[Babel-users] ANNOUNCE: babel 0.14

[Juliusz Chroboczek]

Dear all,

You will find version 0.14 of the Babel routing daemon on

  http://www.pps.jussieu.fr/~jch/software/files/babel-0.14.tar.gz
  http://www.pps.jussieu.fr/~jch/software/files/babel-0.14.tar.gz.asc

For more information about Babel, please see

  http://www.pps.jussieu.fr/~jch/software/babel/

Babel 0.14 will automatically notice a bridged interface, print
a warning, and disable all wired optimisations.  This should get rid
of bug reports from people who mistakenly run Babel over the ``lan''
interface in OpenWRT.

0.14 lifts the last remaining artificial limit -- on the number of
kernel routes that we're able to parse when redistributing.  (Yep,
somebody redistributed the whole default-free IPv6 routing table into
our RIPng domain -- 0.13 didn't like that very much, but it didn't
crash, it just ignored the extra routes.)

It also fixes a minor bug that would cause routes to be ignored until
the next scheduled update after a redistributed route is retracted.
You should not notice the difference unless you're doing some weird
things with route redistribution.

The default values for the hello and update intervals have been
decresed somewhat, and we now use unmodified ETX as the metric on
wireless links.

Finally, this version is robust against clock stepping if run on
a sufficiently recent Linux kernel.  You should now be able to step
your clock to your heart's content without Babel misbehaving, which is
rather important on RTC-less routers.

Enjoy,

                                        Juliusz

1 July 2008: babel 0.14

  * Use POSIX clocks if available to protect against clock stepping.
  * Made babel use available internal routes straight away when the
    set of redistributed routes changes.
  * Lifted the arbitrary limit on the number of kernel routes.
  * Changed the routing metric used on wireless links to plain ETX.
  * Bridges are now automatically detected and treated as potential
    wireless interfaces.
  * Reduced the default hello interval.
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