[OpenWrt-Devel] OpenWrt Roadmap

[Rosen Penev]

On Mon, Nov 5, 2018 at 12:45 PM Hauke Mehrtens <hauke at hauke-m.de> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> We had a discussion about the future OpenWrt Roadmap in July here:
> http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/openwrt-adm/2018-July/000849.html
>
> The outcome from my perspective is the following.
>
> The next release would be done in January 2019 and named 19.01, this
> release will probably have code freeze and get branched off in December
> 2018.
> All targets included in 19.01 must use kernel 4.14, kernel 4.9 or older
> will not be supported any more, kernel 4.19 will also not yet be
> supported in 19.01.
> The toolchain will use gcc 7.X, binutils 2.31.1 and musl 1.1.20, it
> could be that we upgrade musl to 1.1.21, but gcc will stay on the 7.X
> branch.
I would like to point out that GCC 7.3.0 suffers from an annoying LTO
bug: https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=81440

I have not tested if it impacts filesize.
> We already upgraded the wireless drivers to match what is shipped with
> kernel 4.19.
> OpenSSL should be upgraded to version 1.1.1 before the release.
> The rest depends on what people are interested and merge into master
> before the branch is created.
>
> The following targets currently use kernel 4.9 and should be upgraded to
> kernel 4.14 if they should be in the next release:
> * ar7
> * ixp4xx
> * layerscape
>         Someone from NXP said they will provide some patches in November.
> * brcm2708
>         I looked at the kernel patches from here:
> https://github.com/raspberrypi/linux
> * at91
>         Someone from Microchip already proposed some patches
> * orion
> * rb532
>
>
> The next release after 19.01 would be planned for the summer or fall
> 2019, this release will be based on kernel 4.19, all targets have to be
> upgrade to kernel 4.19 by then. This release will probably not contain
> ar71xx any more, but only ath79 for these boards.
>
>
> Support for kernel 4.19 will be added into OpenWrt master soon, but we
> will not use it as a default kernel for any target before the 19.01
> release is branched off.
>
> Support for kernel 3.18 should be removed soon, we will move the targets
> that depend on kernel 3.18 to the unmaintained target feed:
> https://github.com/openwrt/targets
> If you are interested in one of them, please bring them to kernel 4.14.
>
>
> The LEDE 17.01 branch will be fully end of life in January 2019, I plan
> a final release with the current git status and then it will not even
> get fixes for severe security problems any more, currently it only gets
> limited security support and all users are already encouraged to upgrade
> to OpenWrt 18.06.
> OpenWrt 18.06 will get security support till sometime in 2019, we
> haven't decided about a date.
>
> If you think we should do something differently please replay to this
> mail, we can still change this.
>
> Hauke
>
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