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Instructions for the Debian 11 upgrade procedure described below are here: http://kiwisdr.com/quickstart/index.html#id-D11-upgrade

From the CHANGE_LOG file:

There's absolutely no need for individual Kiwi's to be downloading from there when it needs to be compiled into a compact binary form as part of a release. The list is huge and fetching it off the filesystem of the Kiwi would break the Kiwi realtime restrictions (i.e. audio failures).

I improved my own Makefile so there's less manual work to update the list.

If all channels are full you'd have to "kick" a channel via the button on the admin status page to create a free channel for you to connect.

Alternatively, you can reserve one of the channels by setting a user password on the admin security tab and then set "number of channels not requiring a password even if password is set" to 3 (assuming you're using 4-channel mode). Then that channel will always be available for your use. You won't have to actually give the password if you're connecting from the local network.

You could also use the "camp" interface to wait in queue for a free channel to become available if you don't want to permanently reserve a channel and don't want to kick someone. But you will be waiting an arbitrary amount of time in that case. The camp panel appears automatically when you attempt to connect when all channels are full.

It's fine to use the default serial number as the Kiwi name for a publicly listed Kiwi. Lots of people do that.