olsrd 0.5.6-r5 released!

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
- add explicit runtime lock for OLSR.
- remove lq-hysteresis for tc on the receiver side.
- enhance protection against malformed packages to prevent
OLSR parsing uninitialized data. Thank you Markus and Keks for the LONG
debugging session
- block tc-redundancy 0/1, it doesn't work with the current dijkstra code

(more infos can be seen there)

Next on the todo list:

• concentrate again on CSN
• now that wifi statistic support is in the standard linux kernel 2.6.29 and 2.6.30, use it for metrics
• configuration management with libUCI at runtime
• OLSRv2 support (this is a new protocol, not a new version of olsrd)