Being a stickler I can't resist noting, that geolocation by IP address is a best effort thing. Plenty good enough for a lot of use cases, but certainly not a robust and reliable method of localising things for e.g. navigation purposes. But again to reject traffic mostly from certain regions where both some false positive and negative localisations are acceptable it is excellent.
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fyi: I added a link to (Better and faster) Table of Hardware
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Two new packages - mesh11sd and apmond.
The Mesh11sd Project has been around for a couple of years now and is currently sitting at version 4, with version 5 due to be released very soon.
See:
https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-user/network/wifi/mesh/mesh11sd
It provides automatic configuration of 802.11s mesh nodes supporting rapid deployment of a mesh backhaul. It allows non-mesh segments (ie cabled) to be present and prevents mesh-bridge-loop issues that cannot be blocked or mitigated using STP alone.
The upcoming version 5 supports iot/guest type networks on the mesh using vxlan tunnels, and does this automatically with no configuration requirements. Multi-point to portal tunnelling is fully supported.
In addition, version 5 supports built in access point monitoring. The portal mesh node collects mesh hosted access point data, such as client id, data usage etc centrally in its database. Cabled access points (aka dump aps) can also be supported using the soon to be released ApmonD (access point monitor) package.
ApmonD a centralised access point data monitor/collector. It is likely to be released sometime in early December 2024 and will not be dependent on having a mesh11sd network. It is currently being tested as a part of mesh11sd v5 development. It will be released as a separate package, independent of mesh11sd but fully compatible with it.
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Thanks a lot for your contributions! - I have added them to the list
These are not "new projects" per se, but rather tune ups to existing LuCI apps that caught my eye as being in the same spirit.
Both thanks to @systemcrash:
luci-mod-network: move wifi country-code to 'general' tab
luci-mod-system: add 'reload' button to software start page
The top one is pretty great, should eliminate a bunch of first-time posts "why doesn't this work???"
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APK became the default package manager in OpenWrt's main branch on November 10, but it has now been decided that it will not be used in the upcoming 24.10 release series, to allow more time for integration issues to be addressed before 25.xx.
In a separate forum thread, the OpenWrt developers are asking users what changes we'd like to see in OpenWrt.
There is a poll, but you can also reply with things that aren't in the poll. The upcoming 24.10 release is nearing completion (rc1 coming soon), so I think they want ideas for OpenWrt 25.xx and beyond.
@ed8 geoip-shell now supports both inbound and outbound geoblocking, would be nice if you could update the description 
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The new luci file manager that just got merged is really cool. Credit goes to the hard work from the devs who made it: [https://github.com/openwrt/luci/pull/7300]
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That's pretty cool! I didn't look, is it backported to 24.10?
Thanks for the post
all these devs deserve at least a star on github !
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Yes I installed it on rc2, I'm a sucker for CLI but have to admit it's so well made and nice looking. I'd link the github commit but the new github search is such an unusable piece of garbage to me I have a hard time finding things lately.
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agree 