OpenWrt 24.10.0-rc1 - Status of APK?

[Rich Brown]

Congratulations on 24.10-rc1! This is the culmination of a ton of hard work.

A question about APK... There are two significant posts to the Forum heralding the arrival of APK. These were posted well before the meeting last week with the decision not to make the switch in 24.10. The posts are:

- https://forum.openwrt.org/t/major-change-notice-new-package-manager/215682
- https://forum.openwrt.org/t/the-future-is-now-opkg-vs-apk/201164

Is there a succinct description of the current plan for opkg in 24.10 and the transition to APK going forward? That will make it easier for the Forum posters to update the message topics. Thanks.

Rich


> On Dec 2, 2024, at 7:17 PM, Hauke Mehrtens <hauke at hauke-m.de> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> The OpenWrt community is proud to announce the first release candidate of the upcoming OpenWrt 24.10 stable series.
> OpenWrt 24.10.0-rc1 incorporates over 5100 commits since branching the previous OpenWrt 23.05 release and has been under development for over one year.
> 
> **This is just a release candidate and not the final release yet.**
> 
> Download firmware images using the OpenWrt Firmware Selector:
> * https://openwrt.github.io/firmware-selector-openwrt-org?version=24.10.0-rc1
> Download firmware images directly from our download servers:
> * https://downloads.openwrt.org/releases/24.10.0-rc1/targets/
> 
> 
> Please test this version
> ========================
> 
> This is not the final version, this is a test version. Please report problems and bugs in our issue tracker. https://github.com/openwrt/openwrt/issues
> 
> 
> Highlights in OpenWrt 24.10:
> ===========================
> 
> General changes
> ===============
> 
> * TLS 1.3 support in default images
>   * mbedtls was updated to version 3.6 which includes support for
>     TLS 1.3
> * Activate POSIX Access Control Lists and file system security
>   attributes for all file systems on devices with big flash sizes. This
>   is needed by docker nowadays.
> * Activate kernel support for Multipath TCP on devices with big flash
>   sizes.
> 
> 
> Many new devices added
> ======================
> 
> OpenWrt 24.10 supports over 1950 devices. Support for over 100 new devices was added in addition to the device support by OpenWrt 23.05.
> 
> * Added d1 target for AllWinner D1 RISC-V SoC
> * Added ixp4xx target for Intel XScale IXP4xx SoCs.
> * Added loongarch64 target for SoCs with Loongson LoongArch CPUs.
> * Added starfive target for StarFive JH71x0 (7100/7110) SoCs.
> * Added stm32 target for STMicroelectronics STM32 SoCs.
> * Renamed ipq807x target to qualcommax.
> * Removed ath25 target. It supported Atheros ieee80211g devices with
>   maximum 16MB RAM
> * Removed bcm63xx target. It supported some Boardcom DSL MIPS SoCs and
>   was replaced by the bmips target. The Boardcom DSL itself was never
>   supported.
> * Removed octeontx target. It supported the Octeon-TX CN80XX/CN81XX
>   based boards.
> * Removed oxnas target. It supported the PLXTECH/Oxford NAS782x/OX8xx.
> 
> Core components update
> ======================
> 
> Core components have the following versions in 24.10.0-rc1:
> 
> * Updated toolchain:
>   * musl libc 1.2.5
>   * glibc 2.38
>   * gcc 13.3.0
>   * binutils 2.42
> * Updated Linux kernel
>   * 6.6.63 for all targets
> * Network:
>   * hostapd master snapshot from September 2024, dnsmasq 2.90,
>     dropbear 2024.86
>   * cfg80211/mac80211 from kernel 6.11.2
> 
> 
> Upgrading to 24.10
> ===================
> 
> Sysupgrade can be used to upgrade a device from 23.05 to 24.10, and configuration will be preserved in most cases.
> 
> * Sysupgrade from 22.03 to 24.10 is not officially supported.
> 
> * User of the Linksys E8450 aka. Belkin RT3200 running OpenWrt 23.05 or
>   earlier will need to run installer version
>   https://github.com/dangowrt/owrt-ubi-installer/releases/tag/v1.1.3
>   or later in order to reorganize the UBI layout for the 24.10 release.
> 
> -----------------
> 
> Full release notes and upgrade instructions are available at
> https://openwrt.org/releases/24.10/notes-24.10.0-rc1
> 
> In particular, make sure to read the regressions and known issues before upgrading:
> https://openwrt.org/releases/24.10/notes-24.10.0-rc1#known_issues
> 
> For a detailed list of all changes since 23.05.0, refer to
> https://openwrt.org/releases/24.10/changelog-24.10.0-rc1
> 
> To download the 24.10.0-rc1 images, navigate to:
> https://downloads.openwrt.org/releases/24.10.0-rc1/targets/
> Use OpenWrt Firmware Selector to download:
> https://openwrt.github.io/firmware-selector-openwrt-org?version=24.10.0-rc1
> 
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> 
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