From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: From: Marek Lindner Date: Sun, 19 Jun 2011 22:59:15 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <201106192259.16044.lindner_marek@yahoo.de> Subject: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] batman-adv 2011.2.0 released Reply-To: The list for a Better Approach To Mobile Ad-hoc Networking List-Id: The list for a Better Approach To Mobile Ad-hoc Networking List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: The list for a Better Approach To Mobile Ad-hoc Networking The B.A.T.M.A.N. team is publishing its latest edition, 2011.2.0, primarily= =20 focusing on bug fixes and compatibility plus some smaller features. As the= =20 kernel module always depends on the Linux kernel it was compiled against, i= t=20 does not make sense to provide binaries on our website. As usual, you will= =20 find the signed tarballs in our download section: http://downloads.open-mesh.org/batman/releases/batman-adv-2011.2.0/ as well as prepackaged binaries in your distribution. Important changes =2D---------------- A series of patches has been merged that replaces all occurrences of 'HNA' = by=20 'TT' (standing for 'translation table'). Originally, batman-adv inherited t= he=20 term 'HNA' from our layer 3 implementation which caused some confusion as=20 people expected it to behave in the same way. The new name is meant to outl= ine=20 the difference. Scripts / tools expecting the string 'HNA' in the debugfs /= =20 batctl output need to be adjusted. This renaming is the first step in a number of changes regarding the client= =20 announcement mechanisms. Expect more to come with the following releases. Thanks =2D----- Thanks to all people sending in patches: * Andrew Lunn * Antonio Quartulli * Daniele Furlan * David Decotigny * Linus L=C3=BCssing * Lucas De Marchi * Marek Lindner * Micha=C5=82 Miros=C5=82aw * Paul E. McKenney * Simon Wunderlich * Sven Eckelmann * Sylvestre Ledru batman-adv =2D--------- In the aftermath of the orig hash lock removal released with 2011.1.0, batm= an- adv underwent a stabilization phase in which fixing bugs was the highest=20 priority. Unsurprisingly, the transition to fine grained locking required=20 further attention such as properly protecting data structures with rcu lock= s.=20 During the debugging phase race conditions were fixed, duplicate code remov= ed,=20 memory leaks eliminated and reference counting imbalances addressed. The backward compatibility with older kernel versions as well as the suppor= t=20 of upcoming kernel releases has been thoroughly tested and improved. The lo= cal=20 and global translation table output is reflecting the HNA to TT conversion.= =20 Adding support for multiple vlan ids to the bridge loop avoidance code is t= he=20 only noticeable new feature coming with this release. batctl =2D----- The batctl tool also has been affected by the renaming: the vis data option= =20 '--no-HNA|-H' has been renamed to '--no-TT|-T' and the vis data output prin= ts=20 'label=3DTT' instead of 'label=3DHNA'. To be compliant with the JSON Schema= the=20 JSON vis data output has been slightly modified. Happy routing, The B.A.T.M.A.N. team