Open-Mesh

February 7th, 2025: The B.A.T.M.A.N. team is excited to announce the release of the February 2025 update for batman-adv! This update introduces support for subsecond ping intervals in batctl. To optimize OGM size, VLAN 0 is now treated as an "untagged VLAN," and announced TT changes now include fewer redundant modifications. Additionally, the OGM translation table changes parser in batman-adv has received a critical fix for a regression introduced in version 2024.4. This release also includes various bug fixes and code cleanups.

Since the kernel module is always dependent on the specific Linux kernel it’s compiled against, providing precompiled binaries on our website is not feasible. As always, you can find the signed tarballs in the download section:

https://downloads.open-mesh.org/batman/releases/batman-adv-2025.0/

Thanks¶

Many thanks to everyone who contributed patches:

• Andy Strohman <andrew@andrewstrohman.com>
• Antonio Quartulli <antonio@mandelbit.com>
• Marek Lindner <marek.lindner@mailbox.org>
• Noah Peterson <noahbpeterson1997@gmail.com>
• Remi Pommarel <repk@triplefau.lt>
• Simon Wunderlich <sw@simonwunderlich.de>
• Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>

batman-adv¶

• support latest kernels (5.4 - 6.14)
• handle VLAN 0 as untagged VLAN
• TT changes in OGMs no longer contain redundant TT changes
• coding style cleanups and refactoring
• bugs squashed:
  • fix incorrect offset in OGM handler for translation table TVLV
  • force stop of throughput detection workers on interface removal

batctl¶

• subsecond precision support for ping intervals
• coding style cleanups and refactoring

alfred¶

• coding style cleanups and refactoring

Happy routing,

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