Roadmap

This roadmap is not set in stone - we may always decide to defer a problematic feature to a later release, or bring something forward if we are provided with patches. It is supposed to give an overview and a basis for discussions of the future development of Gluon.

Gluon 2016.2

• Support Ralink/Mediatek-based WLAN adapters
• Decreased use of UCI for protocol-specific configuration
• Rewrite autoupdater in C
• Add support for segmentation of MLD/IGMP domains and batman-adv's multicast optimization
• See https://github.com/freifunk-gluon/gluon/milestones/2016.2 for issues to be solved for Gluon 2016.2
• Scheduled for June 2016

Gluon 2016.3

• Integration of a new configuration system more suitable for Gluon than UCI (NeoRaider's GSoC project)
• Experimental support for the Babel routing protocol with l3roamd
• New respondd protocol? (based on CoAP?)
• Support for NetJSON?
• Migration to LEDE project (depending on LEDE release schedule)
• Scheduled for September~November 2016

Gluon 2017.1

• Mesh-independent autoupdater
• New network setup based on network namespaces (for better separation of mesh and WAN on the nodes)
  • Issues we hope to solve by using network namespaces: https://github.com/freifunk-gluon/gluon/milestones/network-rewrite
• Scheduled for early 2017