OpenWrt 24.10.0 am 06.02.2025 released

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Seit dem 06.02.2025 ist das Release 24.10.0 draußen.

Release Notes: https://openwrt.org/releases/24.10/notes-24.10.0

Highlights in OpenWrt 24.10​

OpenWrt 24.10.0 incorporates over 5400 commits since branching the previous OpenWrt 23.05 release and has been under development for over one year.

General changes​

• Upgrades of many components to new versions like the Linux kernel from version 5.15 to 6.6
• TLS 1.3 support in default images
  • mbedtls was updated to version 3.6 which includes support for TLS 1.3
• Activate POSIX Access Control Lists and file system security attributes for all file systems on devices with big flash sizes. This is needed by docker nowadays.
  • This is activated for all targets which do not have the small_flash feature flag. small_flash is set for the ath79/tiny, bcm47xx/legacy, lantiq/ase, lantiq/xrx200_legacy, lantiq/xway_legacy, ramips/mt76x8, ramips/rt288x, ramips/rt305x and ramips/rt3883 targets.
• Activate kernel support for Multipath TCP on devices with big flash sizes.
• Improved support for WiFi6 (802.11ax) and initial support for WiFi7 (802.11be)
  • Not many Wifi7 devices are supported by OpenWrt yet
• Improved Link Layer Discovery Protocol (LLDP) support
• OpenWrt 24.10 uses OPKG only, APK packages are *not* supported. Only main branch was changed to APK.

Many new devices added​

OpenWrt 24.10 supports over 1970 devices. Support for over 100 new devices was added in addition to the device support by OpenWrt 23.05.
* Added support for OpenWrt One

Target changes​

• Added d1 target for AllWinner D1 RISC-V SoC
• Added ixp4xx target for Intel XScale IXP4xx SoCs.
• Added loongarch64 target for SoCs with Loongson LoongArch CPUs.
• Added starfive target for StarFive JH71x0 (7100/7110) SoCs.
• Added stm32 target for STMicroelectronics STM32 SoCs.
• Renamed ipq807x target to qualcommax.
• Removed ath25 target. It supported Atheros ieee80211g devices with maximum 16MB RAM
• Removed bcm63xx target. It supported some Broadcom DSL MIPS SoCs and was replaced by the bmips target. The Broadcom DSL itself was never supported.
• Removed octeontx target. It supported the Octeon-TX CN80XX/CN81XX based boards
• Removed oxnas target. It supported the PLXTECH/Oxford NAS782x/OX8xx
• The qoriq target for the NXP QorIQ (PowerPC) SoCs is built
• The ipq806x target for Qualcomm Atheros IPQ806X SoCs was converted to DSA
• Added support for Airoha AN8855 DSA Switch (Xiaomi AX3000T ship both Mediatek and Airoha Switch in the same revision)

Core components update​

Core components have the following versions in 24.10.0:

• Updated toolchain:
  • musl libc 1.2.5
  • glibc 2.38
  • gcc 13.3.0
  • binutils 2.42
• Updated Linux kernel
  • 6.6.73 for all targets
• Network:
  • hostapd master snapshot from September 2024, dnsmasq 2.90, dropbear 2024.86
  • cfg80211/mac80211 from kernel 6.12.6

In addition to the listed applications, many others were also updated.

Da das Upgrade leider nicht via "Attended Sysupgrade" durchgeführt werden konnte, hab ich die neue Firmware über die UI geflashed und musste alle Pakete, die ich unter 23.05.5 installiert hatte, erneut unter 24.10.0 installieren. Die Liste der Pakete aus 23.05.5 ist nach dem Upgrade unter /overlay/upper/etc/backup/installed_packages.txt zu finden.

Das Einzige, was ich nach dem Upgrade machen musste, war die Pakete nachzuinstallieren. Die Konfigurationen wurden beim Sysupgrade übernommen.
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