Introduction
This document lists the features supported on Embedded Wireless Controllers on Catalyst 9100 Series APs in each IOS-XE release starting Gibraltar 16.12.2. Each feature is only mentioned in the release it was first introduced with subsequent releases only listing changes to the given feature.
Features in each IOS-XE release
Bengaluru - 17.4.1
- Custom webauth bundle is now copied to the standby EWC as well
- Enabling USB Port on Access Points
- User and Entity Behavior Analysis
- Support of Embedded Wireless Controller to run on 9105 APs
- end of support of 11ac wave 1 access points
Amsterdam - 17.3.2
- Smart Licensing using Policy
Amsterdam - 17.3.1
- Both Uplink and Downlink Orthogonal frequency-division multiple access (UL OFDMA and DL OFDMA) features are supported in Cisco Catalyst 9130 APs in this release. Currently limited to support eight users in a DL OFDMA or UL OFDMA transmission. In this release, 37 users are supported in the 80-MHz and 160-MHz bandwidths.
- Uplink Multi-user multiple-input and multiple-output (UL MU MIMO) feature is supported in Cisco Catalyst 9130 APs in this release.
- mDNS gateway support
- AP image predownload status enhancement
- Certificate management enhanced page
- Web UI Dark mode
- 9105 AP support
Amsterdam - 17.2.1
- Workgroup bridge Client support on EWC-AP
- Flexible Netflow Exporter
- WLAN webUI Simplification - only mandatory settings under Basic Setup
- Aironet IE support
- SMU: APSP pack is not supported
Amsterdam - 17.1.1s
- Software upgrade from cisco.com repository
- Support for SCP and SFTP as methods to upload core files
- Periodic scheduled download of controller configuration
- AP device pack support
- Ipv6 support
- HTTPS, DNS and URL filtering support for ACLs
- Day0 PnP configuration download support
- Controller Software Maintenance Package support for the Controller
- Support for Natting wireless clients through a Master AP
- TLS 1.2 support for local EAP authentication
- Support for Umbrella integration
Gilbraltar - 16.12.4a
- There are no new features in this release
Gilbraltar - 16.12.3
- There are no new features in this release
Gilbraltar - 16.12.2s
First release to support Embedded Wireless Controller on Catalyst APs
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