GNS3 1.0 Alpha 4 is out today, coming in a week or so before the next bank holiday in the UK. I am sure that the bank holiday releases are just a coincidence unless the developers are really keen on celebrating the “International Day of Families” (yeah I don’t know what it’s about either – alternatively it could be released in celebration of Paraguay’s Independence Day).
So anyway, enough about random world wide holiday talk, let’s have a look at what’s new (and fixed):
Whats new in GNS3 1.0 Alpha 4?
Now we have the following changes:
- Show Windows interface names in cloud tooltips.
- Disconnect the server if the version differs from the GUI version.
- Move cloud code to a builtin module and support for clouds on remote servers.
- Options to use the default IOU RAM & NVRAM values.
- Changed the name of default base startup and private configs.
- Added “All files” filter when looking for an IOU or IOS image in the file browser.
- Graceful server shutdown on Windows.
- Error message that JIT sharing is only supported in Dynamips unstable.
- New UDP and console port allocation system for IOU. Fixes duplicated port issues.
- Delete some Dynamips files that are useless to save in projects.
- Fix: the path to GNS3 server was not saved.
- Fix: RAM and NVRAM IOU image settings not propagated when creating an IOU device.
- Fix: bug where IOS nvram/disk files were not kept after closing a topology.
- Fix: bug that prevented changing any IOU device setting when connected to another node.
- Fix: duplicated node id issue.
- Fix: major bug with ghost instance overwriting any second router files (R2).
- Fix: error when ldd cannot be found.
- Fix: issues with local base configs for IOS.
Some pretty cool stuff here, especially the third item – “support for clouds on remote servers”, this isn’t to say that we can have multiple IOU servers sitting out there, it’s close, very close, but not there just yet:
So close!
Still no sign of the ability to add text to topologies though. I do miss that.
Its coming! Thanks for the post!
lol, Hi Stephen, do you mean the ability to add text or multiple IOU servers? Either way, great work so far!
GUI Feature changes will happen post launch – main focus will be on the server backend. But lots in the works in terms of what we would like to see.
I don't see a way to add ASA to GNS3. Am I missing something?
Which version of GNS3 are you using? 1.0 doesnt have qemu integration (yet) which is needed for running an ASA. The freely available version does support ASAs – https://www.802101.com/running-cisco-asa-within-gns3/
Hi Stuart,
I am using 1.0 alpha 4 release. Maybe I am asking the wrong person but do you know when they are panning to release it? 🙂
1.0 is so smooth that I don't want to install the old version again! 😀
Hi
I don't know it's still alpha so it needs to go to beta first before general release. The sign up page says we get it a year before general release so probably around this time next year for the finished article. It's a complete rewrite from the ground up so will take longer than just tacking things on to the existing release.