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DRAFT: Batman-adv 2021.0 released

Jan 5th, 2021. Today the B.A.T.M.A.N. team publishes the January 2021 update to batman-adv, batctl and alfred! The deprecated support for batman-adv's sysfs and debugfs files was removed from all components. batctl and batman-adv now also allow the selection of the routing algorithm during the interface creation. This can be used to avoid the undefined behavior when multiple processes trying to create interfaces with different routing algorithms. Also several bugfixes and code cleanups are included in this version.

As the kernel module always depends on the Linux kernel it is compiled against, it does not make sense to provide binaries on our website. As usual, you will find the signed tarballs in our download section:

https://downloads.open-mesh.org/batman/releases/batman-adv-2021.0/

Thanks

Thanks to all people sending in patches:

and to all those that supported us with good advice or rigorous testing:

batman-adv

$ git describe origin/master
v2020.4-15-g47df68d0
$ range=v2020.4..v2020.4-15-g47df68d0
$ git shortlog --email --no-merges "${range}" 
$ git log --no-merges "${range}"|grep -e '\(Reported\|Tested\|Acked\|Reviewed-by\|Co-authored-by\)-by'|sed 's/.*:/*/'|sort|uniq

coding style cleanup/refactoring
================================

      batman-adv: Drop deprecated sysfs support
      batman-adv: Drop deprecated debugfs support
      batman-adv: Drop legacy code for auto deleting mesh interfaces
      batman-adv: Drop unused soft-interface.h include in fragmentation.c
      batman-adv: Add new include for min/max helpers

various
=======

      batman-adv: Prepare infrastructure for newlink settings
      batman-adv: Allow selection of routing algorithm over rtnetlink

bugfixes
========

      (batman-adv: set .owner to THIS_MODULE)
      batman-adv: Consider fragmentation for needed_headroom
      batman-adv: Reserve needed_*room for fragments
      batman-adv: Don't always reallocate the fragmentation skb head

2021.0 (2021-01-05)
===================

* support latest kernels (4.4 - 5.11)
* coding style cleanups and refactoring
* drop support for sysfs+debugfs
* allow to select routing algorithm during creation of interface
* bugs squashed:

  - allocate enough reserved room on fragments for lower devices

batctl

$ git describe origin/master
v2020.4-10-ga0da92b
$ range=v2020.4..v2020.4-10-ga0da92b
$ git shortlog --email --no-merges "${range}" 
$ git log --no-merges "${range}"|grep -e '\(Reported\|Tested\|Acked\|Reviewed-by\|Co-authored-by\)-by'|sed 's/.*:/*/'|sort|uniq

features
========

      batctl: Allow to configure routing_algo during interface creation

coding style cleanup/refactoring
================================

      batctl: Switch active routing algo list to netlink
      batctl: Drop deprecated debugfs support
      batctl: Drop deprecated sysfs support

bugfixes
========

      batctl: Fix retrieval of meshif ap_isolation
      batctl: Don't stop when create_interface detected existing interface

2021.0 (2021-01-05)
===================

* Drop support for batman-adv's sysfs+debugfs
* allow to select routing algorithm during creation of interface
* bugs squashed:

  - fix query of meshif's ap_isolation status
  - ignore "interface already exists" error during "interface add"

alfred

$ git describe origin/master
v2020.4-5-gbdd9fc8
$ range=v2020.4..v2020.4-5-gbdd9fc8
$ git shortlog --email --no-merges "${range}" 
$ git log --no-merges "${range}"|grep -e '\(Reported\|Tested\|Acked\|Reviewed-by\|Co-authored-by\)-by'|sed 's/.*:/*/'|sort|uniq

      alfred: Drop deprecated debugfs support
      alfred: Drop deprecated sysfs support
      alfred: Sync batman-adv netlink uapi header

2021.0 (2021-01-05)
===================

* Drop support for batman-adv's sysfs+debugfs

Happy routing,

The B.A.T.M.A.N. team