Hello, > > What is the current plan regarding the next releases?
> In 2012 it sounded like the goal was to move to a more rapid release > strategy, maybe something every 6 months. > https://lists.openwrt.org/pipermail/openwrt-devel/2012-August/016427.html > But that has not been the outcome during that 18 months since that discussion > :-( > > And then later after the AA12.09 release there was some talk and initial > preparations for an AA 12.09.1 maintenance release, but there has not been > much happening in the AA branch. It has been practically dead (5 check-ins in > last 3 months). Is there going to be AA12.09.1 release or not? > > The current situation is a difficult from documentation and support > perspective: for example ipv6 support varies a lot: old 12.09 has different > ipv6 config and modules than the 12.09 branch currently has, and then trunk > is again different (no more 6relayd). Same goes also toward netifd, which has > seen lots of changes in trunk. > > I feel that it would be great to have either a 12.09.1 rather soon, maybe > with a bit more aligned with trunk than it currently is, or alternatively a > new BB 14.x release. > > Regarding the next trunk release, I am a bit confused about the current > amount of various kernels. For a while I though that the next release might > be built on the long-term 3.10.x kernel, but currently there is so much 3.13 > work going on, that I guess that 3.10 will not be the basis. At the same time > the are still semi-abndoned(?) platforms with kernel 3.3/3.6/3.8/3.9. Based > on that I fear that there is a long road to the next release. > +1 New stable branch of openwrt based on Linux 3.10.x long-term kernel would be awesome! > Developers and us regular contributors are happy with the self-built daily > trunk builds, but a proper release with a stable package repository would > make it easier for the average end-user. > > It would be great if the developers would open the current roadmap a bit. That too.. Thanks, -- Pasi _______________________________________________ openwrt-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openwrt.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel
