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DRAFT: Batman-adv 2020.0 released

Feb 25th, 2020. Today the B.A.T.M.A.N. team publishes the February 2020 update to batman-adv, batctl and alfred! This release disables the (deprecated) sysfs support by default. The next milestone in this process is the removal of debugfs and sysfs support next year. The B.A.T.M.A.N. V code can now use the PHY transmission rates as another (fallback) source to calculate the expected throughput to specific neighbors. The alfred gps daemon gained support for the gpsd API 9 (libgps >= 3.20). 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-2020.0/

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
v2019.5-16-g0b7b07f5
$ range=v2019.5..v2019.5-16-g0b7b07f5
$ 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

new kernel support
==================

      batman-adv: Use sizeof_field() macro
      batman-adv: Provide backports-like kernel version helpers
      batman-adv: Drop workaround for Debian's make-kpkg

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

      batman-adv: Strip dots from variable macro kerneldoc
      batman-adv: Fix typo metAdata
      batman-adv: Annotate bitwise integer pointer casts
      batman-adv: Replace FIELD_SIZEOF with sizeof_field
      batman-adv: Avoid comment line over 80 characters

BATMAN V
=========

      batman-adv: ELP - use wifi tx bitrate as fallback throughput

bugfixes
========

various
=======

      batman-adv: Disable CONFIG_BATMAN_ADV_SYSFS by default

2020.0 (2020-02-25)
===================

* support latest kernels (3.16 - 5.6)
* coding style cleanups and refactoring
* use wifi tx rates as fallback for the B.A.T.M.A.N. V throughput estimation
* disable deprecated sysfs support by default
* bugs squashed:

  - fix crash during the scheduling of OGMs for removed interfaces

batctl

$ git describe origin/master
v2019.5-2-g83e319f
$ range=v2019.5..v2019.5-2-g83e319f
$ 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

bugfix
======

2020.0 (2020-02-25)
===================

* (no changes)

alfred

$ git describe origin/master
v2019.5-3-g060d699
$ range=v2019.5..v2019.5-3-g060d699
$ 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-gpsd: Fix build against gpsd ABI 9.0

2020.0 (2020-02-25)
===================

* fix build against gpsd API 9.0

Happy routing,

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