AREDN Production Release 3.25.2.0

AREDN Production Release 3.25.2.0 is now available for download.    Here's an overview of the fixes and enhancements in this release.  All of these changes have been thoroughly tested through via the nightly builds and our intrepid band of testers!

Features

• New Mobile UI

• Ability to backup and restore node configurations

• Responsive design for desktop UI on smaller screens

• Improved logged-out experience to provide more information

• Improved WiFi Signal tool which shows SNR at both ends of link

• Added support for ARDC’s 44-Net

• Upgraded to the latest OpenWRT release: 24.10

Notes

• By default LAN devices are no longer permitted to access the Internet over the mesh. This can be re-enabled if required.

• The old UI is no longer available.

• We recommend the High Contrast theme when using the mobile UI outside.

• The new WiFi Signal tool requires both ends of a link be running the latest firmware.    

Enhancements

• Added more USB controller modules #1878

• Added usbutils loadable package #1875 

• Improved firewalling of LAN #1862

• Made further improvements to LAN to WAN firewalling. #1863 

• Enabled 44NET LAN configurations #1548  

• Enabled kmod-eeprom-at24 package #1529 

• Made watchdog improvements #1322

• Report IP Address at the end of command line setup. #1861

• Now allow local NTP server to run as a service for LAN devices #1865 

• Now allow ping and traceroute to auto select the best interface #1856 

• Animated the commit message like the scan message #1839 

• Added rpcapd loadable package to aid remote node monitoring #1838 

• Added disconnect reporting #1831

• Throttle dnsmasq restarts when names change #1826

• Improved messaging in various parts of the network setup #1817      

• Attempt to guess PC hardware and better support unknown hardware (for VMs). #1816     

• Include main IP address in HNA4 records #1814         

• Dnsmasq performance improvements. #1813

• QEMU User Agent available as a module for x86 build #1798 

• Improved mesh device and service counts #1796 

• Moved the LAN DHCP enable/disable option into the LAN DHCP panel #1788

• Improved tunnel "email" messaging #1773

• Support forcing DHCP options without a specific tag #1769

• Open a new tab for help and website menu links #1760

• Improvements to the wifi watchdog #1757

• Added a basic syslog tool #1744

• Supernodes now support 44net by default #1753 

• Now provide 44net route override #1703

• Added rapid-commit (dhcp) option #1733

• Added command line tool to generate support data #1695      

• Added command line backup util #1729 

• Sped up commits #1721 

• Added DHCP option validation #1718    

• Now support DHCP options without values #1735     

• Gave high contrast theme wider dialogs (now we support that) #1716 

• Now support non-admin neighbor info in mobile view. #1714 

• Improved help for mobile wifi     signal tool. #1693      

• Improved display of blocked neighbors #1709

• Provide proxy and redirect for problematic services #1699 

• Now allow scanning of non-mesh and multiple wifi devices #1578

• Made tunnel server name optional if you have no server tunnels #1688         

• Now support pasting lat,lon coordinates into either lat or lon map field #1687

• Now support Y.X style radio heights #1673 

• Now filter the LAN name from node hosts #1669      

• Added pseudo services for Local Devices #1665

• Now allow packages to be removed on low memory nodes. #1684           

• Improved detection and display of services and devices #1683           

• Improved which local devices and service we show when logged out or logged in. #1682

• Provide UI for the wifi watchdog system. #1655 

• Improved tunnel messaging #1648 

• Added topology info to sysinfo.json #1637      

• Improved startup of LQM so we get some information early #1632           

• Support wider channels (experimental) #1631 #1635

• Split the Wifi Signal gauge to     show the local and remote signal information #1602 #1628

• Improved detection of disconnected nodes #1617

• Periodically sync time if continuous NTPD is unsynchronized #1611 

• Now include cookies when testing services. #1600 

• Improved antenna settings messaging #1605 

• Added VHT support (experimental) #1630

• Decimate the neighbor graph data so we can show more history #1598 

• Added capability to backup and restore node configurations #1597 

• Added secondary NTP server option #1583      

New Device Support

• TP-Link CPE710v2 #1823     

• Mikrotik NetMetal 5

• Tupavco antenna #1646

• Ubiquiti Litebeam M5

Fixes 

• Fix tx/rx bitrate reporting which was 1/2 what it should be. #1882

• Improve api performance when reading radio info. #1881

• Added fix to br-nomesh which can be created in a partially working state #1844 

• We no longer allow access to port 9090 from the mesh. (It crashes OLSRD) #1879 

• Added lockdown and monitor for OLSR #1852     

• Reapplied older patch for Rocket 5AC Lite #1872      

• Improved setup migrations #1834

• Restart LQM when tunnel configuration changes. #1832 

• Don't display supernode route count     (supernodes don't calculate this) #1825 

• Increased dnsmasq cache sizes for supernodes to avoid memory corruption #1811      

• Bumped restart timeouts so dnsmasq will respawn if it crashes. #1810

• Fixed corner case when setting up node's initial Addresses #1804

• Fixed display problem when arp contains bad entries #1802     

• Fixed resource caching in browser memory #1795 

• Don't refocus the mesh page when we refresh so page doesn't jump to the top #1794    

• Fixed layout of LAN type so it looks the same on all browsers #1866 

• Made sure we hide any overflowed nav controls #1780     

• Fixed port forward layout #1775 

• Now force wifi lan/wan password to be at least 8 characters #1767     

• Fixed the source Addresses for pings and traces #1765          

• Fixed port forward wrapping #1758    

• Fixed an unresponsiveness when network changes #1740 

• Made 3 column layout responsive if browser is narrow #1741

• Made more fixes and improvements to DHCP option validation #1736             

• Fixed creating new first reservation     #1734     

• Fixed DHCP option input field number styling #1731         

• Made fixes and tweaks for DHCP option in-browser validation #1730              

• Fixed the assumption that the DHCP range always starts at an offset of 2. #1726 

• Added localnode back into port forwarding UI #1706  

• Made various bug fixes for alt networks and larger dhcp ranges #1652 

• Made fixes for blank variables breaking upgrades #1654           

• Fixed DMZ DHCP values #1664           

• Fixed migration of services on nodes without any services #1660

• Now allow ":" in service names #1638

• Fixed firewall restart when lan-to-wan changed #1606     

• Now redirect localnode to actual hostname (better logged-in behavior) #1599 

• Only show TODOs to admin #1595       

• Mark devices supported in previous releases, but not in the current one. #1748 

• Refine PUT/POST locking. #1742      

• Tweak node detection keepalive #1713     

• Refine htmx activation mechanism     #1712     

• Make sure we don't lose the compat_version #1697     

• Supported Devices List Edits (UBNT 5AC)-Issue #1674 #1675     

• Remove setting old dmz value #1657           

• Mark bandwidths invalid on various devices (rather than marking what is valid) #1639

• Make sure to silence the wifi signal on the way out #1623           

• Work around HTMX bug where downloading files doesn't stop the logo spinning #1622       

• Remove special casing for /a/authenticate page #1619           

• Fix missing validation for single hx-put input fields #1618           

• Block PUT, POST, DELETE unless logged in or firstboot. #1582           

• Added user agents (containing firmware version info) to package and firmware updates #1593 

Known issues

• 5 MHz bandwidths are not supported on any 802.11ac devices