The OpenWrt community is proud to announce the second service release of OpenWrt 21.02. It fixes security issues, improves device support, and brings a few bug fixes.
We recently moved our bugs to GitHub, please report issues over there (after checking that nobody else posted the same issue before).
Download firmware images via the Firmware Selector or directly from our download servers:
Fix U-Boot hang on lantiq danube-s v1.5 with MX29LV640EB NOR
TP-Link tl-mr3020-v3: Fix switch topology
Luxul XWR-3150 LAN: Fix ports numbering
WD MyBook Live DUO: Fix USB-Port
Turris Omnia: Use SFP module, if present
OpenMesh OM5P-AC v2: Fixed device tree
Various fixes and improvements
Add new rpcapd package
chmod 1777 /var/lock to follow FHS 3.0 guideline
netifd: fix deletion of ip tunnels (FS#4058)
multiple mac80211 backports:
Add support Wifi 6 GHz band and HE options in scripts
mac80211: fix IBSS/adhoc mode for brcmfmac
Add ath10k smallbuffers
Core components
Update Linux kernel from 5.4.154 to 5.4.179
Update mac80211 from 5.10.68 to 5.10.85
Update wolfssl from 4.8.1 to 5.1.1
Update wireless-regdb from 2021.04.21 to 2021.08.28
Update mt76 from 2021-06-06 to 2021-12-03
Update busybox from 1.33.1 to 1.33.2
Update intel-microcode from 20200616 to 20210608
Update linux-firmware from 20201118 to 20211216
Update openssl from 1.1.1l to 1.1.1m
Update mbedtls from 2.16.11 to 2.16.12
Regressions
Certificate validation fails in wolfssl against some sites especially sites using lets encrypt certificates. This affects for example wget in the default configuration #9283
It does look as though things are taking time to filter through. The site home page is still showing 21.02.1 as the current stable version. I have found the correct firmware files, working from this thread, but I can't blame anyone for waiting a few more hours.
Yes, I usually wait for the mailing list announcement, too, as an indicator, but that hasn't happened yet either. Still, a week on, it's clearly out regardless of these details.
I updated my Linksys WRT3200ACM, and it has been working fine. It's great to have an official patch for the wifi issue that was affecting the platform.
Thanks for the developers for all the work that goes into doing a release!
You forgot to add the Online Image Builder to build a custom OpenWrt firmware (with packages that you want already installed in the firmware, along with some commands to run on first boot):
Select STABLE or SNAPSHOT build, find your device model and then click on Customize.
P.S. Don't delete the packages that appear in "Custom package selection", they are necessary or you will brick the router, but you can replace those packages if you want.