Feature highlights in OpenWrt 24.10

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We just released the OpenWrt 24.10.0-rc1 version. The feature highlights section is still a bit short. I do not have the full overview what are the biggest new feature, there is so much. What highlights which are implemented in the 24.10 version already and which were not available in 23.05 should we add to the release notes?

I will just extend the wiki page of the 24.10.0-rc1 release with good suggestions.

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qoriq no longer source only =)

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ipq806x migrated from swconfig to DSA.

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Suggest to add information about "special" upgrade for Xiaomi AX3200 based on commit or by reading wiki

It is also worth boasting that support for the Wifi 7 ("BE") standard has been added for devices that support it + added support for BPi-R4

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Some additional highlights which may be worth mentioning

  • almost complete lua to ucode rewrite for laying the groundwork towards modernizing LuCI
  • initial Wi-Fi 7 802.11be support
  • new uci-defaults features
  • refactored code for RTL838x and RTL93x switches
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Some of your points here seem like they might be relevant for this topic:

Did this:

make it into 24.10?

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Thanks for the hint - there are indeed two more items which made it into 24.10 worth mentioning in the highlights

  • Link Layer Discovery Protocol (LLDP)
  • Access Point Micro Peering (APUP)
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Improved support for WiFi6 (802.11ax) and initial support for WiFi7 (802.11be) ?

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Minor thing, but slightly better formulated self-signed certificates for uhttpd (PR 15366), which increases browser compatibility (and hopefully decreases warnings)

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Thank you for the suggestions.

I added:

  • Improved support for WiFi6 (802.11ax) and initial support for WiFi7 (802.11be)
  • The qoriq target for the NXP QorIQ (PowerPC) SoCs is build
  • The ipq806x target for Qualcomm Atheros IPQ806X SoCs was converted to DSA

I also added notes for ipq806x, Xiaomi AX3200 to the upgrade instructions and updated the ones for the Linksys E8450

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Added support for ubifs at an early stage of booting.

33197d2 mediatek: filogic: asus-rt-ax59u: use NVMEM-on-UBI (+54,-10)
25c9ebc mediatek: filogic: asus-tuf-ax4200: use NVMEM-on-UBI (+52,-15)
1794309 mediatek: filogic: asus-tuf-ax6000: use NVMEM-on-UBI (+52,-16)

It is probably worth warning users that before installing OpenWrt 24 they should make sure that they are not using a new bootloader.

Here's a clear example of when everything broke for the user:

The essence of the problem is described here:

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Should be: "is built" not "is build."

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Found another item which may be interesting