OpenWrt 24.10.5 and 25.12.0-rc1 release soon

[Eric]

On Monday, December 15th, 2025 at 22:06, Goetz Goerisch <ggoerisch at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Thank you all for catching those bugs.
> 
> As discussed in IRC shortly the other day, 25.12 is build now by the buildbots.
> 
> To get significant and easy accessible testing we should make sure that these builds are available in the firmware-selector and more specifically in the ASU server to test automated upgrades with owut.
> 
> Therefore my question also on the list, how to get 25.12-SNAPSHOT and 25.12-rc? into https://downloads.openwrt.org/.versions.json
> 
> Thank you,
> Goetz

Goetz,

The -SNAPSHOTs never appear in the .versions.json file, only releases.  The ASU server
derives the branches from the entries in that file, then creates a big version list,
into which it adds '<branch>-SNAPSHOT' for each active branch.  So, the only thing
that needs to happen is for 25.12.0-rc1 to be set as the value for 'upcoming_version'
in https://downloads.openwrt.org/.versions.json and then we'll automatically get the
25.12-SNAPSHOT exposed.

But, we don't want to do that until there is actually an RC1, so the 25.12-SNAPSHOT
won't become available until then.  (To change this behavior would require reworking
a whole lot of pieces in several places, I don't think we want to do this.)

In any case, I don't know where or what updates .versions.json

Paul,

Can you tell us when and  where .versions.json, and the version-specific
.overview.json and .targets.json files are created?

https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-developer/releases/making-service-release#check_build_metadata

Thanks,
Eric