Versie 23.05.0 van OpenWrt is uitgekomen. OpenWrt is alternatieve opensourcefirmware voor een groot aantal verschillende routers en embedded devices. Door middel van het opkg-package management system is er de mogelijkheid om zelf te bepalen wat de router allemaal wel en niet kan. Ook op GoT zijn er diverse mensen actief mee bezig; zie daarvoor dit topic. Bijwerken van de versie kan gewoon met sysupgrade vanuit de webinterface. De changelog voor deze uitgave kan hieronder worden gevonden.
Highlights in OpenWrt 23.05.0OpenWrt 23.05.0 incorporates over 4300 commits since branching the previous OpenWrt 22.03 release and has been under development for over one year. Only the main changes are listed below. See changelog-23.05.0 for the full changelog.
Many new devices addedOpenWrt 23.05 supports over 1790 devices. Support for over 200 new devices was added in addition to the device support by OpenWrt 22.03.
Highlights of device support
- The ipq807x target for the Qualcomm IPQ807x Wifi 6 SoCs was added
- The mediatek/filogic subtarget for the Mediatek Filogic 830 and 630 SoCs was added
- The sifiveu target for the HiFive RISC-V Unleashed and Unmatched boards
Switch from wolfssl to mbedtls as default
- Switched ipq40xx target to DSA
- VDSL support on AVM FRITZ!Box 7530
- Support for devices with 2.5G PHYs
- Acer Predator W6 (MT7986A), Mercusys MR90X v1 (MT7986BLA), Netgear WAX206 (MT7622), Netgear WAX220 (MT7986), ZyXEL NWA50AX Pro (MT7981), Asus (TUF Gaming) AX4200 (MT7986A), Netgear WAX218 (IPQ8074), Xiaomi AX9000 (IPQ8074), Dynalink DL-WRX36 (IPQ8074), GL.iNet GL-MT6000 (MT7986A), Netgear WAX620 (IPQ8072A), ZyXEL EX5700 (MT7986)
- Support for Wifi 6E (6GHz)
- Acer Predator W6 (MT7986A), ZyXEL EX5700 (MT7986)
- 2 Gbps WAN/LAN NAT Routing on ramips MT7621 devices (See OpenWrt forum)
- Improved DSL statistics on ubus and in LuCI
- Added
Arm SystemReady (EFI) compliant
target replacing thearmvirt
targetOpenWrt has transitioned its default cryptographic library from
wolfssl
tombedtls
. This shift brings several changes and implications:
- Size Efficiency:
mbedtls
is considerably smaller, making it an optimal choice for systems where storage space is paramount.- LTS and ABI Stability:
mbedtls
consistently provides updates via its Long Term Support (LTS) branch, ensuring both security and a stable application binary interface (ABI). In contrast,wolfssl
does not offer an LTS release, and its stable ABI is limited to a specific set of functions.- TLS 1.3 Support: Users should be aware that
mbedtls
2.28 no longer supports TLS 1.3.While
Rust Package Supportmbedtls
is now the default, users who have specific needs or preferences can still manually switch back towolfssl
or chooseopenssl
.This release introduces the ability to include rust-written programs into the OpenWrt package infrastructure. Examples are: bottom, maturin, aardvark-dns and ripgrep.
Core components updateCore components have the following versions in 23.05.0:
- Updated toolchain:
- musl libc 1.2.4
- glibc 2.37
- gcc 12.3.0
- binutils 2.40
- Updated Linux kernel
- 5.15.134 for all targets
- Network:
- hostapd master snapshot from September 2023, dnsmasq 2.89, dropbear 2022.82
- cfg80211/mac80211 from kernel 6.1.24
- System userland:
- busybox 1.36.1
In addition to the listed applications, many others were also updated.
Upgrading to 23.05.0Sysupgrade can be used to upgrade a device from 22.03 to 23.05, and configuration will be preserved in most cases. Sysupgrade from 21.02 to 23.05 is not officially supported.
Known issues
- ipq40xx EA6350v3, EA8300, MR8300 and WHW01 require tweak to the U-Boot environment on update from 22.03 to 23.05. Refer to the Device wiki or the instruction on sysupgrade on how to do this change. Config needs to be reset on sysupgrade.