[OpenWrt-Devel] Barrier Breaker 14.07-rc1

[John Crispin]

On 14/07/2014 13:13, Yousong Zhou wrote:
> On 14 July 2014 17:12, John Crispin <john at phrozen.org> wrote:
>> 
>> The OpenWrt developers are proud to announce the first release 
>> candidate of OpenWrt Barrier Breaker. _______
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>> |_ |   -   ||  _  |  -__|     ||  |  |  ||   _||   _| |_______||
>> __|_____|__|__||________||__|  |____| |__| W I R E L E S S   F R
>> E E D O M ----------------------------------------------------- 
>> BARRIER BREAKER (14.07 RC1) 
>> ----------------------------------------------------- * 1/2 oz
>> Galliano         Pour all ingredients into * 4 oz cold Coffee
>> an irish coffee mug filled * 1 1/2 oz Dark Rum       with crushed
>> ice. Stir. * 2 tsp. Creme de Cacao 
>> -----------------------------------------------------
>> 
> 
> Cool.  Two years have passed and a fresh new OpenWrt release is
> coming :)
> 


actually it is 1 year and 3 months


>> http://downloads.openwrt.org/barrier_breaker/14.07-rc1/
>> 
>> ** Highlights since Attitude Adjustment ** Default configuration
>> and images
>> 
>> * Linux kernel updated to version 3.10
>> 
>> * Procd: new preinit, init, hotplug and event system written in
>> C
>> 
>> * Native IPv6-support - RA & DHCPv6+PD client and server - Local
>> prefix allocation & source-restricted routes (multihoming)
>> 
>> * Filesystem improvements - Added support for sysupgrade on
>> NAND-flash - Added support for filesystem snapshot and rollback
> 
> I may ask how can this feature be enabled?  I am not following the 
> trunk commits for quite a while and thus not aware of this new 
> feature.
> 


use the /sbin/snapshot tool. i think i will make a howto for this in the
wiki as its quite a hidden feature




> Regards.
> 
> yousong
> 
>> - Rewritten mounting system in C for rootfs and block devices
>> 
>> * UCI configuration improvements - Support for testing
>> configuration and rollback to working last working state -
>> Unified change trigger system to restart services on-demand -
>> Added a data validation layer
>> 
>> * Networking improvements - Netifd now handles setup and
>> configuration reload of wireless interfaces - Added reworked
>> event support to allow obsoleting network hotplug-scripts - Added
>> support for dynamic firewall rules and zones - Added support for
>> transparent multicast to unicast translation for bridges -
>> Various other fixes and improvements
>> 
>> 
>> Additional highlights selectable in the package feeds or SDK *
>> Extended IPv6-support - Added DS-Lite support and improved 6to4,
>> 6in4 and 6rd-support - Experimental support for Lightweight
>> 4over6, MAP-E and MAP-T - Draft-support for self-managing home
>> networks (HNCP)
>> 
>> * rpcd: new JSONRPC over HTTP-frontend for remote access to ubus
>> 
>> * mdns: new lightweight mdns daemon (work in progress)
>> 
>> * Initial support for the musl C standard library
>> 
>> * Support for QMI-based 3g/4g modems
>> 
>> * Support for DNSSEC validation
>> 
>> * Added architecture for package signing and SHA256 hashing
>> 
>> * ... and many more cool things
>> 
>> Package feed reorganization For quite a while already we are not
>> very satisfied with the quality of the packages-feed. To address
>> this, we decided to do a fresh start on GitHub. The new feed
>> https://github.com/openwrt/packages should be used from now on
>> and package maintainers are asked to move their packages there.
>> For the final release we will still build the old packages feed
>> but it will be necessary to enable it manually in the opkg
>> package list to be usable. All current feeds should not have any 
>> dependencies on the old.packages feed. Currently a few packages
>> still fail, mainly due to these cross feed dependencies. We will
>> contact the respective maintainers to help resolve these issues
>> for RC2.
>> 
>> 
>> New build servers We would like to express our gratitude to
>> Imagination Technology for funding the 2 build servers that we
>> used for the release.
>> 
>> 
>> Whats next ? We aim at releasing Chaos Calmer (CC) before the end
>> of the year. The CC release will use 3.14 or a newer LTS kernel
>> as baseline.
>> 
>> 
>> Have fun! The OpenWrt developer team 
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