Hi,
The OpenWrt community is proud to announce the first release candidate
of the upcoming OpenWrt 24.10 stable series.
OpenWrt 24.10.0-rc1 incorporates over 5100 commits since branching the
previous OpenWrt 23.05 release and has been under development for over
one year.
**This is just a release candidate and not the final release yet.**
Download firmware images using the OpenWrt Firmware Selector:
*
https://openwrt.github.io/firmware-selector-openwrt-org?version=24.10.0-rc1
Download firmware images directly from our download servers:
* https://downloads.openwrt.org/releases/24.10.0-rc1/targets/
Please test this version
========================
This is not the final version, this is a test version. Please report
problems and bugs in our issue tracker.
https://github.com/openwrt/openwrt/issues
Highlights in OpenWrt 24.10:
===========================
General changes
===============
* 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.
* Activate kernel support for Multipath TCP on devices with big flash
sizes.
Many new devices added
======================
OpenWrt 24.10 supports over 1950 devices. Support for over 100 new
devices was added in addition to the device support by OpenWrt 23.05.
* 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 Boardcom DSL MIPS SoCs and
was replaced by the bmips target. The Boardcom 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.
Core components update
======================
Core components have the following versions in 24.10.0-rc1:
* Updated toolchain:
* musl libc 1.2.5
* glibc 2.38
* gcc 13.3.0
* binutils 2.42
* Updated Linux kernel
* 6.6.63 for all targets
* Network:
* hostapd master snapshot from September 2024, dnsmasq 2.90,
dropbear 2024.86
* cfg80211/mac80211 from kernel 6.11.2
Upgrading to 24.10
===================
Sysupgrade can be used to upgrade a device from 23.05 to 24.10, and
configuration will be preserved in most cases.
* Sysupgrade from 22.03 to 24.10 is not officially supported.
* User of the Linksys E8450 aka. Belkin RT3200 running OpenWrt 23.05 or
earlier will need to run installer version
https://github.com/dangowrt/owrt-ubi-installer/releases/tag/v1.1.3
or later in order to reorganize the UBI layout for the 24.10 release.
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Full release notes and upgrade instructions are available at
https://openwrt.org/releases/24.10/notes-24.10.0-rc1
In particular, make sure to read the regressions and known issues before
upgrading:
https://openwrt.org/releases/24.10/notes-24.10.0-rc1#known_issues
For a detailed list of all changes since 23.05.0, refer to
https://openwrt.org/releases/24.10/changelog-24.10.0-rc1
To download the 24.10.0-rc1 images, navigate to:
https://downloads.openwrt.org/releases/24.10.0-rc1/targets/
Use OpenWrt Firmware Selector to download:
https://openwrt.github.io/firmware-selector-openwrt-org?version=24.10.0-rc1
As always, a big thank you goes to all our active package maintainers,
testers, documenters and supporters.
Have fun!
The OpenWrt Community
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