Zyxel NebulaFlex Switch XGS1930 Series
Software Release Note V5.00(ABH_.0)C0
Date: July 03, 2025
This document describes the features in the XGS1930 series for its 5.00(ABH_.0)C0 release. XGS1930 series is a hybrid switch with NebulaFlex technology to support operation in either Standalone mode or Nebula cloud management mode.
Supported Platforms
Support Platform | Firmware version | Boot Version |
---|---|---|
Zyxel XGS1930-28 | V5.00(ABHT.0)C0 | V2.00 | 07/10/2018 |
Zyxel XGS1930-28HP | V5.00(ABHS.0)C0 | V2.00 | 07/10/2018 |
Zyxel XGS1930-52 | V5.00(ABHU.0)C0 | V2.00 | 07/10/2018 |
Zyxel XGS1930-52HP | V5.00(ABHV.0)C0 | V2.00 | 07/10/2018 |
New Feature and Enhancements
- [Standalone, Nebula] Renovate Web GUI layout for better usability of Switch management.
- [Standalone, Nebula] Intuitive Cloud connection status with help message.
- [Standalone, Nebula] Strengthen security for network management with built-in notification in case of abnormal login attempt.
- [Standalone, Nebula] The year of Time Range page starts with current system time.
- [Standalone, Nebula] Provide time-stamp on filename title when backup configuration file.
- [Standalone, Nebula] Prevent page refresh when clicking the cancel button in pop-up messages on the dashboard.
- [Standalone, Nebula] Support public key authentication for SSH.
- [Standalone, Nebula] Remote management offers support for IPv6.
- [Standalone, Nebula] The admin account can be changed, providing flexibility and security to the network management system.
- [Standalone, Nebula] Disable Telnet feature by default setting.
- [Standalone, Nebula] Web Support Re-Generate SSH Public Key 2048bit for RSA.
- [Standalone, Nebula] Enhance security by supporting the ECDSA algorithm in SSH.
- [Standalone, Nebula] Support event log and SNMP trap functionality to generate alerts when system logs reached 90% of thresholds.
- [Standalone, Nebula] Support user IP lockout functionality after a certain number of failed login attempts.
- [Standalone, Nebula] Device firmware upgrade will check file checksum.
- [Standalone, Nebula] The login page will automatically redirect from HTTP to HTTPS to enhance network security.
- [Nebula] Unlock local Web GUI for cloud mode.
- [Nebula] Provide the Nebula password reminder on login page of web GUI.
- [Standalone] Supports “Account Security” option on WEB GUI to encrypt admin / user account password and options to display user/AAA/SNMP credentials.
- [Standalone] Supports auto STP path cost which will determine path cost by the port's current link speed.
- [Standalone] NCC discovery adds reminder to save configurations.
- [Standalone] Strengthen user security with the encryption of TACACS+ & Radius shared secret.
- [Standalone] Extend RADIUS server support range from IPv4 to IPv6.
- [Standalone] Enhance Guest VLAN to isolate broadcast packets between VLANs.
- [Standalone] Add note on cable diagnostics to inform the operating limits for local web GUI.
- [Standalone] Allow to change the IP address from DHCP to static type directly for Layer 3 switch.
- [Standalone] Enhance security of login process by adding HTTPS login option.
- [Standalone, Nebula] Improve 802.1x and MAC authentication support to identify the Termination-action and port number attribute.
- [Standalone] Enhanced search bar with improved keyword searching capabilities.
- [Standalone] Automatic detection of media type for Zyxel Transceivers and DAC.
- [Standalone, Nebula] Allow SSH and CLI commands to be combined and display the command result directly.
- [Standalone, Nebula] Improve Dashboard's port link speed color display to enhance user experience and intuitiveness.
- [Standalone] Clicking on the port icon in the dashboard now redirects to the Port Settings page, providing quicker access to configuration options and improving usability.
- [Standalone] Enhance security by forcing users to change the password after first login.
- [Standalone] Expand NTP servers from 1 to 3.
- [Standalone] Support Zyxel Private MIB.
- [Nebula] Enhance the cloud auto recovery mechanism to prevent the device from being locked when the connection is unstable.
- [Nebula] Nebula Switch supports SSH connection to access command line for advanced feature.
- [Standalone] Support password complexity for user/SNMP account and enable mod, with default setting is disable.
- [Standalone] Support interactive password command for masking password in CLI when you creating account.
- [Standalone] Enable password encryption by default to enhance security.
- [Nebula] Support Hardware monitor. (CPU/Memory/Temperature/Fan)
- [Nebula] Support DHCP relay and added DHCP option 82 for DHCP relay.
- [Nebula] When configure existence management IP address, a warning message will alert for preventing IP conflict.
- [Nebula] Support flow control on the port setting.
- [Nebula] Support port Profile.
- [Nebula] Support IGMP Report Proxy setting.
- [Nebula] Support Dynamic VLAN assignment through 802.1x authentication.
- [Nebula] Detect transceiver over-temperature to trigger full-speed fan.
- [Nebula] Support MAC authentication by cloud authentication on NCC.
- [Nebula] Support BPDU and loop guard err-disable recovery.
- [Standalone] Add new system log for changes in service access control configuration.
- [Standalone] Limit login accounts with privileges 0 to 2 only to display basic system information on web GUI.
Bug Fix
Bug Fix | Nebula | Standalone |
---|---|---|
[eITS #241001395] IPSG with IPv6 has lease time of only 10 seconds. | ✔️ | ✔️ |
[eITS #241100262] Cannot clear classifier names longer than 10 characters. | ✔️ | ✔️ |
[eITS #241100288] MSTP root guard cannot prevent the RSTP Superior switch from preempting the root. | ✔️ | ✔️ |
[eITS#241100538] Fix special characters(space,' ,') can be allowed in username to cause configuration error. | ✔️ | ✔️ |
[eITS #250100026] Fixed abnormal crash issue when continues queries OID 1.0.8802.1.1.2.1.5.4795.1.2.1.1 and its sub-OIDs. | ✔️ | ✔️ |
[eITS #241200595] Fixed high CPU usage triggered by client switching between trunk interfaces. | ✔️ | ✔️ |
[eITS #250100440] Fixed that truncated DNS packets cannot be process to cause DNS parsing failed. | ✔️ | ✔️ |
[eIST #250100337] Fixed DHCPv6 snooping not work due to device cannot process DHCPv6 request with IA_PD+IA_NA option. | ✔️ | ✔️ |
[eITS #250201088] When the RADIUS server does not provide a session-timeout attribute, the switch will re-authenticate successfully connected devices every hour by default. | ✔️ | ✔️ |
[eITS #250200357] The switch has drop the EAPOL unicast packet. | ✔️ | ✔️ |
[EITS #250302409] Fixed the device sometimes fail to connect with Nebula server. | ✔️ | - |
[eITS #250500429] Fixed crash when receive IPv6 tunnel packet. | ✔️ | ✔️ |
[eITS #250601084] Fixed hang when use CLI show tech-support. | ✔️ | ✔️ |
[eITS #250601569] If set the default gateway with link local address, the IPv6 routing table would display abnormal next hop. | - | ✔️ |
Known Issue
Known Issue | Nebula | Standalone |
---|---|---|
Ingress rate limit of TCP traffic is inaccurate. | ✔️ | ✔️ |
The accuracy of cable diagnostic is +- 15m. When without cables, the value of distance to fault would not be 0. | ✔️ | ✔️ |
When an IPv6 static route exists, the speed of IPv6 route cannot reach full speed. | - | ✔️ |
Only 2 criteria of link aggregation can be active at the same time. | - | ✔️ |
The switch cannot access cluster member when cluster member's password been encrypted. | ✔️ | ✔️ |
ZON utility show the wrong message when it reset the switch to the default setting. | ✔️ | ✔️ |
Limitation of Settings
Limitation of Setting | Nebula | Standalone |
---|---|---|
802.1Q Static VLANs | 1K | 1K |
Static MAC forwarding entry | 256 | 256 |
MAC filtering entry | 256 | 256 |
Cluster member | - | 24 |
Port-security max address-limit number | 16K | 16K |
Syslog server entry | 2 | 4 |
MAC table | 16K | 16K |
Multicast group | 1K | 1K |
ACL | 128 | 256 |
DHCP Relay Entry | - | 17 |
Static ARP entry | - | 256 |
Static route max entry | 32 | 32 |
Trunk groups | 28(HP):12 | 28(HP):12 |
Per trunk group port number | 8 | 8 |
MSTP instance | 52(HP):24 | 52(HP):24 |
Voice VLAN OUI entry | 6 | 0-16 |
ZON neighbor per-port maximum clients | - | 10 |
Change History
- V5.00(ABH_.0) | 07/03/2025
- V4.70(ABH_.9) | 11/07/2024
- V4.70(ABH_.8) | 09/06/2024
- V4.70(ABH_.7) | 12/04/2023
- V4.70(ABH_.6) | 12/06/2022
- V4.70(ABH_.5) | 10/03/2022
- V4.70(ABH_.4) | 07/29/2022
- V4.70(ABH_.3) | 11/01/2021
- V4.70(ABH_.2) | 06/02/2021
- V4.70(ABH_.1) | 03/26/2021
- V4.50(ABH_.7) | 07/30/2019
- V4.50(ABH_.6) | 07/23/2019
- V4.50(ABH_.5) | 03/11/2019
- V4.50(ABH_.4) | 11/02/2018
- V4.50(ABH_.3) | 09/26/2018
- V4.50(ABH_.2) | 08/30/2018
- V4.50(ABH_.1) | 06/20/2018