLI: drop developer debug in set command
  • Fix out-of-place [OK] messages at shutdown/reboot
  • Fix garbled syslog messages due to unicode in Infix tagline, drop unicode

v23.11.0 - 2023-11-30

Note: this is the first release where the root account is disabled in default builds. Only the admin user, generated from factory-config, can log in to the system. This can be changed only in developer builds: make menuconfig -> System configuration -> [*]Enable root login with password

YANG Status

  • ieee802-ethernet-interface: Currently supported (read-only) features:

    • Status of auto-negotiation, and if enabled.
    • Current speed and duplex
    • Frame counters:
    YANG Linux / Ethtool
    out-frames FramesTransmittedOK
    out-multicast-frames MulticastFramesXmittedOK
    out-broadcast-frames BroadcastFramesXmittedOK
    in-total-octets FramesReceivedOK
    + FrameCheckSequenceErrors
    + FramesLostDueToIntMACRcvError
    + AlignmentErrors
    + etherStatsOversizePkts
    + etherStatsJabbers
    in-frames FramesReceivedOK
    in-multicast-frames MulticastFramesReceivedOK
    in-broadcast-frames BroadcastFramesReceivedOK
    in-error-undersize-frames undersize_pkts
    in-error-fcs-frames FrameCheckSequenceErrors

  • ietf-system:

    • augments:
      • MotD (Message of the Day)
      • User login shell, default: /bin/false (no SSH or console login)
      • State information for remotely querying firmware version information
    • deviations:
      • timezone-name, using IANA timezones instead of plain string
      • UTC offset, only support per-hour offsets with tzdata
      • Usernames, clarifying Linux restrictions
      • Unsupported features marked as deviations, e.g. RADIUS
    • infix-system-software: firmware upgrade with install-bundle RPC

  • ietf-interfaces:

    • deviation to allow read-write if:phys-address for custom MAC address
    • ietf-ip: augments
      • IPv4LL similar to standardized IPv6LL
    • ietf-ip: deviations (not-supported) added for IPv4 and IPv6:
      • /if:interfaces/if:interface/ip:ipv4/ip:address/ip:subnet/ip:netmask
      • /if:interfaces/if:interface/ip:ipv6/ip:address/ip:status
      • /if:interfaces/if:interface/ip:ipv4/ip:neighbor
      • /if:interfaces/if:interface/ip:ipv6/ip:neighbor
    • ietf-routing: Base model for routing
    • ietf-ipv4-unicast-routing: Static unicast routing, incl. operational data, i.e., setting static IPv4 routes and reading IPv4 routing table
    • infix-ethernet-interface: deviations for ieee802-ethernet-interface
    • infix-routing: Limit ietf-routing to one instance default per routing protocol, also details unsupported features (deviations)
    • infix-if-bridge: Linux bridge interfaces with native VLAN support
    • infix-if-type: deviation for interface types, limiting number to supported types only. New identities are derived from default IANA interface types, ensuring compatibility with other standard models, e.g., ieee802-ethernet-interface.yang
    • infix-if-veth: Linux VETH pairs
    • infix-if-vlan: Linux VLAN interfaces, e.g. eth0.10

  • Configurable services:

Changes

  • The CLI built-in command password generate has been changed to use the secure mode of the pwgen tool, and 13 chars for increased entropy
  • The qemu.sh -c command, available in developer builds and the release zip, can now be used to modify the RAM size and enable VPD emulation
  • Add support for overriding generated factory defaults in derivatives using a /etc/confdrc.lcocal file -- incl. updated branding docs.
  • Add support for detecting factory reset condition from a bootloader
  • Ensure /var is also cleared (properly) during factory reset
  • Add support for port auto-negotiation status in operational datastore
  • Add CLI support for showing veth pairs in show interfaces
  • Speedups to CLI detailed view of a single interface
  • Updated documentation of VLAN interfaces and VLAN filtering bridge
  • Updated documentation for how to customize services in Hybrid Mode
  • In RMA mode (runlevel 9), the system no longer has any login services
  • Disable root login in all NETCONF builds, only admin available
  • Add support for VPD data in ONIE EEPROM format
  • Add iito, the intelligent input/output daemon for LED control
  • Add port autoneg and speed/duplex status to operational data
  • Upgrade Linux to v6.5.11, with kkit extensions
  • Add support for static IPv4 routing using ietf-routing@2018-03-13.yang and ietf-ipv4-unicast-routing@2018-03-13.yang, one default instance only
  • Add support for partitioning and self-provisioning of new devices
  • Add support for reading admin user's default password from VPD. Devices that do not have a VPD can set a password hash in the device tree
  • Add support for upgrading software bundles (images) from the CLI. Supported remote servers: ftp, tftp, and http/https.
  • Traversing the CLI configure context has been simplified by collapsing all YANG containers that only contain a single list element. Example: edit interfaces interface eth0 becomes edit interface eth0
  • Add CLI support for creating configuration backups and transferring files to/from remote servers: tftp, ftp, http/https (download only). Issue #155
  • Add _netconf-ssh._tcp record to mDNS-SD

Fixes

  • Fix #111: fix auto-inference of dynamic interface types (bridge, veth)
  • Fix #125: improved feedback on invalid input in configure context
  • Fix #198: drop bridge default PVID setting, for VLAN filtering bridge. All bridge ports must have explicit VLAN assignment (security)
  • Fix #215: impossible to enable NTP client, regression from v23.06.0
  • Fix regression in CLI show factory-config command
  • Fix missing version in /etc/os-release variable PRETTY_NAME
  • Fix failure to start podman in GNS3 (missing Ext4 filesystem feature)
  • Fix initial terminal size probing in CLI when logging in from console port
  • Fix CLI show running-config, use proper JSON format like other files
  • Fix caching of libyang module references in confd. Loading other plugins to sysrepo-plugind modifies these references, which may can cause corruption
  • Fix missing v in VERSION, VERSION_ID, and IMAGE_VERSION in /etc/os-release and other generated files for release builds.

v23.10.0 - 2023-10-31

Note: upcoming releases will lock the root user for system-only services. Instead an admin user will be the only default user with the CLI as its login shell. This user is already available, so please consider updating any guidelines or documentation you may have.

YANG Status

  • ietf-system:
    • augments:
      • MotD (Message of the Day)
      • User login shell, default: /bin/false
      • State information for remotely querying firmware version information
    • deviations:
      • timezone-name, using IANA timezones instead of plain string
      • UTC offset, only support per-hour offsets with tzdata
      • Usernames, clarifying Linux restrictions
      • Unsupported features marked as deviations, e.g. RADIUS
    • infix-system-software: firmware upgrade with install-bundle RPC
  • ietf-interfaces:
    • deviation to allow read-write if:phys-address for custom MAC address
    • ietf-ip: augments
      • IPv4LL similar to standardized IPv6LL
    • ietf-ip: deviations (not-supported) added for IPv4 and IPv6:
      • /if:interfaces/if:interface/ip:ipv4/ip:address/ip:subnet/ip:netmask
      • /if:interfaces/if:interface/ip:ipv6/ip:address/ip:status
      • /if:interfaces/if:interface/ip:ipv4/ip:neighbor
      • /if:interfaces/if:interface/ip:ipv6/ip:neighbor
    • ietf-if-vlan-encapsulation: Removed in favor of a native model.
    • infix-if-bridge: Linux bridge interfaces with native VLAN support
    • infix-if-type: deviation for interface types, limiting number to supported types only. New identities are derived from default IANA interface types, ensuring compatibility with other standard models, e.g., ieee802-ethernet-interface.yang
    • infix-if-veth: Linux VETH pairs
    • infix-if-vlan: Linux VLAN interfaces, e.g. eth0.10 (New model!)
  • Configurable services:

Changes

  • Add support for setting/querying IPv4/IPv6 MTU, see #152 for details.

  • Add support for Fail Secure Mode: if loading startup-config fails, e.g. YANG model validation failure after upgrade, the system now falls back to load failure-config instead of just crashing. This config, along with factory-config, is generated on every boot to match the active image's YANG models. In case neither config can be loaded, or even bootstrapping YANG models fail, the system will go into an RMA state -- Return to Manufacturer, clearly signaled on the console and, on devices that support it, angry LED signaling. See #154 for more.

  • Add support for generating GNS3 appliance file for NETCONF Aarch64.

  • Add support for UTC offset (+/- HH:00) in ietf-system, PR #174

  • Add support for ietf-factory-default RPC, PR #175

  • Add support for performing factory reset (using #175 RPC) from CLI

  • Replace ietf-if-vlan-encapsulation YANG model with the native infix-if-vlan model. This fits better with Linux VLAN interfaces and simplifies the syntax greatly. For details, see PR #179

      admin@example:/config/interfaces/interface/eth0.10/> set vlan id 10 lower-layer-if eth0

  • The following new NETCONF interface operational counters have been added:

YANG Linux / Ethtool
out-frames FramesTransmittedOK
out-multicast-frames MulticastFramesXmittedOK
out-broadcast-frames BroadcastFramesXmittedOK
in-total-frames FramesReceivedOK
+ FrameCheckSequenceErrors
+ FramesLostDueToIntMACRcvError
+ AlignmentErrors
+ etherStatsOversizePkts
+ etherStatsJabbers
in-frames FramesReceivedOK
in-multicast-frames MulticastFramesReceivedOK
in-broadcast-frames BroadcastFramesReceivedOK
in-error-undersize-frames undersize_pkts
in-error-fcs-frames FrameCheckSequenceErrors
  • Greatly improved branding support using make menuconfig. All the identifying strings, including firmware image, is in /etc/os-release, will be used in CLI show system-information, the WebUI About dialog, and any prominent areas when booting up (on console), logging in to CLI and WebUI.
  • IGMP/MLD snooping is now disabled by default on new bridges. Support for multicast filtering bridges expected no later than v24.01.
  • The SSDP responder, device discovery in Windows, has been removed in favor of Windows 10 (build 1709) native support for mDNS-SD. Details in #166
  • A GreenPAK programmer has been added, not enabled by default. This is a popular programmable little chip from Renesas. Worth a look!
  • The confd script gen-interfaces can now generate bridges and stand-alone interfaces with IPv6 (SLAAC) for factory-config et al.
  • Drop x86_64_minimal_defconfig, previously used for regression tests only
  • Documentation updates of how IPv4/IPv6 addresses are shown in NETCONF operational data, as well as the built-in CLI, see #163 for details.

Fixes

  • Fix #106: confd: drop deviation ietf-system:timezone-utc-offset
  • Fix #151: Operational status broken in v23.09
  • Fix #159: Hacky generation of /etc/resolv.conf at boot
  • Fix #162: VLAN interface without encapsulation is accepted by YANG model

v23.09.0 - 2023-10-02

Note: upcoming releases will lock the root user for system-only services. Instead an admin user will be the only default user with the CLI as its login shell. This user is already available, so please consider updating any guidelines or documentation you may have.

YANG Status

  • ietf-system:
  • ietf-interfaces:
    • infix-interfaces: deviation for if:phys-address to allow read-write
    • ietf-ip: augmented with IPv4LL similar to standardized IPv6LL
    • infix-ip: deviations (not-supported) added for IPv4 and IPv6:
      • /if:interfaces/if:interface/ip:ipv4/ip:address/ip:subnet/ip:netmask
      • /if:interfaces/if:interface/ip:ipv6/ip:address/ip:status
      • /if:interfaces/if:interface/ip:ipv4/ip:mtu
      • /if:interfaces/if:interface/ip:ipv6/ip:mtu
      • /if:interfaces/if:interface/ip:ipv4/ip:neighbor
      • /if:interfaces/if:interface/ip:ipv6/ip:neighbor
    • ietf-if-vlan-encapsulation: Linux VLAN interfaces, e.g. eth0.10
    • infix-if-bridge: Linux bridge interfaces with native VLAN support
    • infix-if-veth: Linux VETH pairs
    • infix-if-type: deviation for interface types, limiting number to supported types only. New identities are derived from default IANA interface types, ensuring compatibility with other standard models, e.g., ieee802-ethernet-interface.yang
  • Configurable services:

Changes

  • The following new NETCONF interface operational status have been added:
    • admin-status
    • IP address origin (dhcp, static, link-layer, random, other)
    • bridge
    • parent-interface
    • basic statistics (in_octets, out_octets)
  • Support for custom interface phys-address (MAC address)
  • The CLI admin-exec command show interfaces now fully uses NETCONF operational data to display both available interfaces and all of their IP addresses. Displaying an individual interface will show more info.
  • The CLI admin-exec command password encrypt now default to SHA512

Fixes

  • Fix #136: IPv6 autoconf create-global-addresses true does not bite
  • Fix #138: Not possible to have static IP and DHCP at the same time
  • Minor fixes and updates to documentation (faulty links, references)
  • The sync-fork.yml workflow has finally been fixed.

v23.08.0 - 2023-08-31

Note: upcoming releases will lock the root user for system-only services. Instead an admin user will be the only default user with the CLI as its login shell. This user is already available, so please consider updating any guidelines or documentation you may have.

YANG Status

Changes

  • Bump Linux kernel: v5.19 to v6.1
  • Updated board support for Microchip SparX-5i and Marvell CN9130 CRB
  • New logo and significant updates to the documentation
  • New NETCONF RPC factory-default to reset running-config
  • Replaced limited BusyBox ping with iputils-ping
  • Most system services are now disabled by default, support for enabling LLDP, mDNS-SD, and SSDP using NETCONF, enabled in factory-config
  • Firmware upgrade framework, based on RAUC, added
    • Matching YANG model (see above) and an install-bundle RPC
    • Currently supported upgrade protocols: HTTP/HTTPS, FTP, SCP
  • Initial support for interface operational status, in ietf-interfaces
  • Add support for setting user login shell: bash, clish, false
  • Default login shell for new users: false
  • Massive updates and fixes to the CLI (klish):
    • Line editing now works as similar CLI:s from major vendors
    • Hotkey fixes: Ctrl-D and Ctrl-Z now work as expected
    • Prompt changed from JunOS style to be more similar to Bash
    • Online help commands, both in admin-exec and configure context, type help after entering the CLI to get started
    • Improved help for configure context using YANG descriptions
    • Support for reading and setting system "datetime" (RPC), an optional iso keyword can be used when reading time to see the format required when setting the time
    • Support for showing interfaces status, using above operational data
    • Support for showing bridge status: links, fdb, mdb, vlans
    • Support for showing log files, including tailing with follow
    • Support for password generate and password encrypt, highly useful from configure context when creating new users: use the do password encrypt type sha256 to generate the hash
    • Support show uptime, version, calling netcalc, ping, and tcpdump

Fixes

  • Fix #57: unneccesary lldpd restarts on configuration change
  • Ensure mDNS advertises the correct hostname after hostname change
  • Fix regression in enabling IPv4 ZeroConf address
  • Loopback interface now shows UP operstate instead of UNKNOWN
  • Fix adding user without password, i.e., login using SSH keys only

v23.06.0 - 2023-06-23

Midsummer release. The first official Infix release, based on Buildroot 2023.02.2, with NETCONF support using the sysrepo and netopeer2.

Supported YANG models in addition to those used by sysrepo and netopeer:

  • ietf-system
    • Everything except radius authentication and timezone-utc-offset
    • Augmented with MotD (Message of the Day), Infix YANG model
  • ietf-interfaces
    • ietf-ip augmented with IPv4LL similar to standardized IPv6LL
    • ietf-if-vlan-encapsulation, Linux VLAN interfaces, e.g. eth0.10
    • Linux bridge interfaces with native VLAN support, Infix YANG model
    • Linux VETH pairs, Infix YANG model

DISCLAIMER: the Infix YANG models for Linux, are still under heavy development. New revisions are expected which may not be backwards compatible. When upgrading to a new release, test on a GNS3 staging environment first, or start over from a factory reset.

Changes

  • Bump sysrepo to v2.2.73
    • Backport support for initializing factory-default data store with default config data also for sysrepo internal modules.
    • Add support for sysrepocfg -Cfactory -d running, for testing
  • Bump netopeer2 to v2.1.62
  • Bump libyang to v2.1.80
  • Add klish, a CLI for sysrepo
  • Add podman for container support, backported from upstream Buildroot
  • Add conmon for container support, backported from upstream Buildroot
  • Backport cni-plugins support for host-local and static plugins

Fixes

  • N/A