OpenWrt 22.03.6 sixth service release

Release and security announcements
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Hi,

The OpenWrt community is proud to announce the newest stable release of the OpenWrt 22.03 stable version series. It fixes security issues, improves device support, and brings a few bug fixes.

Download firmware images using the OpenWrt Firmware Selector:

Download firmware images directly from our download servers:

OpenWrt 22.03 EOL in April 2024

The OpenWrt 22.03 series will be supported till April 2024 according to the OpenWrt security policy. The last release from the OpenWrt 22.03 series is planned for April 2024, after this date we will not provide any updates for OpenWrt 22.03, not even for severe security problems. We encourage everyone to upgrade to OpenWrt 23.05 which will be supported till 2025.

Main changes between OpenWrt 22.03.5 and OpenWrt 22.03.6:

Device support

  • Support for the following devices was added:
    • ramips: Cudy X6 v2
    • ramips: Keenetic Lite III rev. A
    • ramips: SNR-CPE-W4N-MT router
  • ath79: WLR-7100: fix packetloss
  • ath79: wpj563: enable 2nd USB controller
  • ath79: TP-Link Archer C7 v2: increase the rfkill debounce interval
  • bmips: NETGEAR DGND3700v2: fix boot loop
  • ipq40xx: switch to performance governor by default
  • ramips: Cudy X6: fixes / improvements

Various fixes and improvements

  • build: generate index.json
  • build: fix generation of large .vdi images
  • lua: fix integer overflow in LNUM patch
  • dropbear: add ed25519 for failsafe key
  • treewide: add PKG_CPE_ID to multiple packages
  • mac80211: fix not set noscan option for wpa_supplicant
  • hostapd: fix broke noscan option for mesh
  • hostapd: permit also channel 7 for 2.5GHz to be set to HT40PLUS

Core components update

  • Update Linux kernel from 5.10.176 to 5.10.201
  • Update openssl from 1.1.1t to 1.1.1w
  • Update wolfssl from 5.5.4 to 5.6.4
  • Update mbedtls from 2.28.2 to 2.28.5
  • Update mt76 22.03 from 2022-09-06 to 2023-09-11
  • Update wireless-regdb from 2023.02.13 to 2023.09.01
  • Update linux-firmware from 20220411 to 20230804
  • Update intel-microcode from 20220809 to 20230808
  • Update ca-certificates from 20211016 to 20230311
  • Update uhttpd from 2022-10-31 to 2023-06-25
  • Update urngd from 2020-01-21 to 2023-11-01

Full release notes and upgrade instructions are available at
https://openwrt.org/releases/22.03/notes-22.03.6

In particular, make sure to read the regressions and known issues before upgrading:
https://openwrt.org/releases/22.03/notes-22.03.6#known_issues

For a detailed list of all changes since 22.03.5, refer to
https://openwrt.org/releases/22.03/changelog-22.03.6

To download the 22.03.6 images, navigate to:
https://downloads.openwrt.org/releases/22.03.6/targets/
Use OpenWrt Firmware Selector to download:
https://firmware-selector.openwrt.org/?version=22.03.6

As always, a big thank you goes to all our active package maintainers, testers, documenters and supporters.

Have fun!

The OpenWrt Community

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Header version should be fixed with OpenWrt 22.03 here and on release page and on GitHub.

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Thanks for that. Asus RT-N18U works. Hopefully will donate some when I get the chance.

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Thank you, I fixed the title.

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(openwrt.org was down for me yesterday, thats why I ask)
I'm hesitant to upgrade, does the unplanned wiki maintenance from yesterday relate to any of this ?
I did not spot any security fixes in the release notes, can I put this of for a week ?

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I'm currently on 22.03.5 and I'm getting mixed results when trying the Attended Sysupgrade route:

  1. Luci Attended Sysupgrade reports 'nothing to upgrade'
  2. auc gives mixed results:
root@OpenWrt-4040:~# auc -c
auc/0.3.1-1
Server: https://sysupgrade.openwrt.org
Running: 22.03.5 r20134-5f15225c1e on ipq40xx/generic (avm,fritzbox-4040)
Available: 22.03.5 r20134-5f15225c1e
Requesting package lists...
Nothing to be updated. Use '-f' to force.

root@OpenWrt-4040:~# auc -n
auc/0.3.1-1
Server: https://sysupgrade.openwrt.org
Running: 22.03.5 r20134-5f15225c1e on ipq40xx/generic (avm,fritzbox-4040)
Available: 22.03.6 r20265-f85a79bcb4
Requesting package lists...
No data available (61)
root@OpenWrt-4040:~#

Should I just wait a bit more since yesterday's security concerns?

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As by magic within 5 minutes after posting this question 22.03.6 appears in the Luci Attended Sysupgrade :grin:

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No.

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asu and wiki are distinct software, running on different hardware - neither depends on the other to function.

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I'm at a friend with a ubnt,edgerouter-x, the AUC doesn't upgrade but reported 22.03.6, just like you reported here.

So I waited 10 minutes and tried again and now it reports only 22.03.5 is available ?
and tried again after 20 minutes, still no dice.

I will try again in a few hours.

@lleachii does the first build request for a device take longer than any following requests ?

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Otherwise, I don't see a major change in building after the Firmware Selector is ready.

:spiral_notepad: If the server is busy (usually during new releases or security update in a package), it can take time to queue a build.

What is the exact error message?

Screenshot, perhaps?

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Yes I read, thats why I waited till the 7th, but in retrospect I should have waited 48 hrs instead of going by days I guess..

Before it would fall back to no update available. So running and update had the same 22.03.5 version. But now at least now it fails consistently with this message:

root@myrouter:~# auc -b 22.03.6
auc/0.3.1-1
Server:    https://sysupgrade.openwrt.org
Running:   22.03.5 r20134-5f15225c1e on ramips/mt7621 (ubnt,edgerouter-x)
Available: 22.03.6 r20265-f85a79bcb4
Requesting package lists...
No data available (61)
root@myrouter:~#

edit: which it does now

root@myrouter:~# auc -b 22.03.6
auc/0.3.1-1
Server:    https://sysupgrade.openwrt.org
Running:   22.03.5 r20134-5f15225c1e on ramips/mt7621 (ubnt,edgerouter-x)
Available: 22.03.5 r20134-5f15225c1e
Requesting package lists...
Nothing to be updated. Use '-f' to force.
root@myrouter:~#
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There's something wacky with the ASU server. Note that 22.03.6 has disappeared in the lastest list (which is where auc gets its data).

https://sysupgrade.openwrt.org/json/v1/latest.json

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For anyone struggling with this issue:

I just used Attended Upgrade in LUCI and that worked just fine ¯_(ツ)_/¯

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I tried with three different routers I have:
ASUS RT-N18U: success, working fine.
ASUS DSL-AC68U: sucess, working fine(fibre only).
ASUS RT-AC88U: Doesn't even boot.

Btw I use RT-AC68U firmware file on DSL-AC68U. They are exactly identical except the WAN port. You can turn any LAN port to WAN anyway.

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Is anyone experiencing increased latency under load with the service release?

It seems like things are considerably worse than they were. I didn't really notice network issues when pushing uploads from my laptop over WiFi. Since installing 22.03.06 I've had streaming audio cut out for 15s at a time or more and generally experienced slowness & delays when browsing.

Right now Im running an upload and pinging my AP and RTTs were over 200ms.

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I know it was the plan in December, per the release notes, but considering that we're on April's doorstep now, is 22.03.7 definitely in the cards?

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22 series will be supported till april, so i think they will release another new firmware and close support for 22 series.

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One would think, but has there been any sign that it's in the works given the late hour? Just wondering if we should call it at this point.

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There have been quite a few changes since December 2023 when 22.03.6 was released: https://github.com/openwrt/openwrt/commits/openwrt-22.03/
So I suppose 22.03.7 is still planned.

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