Error accessing firewall config in LuCI (17.01.4)

Installing and Using OpenWrt
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I'm trying to configure firewall settings in LuCI at /cgi-bin/luci/admin/network/firewall/zones, but I'm getting a stack trace:

/usr/lib/lua/luci/dispatcher.lua:460: Failed to execute arcombine dispatcher target for entry '/admin/network/firewall/zones'.
The called action terminated with an exception:

/usr/lib/lua/luci/template.lua:97: Failed to execute template 'cbi/map'.
A runtime error occured: /usr/lib/lua/luci/template.lua:97: Failed to execute template 'cbi/tblsection'.
A runtime error occured: /usr/lib/lua/luci/template.lua:97: Failed to execute template 'cbi/firewall_zoneforwards'.
A runtime error occured: /usr/lib/lua/luci/model/firewall.lua:21: bad argument #2 to 'get' (string expected, got nil)
stack traceback:
[C]: in function 'assert'
/usr/lib/lua/luci/dispatcher.lua:460: in function 'dispatch'
/usr/lib/lua/luci/dispatcher.lua:141: in function

I'm running LuCI lede-17.01 branch (git-19.055.62634-0cc62b4) / LEDE Reboot 17.01.4 r3560-79f57e422d.

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Did you perform any opkg upgrade before it occurred by any chance?

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Yes, I was installing other software before I noticed the firewall page issue, so I would have done an opkg upgrade.

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In any case, you are running an outdated version of the ancient release. If using 17.01, you should use 17.01.6 at least. .6 may have already fixed a possible bug in .4 (as theer is a 11 month time difference between those maintenance releases)

Of course, you should run 18.06 instead if possible for your router.

Most likely there is something wrong (typo?) in your /etc/config/firewall, and LuCI chokes as it does not understand the config correctly.

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Thanks for pointing out the fact that I needed to upgrade; I keep up with packages via opkg but had neglected to keep up with the latest firmware. I've updated to 18.06.2 and now everything works as expected.