5.8 UniFi Controller Consolidated Change Log
5.8.29
Controller bug fixes/changes since 5.8.28:
- Allow choosing the department in the chat window.
- Hide Fast Roaming feature for WEP networks.
- Fix displaying IP address of gateway discovered by Discovery Tool.
- Fix device buttons on Site Overview.
- Fix a migration issue.
- Fix a potential bug affecting autobackup on Windows 10.
- Fix a bug which may cause unifi.yourdomain.com to be provisioned to devices for both the management and STUN URLs.
- Don't exclude all port forwarded ports from policy routing.
- Various bug fixes and improvements.
5.8.28
Controller bug fixes/changes since 5.8.27:
- Various bug fixes and improvements.
5.8.27
Controller bug fixes/changes since 5.8.26:
- Various bug fixes and improvements.
5.8.26
Controller bug fixes/changes since 5.8.25:
- Remove TKIP only option from WPA security mode.
- Fix bug that would reset USG port speed/duplex to defaults on controller upgrade.
- Various bug fixes and improvements.
5.8.25
Controller bug fixes/changes since 5.8.24:
- Add setup size status for UniFi Cloud Key.
- Allow forced adoption in case the adopted device limit is reached.
- Hide broken RSSI Histogram on nanoHD.
- Fix autocomplete for creating new RADIUS user.
- Various bug fixes and improvements.
5.8.24
Controller bugfixes/changes since 5.8.23:
- Fix the management VLAN issue with AC-IW/IW-Pro.
5.8.23
Controller bug fixes/changes since 5.8.22:
- Fix LED Brightness and Color options, this feature is available only for BaseStationXG.
- Various backend bug fixes and improvements.
5.8.22
New Features:
- Add BaseStationXG LED bar color control to the device properties panel.
Controller bug fixes/changes since 5.8.21:
- Enable RF scanning for UAP-nanoHD.
- Fix a bug with AC-IW/IW-Pro provisioning which caused traffic to stop forwarding when the management VLAN and a WLAN VLAN are the same.
- Various backend bug fixes and improvements.
5.8.21
Controller bug fixes/changes since 5.8.20:
- Add validation for Promotional URL input in Guest Control.
- Fix decoding UTF-8 characters over WebRTC connection.
- Fix analytics graph display on firefox in Hotspot manager.
- Fix default value for Outdoor Mode in batch AP configuration.
- Fix property panel auto scroll after refresh.
- Fix time range change after granularity modification on the Statistics Overview page.
- Fix reversed TX/RX client statistics.
- Update translations.
5.8.20
Controller bug fixes/changes since 5.8.19:
- Use the same tab order as switches for UAP-AC-IW.
- Update translations.
- Device list: Invisible uplinks in Uplink column after refresh.
- Switch stats should't allow to select device managed by other.
- Remove extra PHY port for USG-XG.
- Various backend bug fixes and improvements.
5.8.19
Controller bug fixes/changes since 5.8.17:
- Adding display of RSTP in switch properties panel when it's enabled.
- DPI refactor, also prevent more than 6 items on the list.
- Fix timezone selection in Wizard.
- Fix DPI Donut Chart on click handler.
- Fix DNS rules for guest VLANs.
- Fix restoring from autobackup on SD card.
- Fix authorize.net support - the guest's email is now properly sent when that field is enabled.
- Disable open terminal after click on IP address for sites without advanced features enabled.
- Omit /0 networks from USG guest firewall group config as they are unsupported.
- Hide Fast Roaming feature for Open networks.
- Improve wireless uplink migration.
- Statistics/Performance: fix time range selection.
- Various backend bug fixes and improvements.
5.8.17
Controller bug fixes/changes since 5.8.16:
- Add tooltip for enabling geoIP filtering.
- Update translations.
- Improve accuracy of reported wireless uplink candidates.
- Various backend bug fixes and improvements.
5.8.16
Controller bug fixes/changes since 5.8.15:
- Rename duplicated translation key for connectivity monitor.
- Disable host record for static DHCP mappings.
- Fix setting speed/duplex on disabled interfaces of USG-XG-8.
- Temporarily limit MongoDB support to releases prior to 3.6.x (currently 3.4.14 is recommended).
- Various backend bug fixes and improvements.
5.8.15
Controller bug fixes/changes since 5.8.14:
- Extend Client statistics signal level range.
- Update translations.
- Fix unwanted username/password autocomplete.
- Hide Elite ToS accept button for not supported countries in property panel.
- Fix client signal binding.
- Fix downloading autobackup via unifi.ubnt.com.
- Fix editing WLANs via group config.
- Fix filtering of top APs, and improve performance of stats filtering.
- Fix available wireless uplinks so disabled radios/APs are not displayed.
- Fix upgrade failed event when scheduled upgrade runs and device is on latest firmware.
- Only enable source validation for single WAN use cases.
- Various backend bug fixes and improvements.
5.8.14
New Features:
- Local SSO login.
Controller bug fixes/changes since 5.8.12:
- Improve reported topology when using wireless uplinks.
- Fix incorrect client signal value in ap's property panel and clients list.
- Fix empty Radio Type dropdown on Performance page.
- Fix a bug with L3 wireless adoption.
- Display correct labels at ports list when port is not configurable.
- Various backend bugfixes and improvements.
5.8.12
New Features:
- Add app switcher.
- Add speed and duplex config for USG interfaces.
- Add WiFi Happiness to client STA statistics.
- Allow users to opt-out wireless uplinking/meshing on per-radio basis.
Controller bug fixes/changes since 5.8.10:
- Add French translations.
- Add timestamp to manually downloaded backup file.
- Add tags column to devices page.
- Add bypass for confirm before device downgrade.
- Display user count graph in device performance statistics page.
- Improve blocking opening device terminal for not supported devices.
- Improve translation for firmware upgrade toast.
- Fix Hotspot Manager and Site Overview with WebRTC connection.
- Fix missing translation for Client Satisfaction in property panel.
- Fix manually download backup file for Firefox.
- Fix scrolling down the walls tab in map designer mode.
- Fix incorrect internet traffic count for wireless clients.
- Fix loading Settings page with German translations.
- Fix saving network settings before adopting USG.
- Fix IPv6 PD Prefix ID validation and config generation.
- Topology path highlighting fix.
- Hide configuration section in Elite Device settings when Cloud Access is off.
- Prevent console errors when Map Links are toggled on and device is removed.
- Additional columns in Clients list.
- Show more accurate client's device images in property panel.
- Show the WLAN VLAN is RADIUS assigned in the WLAN list, when it is.
- Hide Elite ToS accept button for unsupported countries.
- Mask password characters for RADIUS hotspot.
- Update outdoor mode checkbox label.
- Update translations.
- Various backend bugfixes and improvements.
5.8.10
Controller bug fixes/changes since 5.8.9:
- Add missing PoE event labels.
- Fix broken device stats.
- Various backend bugfixes and changes.
5.8.9
Controller bug fixes/changes since 5.8.8:
- Update translations.
- Improve reliability of topology.
- Fix broken batch config for radios.
- Fix channel width inconsistency.
- Fix cut RF Scan tooltip.
- Fix for clients counters in property panel.
- Fix pre-selecting timezones.
- Fix progress bar width on opening WebRTC connection.
- Fix release notes display.
- Fix IPv6 RA attributes.
- Fix RADIUS auth and accounting on guest networks when using USG.
- Fix port forward WAN interface.
- Various backend bugfixes and improvements.
5.8.8
Controller bug fixes/changes since 5.8.7:
- Add USG alias validation.
- Add port group validation.
- Add autochannel support for devices with multiple radios (XG).
- Add ability to open debug terminal by clicking an IP on the device overview screen.
- Display toast with information about new controller version.
- Update timezones list to IANA tzdb.
- Update translations.
- Hide message when controller minor version has not changed.
- Fix save/provision error with UnNP.
- Fix IPv6 related configs.
- Fix PPPoE interface name in routing table.
- Fix an issue causing the controller to be factory reset.
- Prevent overlapping header text over close button.
- Prevent port forwards from interfering with IPsec and vice versa.
- Various backend bugfixes and improvements.
5.8.7
Controller bug fixes/changes since 5.8.6:
- Fix disabled 'Queue Changes' button in batch AP LED configuration.
- Improve wireless adoption process.
- Conditionally enable journalling on UCK after successful migration.
- Various backend bugfixes and improvements.
5.8.6
New Features:
- Assign USG Physical Ports to Logical Networks.
Controller bug fixes/changes since 5.8.3:
- Improve Neighboring Access Points loading.
- Virtual Device on map: avoid duplicated device name inside label.
- Show additional performance graphs in AP Property Panel.
- Added missing mapping for PoE events (PoE Overload and PoE Disconnect).
- Allow for assigning network groups that are only VLAN based.
- Allow to dismiss toast when there are devices with upgrade available.
- Fix saving DHCPv6 Server configuration.
- Throughput graph - restore max values bars.
- Topology on Safari - fix node labels position shifted up.
- Virtual Device on map: avoid duplicated device name inside label.
- Reduce port stats log level to fix unnecessary log spam.
- PPPoE IPv6 provisioning improvements.
- Improve guest portal handling on gateway devices.
- Fix filtering virtual devices on maps.
- Fix creation of IPv6 PD LAN networks.
- Fix validation of IPv6 IPs as group members.
- Various backend bugfixes and improvements.
5.8.3
New Features:
- Add netconsole logging to site config.
- Allow setting Management VLAN at Access Points.
Controller bug fixes/changes since 5.8.2:
- Tweak Topology lines shape to avoid overlapping with text labels.
- Update translations.
- Topology: show wireless Client's channel.
- Display message when user logs into controller and there are devices with upgrade available.
- Prepopulate RADIUS Tunnel-Medium Type once 'Virtual LANs (VLAN)' is selected.
- Don't allow setting up DHCP server on IPv6 networks unless the interface type is `static`.
- Clarify IPS alert wording.
- Disable hardware offload on USG when Smart Queue QoS is enabled.
- Add event for switch PoE port disconnect and overload.
- Expose HTTPS blocking for Facebook Wi-Fi portal. Note you will need to add all required Facebook subnets/hostnames to pre-authorization list manually.
- Allow Facebook Wi-Fi portal to be opened in Apple Captive Network Assistant.
- Prevent site-to-site VPN from unnecessarily reprovisioning on controller start.
- Fix State in map marker label is on the left side.
- Fix Topology error occuring for aliases longer than 24chars.
- Fix Invisible STA device image.
- Fix DPI Selector per user: all categories highlighted.
- Fix Topology path highlighting when mouse pointer is over client label.
- Fix User DPI details sometimes application name is empty.
- Select RADIUS VLAN when enabled for WLAN.
- Fix Debugging Metrics.
- Fix Topology console error.
- Fix factory reset issue on UCK.
- Fix pre-adoption upgrade of USG devices.
- Fix VPN status reporting.
- Lower RSSI requirements for wireless adoption.
- Remove reboot before upgrade logic from UAP upgrades.
- Various backend bugfixes and improvements.
5.8.2
New Features:
- Property Panel: Show images of most popular client devices.
- Added support for USC8 switch.
Controller bugfixes/changes since 5.8.1:
- Allow to customize Map Device Marker label.
- Change SSH Credentials before restore from backup in wizard.
- Modify the way how Channel Distribution widget lays out its internal elements.
- Update translations.
- Disabled devices should not be taken into account in general site status.
- Designer Map: fix setting scale in feet.
- Fix airTime scan Details empty table.
- Fix case when locked device could be moved on Designer map.
- Fix UI jitter bug in Device Property Panel airTime accordion.
- Topology: prevent overlapping labels on wireless links.
- Fix date format not always being localized.
- MeshV3 Stability Improvements.
- Fix a bug preventing email password recovery from functioning in some cases.
- Various hardware provisioning improvements.
- Various backend bugfixes and improvements.
5.8.1
New Features
- Add WeChat authentication to Hotspot.
- Add Elite Device service.
- Allow setting opacity on Image-type maps.
- New Channel Distribution widget.
Controller bugfixes/changes since 5.8.0:
- Add control for dnsmasq as DHCP server.
- Allow setting mask /31 (255.255.255.254) for USG/WAN to be compliance with RFC3021.
- Display warning when time series start day is before data retention settings for given granularity.
- Improve device marker on maps.
- Update status colors in VPN widget.
- Update translations.
- WAN & WLAN Histograms - mark current values instead of mean ones, limit glowing elements number to 3.
- Add message with instruction to csv upload.
- Add model EOL (end of life) pending warning.
- Additional charts for Devices (Statistics → Performance view).
- Drag and drop optimizations.
- Expand firewall group name limit to 64.
- Hide the Aggregation option under Network when UAP supports it natively.
- Improve way how Donut charts display tooltips, to prevent being overlapped by other elements.
- IPv6 - Add DHCPv6 DNS Control.
- Lock web store to US only.
- Fix handling error responses received via WebRTC channel.
- Fix Routing Utilisation Widget layout issues.
- Fix Schedule Upgrade editing via WebRTC.
- Fix displaying selected priority wireless uplink.
- Fix displaying blank page on double click on Insights.
- Fix filtering outdoor channels by using default value for outdoor mode.
- Fix handling error responses received via WebRTC channel.
- Fix missing action buttons after enabling cloud access.
- Fix saving RADIUS profile without accounting servers.
- Fix MAC auth provisioning so RADIUS assigned VLAN is set when it's enabled in the RADIUS profile.
- Fix radios sorting in Configure Radios section.
- Update device uplink name dynamically.
- GeoIP Filtering - Block incoming/outgoing/both traffic.
- Temporarily remove WAN/WAN2 IPv6 PPPoE option.
- Rename label Select group to Any in firewall's form.
- SNMPv3 - Username and Password validation to match SNMPv3 standard and USG requirements.
- Show Hardware Offload as off when IPS is enabled, don't allow it to be turned on.
- Map fixes: Devices disappearing from map when changing from legacy to designer without saving and cannot change map type from Google to image at the second time.
- Several device management improvements, to improve UX and mitigate some errors.
- Various backend bugfixes and improvements.
5.8.0
New Features
- Add Scheduled Upgrades support (Beta).
- Add site VPN route distance.
Controller bugfixes/changes since 5.7.9:
- Additional DPI application icons (i.e. Slack).
- Add description for mDN.
- Add tooltip that DHCP DNS must be a valid IP address only.
- Hide gateway, broadcast and mask for User VPN networks.
- In case of Topology with large number of nodes (> 200), draw straight lines to improve performance.
- Improve way how Donut charts display tooltips, to prevent being overlapped by other elements.
- Showing message about missing permission in routing utilization widget.
- Extend form's elements to show whole value at Settings/User Groups.
- Additional charts for Devices (Statistics → Performance view).
- Fix missing DPI users (name & icon).
- Fix for airTime view in Firefox 57.
- Add workaround for Cloud Key firmware upgrade issue, for devices on firmware 0.8.1 to 0.8.4.
- Apply the same rules for both TCP and UDP DNS, which fixes the issue
- Various backend bugfixes and improvements.