White Rabbit Switch Firmware
Introduction
This page hosts all CERN stable firmware releases for the WR switch, the main component of the White Rabbit project. Each release is a package containing FPGA gateware (wr-switch-hdl repository) and software (wr-switch-sw repository) running in the embedded Linux.
Releases
Project information
- FAQs List of Frequently Asked Questions for the switch.
- Version Compatibility Tells which HW, SW & GW is compatible.
- Complete documentation and pre-built binaries for the switch
Roadmap for software releases
| v5.0.1 | v6.0 | v6.0.1 | v6.0.2 | v6.1 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Release date | 25-08-2017 | 12-06-2020 | 07-07-2021 | 24-02-2023 | 07-06-2023 |
| Fixed USB flashing broken in v5.0 | x | ||||
| make menuconfig fixes [1518], [1525], [1584] | x | ||||
| SNMP fixes [1590], [1632] | x | ||||
| Webinterface fixes [1528], [1570] | x | ||||
| PPSI pre-master fix | x | ||||
| New gateware with LPDC and LJD features | x | ||||
| PPSi compatibility with standard PTP improved (#115 (closed), #116 (closed)) | x | ||||
| Fixed PPSi BMCA and leap-seconds handing | x | ||||
| Syslog improvements (#20 (closed), #79 (closed)) | x | ||||
| Leap-second file handling and updating | x | ||||
| Kerberos for authentication | x | ||||
| Reorganized dot-config, more PTP parameters exposed | x | ||||
| SNMP improvements (e.g. SFP DOM exports) | x | ||||
| Automated regression test for WRPTP, PTP and VLAN | x | ||||
| PPSi reorganization to prepare for IEEE1588 HA profile | x | ||||
| Hotfix to v6.0 to prevent losing sync every ~49.7 days | x | ||||
| Hotfix to v6.0.1 to fix the build on Ubuntu 20.04LTS | x | ||||
| Hotfix to v6.0.1 to disable web interface by default | x | ||||
| Hotfix to v6.0.1 to set NTP time correctly during boot in GM mode (#213) and related (#270 (closed), #271 (closed)) | x | ||||
| Support of LLDP with VLANs (#28 (closed)) | x | ||||
| Implementation of radius-802.1X for MAC authentication (subset of IEEE 802.1X) (#217 (closed)) | x | ||||
| Addition of a subset of IP-MIB, BRIDGE-MIB and QBRIDGE-MIB objects to SNMP support (#218 (closed), #220 (closed)) | x | ||||
| Implementation of sysObjectID OID value to reflect WRS manufacturer and HW version (#221 (closed)) | x | ||||
| Detection whether a switch is a low-jitter version (#241 (closed)) | x | ||||
| Fixes in webinterface (#242 (closed)) | x | ||||
| Fixes in handling of SFP’s diagnostics (#244 (closed), #249 (closed)) | x | ||||
| Support of disabling SFP’s TX laser with wrs_sfp_dump (#251 (closed)) | x | ||||
| Improved reporting of offset between NTP and WR time via SNMP (#268 (closed)) | x | ||||
| Informing about unrecognized SFP in wr_mon (#275 (closed)) | x | ||||
| Display information about GrandMaster in wr_mon (#284 (closed)) | x |
For pre- v5.0.1 features please check previous releases wiki page.
Status
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| 21-09-2010 | Start of project. |
| 07-08-2012 | First release of wr-switch-sw-v3.0 (called V3 as runs on V3 hardware. |
| 20-12-2012 | Release 3.1, that fixes issues in v3.0 (now deprecated) |
| 26-07-2013 | Release 3.3, first official release for hardware version 3.3 |
| 10-07-2013 | Release 4.0rc1, release-candidate for 4.0 sw/gw on 3.3 hardware |
| 08-08-2014 | Stable v4.0 release |
| 19-08-2014 | Hotfix for v4.0 release (v4.0.1) |
| 04-10-2014 | Release 4.1, with support for new main board |
| 28-08-2015 | Release 4.2 is out |
| 16-12-2016 | Release 5.0 is out |
| 25-08-2017 | Release 5.0.1 is out |
| 12-06-2020 | Release 6.0 is out |
| 07-07-2021 | Release 6.0.1 is out |
| 24-02-2023 | Release 6.0.2 is out |
| 12-06-2023 | Release 6.1 is out |