Latest release for a specific device

Installing and Using OpenWrt
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Unfortunately, I am confronted with the following question:

Where do I lookup the latest release (version) for a specific model / device?

There is the https://github.com/openwrt/openwrt/releases and I see openwrt one is supported with 24.10. In the firmware selector, this is reflected. Not in the TOH.
Wherefrom does the firmware selector know which versions are available for a specific device?

I mean, you git clone, and checkout a release. But at that time you did not decide which target device (profile) I choose.

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firmware selector is open source, tldr it reads versions from asu , which again is open source etc etc

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The latest information is always on the downloads site, it is updated as the buildbots complete their builds. The ToH on the other hand is manually updated, and can lag behind by months sometimes, so although it is valuable for details about a device, it is not a good source for "latest version" information.

If you know the target and subtarget of a device, you can look directly at https://downloads.openwrt.org and find the specific profile metadata for a given release and find what you're looking for there. For example, the OpenWrt One is listed in https://downloads.openwrt.org/releases/24.10.0-rc2/targets/mediatek/filogic/profiles.json

The Firmware Selector collects these profiles from the downloads site and builds its big matrix of device "titles" (i.e., their pretty names), versions, targets and subtargets, so it can provide a very much more convenient means for finding the latest version.

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Also on https://downloads.openwrt.org I need to guess the version. (Yes, not really guess, I can check the latest 2-3 versions).

For the X3000 or the One I need to go through the latest versions until I see that the model is listed.

But my question is the way around: I select the model and want to quickly check which latest version is available / supported.

This does exactly answer my question: https://downloads.openwrt.org/releases/24.10.0-rc2/targets/mediatek/filogic/profiles.json
I was searching on the git repo site for exactly that "file".

Is the firmware sector doing this on a regular / daily basis, does it mean, it is really up to date?

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Yes, the Firmware Selector is usually updated within minutes of a build completing, plus it does not store any actual images, it relays "stock" ones from downloads (which by definition are the latest) or custom ones from sysupgrade.

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