OpenWrt 24.10 release status

[Hauke Mehrtens]

On 1/15/25 00:24, 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.
> 
> 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

Hi,

I tagged v24.10.0-rc6 and started the builds.

Please do only add bugfixes to the 24.10 branch and no big changes from 
now on. I would like to tag the final version probably next week.

After OpenWrt 24.10.0 is tagged feel free to add more invasive stuff again.

Hauke