[OpenWrt-Devel] Barrier Breaker 14.07 Final

[Dave Taht]

Congrats everyone!

Here's to a faster, bufferbloat-free and ipv6 enabled
Internet!

On Thu, Oct 02, 2014 at 02:59:08PM +0200, Steven Barth wrote:
> The OpenWrt developers are proud to announce the final release
> of OpenWrt Barrier Breaker.
> 
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>           |__| W I R E L E S S   F R E E D O M
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>  BARRIER BREAKER (14.07)
>  -----------------------------------------------------
>   * 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/
> 
> Important changes since RC3
> * various ath9k related fixes
> * a few board related fixes
> * fixes for packages depdending on curl
> * per feed download folders
> 
> Important changes since RC2
> * NAT & firewall throughput improvements
> * Security updates for OpenSSL & PolarSSL
> * Minor fixes in DHCP & DHCPv6 handling
> * Configuration support for GRE tunnels
> * Various other fixes
> 
> Important changes since RC1
> * fix a long standing ath9k deadlock bug
> * all feeds are now built
> * image builder now works and RC2 contains all board specific images
> * various board/stability fixes
> 
> ** 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.
> Additionally we would like to give a big thank you to all of our
> package
> maintainers working on our various feeds.
> 
> 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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