Horray Lede 17.01.4 updated to 17.01.5

https://openwrt.org/releases/17.01/notes-17.01.5

Highlights In LEDE 17.01.5

The OpenWrt Community is proud to announce the Fifth service release of stable OpenWrt/LEDE 17.01 series, which is the first service release after the remerger of the LEDE and OpenWrt projects.

LEDE 17.01.5 “Reboot” incorporates a fair number of fixes back ported from the development branch during the last 8 months.

Some selected highlights of the service release are:

Linux kernel updated to version 4.4.140 (from 4.4.92 in v17.01.4)
Meltdown fixes for x86_64
Security fixes to openssl, mbedtls, wolfssl, samba, dnsmasq, openvpn,
libunwind and the Linux kernel
Introduce latest version of the Wireguard VPN software (0.0.20180519)
Fixes for building with host glibc 2.27 (Used in Ubuntu 18.04)

http://downloads.openwrt.org/releases/17.01.5/

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Some targets are missing (eg lantiq). Are they no longer supported or are they yet to be built

I don't know maybe they are still building them I just updated my TP-Link TL-WDR4300 v1.

Hopefully someone who knows more than I do can answer this.

A full release build for all targets and all userspace packages takes about two days to finish (hint, there's a reason why there is no announcement yet). Given that it's built in parallel on multiple buildbots, the order in which files are uploaded is semi-random.

Only half of the target images have been built so far.
http://release-builds.lede-project.org/17.01/images/grid
Like slh said, a full build takes 1-2 days.
17.01.5 might be formally released later this week.

(Similarly, 18.06.0-rc2 images are being compiled now, and those will be available in 1-2 days)

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With the 18.06 expected before the end of the month, what would be the use case for flashing 17.01.5 rather than 18.06.0?

Is the 17.01.4 to 18.06.0 upgrade path expected not to be smooth?

  1. 18.06 was due at the end of last month so this covers any security concerns if there are anymore delays
  2. 18.x images seems to be slightly larger that 17.x images so some devices with limited resources may not be suitable to upgrade to 18.x

As long as it is possible, this is great to have long term support for an older release.

For most users flashing 18.06.0 will naturally make much more sense (already the rc2 that is being currently compiled).

For most routers the upgrade path to 18.06 is quite straightforward. (There are some exceptions like R7800, where partition structure has been modified due to kernel size growth, but those are rare)

But there are some (old, small) routers in style of 4 MB flash / 32 MB RAM, where 17.01 may be preferable due to size/memory constraints.

Installed on Cisco Valet M10 (Linksys E1000) successfully (150 kb to spare)...18.06 was too large!

It also installed on WRT54GS v2 (8 MB) when 18.06 just booted into TFTP recovery!

Kudos!

Are there any limitations in sys-upgrading (with 'keep settings' checked) a v1.1 TP-Link Archer c2600 from 17.01.4/5 to 18.06?

Or better to just sysupgrade and reconfigure?

Edit: I answered my own question, ie successfully sys-upgraded to 17.01.5 from 17.01.4 using 'keep settings' checked!

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@hnyman - I am running 17.01.4 on my R7800 and am looking to either update to 17.01.5 or 18.06.0 once it is released. Can you point me to a instructions unique to the R7800? I am curious about what I need to do to insure a smooth update based on your comment above.

Updating to 17.01.5 is straightforward but naturally does not bring anything really new. 17.01.5 release is rather non-event.

Updating R7800 to 18.06 requires using the TFTP flash that is available from uboot bootloader thanks to Netgear. Kernel has grown and does not fit to the area reserved in 17.01. 18.06.0 rc2 also brings the larger flash area in use.

See r7800 exploration thread for TFTP flash instruction, if you are not familiar with it.

In practice you lose sysupgrade possibility, and need to transfer settings separately. Best would be to recreate settings from scratch (using the old settings as reference). Sysupgrade will work ok again inside the new builds.

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Thank you for the quick reply and for all the hard work you put into this project! Best open-source firmware on the planet.

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