I've noticed that there's https://downloads.openwrt.org/releases/23.05-SNAPSHOT
which is the nightly for the 23.05 branch.
How much ahead is the normal SNAPSHOT branch on the firmware downloader tool and why is this not a listed branch?
snapshot is the latest version with all patches approved by the developers
example:
"How far ahead" depends on what got committed, what got backported and so on. You can check it against your current install with auc using it's "check" option -c. Here I'm checking the 23.05 snapshot against today's main branch snapshot, and see a bunch of downgrades versus that build:
$ opkg update ; opkg install auc # If not already installed...
$ auc -c -b 23.05 -B 23.05-snapshot
auc/0.3.2-1
Server: https://sysupgrade.openwrt.org
Running: SNAPSHOT r23783-f2a8763587 on x86/64 (generic)
Available: 23.05-SNAPSHOT r23389-5deed175a5
WARNING: Downgrade to older branch may not work as expected!
Requesting package lists...
openssh-sftp-server: 9.4p1-1 -> 9.3p1-3
luci-app-adblock: git-23.188.24085-e6ff682 -> git-23.189.72983-3072876
ubus: 2023-06-05-f787c97b-1 -> 2022-06-15-9913aa61-1
libiperf3: 3.14-1 -> 3.13-1
... for another 40-50 lines of stuff ...
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