Hi,

The OpenWrt community is proud to announce the fifth release candidate of the upcoming OpenWrt 24.10 stable series. OpenWrt 24.10.0-rc5 incorporates over 5300 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://firmware-selector.openwrt.org?version=24.10.0-rc5 Download firmware images directly from our download servers:
• https://downloads.openwrt.org/releases/24.10.0-rc5/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

Changes between OpenWrt 24.10.0-rc4 and 24.10.0-rc5

Target changes:

• ath79: Buffalo WZR-450HP2: Add device
• ath79: tiny: Save space by using mv88e6060.ko
• bcm27xx: Add RP1 drivers
• bcm27xx: Update GPU firmware and utils
• ipq40xx: Extreme Networks WS-AP3915i: Fix preserving configuration in sysupgrade
• ipq40xx: Extreme Networks WS-AP3915i: Fix MAC address
• ipq40xx: FritzBox 7520/7530: Fix MAC address
• ipq40xx: NETGEAR orbi: Fix MAC address
• lantiq: xrx200: AVM 5490/5491: add support for lan3 and lan4
• loongarch64: Activate procd jail support
• mediatek: OpenEmbed SOM7981: Update to new board revision
• mediatek: D-Link AQUILA PRO AI M60: Add device
• mediatek: WSR devices: Fix image verification in sysupgrade
• mediatek: filogic: Cudy AP3000 v1: Add device
• mediatek: D-Link AQUILA PRO AI M30 A1: Fix U-Boot variables handling
• ramips: mt762{0,8}: Fix eMMC / SDCard support
• ramips: Amped Wireless ALLY: Improve boot
• realtek: GS1900: Fix compat_version
• realtek: HPE 1920-24G-PoE-370w: Add device
• realtek: HPE 1920-24G PoE-180W (JG925A): Add device
• realtek: trim default package selection
• rockchip: NanoPC T6: enable USB3 port
• octeon: Fix USB3

Generic changes:

• Linux Kernel update to version 6.6.69
• mac80211: update to version 6.12.6
• mac80211: rt2x00: improvement stability of rt2800 driver
• mt76: update to Git HEAD (2025-01-04)
• yafut: Fix not found package in imagebuilder
• kmod-nfnetlink-cthelper: Add new package
• hostapd: add SAE support for wifi-station and optimize PSK file creation
• mbedtls: Deactivate ARIA block cipher by default

For a detailed list of changes since OpenWrt 24.10.0-rc5 see the 24.10.0-rc5 changelog.

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.
  • 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 1950 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

Core components update

Core components have the following versions in 24.10.0-rc5:

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

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.

• There is no configuration migration path for users of the ipq806x target for Qualcomm Atheros IPQ806X SoCs because it switched to DSA. You have to upgrade without saving the configuration. ''Image version mismatch. image 1.1 device 1.0 Please wipe config during upgrade (force required) or reinstall. Config cannot be migrated from swconfig to DSA Image check failed''

• User of the Linksys E8450 aka. Belkin RT3200 running OpenWrt 23.05 or earlier will need to run installer version v1.1.3 or later in order to reorganize the UBI layout for the 24.10 release. A detailed description is in the OpenWrt wiki. Updating without using the installer will break the device. Sysupgrade will show a warning before doing an incompatible upgrade.

• Users of the Xiaomi AX3200 aka. Redmi AX6S running OpenWrt 23.05 or earlier have to follow a special upgrade procedure described in the wiki. This will increase the flash memory available for OpenWrt. Updating without following the guide in the wiki break the device. Sysupgrade will show a warning before doing an incompatible upgrade.

• Users of Zyxel GS1900 series switches running OpenWrt 23.05 or earlier have to perform a new factory install with the initramfs image due to a changed partition layout. Sysupgrade will show a warning before doing an incompatible upgrade and is not possible.

Full release notes and upgrade instructions are available at https://openwrt.org/releases/24.10/notes-24.10.0-rc5

In particular, make sure to read the regressions and known issues before upgrading: https://openwrt.org/releases/24.10/notes-24.10.0-rc5#known_issues

For a detailed list of all changes since 24.10.0-rc4, refer to https://openwrt.org/releases/24.10/changelog-24.10.0-rc5

To download the 24.10.0-rc5 images, navigate to: https://downloads.openwrt.org/releases/24.10.0-rc5/targets/ Use OpenWrt Firmware Selector to download: https://firmware-selector.openwrt.org?version=24.10.0-rc5

As always, a big thank you goes to all our active package maintainers, testers, documenters and supporters.

Have fun!

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