The first version of the olsrd 0.5.6-r8 tarballs were correct, but contained the .git subdirectory, which inflated the size to >30 megabytes. We have uploaded a new pair of tarballs (and a corresponding gpg keyfile) which are much smaller, but contain the same code.

Hello everyone,

during the last months our plans for the OLSRd 0.5.6 branch changed a little
bit. Because of not enough people working on the project the 0.6.0 release is
most likely at least a year away. Because there are some features which are
necessary for the community at the moment, we will release two more 0.5.6
releases with new features.

This is the 0.5.6-R8 release. It introduce working options to set the source
and destination IP of the OLSR packets (both for IPv4 and IPv6) and a more
flexible handling config handling.

The config parser recognize a new section called "InterfaceDefaults", which
will (as the name says) set default settings for all interfaces (which can be
overwritten in the specific sections) and allow using multiple config files

Getting ad-hoc mode on Android

The german page android-hilfe.de describes quite nicely how to get ad-hoc mode running on the Samsung Galaxy.
For the non-german speakers here is a summary:

The trick is to use the wpa-supplication settings file to force the driver to go to ad-hoc mode. By the default the tiwlan cmd line utility does not understand ad-hoc mode.

1. turn on Wi-Fi and start the adb shell
2. go to wpa_cli command shell:
   su -c "/system/bin/wpa_cli -p /data/misc/wifi/"

3. scan_results shows you the existing networks.
   

Hello,

after a few weeks of testing (and getting rid of an evil bug) we have released
0.5.6-r7 this evening. The mayor changes were some improvements in the ETX-FF
metric and new stabilization patches for the route generation.

You will find the tarballs at
http://www.olsr.org/releases/0.5/olsrd-0.5.6-r7.tar.bz2
http://www.olsr.org/releases/0.5/olsrd-0.5.6-r7.tar.gz

and the signed MD5 keys at
http://www.olsr.org/releases/0.5/olsrd-0.5.6-r7.gpg

Changelog:

Markus Kittenberger:

after long months of waiting and small bugfixes we just released the 0.5.6-r6
version. The mayor points of the release are:
- support for Google Android
- support for Debian/FreeBSD
- fixes for httpinfo, txtinfo and dotdraw plugin to prevent them blocking in case of timed out outgoing connections

You will find the new release in our stable repository at
http://www.olsr.org/releases/0.5/olsrd-0.5.6-r6.tar.bz2
and
http://www.olsr.org/releases/0.5/olsrd-0.5.6-r6.tar.gz

With md5sums:
07362792da718bed8943c2d7d1b4acfe olsrd-0.5.6-r6.tar.bz2
01f54daf487639f7bbc264115b0235de olsrd-0.5.6-r6.tar.gz

Sorry for the downtime the last 2-3 days.
First of all: our security system at the funkfeuer.at colo center was so good that it did not let me in with my RFID cards.
Second the server did not start anymore. So I took the whole thing back home and extracted the data from the harddisk and copied it to a new server.
Good news: the new server is pretty fast. Quadcore, 8GB RAM. Nice stuff.

This -r5 release of olsrd in the stable branch is probably the last release in this branch series. Henning, Markus Kittenberger and Keks from Berlin have been debugging and hardening the source code base. This fixes many issues we saw in messy, real world networks. The last bug that hit us was an incompatibility with the mDNS plugin. This one had the effect that packets would be parsed incorrectly effectively generating random topologies on Avila boards *if* the mDNS plugin was active .

We highly recommend an update for a stable environment. We consider this version an improvement in stability.

Excerpt from the CHANGELOG file:


- HACK: MinTCVTime parameter hack for Berlin FF network...
feel free to ask on the mailing list.
- add Watchdog plugin