AREDN Release 3.23.8.0 Available

Enhancements

• Added Prometheus Metrics (meant for use with monitoring apps like Grafana)
• SSH, TELNET and HTTP access to a node via the WAN port can now be disabled from the advanced configuration page.
• Improved handling of unsupported hardware.
• Use wifi assoc list when looking for unresponsive nodes
• Allow MTU on wifi interface to be modified
• Minor wifi monitor improvements for better metrics reporting
• Merge all the station monitoring and mitigation into a single service
• Support xlinks on x86
• Remove subnet restrictions for xlinks
• Support switching mesh radio on multi-radio devices
• UI improvements from AB7PA
• Upgrade to OpenWRT 22.03.5 
• Added Advanced Networking tab
• Feedback when pressing upload/download buttons
• Virtualized X86 support
• Restructure, modularize and tidy up the navigation buttons and menus
• Remove hardwired frequency tables and use information from the hardware instead
• Note devices which support the danger-upgrade process
• Allow the “&” character in service paths
• Added support for group alert messages

Known Issues

• Wifi scanning on Ubiquiti AC devices does not return all found devices, only ones already associated with the node.

New Devices Added

• New LiteBeam AC Gen2 variant
• Mikrotik LDF 5AC 
• Mikrotik LDF2
• PowerBeam 5ac-620 support 

Bug Fixes

• Fix x86 upgrades (naming is a little odd)
• Fix Mikrotik first install
• Re-enable AREDN’s reset button behavior (was being overridden by OpenWrt’s)
• Revert PowerBeam 5AC 400 name change which caused upgrade problems
• Remove another coverage test which causes problems
• Fix MTU failure which broke node setup
• Avoid error if mac disappears across a radio reset
• Monitor bug fixes
• Fix bug when editing xlinks on single port devices
• Enhance ‘has_wifi’ detection
• Handle non-wifi devices passed to maxpower/pwroffset functions 
• Fix LUA converting empty port object to empty array. 
• Alternate ath9k and ath10k radio reset for deaf nodes
• Fix API nil pointer when mac lookup fails
• Disable WAN access to node by default
• Fix disabled mesh on multi-wifi devices
• Split rocket-m[52]-xw into different builds
• Enable Rocket M XW (accidentally disabled when splitting out the M2 version)
• Fix wifi setup for multi-radio devices 05/08/2023
• Add missing radios.json for Powerbeam 5AC 400 05/07/2023 
• Remove old PBE 100mb fix and /etc/rc.local where it was included
• Fix channel display for 5GHz nodes
• Tidy up the formatting and fix column widths
• Fix syntax error in patch that broke network on many ath79 devices
• Fix ar300m16 wan configuration 04/25/2023
• Fix frequency range reporting and display for 900MHz & 3GHz devices
• Tolerate missing frequency list
• Fix missing POE for nanostation-m
• Remove ar300m nand and nor builds which are causing confusion
• Fix local message refresh