OpenWrt 24.10.0-rc1 - First Release Candidate - 1. December 2024

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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:

• Download firmware image for your device (firmware selector)
• Download firmware images directly from OpenWrt 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).

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.

Do you want to be informed about important changes such as new releases and security fixes?

We have a new mailing list for this, as well as RSS options: see Important changes and announcements.

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.

OpenWrt 24.10 supports over 1950 devices. Support for over 100 new devices was added in addition to the device support by OpenWrt 22.03.

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.

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.

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

Have fun!

The OpenWrt Community