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10.0 (June 30, 2025) This is a major release with many improvements. New features and improvements: Support for Raspberry Pi 5 boards. New VPN features for automatically turning Raspberry Pi 5 boards into distant WALT nodes. New swap-on-network feature for more flexible RAM usage on nodes. New subcommand walt node save, to save changes made on a node as a new OS image. New web API at http://<server>/api. Support for more advanced virtual environments in walt image shell. Automatic network position reports for nodes connected to a LLDP-capable switch (no need to run walt device rescan after moving them). New option --all for walt image show, for listing all OS images of the server. New --subdir option for walt image build, for building several images of a single repository URL. Image layer caching enabled for walt image build. Using walt image build, more flexible image naming in FROM lines of the Dockerfile. Auto-upgrade of client code when server code version changes. Better handling of partial rescans (e.g, walt device rescan <single-switch>). Per-user content for [node]:/persist. Node time zone now set to server time zone whenever possible. JFrog Container Registry support (a private alternative to the Docker Hub). Support for letting the server access internet through an HTTP/HTTPS proxy. Robustness or performance improved on various topics. Various developer-oriented improvements. Documentation updates, test suite updates and other minor improvements. Fixes: ...

The following lists the files you will need for installing new WalT nodes, as specified at https://walt.readthedocs.io/en/latest/node-install.html. Node Model Installation file Raspberry Pi 5B rpi-5-sd-recovery.tar.gz Raspberry Pi 4B rpi-4-sd-recovery.tar.gz Old Raspberry Pi boards (< 3B+) rpi-sd-files.tar.gz PC node pc-usb.dd.gz Google Coral dev Board coral-devb-boot.tar.gz Note: those files are generated from this source repo.

Contact You can contact the WalT project team by using: walt-contact at univ-grenoble-alpes.fr As a WalT user, or if you intend to use WalT, you can also subscribe to the list of walt users. People Project leaders: Etienne Dublé, project lead Franck Rousseau, scientific lead emails: <firstname>.<lastname> at imag.fr History WalT started as an attempt to fill the gap between small ad hoc experiments and large scale remote platforms like FIT IoT-lab. ...

(latest to oldest) WALT version 10.0 is available. Schneider Electric has built one more WalT testbed in Bengaluru, India (april 2025). The WalT project’s membership in the Docker-Sponsored Open Source program has been renewed (april 2025). Schneider Electric is supporting WalT one more year through a contract starting on December 1, 2024. WALT version 9.0 is available. Sep 18-19 2024: let’s meet at SIDO Lyon, an industrial forum about IoT and networks. Location E318, Minalogic group. The WalT project’s membership in the Docker-Sponsored Open Source program has been renewed (march 2024). Schneider Electric has built two more WalT testbeds for testing wireless communications in electric enclosures. Schneider Electric is supporting WalT one more year through a contract starting on December 1, 2023. WalT project has been approved for the Docker-Sponsored Open Source program (march 2023). P. Youssef defended its PhD about Federated Learning on March 13, 2023. Paul used WalT for experiments. Schneider Electric is supporting WalT through a 1-year contract starting on December 1, 2022. WALT version 8 is available. A WALT platform was recently installed at Avisto. You will soon be able to deploy WalT on top of Grid'5000! WALT version 7 is available. We are working with Schneider Electric to develop a testing infrastructure based on WALT. After we presented WalT at SILECS 2019 workshop (FR), colleagues installed their own WALT platform at LIP lab. Our WALT demo received the Best Demo Award of INFOCOM CNERT 2016!