How to know when new release comes out? Or security issues?

[loyukfai]

Email announcement would be nice.

But probably people installing by themselves OpenWrt won't be too bothered by it.

Personally I frequent some tech channels/forums and whenever there is a release, including point releases, I'll most likely notice it.

Off-topic: Am more disappointed that companies siphon off the project and not contributing back. Also the closed source nature of the wireless drivers is a pain in the less.

Cheers.

[tapper]

Twitter:
https://twitter.com/openwrth?lang=en

[tw32863]

Or let an OpenWrt device do the research and send it to you own email address:

opkg update 
opkg list-upgradable > updates.txt

if [ -s updates.txt ] 
then 
   mailsend -smtp <SMTP-Server> -port 465 -t <Empfängeradresse> -f <Absenderadresse> -sub 'OpenWrt-Updates' -ssl -auth -user <E-Mail-Nutzername> -pass "E-Mail-Auth-Passwort" -mime-type "text/plain" -msg-body "updates.txt" 
fi 
rm updates.txt

(I found this information here: https://www.kuketz-blog.de/openwrt-upgrade-einspielen-openwrt-teil7/

[mbo2o]

That will give you to many false positives

[Jake]

How about utilizing the forum for this?
I know there are already release topics, for example: OpenWrt 19.07.3 service release
But the are in the Installing and Using category, mixed with many other threads about troubleshooting etc... that makes it hard to keep track. In addition only the last release is pinned, older releases require explicit searching.
So my suggestion would be to create a specific "Announcements" category, where only mods and other selected people could create topics (if that is possible). Just for official release and security announcements. Then everyone that is interested could simply enable "Watching first post" (under the bell icon) function and receive reliable notifications.
What do you think? Especially @tmomas @jow

[jow]

I like that idea. Having a dedicated announcement subsection is easy to implement and makes it simple for people to selectively follow. We can also retroactively move the old announcements there.

[tmomas]

FYI - OpenWrt-Announce mailing list is available now:
http://lists.openwrt.org/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-announce

[Naftali]

Thank you very much.
I love old-school mailing lists, much better than ad-laden web based forum.

You are the hero

[mbo2o]

But this forum has no ads

[Naftali]

I don't know which sites have ads and tracking because https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock

[openwrtforever]

The best one would be a new announcement section on the top forum, like others have suggested.