[MVMA] A new AREDN Production Release!

[Chuck Gelm]

On 8/26/23 13:38, Orv Beach wrote:
>
> There's a new AREDN software production release available. Here are 
> some details about it:
>
> *AREDN release 23.8.0*
>
> There have been over 70 nightly releases of the AREDN codebase since 
> the last production release in April of 2023. Here are the highlights 
> of the latest production release:
>
>
>     Enhancements
>
>
>  *
>
>     Added Prometheus Metrics (meant for use with monitoring apps like
>     Grafana)
>
>  *
>
>     SSH, TELNET and HTTP access to a node via the WAN port can now be
>     disabled from the advanced configuration page.
>
>  *
>
>     Improved handling of unsupported hardware.
>
>  *
>
>     Use wifi assoc list when looking for unresponsive nodes
>
>  *
>
>     Allow MTU on wifi interface to be modified
>
>  *
>
>     Minor wifi monitor improvements for better metrics reporting
>
>  *
>
>     Merge all the station monitoring and mitigation into a single service
>
>  *
>
>     Support xlinks on x86
>
>  *
>
>     Remove subnet restrictions for xlinks
>
>  *
>
>     Support switching mesh radio on multi-radio devices
>
>  *
>
>     UI improvements from AB7PA
>
>  *
>
>     Upgrade to OpenWRT 22.03.5
>
>  *
>
>     Added Advanced Networking tab
>
>  *
>
>     Feedback when pressing upload/download buttons
>
>  *
>
>     Virtualized X86 support
>
>  *
>
>     Restructure, modularize and tidy up the navigation buttons and menus
>
>  *
>
>     Remove hardwired frequency tables and use information from the
>     hardware instead
>
>  *
>
>     Note devices which support the danger-upgrade process
>
>  *
>
>     Allow the “&” character in service paths
>
>  *
>
>     Added support for group alert messages
>
>
>     Known Issues
>
>  *
>
>     Wifi scanning on Ubiquiti AC devices does not return all found
>     devices, only ones already associated with the node.
>
>
>     New Devices Added
>
>
>  *
>
>     New LiteBeam AC Gen2 variant
>
>  *
>
>     Mikrotik LDF 5AC
>
>  *
>
>     Mikrotik LDF2
>
>  *
>
>     PowerBeam 5ac-620 support
>
>
>     Bug Fixes
>
>
>  *
>
>     Fix x86 upgrades (naming is a little odd)
>
>  *
>
>     Fix Mikrotik first install
>
>  *
>
>     Re-enable AREDN’s reset button behavior (was being overridden by
>     OpenWrt’s)
>
>  *
>
>     Revert PowerBeam 5AC 400 name change which caused upgrade problems
>
>  *
>
>     Remove another coverage test which causes problems
>
>  *
>
>     Fix MTU failure which broke node setup
>
>  *
>
>     Avoid error if mac disappears across a radio reset
>
>  *
>
>     Monitor bug fixes
>
>  *
>
>     Fix bug when editing xlinks on single port devices
>
>  *
>
>     Enhance ‘has_wifi’ detection
>
>  *
>
>     Handle non-wifi devices passed to maxpower/pwroffset functions
>
>  *
>
>     Fix LUA converting empty port object to empty array.
>
>  *
>
>     Alternate ath9k and ath10k radio reset for deaf nodes
>
>  *
>
>     Fix API nil pointer when mac lookup fails
>
>  *
>
>     Disable WAN access to node by default
>
>  *
>
>     Fix disabled mesh on multi-wifi devices
>
>  *
>
>     Split rocket-m[52]-xw into different builds
>
>  *
>
>     Enable Rocket M XW (accidentally disabled when splitting out the
>     M2 version)
>
>  *
>
>     Fix wifi setup for multi-radio devices 05/08/2023
>
>  *
>
>     Add missing radios.json for Powerbeam 5AC 400 05/07/2023
>
>  *
>
>     Remove old PBE 100mb fix and /etc/rc.local where it was included
>
>  *
>
>     Fix channel display for 5GHz nodes
>
>  *
>
>     Tidy up the formatting and fix column widths
>
>  *
>
>     Fix syntax error in patch that broke network on many ath79 devices
>
>  *
>
>     Fix ar300m16 wan configuration 04/25/2023
>
>  *
>
>     Fix frequency range reporting and display for 900MHz & 3GHz devices
>
>  *
>
>     Tolerate missing frequency list
>
>  *
>
>     Fix missing POE for nanostation-m
>
>  *
>
>     Remove ar300m nand and nor builds which are causing confusion
>
>  *
>
>     Fix local message refresh
>
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