OpenWrt 21.02.5 fifth service release

[Hauke Mehrtens]

Hi,

The OpenWrt community is proud to announce the newest stable release of 
the OpenWrt 21.02 stable version series. It fixes security issues.

Download firmware images using the OpenWrt Firmware Selector:
  * https://firmware-selector.openwrt.org/?version=21.02.5
Download firmware images directly from our download servers:
  * https://downloads.openwrt.org/releases/21.02.5/targets/

The OpenWrt 21.02 stable series is in security maintenance only mode. It 
is projected to go end of life on 6. April 2023 following the OpenWrt 
Security support guidelines. We encourage all users of the OpenWrt 21.02 
stable series to upgrade to OpenWrt 22.03.
https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-developer/security#support_status


Main changes between OpenWrt 21.02.4 and OpenWrt 21.02.5:
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Security fixes
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  * mac80211/cfg80211: Security fixes for BSSID parsing
    (CVE-2022-41674, CVE-2022-42719, CVE-2022-42720, CVE-2022-42721 and
     CVE-2022-42722)
    * See Security Advisory 2022-10-17-1
    * https://openwrt.org/advisory/2022-10-17-1


Device support
==============

  * None


Various fixes and improvements
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  * None


Core components
===============

  * None


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Full release notes and upgrade instructions are available at
https://openwrt.org/releases/21.02/notes-21.02.5

In particular, make sure to read the regressions and known issues before 
upgrading:
https://openwrt.org/releases/21.02/notes-21.02.5#known_issues

For a detailed list of all changes since 21.02.4, refer to
https://openwrt.org/releases/21.02/changelog-21.02.5

To download the 21.02.5 images, navigate to:
https://downloads.openwrt.org/releases/21.02.5/targets/
Use OpenWrt Firmware Selector to download:
https://firmware-selector.openwrt.org/?version=21.02.5

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

Have fun!

The OpenWrt Community

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