AREDN Release 3.25.10.0 with 802.11ah Support

The AREDN Dev team has released version 3.25.10.0 of the AREDN software,

This is a maintenance release primarily designed to stabilize the current OLSR+Babel network before the switch to a Babel only system next year.

New Product Support

Enhancements

Improve consistency of neighbor status display
Remove random sleeps; now babel stop is synchronous
Delay restarting firewall so we don’t do it for every tunnels’ startup
Merged two sets (older & newer) of memory config code
Further tweak the minimum memory settings
Backport free memory changes from babel-only
Fix issues with hidden node detection
Improve HTMODE ("High Throughput mode”) selection, depending on hardware & firmware
Aggressively turn down HTMODE support on error
Improve selection of hostapd and wpa_supplicant, as needed
Improve babel monitoring
Set babel LQ monitoring requirement to 50% to trigger babel restart (it’s a monitor which looks at radio links and if they seem solid but for some reason Babel is not connecting the nodes, it will restart Babel to fix the problem.)
Add missing ucode dependency (was being implicitly included)
Monitor Babel and restart if necessary.
Use EFI/x86 upgrades when necessary.

Bug fixes

Tunnel server goes into continuous reboot cycle when rebooted - until WAN cable is unplugged
Supernode load soars upon startup - then locks up
Converted supernode to Babel-only. Now only sees a fraction of tunnels, and can't reach them
Mikrotik hAP ac2 in reboot cycle after committing a Wireguard tunnel
Babel and Camera Operation vs 3.25.2.0
node_lqm_tracker_mode gauge is not numeric

Note: The following 802.11ah devices now are supported by AREDN but are only in the Babel Nightly builds

Amateur Radio Emergency Data Network