flexiWAN Release 5.3.1¶
Release 5.3.1 includes:
flexiManage release 5.3.10-14
flexiEdge release 5.3.17-20
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 5.3.1 was released on July, 2022. This version introduces new features such as BGP support, Quality Based Routing for Local Breakout links, GCP flexiEdge support, Munitoring Link Status, and more.
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
To learn more information about our offer and understand which of these hosting options are best for your company, please read our blog post. flexiWAN pricing information can be found here.
New in this release:¶
Support for BGP
Support for Quality Based Routing (QBR) on DIA links
Support flexiEdge on Google Cloud
Report Interfaces’ Link Status in flexiManage
Allow starting router on DHCP or LTE failure
Tunnel scale enhancements
Allow for PPPoE update for unassigned interfaces after registration
Allow disabling remote worker firewall system rules
Bug fixes
5.3.17 - fix LTE stuck when no signal, FRR issues with BGP, GCP agent workaround
5.3.20 - fix crypto engine bug for AVX-512 instructions, fix route installation with dev, fix static route recovery with onlink, fix upgrade on repository blockage
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? |
---|---|---|
ALL /devices |
Interface routing can inluce one of: “OSPF”, “BGP”, “OSPF,BGP”, “NONE” |
Yes |
ALL /devices |
OspfConfigs contains a new boolean field - redistributeBgp. |
Yes |
ALL /devices |
DeviceRequest contains new “bgp” and “routingFilters” sections |
Yes |
ALL /devices |
Interfaces extended with a linkStatus property |
Yes |
ALL /organizations, /organizations/{id}, /organizations/select |
Include new description field |
Yes |
ALL /firewallpolicies, /firewallpolicies/{id} |
Firewall inbound rules with more than 1000 ports will be rejected |
No |
ALL /mlpolicies, /mlpolicies/{id} |
Link-Quality path selection policy with DIA label is not rejected |
Yes |
Potential Backward Incompatible Changes¶
Title |
Description |
---|---|
Prevet provisioning of more than 1000 ports in firewall policy at a time |
Firewall inbound rules with more than 1000 ports will be rejected |
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 |
Overlapping subnets may cause an error in flexiEdge UI |
Configuring overlapping subnets on multiple interfaces in flexiEdge UI may cause an error. Once error detected, resetting the configuration will solve the Issues |