Do release candidate installations contain LUCI?

Installing and Using OpenWrt
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I know, that snapshots do not contain LUCI, but do release candidates contain LUCI?

I would like to install a rc-version on a TP-Link TL-WR1043ND v1.8, which uses 19.07.7
https://firmware-selector.openwrt.org/?version=21.02.0-rc1&target=ath79%2Fgeneric&id=tplink_tl-wr1043nd-v1

If a simple sysupgrade does not install Luci, I will wait.

Any idea when the stable version will be released. In summer, fall of 2021?

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On is safe to assume stable release candidates will come with LUCI, given that Luci is part of the firmware. Why not give it a try?

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WIthout Luci it will be not so easy to downgrade. This old device behaves a little bit strange, bricked another one for unknown reasons.

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Looks good, very simple settings have been kept, like ssh-keys and hostname.

ssh root@192.168.111.1


BusyBox v1.33.0 () built-in shell (ash)

  _______                     ________        __
 |       |.-----.-----.-----.|  |  |  |.----.|  |_
 |   -   ||  _  |  -__|     ||  |  |  ||   _||   _|
 |_______||   __|_____|__|__||________||__|  |____|
          |__| W I R E L E S S   F R E E D O M
 -----------------------------------------------------
 OpenWrt 21.02.0-rc1, r16046-59980f7aaf
 -----------------------------------------------------
root@WR1043v1-VLAN-Test:~#
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It is not easy to downgrade from
21.02 to 19.07 with luci ether.

But luci installed or not isn’t that big of a deal since you already have a ssh uplink.

opkg update
opkg install luci

Then you have luci.

Or build a firmware with luci installed, then you always have luci.

But luci in rc1 does not have DSA support so it is kind of useless on some devices.

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