Gregor posted a great and quick HOWTO on running olsrd on the N900 Nokia phone.

After lots of work , OLSR 0.6.0 is released.
It contains lots of bug fixes and some exceptionally interesting features such as SmartGateway which allows OLSR to build automatic IPIP tunnels to a gateway to prevent gateway flapping. This helps all Wi-Fi networks which run on private IP addresses and where the gateway is a NAT device.

You can access the new version through our repository at http://olsr.org/git
or by downloading the tarballs from
http://www.olsr.org/releases/0.6/olsrd-0.6.0.tar.bz2
http://www.olsr.org/releases/0.6/olsrd-0.6.0.tar.gz

The md5 sums of this files are stored in a GPG signed text file at
http://www.olsr.org/releases/0.6/olsrd-0.6.0.gpg

(the 0.6.0 tag in the repository is signed too)

The full release notes can be seen here: http://lists.olsr.org/pipermail/olsr-users/2010-May/003998.html

Much fun with the new version

Henning installed a new Bugtracker (MantisBT) on olsr.org/bugs.
We want to get the different TODO.txt lists organized online (and not just have a list of mails on the mailing lists).

In case you still know of an open bug in OLSR, please be so kind and take 2 minutes to register there, enter your bug and we can thus take care of it in an organized fashion.

OLSR.org is (amongst other networks) heavily used by the Freifunk networks in Germany. We are lucky that Freifunk applied as a mentoring organization for the Google Summer of Code (GSoc). You can find details on the Freifunk GSoC here.

So, you can apply for some of our projects or propose your own project in order to enhance OLSR.

What do you need to do?

1. get in contact with us on our mailing lists: olsr-dev@lists.olsr.org
2. think of a cool project to enhance OLSR and discuss it with us or ...chose from a list of open topics
3. register at the GSoC site as a student no later than April 9th and apply. If we believe that we can support your idea, we will approve your project
   
4. code

5. collect the payment: Google pays you for contributing code to an open source project. Everybody is happy

Please take a look at the timeline.
Thanks go to Mario Behling for applying and managing the GSoC Freifunk project.

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.