[Babel-users] ANNOUNCE: Babel 0.10

[Juliusz Chroboczek]

Dear all,

I am pleased to announce Babel 0.10, which you will find on

  http://www.pps.jussieu.fr/~jch/software/files/babel-0.10.tar.gz
  http://www.pps.jussieu.fr/~jch/software/files/babel-0.10.tar.gz.asc

This version will automatically redistribute local addresses; it is no
longer necessary to specify them using ``-X''.  This is an incompatible
change, but you can revert to the previous behaviour by specifying

  redistribute local deny

in your /etc/babel.conf.

This version will also automatically adapt to interfaces appearing and
disappearing at runtime, which avoids the need to restart Babel when
a VPN goes up or down.

Some fairly significant improvements have been done to the speed with
which Babel selects a new route when a neighbour goes down (as opposed
to the case where the local node moves).  Many thanks to Lilian for
helping me debug that.

Finally, Babel can now daemonise itself, which should simplify your
init scripts.

I strongly recommend upgrading from Babel 0.9 or earlier.

                                        Juliusz

11 March 2008: babel 0.10

  * Implemented the ability to automatically export local addresses (see
    the ``local'' keyword in redistribute specifications).  This should
    avoid the need to explicitly specify -X on the command line
    (Julien Cristau and Juliusz Chroboczek).
  * INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: local routes (local interface addresses) are
    now exported by default.  Specify ``redistribute local deny'' to
    avoid that.
  * Babel will now automatically choose a router id if none is
    specified on the command line.
  * Automatically adapt to interfaces appearing or disappearing at runtime,
    as is usually the case when running over tunnels or VPNs.
  * Changed the link quality computation algorithm to not discard very
    lossy links.
  * Multi-hop requests will now be forwarded to an unfeasible successor
    under some circumstances.
  * Send multi-hop requests more aggressively.
  * Send requests for a new seqno upon receiving an unfeasible update
    if it's better than what we have.
  * No longer consider the age of routes in route selection.
  * Added ability to run as a daemon.
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