= Retrospect - B.A.T.M.A.N. in 2009 =

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Now that the end of the year is close, it is time to lean back for a moment and review the events & achievements happening throughout the past year.

We published 2 bugfix releases of our batmand [layer 3] branch ([wiki:2009-01-25-batman-0-3-1-release batmand 0.3.1] and [wiki:2009-06-13-batman-0-3-2-release batmand 0.3.2]) as well as a major milestone of our batman-adv [layer 2] kernel module ([wiki:2009-11-08-batman-adv-0-2-release batman-adv 0.2]). Deprecated branches (batman-advanced userland version and vis-advanced) were removed from the repository because their functionality was replaced by the kernel module. The newly created tool 'batctl' (former battools) matured enough to be added to the standard release. 

The trac based webinterface celebrated its first birthday a few days ago. Especially in the first months of 2009 we spent quite some time to ease the transition and improve the setup to serve better the growing needs of the project. During the late summer [http://git.open-mesh.org git.open-mesh.org] was born which plays a crucial role in our efforts to merge the batman-adv kernel code into the linux kernel. The git repository got up to speed in autumn and the first set of patches was accepted [http://www.kroah.com/log/linux/staging-status-12-2009.html during the 2.6.33 merge window]. 

In April we took part in [wiki:2009-04-19-wbm2009-aftermath the Paris WirelessBattleMesh] meeting with French hackers and other routing protocol developers to swap ideas and to get up to date with each others' latest improvements. The follow-up meeting [wiki:2009-11-18-wbm2009-2nd-encounter in Brussels] was a very good occasion to prepend a B.A.T.M.A.N. developer meeting in which we squashed bugs, discussed the current development strategy, upcoming releases and [wiki:2009-12-18-batman-v-outlook B.A.T.M.A.N. V]. At [http://events.ccc.de/congress/2009 the 26C3] we are going to come together again - drop us a mail if you want to meet us there.

In 2010 B.A.T.M.A.N. will continue to evolve. Expect more linux kernel integration, another batman-adv major release as well as B.A.T.M.A.N. V.

We wish you all a successful 2010,[[BR]]
the B.A.T.M.A.N. team