[MVMA] AREDN Development status

[Tyler Gardner]

This aligns with what was shared recently regarding the plan for this year and early next year.

> In 2025 we expect one or more additional AREDN® production releases. These will be maintenance releases containing only critical bug fixes. All new development work will happen in the Babel nightly builds. Then in 2026, the Babel nightly build will become the main nightly build, with the first production release being 4.26.1.0. To mark this change, we will bump our major release number to 4, indicating this major protocol change. 


I’ll try to update my nodes to a nightly in the near future.

Tyler Gardner
KI7ODK

> On Sep 4, 2025, at 7:03 AM, Chuck Gelm NC8Q <nc8q-aredn at gelm.net> wrote:
> 
> On 9/3/25 16:05, Orv Beach wrote:
>> When AREDN forked off the Broadband Hamnet software in  2015, they inherited OLSR V1 as the routing protocol.    It had been deprecated years before because of known shortcomings, but AREDN had to live with it.  Over the years several band-aids were applied to the OLSR protocol and it became mostly usable.
>> 
>> The hunt for a replacement routing protocol started in earnest several years ago and Babel was selected.  It's much 'smarter' about network topology and conditions than OLSR and uses less bandwidth to maintain a node's knowledge of the surrounding network.
>> 
>> That being said, like with OLSR, we hams are using Babel in a manner the developers probably didn't anticipate and as a result you AREDN users have uncovered some issues that have been addressed (and continue to be addressed) via nightly builds.
>> 
>> The bottom line:  your network will work better with a current nightly build in your nodes.   Give it some serious consideration.
>> 
>> 73
>> 
>> Orv W6BI
>> 
>> AREDN Project Manager
> 
> All:
> 
> Please give a nightly build some serious consideration.
> 
> Bold above is mine.
> 
> 73, Chuck
> 
> 
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