What's New

Release Versions

The following table describes release dates for the software and user guide for 25.04 releases. The link from the software to the user guide always points to the latest version of the user guide.

Release Date Software version User Guide Version Description of Changes
June 2025 25.04.2 2 For a full list of any features, improvements, or bug fixes for the Lighthouse 25.04.2 software, see the Release Notes.
June 2025 25.04.1 2
April 2025 25.04 1

User Guide Version 2 Updates

External Certificate Authority

You can now configure optional certificate subject attributes when you configure an external certificate authority.

Authenticated NTP and Time Display Updates

On the TIME SETTINGS page, the TIMEZONE and AUTOMATIC tabs have been merged and no longer appear on separate tabs. On this page you can:

  • Set the timezone for your Lighthouse instance.

  • configure and add multiple NTP servers.

  • select and configure the NTP server authentication.

For more information, see Set the Lighthouse Internal Clock.

Other Documentation Updates

User Guide Version 1 Updates

External Certificate Authority

Lighthouse can now integrate with an external certificate authority to issue certificates. The Lighthouse Certificate Management page has been updated to reflect this. You can use the Command Line Interface to configure and use an external certificate authority for certificate management, specifically the cert-manage command. A new page is added to describe how to configure an external CA.

Serial Port Connection Status Management

You can now view a centralized dashboard to monitor and manage all active connections to individual serial ports across all nodes in the:

  • Command Line Interface, specifically the pmusers command.

  • User interface through the Ports page.

This allow you to view active serial port connections, terminate active serial port sessions, and reset ports directly from the Lighthouse interface.

The Manage Ports topic is updated to reflect updated filtering, and a new Port Management permission is described on Manage Roles.

Cellular Health Reporting

Enhancements have been made to cellular health reporting. The documentation covers:

  • Extra cell health information displayed across three tabs in the right-hand panel on the Nodes page when you connect to serial ports for a node.

  • The inclusion of a procedure on how to view cellular health details for node when you Manage Nodes.

  • Updates to the Dashboard topic to display and describe the failover status.

Other Documentation Updates

  • The Configure Remote Authentication topic has a note added about multi-factor authentication.

  • The Manage Ports section of the documentation has been slightly rearranged to incorporate the Serial Port Connection Status Management documentation, and to make other information flow better.

  • The landing page for the online version of the user guide has been updated to reflect the current release, and encourage users to use the feedback function.

  • The creation of a Dashboard topic to provide more information around the user interface, and ensure that all Cellular Health Reporting updates can be included.

  • The Prepare to Upgrade Lighthouse topic is updated to reflect a new script that can be used to perform recommended technical checks.

  • A new Lighthouse Pages section has been added to the User Interface section to include descriptions of individual Lighthouse pages to provide a more full UI overview, and user experience. This will enable you to find assistance for a specific page, understand what the fields on that page are for, and find links to any procedures performed on that page that are in other sections of the user guide. This section currently contains only the following two topics, but will include more in future releases: