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.
Project information
- Current firmware release
- 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
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 |