Upgrade from 14.07

Installing and Using OpenWrt
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Hi,
I have a TP-Link TL-WDR4300 v1 router that is running 14.07 and for security reasons I want to upgrade this to 23.05.4.

Current version: Model: TP-Link TL-WDR4300 v1
Firmware Version: OpenWrt Barrier Breaker 14.07 / LuCI Trunk (0.12+svn-r10530)
Kernel Version : 3.10.49

My device is on the compatibility list for 23.05.4 and there are sysupgrade and factory images available.

Can someone please advise the best way to update to the latest version? Note: I do not have any additional packages installed.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Cheers.

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Have you checked out the Device Page?

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The safest way to upgrade, especially with such a large difference in versions, would be a fresh installation and then setting it up from scratch.

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Back up configuration , there is no migration path past 2 points:
v17x is needed to support next sysupgrade format
then v19x architecture change to ath79, config wiped.
Those both need to be installed 17.x.0 -> 17.x.latest
i.e 5x upgrading still losing config.
You need to type configuration back via luci web.

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Thanks everyone. I am quite happy to lose any configuration, as I can reset that manually. Can anyone advise the best way to do a fresh install?

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People who don't own the same device are unlikely to know more about it than what's written in the Device Page. You have the info about installation methods there.

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Sysupgrade file through webui, reset settings during upgrade.

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