AREDN Release Candidate Available

Nightly build 20250415 has been designated the release candidate for the next production release.

In it the AREDN® team is introducing Babel as a replacement for the older OLSR routing technology.   It's been seen to improve network stability and throughput.  In this release Babel and OLSR will run side-by-side, with Babel routing used where available, and OLSR used otherwise.  Already 25% of the nodes on the network are running a Babel-enabled nightly build and we've seen and heard anecdotally of significant improvements in network stability.

Additionally this release adds PtP (point to point) and PtMP (point to multipoint) RF modes to complement our existing AdHoc mode.  We’ve see notable throughput and latency improvements when using these modes, especially with 802.11ac devices. This  holds true even when mixing radios from different manufacturers.

Assuming no big issues arise (and it's been very calm the last couple of months of nightly builds) we expect the production release to occur early next month.

We believe this is a great release candidate.  But we encourage you to install it on your nodes where you can; we want to hear from you what you think of it!

The AREDN development team