LXMF-rs v0.5.2

LXMF-rs v0.5.2 Release Notes

Date: 2026-06-27
Release ref: v0.5.2

This is a patch release on the 0.5.x line focused on improved Reticulum
interface management, with particular emphasis on LoRa/RNode operator
workflows needed by REM deployments.

The maintained parity source of truth remains docs/status/current-roadmap.md.

Scope

• Improved LoRa/RNode status and management through reticulumd RPC,
  rnstatus-rs, and rnodeconf-rs.
• Broader Reticulum interface startup/status coverage for operators.
• Software smoke evidence for interface families that do not require hardware
  in CI.
• Continued crate and GitHub bundle release-train alignment for 0.5.2.

Highlights Since v0.5.1

• Added daemon/RPC RNode management dispatch for radio-state query, blink, safe
  read/display/local-radio operations, and guarded persistent/destructive
  management commands.
• Expanded rnstatus-rs LoRa/RNode summaries so operators can see probe state,
  radio state, configured endpoints, and runtime errors from the local daemon.
• Added rnodeconf-rs daemon-backed management coverage for serial/TCP RNode
  devices, feature-gated BLE RNode devices, and RNodeMulti parent/vport
  targets.
• Expanded RNodeMulti support with nested vport children, vport-aware
  management queueing, strict startup probing, ID-beacon fanout, and fake
  serial/TCP smoke evidence.
• Added or refreshed software smoke coverage for UDP loopback, Pipe subprocess,
  serial KISS/AX.25 KISS, KISS-over-TCP, Weave fake PTY, I2P fake SAM, and
  RNodeMulti fake PTY/TCP paths.
• Kept release packaging aligned with automated GitHub Actions publication:
  this PR prepares versions and release notes, while crates.io publication is
  performed by the release workflow when v0.5.2 is created.

Current Version Train

GitHub release version: v0.5.2

Public package versions are aligned to 0.5.2 for the automated release
workflow:

• lxmf
• reticulum-rs
• lxmf-reference
• lxmf-wire
• lxmf-sdk
• reticulum-rs-core
• reticulum-rs-transport
• reticulum-rs-rpc
• lxmf-embedded-mini
• rns-embedded-core
• rns-embedded-runtime
• rns-embedded-ffi
• rns-embedded-mininode
• lxmf-cli
• reticulumd
• rns-tools

Included GitHub Bundle Tools

• lxmd
• lxmf
• lxmf-cli
• reticulumd
• lxm-interchange
• rnsd
• rnstatus-rs
• rnodeconf-rs
• weaveconf-rs
• rnx

Validation Record

• PR #380 CI passed at 77b087e1c36f8f6aaa581a4814b732b26b7b7905 for
  quality, build-matrix (stable), test-nextest-unit, and contracts.
• Focused interface smoke scripts listed in the parity matrix were exercised as
  part of the interface-parity branch evidence.
• cargo xtask release-check passed on the release-prep branch with local Java
  tooling on PATH and compiler/OpenSSL override environment variables unset.
• Final release tagging should still run the GitHub release workflow and the
  runbook smoke gates from docs/runbooks/release-runbook.md.

Known Limits

• Full Python Reticulum/LXMF surface parity is not achieved.
• Real hardware evidence remains required for broader BLE RNode management,
  RNodeMulti production validation, Weave hardware validation, and some
  prepared-host interface scenarios.
• External-client compatibility claims for REM, RCH, Sideband, MeshChatX,
  Columba, or other clients require the corresponding external-client interop
  gates for that deployment.

What's Changed

• [codex] Fix Android RNode BLE reconnect selection by @brothercorvo in #379
• Add Codex agent instructions by @brothercorvo in #382
• [codex] expand Reticulum interface parity by @brothercorvo in #380
• Prepare 0.5.2 release by @brothercorvo in #383

Full Changelog: v0.5.1...v0.5.2