OpenWrt 19.07.7 service release

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5 Meraki MR24's all running smoothly for two weeks since upgrading to 19.07.7. Many thanks to devs!

Incidentally, to save a bit of time and avoid errors keeping this set of AP's upgraded, since 19.07.4 I've been following the scheme (thanks @cybermaus !) in

Restore config and startup state of init.d and rc.d services

I found that if I restore a previously backed up configuration, it never restores the disabled state of the services that I have disabled. Somewhat understandable technically, as enabled state is a symlink in /etc/rc.d, and how to restore the non-existence of a link? Well, there are methods of course, but this is probably the technical explanation why this is not working. But surely I am not the first to find this. So equally surely there is a reason why this was not fixed a long time ago. An…

which works great to keep dnsmasq, firewall, and odhcpd disabled across upgrades. Looks like this on one of these AP's:

root@ap0:~# ls -l /etc/rc.d | grep disabled
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root            18 Dec 31  1969 S19dnsmasq -> ../init.d/disabled
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root            18 Dec 31  1969 S19firewall -> ../init.d/disabled
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root            18 Dec 31  1969 S35odhcpd -> ../init.d/disabled
root@ap0:~# cat /etc/sysupgrade.conf 
## This file contains files and directories that should
## be preserved during an upgrade.

# /etc/example.conf
# /etc/openvpn/

# The following links to a nonexistent file keep these services
# disabled across an upgrade:
/etc/rc.d/S19dnsmasq
/etc/rc.d/S19firewall
/etc/rc.d/S35odhcpd
root@ap0:~#