OpenWrt 18.06.8 - Service Release - 6 March 2020

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 OpenWrt 18.06.8, r7989-82fbd85747
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The OpenWrt Project is a Linux operating system targeting embedded devices. It is a complete replacement for the vendor-supplied firmware of a wide range of wireless routers and non-network devices. See the Table of Hardware for supported devices. For more information about OpenWrt project organization, see the About OpenWrt pages.

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The OpenWrt Community is proud to announce the eighth service release of the stable OpenWrt 18.06 series. OpenWrt 18.06.8 brings security fixes, as well as the usual device support fixes and core components update.

The main highlights of this service release are:

• Security Advisory 2020-02-21-1 - ppp buffer overflow vulnerability (CVE-2020-8597)
• Linux kernel updated from 4.9.211 to 4.9.214 and from 4.14.167 to 4.14.171
• Services: fixed a libubox regression in 18.06.7 that caused umdns to stop working (FS#2833)
• Device support fixes for RB912UAG-5HPnD r2

For more details, please see the detailed Changelog.

• libubox regression: procd may fail to start or restart some services due to a regression in libubox (thread, FS#3177). This is especially visible as it breaks LuCI when upgrading from older 18.06.X releases: because of the regression, rpcd fails to start under some circumstances (empty rpcd section in /etc/config/rpcd).

Note that updates to the package feeds are available immediately to all minor releases of OpenWrt: there is no need to upgrade to a new OpenWrt image to install newer versions of a package. This applies to core OpenWrt packages as well as community-maintained packages.

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

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