The OpenWrt Team is happy to announce the beta release of Attitude Adjustment
(12.09)
This release is sligthly overdue, but it is now ready for testing.
The binaries are available here:
http://downloads.openwrt.org/attitude_adjustment/12.09-beta/
These are the beta binaries. We will not be merging anything new into trunk
until we think that the binaries have had enough test coverage and potential
bugs have been fixed. Once that stage is reached, we will branch and generate
the final release binaries. We expect this process to take between 2-4 weeks.
EOL Notice for brcm-2.4:
Kernel 2.4 support has been dropped from Attitude Adjustment. For most devices
using brcm47xx images is fine, but older models with only 16 MiB RAM or slower
CPUs (200 Mhz) will not run properly with it. So for those devices, sticking
with backfire is recommended.
Whats new in AA ?
Target specific improvements:
* [ar71xx]: support for more ar71xx devices
* [ramips]: support for Ralink devices
* [bcm47xx]: better support and image for Broadcom BCM4705 SOCs
Support for serial flash in brcm47xx
Fix out of memory when using wifi on BCM5354
* [lantiq]: Almost complete Lantiq SoC support
New Asterisk channel driver for Lantiq TAPI
* [x86]: sysupgrade support
General improvements:
* Improved LuCI interface
* Switch to the netifd infrastructure for better network configuration support
* Fixed Imagebuilder, relocatable SDK
* Full (?) eglibc support
* Release support for bridge firewalling
* Vastly improved ath9k driver stability and performance
* Dependency fixes for packages
* More iptables addons, improved netfilter performance
* Experimental support for 5 and 10MHz channels in ath5k and ath9k
* Support for 6RD configuration
* Experimental crashlog feature to track kernel oopses
* Reduced space requirements and improved squashfs/kernel compression
* Various package improvements and updates
Known issues that will get fixed during the beta phase:
* the new ramips switch driver seems to cause problems on some boards
* somehow vr9 images are not properly generated
* 11b/g atheros units might have gpio problems due to the new gpiolib driver
OpenWrt is a project based on a consensus decision model amongst the core team
developers. With over 1000 binary packages, the Attitude Adjustment release is
the biggest to date.
These 1000+ packages have the inherent problem that they need to be maintained.
As the name of the release already suggests things are in a process of
adjusting. The main change is that the developer group has arrived at the
mutual agreement, that the packages feed is too much bloat for the project to
carry around. This massive set of packages causes the developers not to have
enough time for the core of OpenWrt. The result is: The package feed is not
being maintained in a way that ensures the required quality.
OpenWrt receives up to 20 new packages and updates every day. It is simply not
possible for the core developers to test this constant stream of additions
(beyond a basic compile test). In response to this, it has been decided that
only packages with a dedicated maintainer will be supported. These maintained
packages will be moved into the main repo, which has a set of clear guidelines
as to what is merged under which conditions. OpenWrt will no longer merge
anything and everything that is sent on one of the many channels that can be
used for contributing.
We hope that by this split of maintained and unmaintained packages will benefit
everyone. If you want to help by dedicating some of your time into maintaining
a package - and/or merging patches - then please contact a member of the core
developer team.
The next big change is that we will no longer accept patches via trac. Please
only file bug reports there. All patches contributed via trac will be closed
without discussion. If you want to contribute use the openwrt-devel mailing
list.
We already agreed on the roadmap for the upcoming AA+1 release which we expect
to finish around christmas time.
The planned roadmap includes:
* Kernel v3.6 - this has cool new stuff such as the removal of the routing
cache ...
* Improve core integration and push the netfid / ubus concept to extended
parts of the system
* Port as many targets to the DeviceTree framework as possible
* Further work on IPv6, bufferbloat, ...
* Lantiq VDSL support
* Optional SSP+PIE+PaX support
* Rearrange the packages, as described above
* Other cool things we can come up with
Please start testing and help us make this release a good one :-)
The OpenWrt Release Team
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