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AREDN Development Plans

 

A heads up on AREDN software development plans


AREDN®, as we’ve come to know it, is 11 years old. In that time it has come a long way, supporting a wide variety of devices, a host of radio bands, and has been deployed across the world. The UI has evolved, tunnels have been added, bandwidth and throughput have increased, and more features and services can be supported. The one constant in all this has been how AREDN® manages the network, using a protocol called Optimized Link State Routing - OLSR. Unfortunately as networks have grown, this protocol has buckled, and sometimes broken, under the strain, as OLSR was never designed for the size or variety of the networks we have. This year we added a new modern network protocol - Babel (see the How-To in the online documentation for more information). The goal has been to replace OLSR after a period of testing and migration, and we imagined it might take years to successfully transition from one protocol to the other. Instead, we have been blown away by how our community has embraced and requested this change. As of this writing, almost 80% of nodes worldwide are running firmware which uses the Babel protocol.
 With this in mind, we have decided to move more quickly...

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Updated date: Wednesday, August 20, 2025 - 08:58


AREDN Production Release 3.25.8.0 Now Available

 
This is the second major AREDN® release to contain both OLSR and Babel routing daemons. The long term goal is to remove OLSR and switch entirely to Babel, but only once the majority of nodes have been upgraded.
 
Notes
  • Some new features only appear in the Babel-only nightly build and are not in this release.
  • Halow/802.11ah devices are supported in the Babel-only nightly build and are not in this release.
New Device Support
  • Ubiquiti NanoStation AC Loco
Bug fixes and Enhancements:
  • ​​Improve location handling when map cannot be reached. #2371
  • Fixed TPLink CP710 problem in Mesh mode #2338
  • Fixed setting channel on M9 node shuts down RF #2324
  • Fixed low memory issues on 64MB PBE 400AC #2253
    • ...
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Updated date: Wednesday, August 13, 2025 - 08:45

 


Release Candidate Available

Nightly build 20250723 has been designated as the Release Candidate for the next AREDN production release.   If nothing weird happens, the next production release will be around August 6th.

The recent nightly builds have been very stable.  The AREDN team encourages you to wring them out and see if you can break them :-)

Enjoy!

Updated date: Wednesday, July 23, 2025 - 13:48

 


Babel bug discovered

It figures...   After several months of testing, a bug in the Babel implementation surfaced - naturally after a product release.  Somewhat randomly and rarely, after a reboot or upgrade, the Babel connection between two nodes will not operate correctly. Symptoms are lack of connectivity with Babel nodes, usually in one direction rather than both. If you're experiencing this, open up the panel on a Local or Neighborhood node. The issue is evidenced by the Babel Metric in the lower right having a value of -1.

Restarting Babel at either end of the connection should resolve it, as it appears to be a boot-up timing issue. Rebooting one of the nodes is the easiest way to do this.  But consider updating to production release 3.25.5.1 which will resolve the issue.

Updated date: Sunday, May 11, 2025 - 09:02

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19.07 Release Status Update

The upcoming release of many new devices, bug fixes, and capabilities still has a few issues being worked out:

1) The OpenWRT release that AREDN is based on, recently published another release candidate rc2, and there is a rc3 in the pipeline. This means we are still days/weeks away to see the OpenWRT official release.
2) There are 2 identified issues so far on Rocket M5 XW and Nanostation M5 XW devices still being worked.
3) Many models do not yet have any know testing to confirm all is working.

How can you help?   Check the status here:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1IyDD_gPC4LLtZGERDQhS8Ix7EDiNjK12/view?usp=sharing

If you have a device that has not yet been tested, please down load the image and give a try here:

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1Pm466OqLPTARUuh_ux3xSoD2123H5EOw?usp=sharing

Joe AE6XE


Call for Code 2019 Global Winner Announced

Prometeo was announced the Call for Code 2019 Global Winner on Saturday, October 12, 2019 at the award ceremony held in New York City. After intense judging from IBM, the David Clark Cause, the United Nations Human Rights Office, the American Red Cross, and other subject matter experts in the first round, the eminent judges ranked the five finalist teams and selected Prometeo as the winning solution.

Prometeo not only wins the 200,000 USD grand prize, but open source project support from The Linux Foundation, meetings with investors and mentors, and solution implementation support through IBM's Code and Response initiative. The team also won the People's Choice award on October 4, where thousands of voters chose Prometeo as their favorite solution.

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