
            S O F T W A R E - R E L E A S E - D O C U M E N T
            
                  Hirschmann Automation and Control GmbH
            
                         OCTOPUS Release 09.1.14
            		
            		       2024/10/09

                             C O N T E N T S
                             ===============


    1.   Limitations of the release OCTOPUS 09.1.14
    2.   Hardware Considerations
    3.   History of Changes

   

This document is delivered with the software in the file 
"Readme_OCTOPUS.09.1.14.txt".

 

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1. Limitations of the release OCTOPUS 09.1.14
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(01) Backpressure (flowcontrol in halfduplex) is not supported.
(02) In VLAN 0 transparent mode the configuration of VLAN 1 has an impact 
     to untagged and priority only tagged traffic.
(03) The egress limiter all is not supported on halfduplex ports.
(04) In the mode "Discard unknown multicasts" following standard multicast
     addresses were defined as static filters and so have the state known:
     - FF:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF (Broadcast)
     - 01:80:C2:00:00:00 (Spanning Tree)
     - 01:80:C2:00:00:20 (GMRP)
     - 01:80:C2:00:00:21 (GVRP)
     - 01:00:5E:00:01:01 (SNTP-Multicast)
     - 01:00:5E:00:01:81 - 01:00:5E:00:01:84 (PTP-Multicasts)
     - 01:1B:19:00:00:00 (PTPv2 L2 Multicast)
     - 01:0E:CF:00:00:00 (DCP)
     - 01:15:4E:00:00:01 - 01:15:4E:00:00:02 (MRP)
     - 01:00:5E:7F:10:0C (HiDiscoveryv2)
(05) Link aggregation in Hiper Ring or in the redundant ringcoupling
     is not supported.

     
     
2. Hardware Considerations
==========================
This platform software release 09.1.14 is released exclusively for the 
following hardware:

The software omL2E.bin und omL2P.bin supports only following L2P hardware variants:
- Octopus 8M             (Since SW 01.0.01)
- Octopus 16M/24M        (Since SW 02.0.02)
- Octopus PoE 8M/16M/24M (Since SW 04.1.00)
- Octopus OS32			 (Since SW 07.1.01)
- Octopus 8M/16M Train   (Since SW 08.0.00)
To update to software version 07.1.00 (or higher) from a version 07.0.02 or older, 
update to 07.0.03 first and also update boot software to version 05.0.00 or higher.

The software orL2P.bin supports only following L2P hardware variants:
- Octopus OS20/30        (Since SW 05.0.00)

 + ACA 21-M12            (Since SW 01.0.01)
 + ACA 22-M12            (Since SW 01.0.01)


3. History of Changes
=====================

Software Release 01.0.00
------------------------
All functions of L2E:
- Autonegotiation or manual port configuration
- Store and Forward Switching, Flow Control
- VLANs (255 out of 4042), Prioritization (8 Levels mapped to 4 Queues), Tagging
- 4 Strict Priority Queues per port
- Independant VLAN learning
- Dynamic Unicast address entries (up to 8000)
- Static Unicast and Multicast address entries (up to 100)
- Dynamic Multicast address entries (up to 512)
- IGMP-Snooping (v1, v2, Querier, Forward All)
- Rapid Spanning Tree
- HIPER-Ring
- Redundant Coupling of HIPER Rings and network segments
- Port Mirroring (1 source port to 1 monitoring port)
- 1 signal contact for status monitoring and manual configuration
- Interface-Statistics, RMON (1,2,3,9)
- BOOTP/DHCP with auto configuration
- BOOTP/DHCP relay with option 82
- Fast aging on linkdown
- TFTP (software update, loading and saving the configuration)
- SNMP v1, Traps
- SNMP v2c, v3
- V.24 (System Monitor, Command Line Interface)
- Telnet (Command Line Interface)
- Web Based Management
- Diagnosis and self test function on cold start
- Error logging local
- SysLog support
- Address-based port-security
- HiDiscovery
- IEEE 1588 client without hardware support
- Egress broadcast limiter per port
- LLDP
- HTTP Update
- SNTP Client + Server
- Support for traceroute

Additional functions on L2P:
- Batterybuffered Realtime Clock
- Telnet Client (Outbound Telnet)
- CLI Scripting
- 802.1x security
- GMRP
- Cable test (copper only)

Software Release 01.0.06
------------------------
Bugfixversion (see issuelist)
New VLAN Mode for switching of priority only tagged frames.

Software Release 02.0.00
------------------------
Bugfixes (see issuelist)

New functions of L2E:
- Unknown Multicast Filtering
- Additional ingress and egress paket limiter
- Bridge-MIB: dot1dTpFdbTable supports addresses from all VLANs
- Security Data Sheet from IAONA integrated
- Management Address Conflict Detection
- Optimization of broadcast limiter
- Enhancement of private MIB

Additional new functions on L2P:
- Link Aggregation (up to 7 groups with 4 ports for each group), each dynamic(LACP)
  or static
- SNMPv3 Data Encryption
- SSHv1 (DES)

Software Release 02.0.02
------------------------
Bugfixversion (see issuelist)
- Support for Octopus 16M and 24M

Software Release 03.0.00
------------------------
Bugfixes (see issuelist)

New functions of L2E:
- Automatic configuration undo
- Access to Management from all VLANs
- HTTP config file transfer
- MRP (Media Redundancy Protocol - IEC Ring)
- Loginname and password up to 32 characters
- Transmission of oversize packets up to 1632 bytes (over SNMP activateable)
- Device status indication
- Disable Learning
- Telnet client in webinterface

New functions of L2P:
- Configuration as script load/save
- GMRP Forward all
- Dynamic VLAN configuration protocol GVRP
- Customer specific preconfiguration (script)

Software Release 03.1.00
------------------------
Bugfixes (see issuelist)

New functions of L2E:
- Ethernet/IP Protocol
- Merging of HIPER-Ring and MRP webinterface dialog
- Enhancement of portsecurity to 10 addresses per port
- 1588 Clock Optimizations

New functions of L2P:
- PROFInet IO Protocol for Octopus devices

Software Release 04.0.00
------------------------
Bugfixes (see issuelist)

New functions of L2E:
- IGMP Snooping Enhancements (Automatic query ports, query ports to portmask configurable)
- „Not in sync“ display if configuration in Flash/ACA and running config are different
- Configurable priority of the management agent answers
- QoS: TOS/DSCP prioritization
- Shared VLAN Learning
- Config rollback function: Show IP Address of the monitoring station
- Activation of long frames in WEB interface

Software Release 04.1.00
------------------------
Bugfixes (see issuelist)

New functions of L2E:
- Autocrossing configurable
- RAM Test on/off (with new Bootcode)
- IGMP Snooping Improvements
- Power Management Support for Octopus 8M/16/24M PoE
- RSTP actualization to 802.1D-2004
- Activation of long frames (1552/1632) in CLI interface
- MRP with 200ms ring recovery
- HIPER-Ring: Option to reduce maximum ring recovery time.
- Octopus L2E image (on L2P HW)
- DIP switches adjustements

New functions of L2P:
- DHCP server per port

Software Release 04.2.00
------------------------
Bugfixes (see issuelist)

New functions of L2P:
- LLDP Enhancement to detect some configuration errors

Software Release 05.0.00
------------------------
Bugfixes (see issuelist)

New functions of L2E:
- Profinet Version 2.2 (PDEV) for all devices
- Profinet: GSDML file generator enhancements
- Profinet: Standalone GSDML generator
- Profinet: Automatic device exchange with Engineering Station
- Profinet: PnP functionality of port modules
- Profinet: Completion of LLDP-Implementation for PNIO-MIB
- Profinet: Transmission of switch data in Profinet I/O data
- Further boot time speed ups (New bootcode required)
- IEEE1588 (PTP) Version 2
- Optimization of Link detection (Hardware dependend)
- RSTP enhancement (Port Auto Edge)
- RSTP and MRP Ring in combination
- No reset configurable in case of error
- Ethernet/IP: Transmission of DIP switch status in I/O data
- MAC based port security: Ranges with a bitmask configurable

New functions of L2P:
- Show CPU / Memory utilization in CLI
- Configure RMON alarms in CLI
- SNMPv3 Authentication over RADIUS
- Support for new Octopus Gigabit switch OS30-000802

Software Release 06.0.00
------------------------
Bugfixes (see issuelist)

New functions of L2E:
- Port-Mirroring N:1
- Trap for Configuration Saving and Changing
- Address Relearn Detection
- Duplex Mismatch Detection
- SNTP Client and Server separately configurable
- Removed Security Data Sheet (IAONA)
- Configurable CLI banner
- Switch Dump: Download System Information in one ZIP File
- SNMP Logging
- Configure Syslog Settings over WEB
- Profinet: MRP Configurable over Simatic S7
- Profinet: LLDP Extensions
- Automatic Software Update over ACA21

New functions of L2P:
- Multiple Spanning Tree (MSTP)
- RSTP Standard MIB
- Restricted Management Access

Software Release 07.0.00
------------------------
Bugfixes (see issuelist)

New functions of L2E:
- SFP power also shown in dBm
- Port Security with up to 50 MACs per port

New functions of L2P:
- LLDP-MED
- Voice VLAN
- PoE+ Management
- 802.1x Multi Client Authentication
- Guest VLAN / Unauthenticated VLAN for 802.1x
- RADIUS VLAN Assignment
- New configuration check dialog
- Offline configuration
- Port Monitor (Link flap & CRC)
- Advanced Ring Configuration & Diagnostics for MRP
- Reload/Reboot with configurable delay
- Switch to backup SW via Web
- Automatic script load from ACA21 on boot
- Double-VLAN-Tagging / VLAN-Tunneling

Software Release 07.1.00
------------------------
Bugfixes (see issuelist)

New functions of L2P:
- HTTPs Web login
- DHCP Server VLAN Pools
- Fast POE Startup
- Skip ACA21 on boot
- Improved boot time

Software Release 07.1.01
------------------------
Bugfixes (see issuelist)

New functions:
- Support for new Device OS32

Software Release 07.1.04
------------------------
Bugfixes (see issuelist)

New functions:
- Discard unknown multicast option for GMRP

Software Release 08.0.00
------------------------
Bugfixes (see issuelist)

New functions of L2P:
- Ethernet/IP: Configurable TTL and EDS AOP support
- Configuration Signature
- DHCP-Relay per port configuration
- Pre-Login-Banner
- DHCP Option 43 support
- DHCP Server configurable ping check.
- Overload detection (as part of Port Monitor)
- Auto Disable
- Port Mirroring Extensions
- MAC notification
- SSH Version 2
- Strong encryption for HTTPS
- Acceptable frame types "admit only VLAN untagged"

Software Release 08.0.05
------------------------
Bugfixes (see issuelist)

New functions:
- Removed Rx Power State for SFPs.

Software Release 09.0.00
------------------------
Bugfixes (see issuelist)

New functions of L2E:
- HiDiscovery v2 support
- DHCP Relay per Interface
- Admin State for System Monitor 1
- Configurable CLI banner via CLI
- Configurable SNMP v1/v2 community synchronization
- MAC Address conflict detection
- Profinet GSDML File Version 2.3
- Configuration locking if Profinet AR is active. 

New functions of L2P:
- Configurable number of addresses per interface for Port Security
- Link Speed and Duplex Monitor in port monitor 
- Auto-disable for Link / Duplex Monitor
- Auto-disable for Port Security

Software Release 09.1.00
------------------------
Bugfixes (see issuelist)

New functions:
- Changed defaults: SNMPv1 and SNMPv2 are disabled.
- Password change on first login.
  Protocols that require a login (e.g. SNMPv3) remain deactivated until the password is changed. 

Software Release 09.1.02
------------------------
Bugfixes (see issuelist)

New functions:
- SSH Version 1 was removed.
- The insecure OpenSSH option "diffie-hellman-group1-sha1 Key Exchange" was removed.

Software Release 09.1.04
------------------------
Bugfixes (see issuelist)

New functions:
- Added 1000ms ring recovery for MRP.

Software Release 09.1.06
------------------------
Bugfixes (see issuelist)

New functions of L2P:
- Option to encrypt the exported file containing the device configuration.

Software Release 09.1.14
------------------------
Bugfixes (see issuelist)
