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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


AREDN Nightly Build Update


Now we have shipped 3.25.5.0, the nightly builds will be a little different. Before we had just a single nightly build, but for the foreseeable future there will be two:
  • a nightly build, and
  • a babel nightly build.
The traditional nightly build will continue to include bug fixes and contains both Babel and OLSR. It will be the base for future Release builds until OLSR is removed.
 
The babel nightly build has no OLSR and should be considered experimental (i.e. don’t put it in places you don’t have easy physical access to). These images are identified by having “babel-” prefixed to the nightly build number. Using this has the following implications:
  • Babel-only nodes will not know about OLSR-only nodes.  So prior to trying this nightly build, ensure that all the nodes that communications must be maintained with are running at least production build 3.25.5.0, which is dual-protocol.
  • LUA support has been removed and is no longer used by the AREDN software. Be aware that Lua applications such as MeshChat are not currently supported.

Reverting procedure

If you think you might want to revert to the production release, ensure that you’ve done a backup...
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Updated date: Friday, May 9, 2025 - 20:54

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AREDN Radio Selection

Steve KC0EUW produced a short video to help you select the right AREDN mesh radio for your needs. He explains the use of the Supported Platform Matrix to verify the types of suitable devices. Steve then walks you through the types of operational situations you may encounter. He completes the selection process by using the Device Selection Spreadsheet created by Andre K6AH to make well-informed choices about radios that meet your requirements.

You can view Steve's video here.

Yuma Hamfest 2020 AREDN Update

Andre Hansen K6AH presented an update on the status of the AREDN Project at the Yuma Hamfest on Saturday, February 15, 2020 

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