[OpenWrt-Devel] Barrier Breaker 14.07-rc1

[Jonathan Bennett]

On Mon, Jul 14, 2014 at 4:12 AM, 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
>  -----------------------------------------------------
>
> 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
>         - 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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>

Is Barrier Breaker actually a branched release, or is this more of a trunk
snapshot?

~Jonathan Bennett
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