Changelog
v4.2.0
Features
Fix devices to specific region configuration (optional)
This adds a Region configuration option to the device-profile, which lists the region configurations for the selected Region. If a region configuration is selected, then the device will only be able to work under the selected configuration. If no region configuration is selected, then the device will be able to operate under all available region configurations for the selected region.
Java API SDKs
This adds support for Java and Kotlin API SDK code generation. (#64)
Improvements
- Add
description
configuration option per region configuration. - Change
name
toid
within the region configuration (name
will be used as fallback option). - Make gateway state in UI consistent and make expected stats interval configurable. (#76)
- Add Python type information to Python API SDK code. (#68)
- Add back
crc_status
field toUplinkRxInfo
message (the status will be reported as no CRC until the ChirpStack Gateway Bridge, ChirpStack Concentratord and / or ChirpStack MQTT Forwarder have been updated). - Add back Class-B ping-slot parameters to the device-profile.
- Update Class-B ping-slot data-rate configuration in examples.
- Remove separate gateway topic config and move it into single
topic_prefix
configuration. - Reset internally stored channels to default on
ADRACKReq
uplink to avoid out-of-sync channel configuration on device. - Update internal dependencies.
Bugfixes
- Fix hiding Delete device option if the user has no permissions to perform this action. (#71)
- Fix not recording device metrics if auto-detect of measurements is disabled. (#94)
v4.1.3
Bugfixes
- Fix Redis
key_prefix
configuration. While this value could be configured, it was not applied to the generated keys. - Fix header
z-index
issue in UI. This was causing the dropdowns to render partly behind the header.
v4.1.2
Improvement / bugfix
- Do not wait for integrations to finish before sending downlink.
v4.1.1
Improvements
- Update JS API dependencies to latest versions.
- Replace relative paths in Rust API build to absolute. (#69)
Bugfixes
- Fix setting the full frame-counter to the uplink frame after resolving the device-session (this can affect payload decryption).
v4.1.0
Features
API request logging
This feature logs API requests to Redis Streams. This enables external services to monitor for example device create, update and deletes by reading from the Redis Streams. A code-example can be found here.
Uplink logging for unknown devices
While the feature to log frames was already present, it was not possible
to only read uplink frames of devices that are unknown. This extends the frame
logging feature to also log uplinks for unknown devices, in which case DevEUI
0000000000000000
is used. A code-example for reading the frame log can be
found here.
Event logging
A code-example to read event logs from the Redis Streams was added. It can be found here.
Improvements
- Make
metadata
fields in gateway messages consistent. - Emit all fields for JSON integration messages, even if they are their default values. (#63)
Bugfixes
- Fix Redis pipelined commands in case Redis Cluster is configured.
- Fix UI notifications z-index.
Other changes
- The
import-ttn-lorawan-devices
sub-command has been renamed toimport-legacy-lorawan-devices-repository
.
v4.0.5
Improvements
- Add
keep_alive_interval
for MQTT configuration.
Bugfixes
- Fix incorrect splitting of multiple URLs in HTTP integration. (#62)
- Fix missing ThingsBoard location and status telemetry.
- Send ThingsBoard telemetry (fPort, fCnt, ...) even in case there is no decoded payload.
- Fix LeafletJS controls floating over header (UI).
v4.0.4
Bugfixes
- Fix coding-rate for LoRaWAN 2.4GHz. (#51)
- Fix not removing of queue-item after it was sent, if payload did not fit RX2.
v4.0.3
Improvements
- Add code example for reading frame-logs from Redis Streams.
- Add missing metadata logging and add code example for reading metadata from Redis Streams.
- Add
dev_addr_prefix
configuration. (#49) - Make it possible to enable / disable auto-detection of metrics in device-profile. (#42)
- Add Redis config examples for username and password configuration. (#54)
- Add metadata tab to gateway configuration in UI.
Bugfixes
- Use
trust_store
instead ofca_path
for MQTT integration. (#47) - Fix Cannot serialize NaN as google.protobuf.Value.number_value error.
- Fix logout URL in case OIDC is enabled.
- Fix
java_outer_classname
intenant.proto
. (#55) - Fix closing and detecting if eventlog channel is closed.
- Fix metrics interval calculation on daily aggregate in case of DST to non-DST timezone change.
v4.0.2
Features
- A new menu option Regions was added to the web-interface, exposing per region information.
Improvements
- Internal dependencies were updated.
Bugfixes
- Fix Wi-Fi geolocation issue in LoRa Cloud integration.
- Fix missing per data-rate stats in gateway dashboard.
- Fix terminating stream loop (and releasing of Redis connection) on client disconnect. (#40)
- Fix rendering
client_cert_lifetime
rendering in configuration template (mqtt integration).
v4.0.1
Not released.
v4.0.0
After many months of development and testing, we are really excited to share ChirpStack v4.
The aim of ChirpStack v4 is to make it significantly easier to setup and use ChirpStack, compared to the previous version. One of the major changes that you will notice is that the ChirpStack Network Server and ChirpStack Application Server have been merged into a single component. Over the years we have seen many issues reported on the forum and GitHub, related to setting up and connecting both services. ChirpStack v4 also provides multi-region support out-of-the-box, including region configuration. No longer it is needed to define your own configuration file or setup multiple ChirpStack Network Server instances to serve multiple regions simultaneously.
A big thank you to the ChirpStack community for supporting and contributing to the ChirpStack project! Please find below a breakdown of all the new features and changes that v4 brings.
Main features and changes
Multi-region support
ChirpStack v4 adds multi-region support, removing the need to setup multiple ChirpStack Network Server instances. Configuration files are included for the common regions (as defined by the LoRa Alliance), which should help getting started with ChirpStack.
Each enabled region has its own gateway backend, making it possible to use one
or multiple MQTT brokers for the different gateway pools. In case a single
MQTT broker is used, each backend must be configured with its own MQTT topic prefix
(e.g. eu868/gateway/...
).
ChirpStack v4 also supports multiple configurations of the same region, e.g. to configure a US915 for 8 channels and to configure a US915 band for 16 channels.
TTN device repository support
ChirpStack v4 adds support for importing the TTN LoRaWAN Devices repository as device-profile templates, including codec functions if these are defined in this repository.
Device metrics dashboard
In the device-profile template and / or device-profile, it is possible to define the measurements that are exposed by the device in the decoded payload. Once defined, ChirpStack will automatically aggregate and store this data. These metrics can be viewed in the web-interface on the device dashboard.
Configuration
Directory
Instead of using a single configuration file (e.g. chirpstack-network-server.toml
),
ChirpStack makes use of a configuration directory such that the configuration
can be split in multiple files. By default you will find a single chirpstack.toml
configuration file, and many region_...toml
configuration files, split
by region.
Environment variables
ChirpStack v4 removes the TOML hierarchy to environment variable mapping.
Instead it allows you to define the variables like $MY_CONFIGURATION
, which
will get automatically substituted when an environment variable is found with
the name MY_CONFIGURATION
.
API
The REST interface that was present in ChirpStack Application Server v3 has
been removed, in favor of the gRPC API interface (please see the api/
folder
of the repository for the API definitions). However, a gRPC to REST interface
bridge component will be provided as a separate service. Please note that
in v3, this bridge component was embedded and REST interface calls were
internally translated to gRPC calls. Therefore, gRPC was always recommended
interface to use.
The ChirpStack v4 gRPC API does support server reflection, making it possible to use for example gRPC UI or BloomRPC as development interface.
ChirpStack Gateway Bridge v3 compatibility
ChirpStack v4 is fully compatibility with the latest version of ChirpStack
Gateway Bridge v3. This should help migrating from v3 to v4. Please note that
the ChirpStack Gateway Bridge must be configured with the protobuf
marshaler.
UI rewrite
ChirpStack v4 contains a rewrite of the ChirpStack Application Server v3 UI. The new UI aims to be more user-friendly. Under the hood the API interface has been ported to gRPC-web and all code has been ported to Typescript.
Other changes
Passive Roaming improvements
The implementation of Passive Roaming has been improved, adding support for
appending /sns
and /fns
server endpoint suffixes. The usage of this
suffix is not specified in the Backend Interfaces specification, but is
required by some other network-server implementations.
UUID identifiers
All identifiers that are exposed have been changed to UUID. Previously most
identifiers (e.g. users, applications...) were incremental integers. In case
ChirpStack is setup as multi-tenant instance, this could expose some information
about the number of clients on the network. The migration script (see below)
will migrate these integers by converting these as strings, prefixed with
zeros in the UUID format. E.g. ID 123
would be converted to the UUID string
00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000123
.
String identifiers in API
All binary identifiers have been changed to string type in the API. While
binary fields are more efficient, these were confusing when encoded as JSON
as the Protobuf to JSON mapping uses base64 encoding for binary fields.
For example, a Gateway ID 0102030405060708
was encoded as AQIDBAUGBwg=
in JSON.
JavaScript codec engine
The JavaScript codec engine is based on QuickJS, which is an embeddable JavaScript engine which supports the ES2020 specification.
API interface changes
While the structure of API messages is roughly the same as the ChirpStack Application Server API interface, some small changes have been made.
Integration events
The integration event messages have been restructured for better consistency.
Each event message has a deviceInfo
field which holds device-related
information (tenant id & name, application id & name, device-profile id &
name, device EUI & name and tags).
Development changes
Single repository
ChirpStack v4 will make it a lot easier to make customizations, especially when API changes are involved, as API definitions are no longer separated from the code. In v3 these definitions were moved to an external repository to avoid cross dependencies.
Rust
For ChirpStack v4, it was decided to use Rust rather than Go. This was not an easy choice and the arguments for this decision are debatable. However, as most code was touched during the ChirpStack Application Server and ChirpStack Network Server merge, it was the only moment to re-consider this. The Rust memory management prevents many memory related pitfalls and helps catching bugs at compile time rather than runtime.
Migrating from v3 to v4
The recommended way to migrate from v3 to ChirpStack v4 is to create a new PostgreSQL and Redis database and to use the ChirpStack v3 to v4 migration script. This script will copy all the data from the "old" into the "new" database. While the script does not make any modifications to the old database, it is always recommended to make a backup first.