OpenWrt 21.02 status

[Rich Brown]

Hauke and all,

Thanks for the hard work to corral all those outstanding bug reports.

As we move forward, I want to be sure the documentation side is as good as the software... I have these comments/questions:

1) I created a new "Upgrading to OpenWrt 21.02.0" page at:	https://openwrt.org/playground/richb/to2102 I distilled the announcement page (https://openwrt.org/releases/21.02/notes-21.02.0) to make this checklist for people that won't read that entire page.

Did I get the new page right? Please feel free to edit and make it correct.

2) I was pretty fuzzy about what people should do if their target did migrate to DSA. Do we have a guide to help those people through the transition?

3) Is there any OpenWrt document that describes how DSA affects the files in /etc/config and how it affects LuCI? Do we need to worry that a bunch of people will glibly upgrade, then be knocked off the air?

As always, I really appreciate all the effort that goes into OpenWrt.

Best,

Rich

> On Jul 17, 2021, at 11:45 AM, Hauke Mehrtens <hauke at hauke-m.de> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> In general the 21.02-rc3 looks good, but we still have some problems.
> 
> Currently we still have these problem:
> 
> - IPv6 broken with flow offloading (according to reports, potentially related to hw flow offloading)
> - PPPoE allegedly broken (according to reports, not fully reproducible, likely related to hw flow offloading too)
>  - https://bugs.openwrt.org/index.php?do=details&task_id=3909
>  - https://bugs.openwrt.org/index.php?do=details&task_id=3835
>  - https://forum.openwrt.org/t/21-02-snapshot-ipv4-pppoe-session-keeps-terminating/90552
> - DHCPv6 broken if lease times < 12h chosen
>  - https://forum.openwrt.org/t/openwrt-21-02-0-third-release-candidate/99363/137
>  - https://forum.openwrt.org/t/openwrt-21-02-0-third-release-candidate/99363/162
> - WDS with bridge-vlan broken (missing backport from master)
> - cron jobs are triggered in UTC even when the system uses a different time zone:
>  - https://forum.openwrt.org/t/openwrt-21-02-0-third-release-candidate/99363/184
> 
> Thank you Jo for collecting most of them.
> These problems should at least get some investigation and better should get fixed before the final release.
> 
> In addition there are multiple problems with specific device, if they get fixed it would be nice otherwise we just leave it like it is now.
> 
> The problem fixed here was also reported in 21.02:
> https://git.openwrt.org/ba5bd8e556b2e7573d27b16e005ba287e066f795
> @Kevin: Any objections to backport this change to 21.02? Are there any other changes needed?
> 
> @John: Did you look into the IPv6 Flow offloading problem?
> 
> I would like to get some of them fixed or at least investigated and then do the final or a rc4, depending of the number of changes.
> I will try to find some time in the next days to investigate some of these problems.
> 
> Hauke
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