Cleaning up EOL releases

Baptiste Jonglez baptiste at bitsofnetworks.org
Fri Jan 30 10:46:16 PST 2026


Hi,

I would like to clean up the following snapshot releases on the download
server since they are end-of-life (see [1]):

21.02-SNAPSHOT
22.03-SNAPSHOT
23.05-SNAPSHOT

Unless there are objections, I will go ahead in one week.

Also, as a longer-term goal, we need to think about removing old releases
from the main download server (we currently have everything since 17.01,
and it's taking a lot of disk space as well as slowing down rsync).  Since
early January, we already redirect CDN downloads to the archive server for
old releases.  But I would also like to serve these old releases through
rsync, in case somebody is interested in historical analysis.

As a first step, we could start removing -rc releases, since they already
take significant space, and nobody is supposed to stay on -rc releases
once a stable major release is out.  With the new mirror setup [2], we
already exclude these old -rc releases from the "default mirror set".

Baptiste

[1] https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-developer/security#support_status
[2] https://openwrt.org/mirrors
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