Hi, I am confused how to upgrade all packages on OpenWrt 25.12. I see this on the website [image] Do I have to do now: owut check followed by owut upgrade to upgrade all packages?

Exactly ... allows you to check what it does: owut check --verbose and updates the image (so all the packages you have installed): owut upgrade

There's actually a whole discussion here... [image] Add a button to LuCI to upgrade all packages Feature Requests Add a button to LuCI to upgrade(apk upgrade) all packages. owut is the (only) safe way to upgrade packages.

Let’s see if I’m understanding the implications of the ABI potentially changing and apk only updating the requested package and not the prerequisites. Does that mean that apk is never totally safe to use? Even when installing a package with “apk install” can’t the current ABI differ from the one …

Taking advantage of this topic, I would like some support for my situation... Currently I am running version "OpenWrt 24.10.5 r29087-d9c5716d1d / LuCI openwrt-24.10 branch 26.052.42948~5f0d7d5" on my x86 router... Running the command "owut check --verbose", I get this output: root@horus:~# owut c…

Upgrade all packages

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psherman April 22, 2026, 8:20pm 3

There's actually a whole discussion here...

owut is the (only) safe way to upgrade packages.