For each release cycle of Reticulum, improvements and additions from the five [Primary Efforts](#primary-efforts) are selected as active work areas, and can be expected to be included in the upcoming releases within that cycle. While not entirely set in stone for each release cycle, they serve as a pointer of what to expect in the near future.
- The current `0.4.x` release cycle aims at completing:
- [x] Improve storage persist call on local client connect/disconnect
- [x] Improved roaming support on Android
- [ ] Updating the documentation to reflect recent changes and improvements
- [ ] Add bluetooth pairing code output to rnodeconf
- [ ] Improve storage persist call on every local client connect/disconnect
- [ ] Transit traffic display in rnstatus
- [ ] JSON output mode for rnstatus
- [ ] Add `rnid` utility
- [ ] Add `rnsign` utility
- [ ] Add `rncrypt` utility
- [ ] Create a standalone RNS Daemon app for Android
- Targets for related applications
- [x] Add paper offline & paper message transport to LXMF
- [x] Implement paper messaging in Nomad Network
- [x] Implement paper messaging in Sideband
- [x] Expand device support in Sideband to support older Android devices
The development path for Reticulum is currently laid out in five distinct areas: *Comprehensibility*, *Universality*, *Functionality*, *Usability & Utility* and *Interfaceability*. Conceptualising the development of Reticulum into these areas serves to advance the implementation and work towards the Foundational Goals & Values of Reticulum.
These efforts are aimed at improving the ease of which Reticulum is understood, and lowering the barrier to entry for people who wish to start building systems on Reticulum.
- Improving [the manual](https://markqvist.github.io/Reticulum/manual/) with tutorials specifically for beginners
- Updating the documentation to reflect recent changes and improvements
- Update descriptions of protocol mechanics
- Update announce description
- Add in-depth explanation of the IFAC system
- Software
- Update Sideband screenshots
- Update Sideband description
- Update NomadNet screenshots
- Update Sideband screenshots
- Installation
- Install docs for fedora, needs `python3-netifaces`
- Add a *Reticulum On Raspberry Pi* section
- Update *Reticulum On Android* section if necessary
These efforts seek to broaden the universality of the Reticulum software and hardware ecosystem by continously diversifying platform support, and by improving the overall availability and ease of deployment of the Reticulum stack.
These efforts aim to expand and improve the core functionality and reliability of Reticulum.
- Improve storage persist call on local client connect/disconnect
- Faster path invalidation on physical topography changes
- Better path invalidation on roaming interfaces
- Network-wide path balancing
- Distributed Destination Naming System
- Globally routable multicast
- Destination proxying: Create a new random destination, and sign it with the original destination to create verifiable ephemeral destinations. This could actually be a very powerful feature for aggregating routes in the network, and it retains destination owners control over how they are routed
- [Metric-based path selection and multiple paths](https://github.com/markqvist/Reticulum/discussions/86)
This maintenance release significantly improves path rediscovery on roaming devices with multiple interfaces, and adds a few tweaks to interface handling, that are especially relevant on Android.
**Changes**
- Faster roaming path recovery for multiple interface non-transport instances
- Fixed AutoInterface multicast echoes failing on interfaces with rolling MAC addresses on every re-connect
- Added carrier change detection flag to AutoInterface
This maintenance release includes the `rnodeconf` utility directly in the `rns` package, and brings a few improvements to interface handling and hardware interfacing.
**Important!** The minimum supported RNode firmware version for this release is `1.51`, and the firmware will needs to be updated with `rnodeconf` version `2.0.0` or greater, since earlier versions won't be able to fetch the new release files.
**Changes**
- Added `rnodeconf` utility
- Added more options for controlling log output
- Added ability to write to the external framebuffer of RNode devices
