[Wien] olsr 0.5.6-r4 released

[L. Aaron Kaplan]

(sorry for x-posting)


Begin forwarded message:
>
> Hello everybody,
>
> we just released the fourth revision of the 0.5.6 stable. The  
> tarballs are at http://www.olsr.org/releases/0.5/
> This release fixes many bugs reported from the wifi communities and  
> networks out there.
> We appreciate your bug reports! Special thanks go to Henning Rogge  
> and Markus Kittenberger for countless hours of bughunting and  
> fixing. The next weeks and months will be more 0.5.7 coding.
> And here is the Changeset...
>
> BUGFIX by John Hay :
> - FIX: IPv6 MTU in BSD
>
> BUGFIXES from Aaron Kaplan :
> - FIX: string overflow in dyn_gw plugin
> - FIX: string overflow in pgraph plugin
>
> PATCHES, BUGFIXES and TESTING features from Markus Kittenberger:
> - NEW: allow configuration of OLSR UDP port
> - NEW: allow configuration of proto Tag for Routes (RtProto)
> - NEW: add fallback policy rule (priority 65536) if RtTable is used,
> to ensure that routes can be added to this table
> - NEW: resolve many error conditions while adding routes to the  
> linux kernel
> (Warning this will also delete any conflicting routes made by other
> routing daemons or admins)
> - NEW: interface modes mesh (default) and ether (no retransmit of  
> olsr-
> messages back into a broadcastdomain)
> - FIX: olsr_times() to handle different OS implementations (Linux,  
> BSD, OS X)
> - FIX: several compiler warnings
> - FIX: olsr_times() to handle different OS implementations (Linux,  
> BSD, OS X)
> - WORKAROUND: generate routes to single hop neighbours on the fly when
> inserting routes via them
> (active only with fib_metric=flat)
> - TEST: insert routes with source-ip set to originator ip
> - TEST: syslog numbering (e.g. useful to detect lost syslog messages  
> when
> using remote-syslog)
> - TEST: custom library path (default /usr/testlib)
> Testing features must be activated in olsr_cfg.h before compiling  
> olsrd.
> This features are used to run a test network in Vienna parallel to the
> existing OLSR network.
>
> PATCHES and BUGFIXES from Henning Rogge
> - NEW: prevent Originator-IP from changing during runtime
> - FIX: several compiler warnings
> - FIX: hanging TC entry from lost onehop neighbor
> - FIX: drop package with same seqno in etx_ff
> - FIX: segfault in parsing HNA package with bad netmask
> - FIX: avl_comparator for route_paths
> - FIX: alignment problem in packet buffers
>
> PATCHES and BUGFIXES from Sven-Ola Tuecke :
> - NEW: nameservice plugin supports mac addresses
> - FIX: fork/restart code
> - FIX: olsr_times() to handle different OS implementations (Linux,  
> BSD, OS X)
> - FIX: several compiler warnings
> - FIX: olsr_times() to handle different OS implementations (Linux,  
> BSD, OS X)
>