OpenWrt/LEDE 17.01.5 - Fifth Service Release - July 2018

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The OpenWrt Community is proud to announce the Fifth service release of stable OpenWrt/LEDE 17.01 series, which is the first service release after the remerger of the LEDE and OpenWrt projects.

OpenWrt/LEDE 17.01.5 “Reboot” incorporates a fair number of fixes back ported from the development branch during the last 9 months.

Some selected highlights of the service release are:

• Linux kernel updated to version 4.4.140 (from 4.4.92 in v17.01.4)
• Security fixes to openssl, mbedtls, wolfssl, samba, dnsmasq, openvpn, libunwind and the Linux kernel
• Update cake scheduler to version from 7. January 2018
• Update Wireguard VPN software to 0.0.20180519
• Enable SSL cache in ustream-ssl to improve TLS performance
• Fixes for building with host glibc 2.27 (Used in Ubuntu 18.04)
• lantiq: Make ADSL and VDSL SNR configurable
• x86: Added Spectre and Meltdown mitigations as well as microcode

loading support

• Assorted platform fixes for apm821xx, ar71xx, bcm53xx, brcm47xx, ipq806x, lantiq, mvebu, ramips, rb532, sunxi, x86 and xburst

For a detailed list of changes since 17.01.4 refer to https://openwrt.org/releases/17.01/changelog-17.01.5

As always, a big thank you goes to all our active package maintainers, testers, documenters, and supporters.

Have fun!

The OpenWrt Community