OpenWrt 24.10 release status

[Enrico Mioso]

On Wed, Jan 15, 2025 at 12:24:06AM +0100, Hauke Mehrtens wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> We released OpenWrt 24.10.0-rc5 last week. The OpenWrt 24.10 branch looks
> good so far.
> 
> I am planning an OpenWrt 24.10.0-rc6 next weekend and then the final release
> about 1 week later if nothing big breaks. Feel free to backport stuff if
> needed.
> 
> 
> There are still some regression compared to 23.05.
> These are the big regressions affecting multiple people I am aware of.
> 
> ath10k: 5 GHz radio not detected:
> https://github.com/openwrt/openwrt/issues/14541
> 	This affects multiple devices with ath10k radio.

In the case of Archer C60, extracting the BDF from official firmware restores 5GHZ functionality.
I think this will need to be solved on a device-by-device basis, and there are some decisions to be taken like variants handling (e.g.: in the case of the C60, we have 3 versions of the device...).

> 
> mt7621: Periodic link down+up since 24.10.0-rc*
> https://github.com/openwrt/openwrt/issues/17351
> 	It looks like there is a regression in the PHY driver for
> 	mt7621. When people deactivate EEE it works more stable.
> 
> Ruijie RG-X60 Pro WAN Port Not Working - (Realtek RTL8221B-VB-CG)
> https://github.com/openwrt/openwrt/issues/17183
> 	The Realtek RTL8221B-VB-CG PHY does not work at all on some
> 	devices.
> 
> 6.6: NAT64 and NAT66 performance degradation
> https://github.com/openwrt/openwrt/issues/15857
> 	NAT64 and NAT66 performance degradation since kernel 6.6
> 
> 
> All issues reported for OpenWrt 24.10:
> https://github.com/openwrt/openwrt/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+sort%3Aupdated-desc+label%3Arelease%2F24.10
> 
> 
> I would like to promote attended sysupgrade more.
> I would like to add luci-app-attendedsysupgrade by default into the images
> to make more people aware of it.
> Can we handle the extra load?
> What do you think?
> 
> I think it still has a problem with 24.10, see:
> 	attended sysupgrade does not show RC5 release:
> 	https://github.com/openwrt/openwrt/issues/17595
> 
> Hauke
> 
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