Bananapi BPI-R3 upgrade to 25.12

Installing and Using OpenWrt
1

Hello,

when I try to upgrade my Bananapi BPI-R3 to 25.12 it get the following error message:

Fri Mar  6 09:37:00 CET 2026 upgrade: The device is supported, but the config is incompatible to the new image (1.2->1.3). Please upgrade without keeping config (sysupgrade -n).
Fri Mar  6 09:37:00 CET 2026 upgrade: First sfp port renamed from eth1 to sfp1

But the changelog only tells about a change for Bananapi BPI-R4:

 :!: Bananapi BPI-R4: Interfaces eth1 was renamed to sfp-lan or lan4, and interface eth2 was renamed to sfp-wan to match the labels. You have to upgrade without saving the configuration. commit

Is this a bug in the updater or is the changelog incomplete?

Kind regards
Jusic

2

change log is most likely wrong in this case.

3

And do I really need an fresh install? Shouldn’t it be enough to rename eth1to sfp1 in /etc/config/network before upgrading?

4

Probably, but the error message will most likely not go away.

Make the change, export the config, import it back afterwards.

5

I additionally did uci set system. @system[0].compat_version="1.3" and uci commit system before owut and it seemed to have worked fine. :+1:

6

nice.

you should probably report the missing info in the change log in OpenWrt 25.12.0 - Stable Release.