[MVMA] [GA-AREDN-USERS] New AREDN Production Release available

[Chuck Gelm NC8Q]

On 10/2/24 12:30, Orv Beach wrote:
>
> AREDN Production Release 3.24.10.0 is now available.
>
>
> The biggest change in this release if you haven't been keeping tabs on 
> AREDN, is the "new UI". The old UI, written in LUA not only looked 
> old, it was hampering the implementation of new features.  Now written 
> in JavaScript, among other things it's more economical on bandwidth 
> used to display the user interface.  It's also much easier to add new 
> features. The new UI has taken 6 months and the work of many, many 
> people. We’d like to thank everyone involved with developing, 
> documenting, and especially debugging this; we really appreciate our 
> community!
>
>
> Because it's new, navigating around it may initially be a challenge. 
> Steve, AB7PA, keeper of the AREDN docs, has done a stellar job in 
> documenting the new UI. It's highly recommended you at least skim 
> them, here: http://docs.arednmesh.org/en/latest/ 
> <http://docs.arednmesh.org/en/latest/>Within the new UI you will also 
> find a Help button for every dialog. Please press it and read the 
> inline help at least once. Finally, we recorded a walk through of the 
> new UI which you can find here: 
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KG_2ploIYzg 
> <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KG_2ploIYzg>(note that there have 
> been a few minor changes since we did this).
>
>
> After upgrading, you may be returned to the old UI or you might see 
> the new UI. In either case you will see a green button in the 
> upper-right-hand corner of your browser window which lets you toggle 
> between them. In the new UI you will initially be in Guest mode. To 
> log into Admin mode, click on the little guy in the upper-right-hand 
> corner, click on Login and enter the node's password (no need for a 
> user name).
>
> Ugrading notes
>
>  1. Devices running nightly builds will only notify about new nightly
>     builds; going forward the same behavior will hold for devices
>     running production release code; they'll only notify on detection
>     of new production releases. Regardless all builds will be
>     available in a refreshed update list.
>  2. If a watchdog timer is enabled, recommend disabling during
>     updates. If the watchdog kicks off during an update it could
>     derail the update process.
>
>
> Enhancements
>
>
>  *
>
>     New UI. All the enhancements below are in the new UI only. The old
>     UI remains unchanged.
>
>  *
>
>     New custom UI when first installing nodes.
>
>  *
>
>     Ability to remove unused tunnels
>
>  *
>
>     Added a weight to tunnels, now on a per-tunnel basis (the "weight"
>     artificially degrades the tunnel's ETX; if an RF route also exists
>     and its ETX value is better, it will be preferred)
>
>  *
>
>     Themes support: default, high contrast, color-blind, dark, and light.
>
>  *
>
>     Portable themes let you set a theme on your localnode and see it
>     on every other node. So if you’re color blind for example, you can
>     set that once and see on every node you visit.
>
>  *
>
>     If a node can get to http://downloads.aredenmesh.org it will
>     indicate if a code update is available. Nightly nodes will be
>     notified of nightly updates, while release nodes will be notified
>     of release updates.
>
>  *
>
>     Added update progress indicator when downloading or uploading
>     firmware.
>
>  *
>
>     Added ability to switch between 12 hour and 24 hour displays
>
>  *
>
>     DHCP aliases are now rewritten when DHCP range changes
>
>  *
>
>     Now show metric units if your locale isn't "en-us" or “en-gb”
>
>  *
>
>     Added the option to prevent LQM from blocking poorly performing
>     links. This allows you to keep LQM active and let it manage link
>     performance, without it shutting down crucial connections.
>
>  *
>
>     Added topic-sensitive help in every configuration dialog.
>
>  *
>
>     Added always-running NTPD option
>
>  *
>
>     Added GPS support (see https://github.com/kn6plv/WhereAndWhen
>     <https://github.com/kn6plv/WhereAndWhen>for how to install a GPS
>     receiver) which is shared by all DtD connected nodes.
>
>
> New Device Support
>
>
>  *
>
>     Ubiquiti Nanobeam 5AC WA
>
>  *
>
>     Support for newer Mikrotik devices that use the newer Mikrotik v7
>     bootloader
>
>
> Fixes and Improvements
>
>
>  *
>
>     Fixed Ubiquiti AC devices failing WiFi scan if on 10MHz
>
>  *
>
>     Fixed time drifting problem on Basebox 5, QRT 5, non-AC mANT 19S
>
>  *
>
>     User firewall rules are now preserved across upgrades
>
>  *
>
>     Fix supernode locator. Now correctly finds the closest one.
>
>
> Post-release
>
>
> Just a heads-up - this is what will happen in the first nightly build 
> after this production release:
>
>  *
>
>     The old UI will be removed from the software.  Having both of them
>     there impacts the older 32 MB devices and going forward keeping
>     both UI’s compatible isn’t possible.
>
>  *
>
>     A secondary NTP server option will be added
>
>  *
>
>     WiFi scanning of non-mesh and multiple wifi devices will be supported
>
>  *
>
>     Support for different wireless WAN client encryptions will be added
>
> *Post-release note*
>
> Those of you who like to run nightlies may want to hold off for a few 
> releases after this production release; there are a lot of changes 
> queued up for the next nightly build (more than shown above) and 
> there's apt to be some breakage for a bit.
>
>
> Notes
>
>
>  *
>
>     The way the tunnel addresses are allocated has changed in the new
>     UI. In some unlikely cases you may need to remove a tunnel and
>     re-add it.
>
>  *
>
>     While we provide both UIs in this release, trying to use both
>     interchangeably can cause problems. Once you start using the new
>     UI, please don’t go back and use the old one.
>
>  *
>
>     There remain problems with the TP-Link CPE710.
>
>  *
>
>     GL.iNet GL-B1300 does not support negative channels on the 2.4 GHz
>     band.
>
>  *
>
>     The Litebeam M5 is no longer supported.
>
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