OpenWrt 24.10.0-rc1 - First Release Candidate - 3. December 2024
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OpenWrt 24.10.0-rc1, r28158-d276b4c91a
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The OpenWrt community is proud to announce the first release candidate of the upcoming OpenWrt 24.10 stable series.
This is just a release candidate and not the final release yet.
Download firmware images via the Firmware Selector or directly from our download servers:
An upgrade from OpenWrt 23.05 to OpenWrt 24.10 is supported in many cases with the help of the sysupgrade utility which will also attempt to preserve the configuration. A configuration backup is advised nonetheless when upgrading to OpenWrt 24.10. (see “Upgrading” below).
Please test this version
This is not the final version, this is a test version. Please report problems and bugs in our issue tracker.
About OpenWrt
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Highlights in OpenWrt 24.10
OpenWrt 24.10.0-rc1 incorporates over 5100 commits since branching the previous OpenWrt 23.05 release and has been under development for over one year.
Only the main changes are listed below. See changelog-24.10.0-rc1 for the full changelog.
General changes
- TLS 1.3 support in default images
- mbedtls was updated to version 3.6 which includes support for TLS 1.3
- Activate POSIX Access Control Lists and file system security attributes for all file systems on devices with big flash sizes. This is needed by docker nowadays.
- Activate kernel support for Multipath TCP on devices with big flash sizes.
- OpenWrt 24.10 uses OPKG only, APK packages are *not* supported. Only main branch was changed to APK.
Target changes
- Added d1 target for AllWinner D1 RISC-V SoC
- Added ixp4xx target for Intel XScale IXP4xx SoCs.
- Added loongarch64 target for SoCs with Loongson LoongArch CPUs.
- Added starfive target for StarFive JH71x0 (7100/7110) SoCs.
- Added stm32 target for STMicroelectronics STM32 SoCs.
- Renamed ipq807x target to qualcommax.
- Removed ath25 target. It supported Atheros ieee80211g devices with maximum 16MB RAM
- Removed bcm63xx target. It supported some Broadcom DSL MIPS SoCs and was replaced by the bmips target. The Broadcom DSL itself was never supported.
- Removed octeontx target. It supported the Octeon-TX CN80XX/CN81XX based boards.
- Removed oxnas target. It supported the PLXTECH/Oxford NAS782x/OX8xx.
Many new devices added
OpenWrt 24.10 supports over 1950 devices. Support for over 100 new devices was added in addition to the device support by OpenWrt 23.05.
* Added support for OpenWrt One
Core components update
Core components have the following versions in 23.05.0-rc1:
- Updated toolchain:
- musl libc 1.2.5
- glibc 2.38
- gcc 13.3.0
- binutils 2.42
- Updated Linux kernel
- 6.6.63 for all targets
- Network:
- hostapd master snapshot from September 2024, dnsmasq 2.90, dropbear 2024.86
- cfg80211/mac80211 from kernel 6.11.2
In addition to the listed applications, many others were also updated.
Upgrading to 24.10
Sysupgrade can be used to upgrade a device from 23.05 to 24.10, and configuration will be preserved in most cases.
Sysupgrade from 22.03 to 24.10 is not officially supported.
User of the Linksys E8450 aka. Belkin RT3200 running OpenWrt 23.05 or earlier will need to run installer version v1.1.3 or later in order to reorganize the UBI layout for the 24.10 release.
Known issues
* opkg does not find kernel modules. #17146 Problem was fixed and will be included in 24.10.0-rc2, which is currently building.
Final notes
As always, a big thank you goes to all our active package maintainers, testers, documenters, and supporters.
Have fun!
The OpenWrt Community