Meshtastic 2.0 🎉🎉🎉

After 9 months in the making, we present to you the next milestone for the Meshtastic project.

As a part of the launch event, we are running a number of giveaways, so jump in and win some prizes.

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A brief overview of all the changes and improvements

Completely new LoRA band plan with faster messaging

Smarter and more reliable mesh routing

Unlimited nodes* (80 Connected at a time, oldest node will be removed when a new node joins the mesh)

New messaging additions: waypoints, reactions (tap-backs), and telemetry

Improvements for Canned Messages module and CardKB messaging for stand alone communicator devices

Sensor, Screen, and Input device auto-detection

New devices supported (6 new targets!)

Added over the air bluetooth updates for NRF devices (RAK-4631)

Ethernet support via RAK-13800

Compass improvements for larger screens and customizations

New filesystem for ESP32 (LittleFS)

Upgraded Arduino framework for both NRF52 and ESP32

New bluetooth stack for ESP32 (NimBLE)

Unified GPS stack now using NMEA

Support for more I2C sensors

Support for ATECCA608B Cryptographic Coprocessor

More Serial module I/O modes

JSON messages over MQTT

Device codebase refactored and optimized in many areas

Completely restructured protobufs and configuration

Running a project of this scale is no easy feat, without the generosity of many of our vendors and providers, none of this would be possible.