Switch Controller I don’t care about. That has the potential at least short term to make the “new” switch management issues worse, which I’ve discussed previously on a thread about the new switches.
The one release note I am excited about is 32014:
This one has been a VERY long time coming. It’s been a year now since this issue appeared and randomly hard locked or spontaneously rebooted our fleet (and many others) of Balance 310’s repeatedly month after month until the mentioned firmware was issued by support. After a lot of angry clients and midnight multi-hour drives to reboot those units, this is about as close to public acknowledgement of the problem as we’ve gotten so far.
Another gem is 33331. The lack of the ethernet port status page on those models was baffling. Seems like a basic feature. Glad to see it included now.
Then 33335 is important:
We’ve gotten hit multiple times by this one, especially on 8.5.1. Mainly affected our fusionhubs and UDP connections.
Then 33032…glad to see this annoyance fixed:
33424…haven’t experienced this, but it’s worth talking about for a moment. The 5GN models use Quectel modems, and Quectel was recently added the US 1260H list of prohibited vendors, meaning they are ineligible for use in covered entities, and also ineligible for FIPS certification. For some like us, this is a big deal.
Overall, 8.5.2 looks to be a rollup of bugfixes and UI tweaks for the 8.5 series, before 9.0 hits. Nothing major at all in here other than the Balance 310 kernel fix finally coming to the main firmware release.