And let's not forget the packages, which also contribute significantly to any release:
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Why would they create updates for this particular branch then? For "Caution! Never to be installed"?
There is no 23.05.0-rc2 branch, there only is an openwrt-23.05 branch, through which everything destined for 23.05.0-rc3 or 23.05.0 has to pass through. v23.05.0-rc2 is just a specific (set of-) tags inside that branch, but the package repositories are not locked to those tags, but building from the ongoing openwrt-23.05 branch.
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Sure, but when the future release comes out (of the same branch of course) it just gets updated packages from this branch, right?
good point,
If I had the time an knowledge about how to do this I would, but at the moment I have neither.
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You can check the following every so often to get a rough estimate of how close we are to there being no more issues blocking the release: https://github.com/openwrt/openwrt/issues?q=is%3Aopen+label%3Arelease%2F23.05+sort%3Aupdated-desc+
Edit: fixed bad link.
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Woa, that issues list looks unmanagable. Shouldn't devs just select, say, 5-10 devices per wifi generation (3 per price category?) with the best FOSS support and focus efforts? Might even push vendors to choose SoCs that are supported if they see a sales difference. It could greatly reduce the headaches with what looks like 1000s of open issues. Hats off for the devs for dealing with all that.
Regardless, it's amazing how well my WRT32X is running on rc2. Routing my 500Mbit cable with SQM cake, Samba shares at 100MB/s, DSA, Nftables, simple-adblock, all without issue. (Ok software flow offload is broken but nothing is perfect 
). Was considering an upgrade to the R4S or DL-WRX36 but things are working so well.
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Correct - and simultaneously you just explained why updates are made.
For clarity, I would have used the phrase "current packages" instead of "updates".
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Somehow that link isn't working right (and when I cut the "right" one, it is also wrong), when you get to the page remove the + signs from between the search filters. Should say "14 Open..." like this:
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Thanks, yeah, weird, not sure what happened with my link. Let me see if I can edit my post.
Hello,
With OpenWrt Firmware Selector, TP-Link Archer C7 v4 custom build or Totolink X5000R, no matter version, image creation success. Installation, with LuCi, successful with or without "Configuration retention".
Problem, the "Software" tab is missing. What is "luci-app" missing?
Thanks for the help provided.
Have a nice day
It should be luci-app-opkg, not sure why it's missing from those builds, I've always found it installed when using firmware selector builds, I guess it's platform specific.
Thank you for answering quickly.
I will do a fresh install as soon as possible.
Have a nice day
I cut'n'pasted the link that github produces for the query, and unsurprisingly it's exactly what you supplied. If you paste it into a new tab, it doesn't work! (Great job, github.) If you edit the link with "%20" in place of "+" then it works. I think the github URL generator and/or parser has a bug.
Thank you
Indeed the opkg and luci-app-opkg packages were not installed.
Thanks for the help provided
Have a nice day
[Solved]
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I swear it was the forum that somehow mistakenly encoded the plusses in the URL (usually, the plusses are reserved characters that don't get encoded). I can't reproduce it by starting at GitHub and just copying and pasting to browser tabs. Really weird!
when shall we see a final release?
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You aren’t the first to ask. Have a look at the conversation in this thread for the past few days. Hope you find the answers you are looking for.
Well, if you can take anything away from historical context:
21.02 RC1 was tagged on 2021-04-19
It had 4 RCs
Release was tagged 2021-09-01
22.03 RC1 was tagged on 2022-04-20
It had 6 RCs
Release was tagged 2022-09-03
23.05 RC1 was tagged on 2023-06-06
We're on RC2
If history repeats, add 5 months to RC1 tag, then maybe Nov 2023...
Full tag history here: https://git.openwrt.org/?p=openwrt/openwrt.git;a=tags