Hi Bob, Thank you for this clear answer.
A "what"s new" on the LibreCMC website would definitely help for other people asking the same kind of question :-) Thank you again for all your hard work with LibreCMC ! Kind Regards Nick On 1 October 2015 at 16:09, Bob Call <b...@librecmc.org> wrote: > On Thu, 2015-10-01 at 14:35 +0200, Nicolas Nguyen wrote: > > Hi Team, > > > > I use aTP-WR841ND v8 Wifi router and I just found out that there is > > now a new LibreCMC 1.3.2 release. > > > > Well, I guess the cat is out of the bag. > > > Can you tell me what are the update in this release ? Is LibreCMC > > 1.3.2 based on OpenWRT CHAOS CALMER (15.05) ? > > > > I'm not quite done writing all of the public facing stuff for this > release, but it can be summed up as: > > * libreCMC has been based upon Chaos Calmer since its first public > release(v1.2), but v1.3.2 is based upon the "stable" Chaos Calmer that > was released a few weeks ago. The v1.3.x series now has LTS status > and will be supported for 1.5 - 2 years. Bleeding edge development > releases will be based upon upstream Designated Driver. > > * v1.3.2 follows upstream as much as possible, minus some targets. > The majority of packages available upstream are now available in > libreCMC [1]. If anyone finds something that is non-free, please file > a ticket so it can be reviewed and removed. > > * This release will mark the Free Software Foundation's 30th > anniversary and a change in the way in which development is carried > out. The libreCMC project will provide three releases going forward : > LTS, bleeding edge development (sporadic releases) and a non-linux > kernel based release (Dropstart). More about Dropstart will be released > after v1.3.2 is fully out. > > * All new libreCMC firmware images are now singed [2]. We will have > proper instructions soon about how to verify libreCMC firmware images. > > Known issues: > > * If luci (the web-ui) is installed and you have less than 8 MB of > flash ROM, don't install any additional packages. > > * Certain configurations that worked before, may not work on targets > with < 8 MB of flash ROM (we are working on the issue). > > * bugs in the xburst target will need to be fixed, so those images > won't appear until that is done. > > Things to keep in mind: > > We now have 4 images available for each target, factory + sysupgrade > with the addition of: > > > * generic - minimal images that don't contain much. opkg must be used > to install additional packages / functionality. > > * luci - Images that include the luci web-ui. Targets with < 8 MB of > flash ROM should not install additional packages. > > > I hope everyone enjoys this release and everyone gets out and > celebrates the FSF 30th. > > [1] libreCMC v1.3.2 pkgs. - http://downloads.librecmc.org/snapshots/v1. > 3.2/ar71xx/generic/packages/base/ > > [2] libreCMC v1.3.2 generic sig. - > http://downloads.librecmc.org/snapshots/v1.3.2/ar71xx/generic/signatures/ > > -- > Robert Call (Bob) > b...@librecmc.org > http://librecmc.org > > _______________________________________________ > Librecmc-dev mailing list > Librecmc-dev@lists.librecmc.org > https://librecmc.org/mailman/listinfo/librecmc-dev > >
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