OpenWrt 25.12.0-rc1 - First Release Candidate - 21. December 2025

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 OpenWrt 25.12.0-rc1, r32353-9e9b05130c
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The OpenWrt community is proud to announce the first release candidate of the upcoming OpenWrt 25.12 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 24.10 to OpenWrt 25.12 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 25.12. (see “Upgrading” below).

This is not the final version, this is a test version. Please report problems and bugs in our issue tracker.

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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OpenWrt 25.12.0-rc1 incorporates over 4300 commits since branching the previous OpenWrt 24.10 release and has been under development for over one year.

Only the main changes are listed below. See changelog-25.12.0-rc1 for the full changelog.

• Switch package manager from opkg to apk
• Integration of attended Sysupgrade into default LuCI installation
• The shell history is stored in RAM till the next reboot
• Integration of video feed
• Wi-Fi scripts converted to ucode

• Extend realtek target with support for more switch SoCs like 10G Ethernet switches.
• Extend qualcommax target with support for ipq50xx and ipq60xx SoCs.
• Added siflower target for Siflower SF21A6826/SF21H8898 SoCs
• Added sunxi/arm926ejs subtarget for Allwinner F1C100/200s SoCs

OpenWrt 25.12 supports over 2180 devices. Support for over 160 new devices was added in addition to the device support by OpenWrt 24.10.

Core components have the following versions in 23.05.0-rc1:

• Updated toolchain:
  • musl libc 1.2.5
  • glibc 2.41
  • gcc 14.3.0
  • binutils 2.44
• Updated Linux kernel
  • 6.12.62 for all targets
• main packages:
  • cfg80211/mac80211 from kernel 6.18.0
  • hostapd master snapshot from August 2025
  • dnsmasq 2.91
  • dropbear 2025.89
  • busybox 1.37.0

In addition to the listed applications, many others were also updated.

Sysupgrade can be used to upgrade a device from 24.10 to 25.12, and configuration will be preserved in most cases.

Sysupgrade from 23.05 to 25.12 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