OpenWrt 25.12.5 release plan

[Hauke Mehrtens]

On 6/18/26 09:09, Baptiste Jonglez wrote:
> On 17-06-26, Hauke Mehrtens wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> We got some reports about security problems in our software in the last
>> month. Some of the fixes are already in the main branch and I created PRs to
>> 25.12 for most of them. I am waiting for the odhcpd fixes from David.
>>
>> I merged some fixes into the main branch already, but did not disclose the
>> advisory yet. The fixes will go to 25.12 and 24.10 in the next days.
> 
> Thanks for the work!
> 
>> Instead of extracting separate patches I would like to update most of the
>> OpneWrt components to the most recent versions from the main branch. Most of
>> them only have fixes and no new features. See the open PRs for details. I
>> will also add the patches for odhcpd and odhcp6c.
> 
> Most of our components have openwrt-25.12 and openwrt-24.10 branches, it
> seems risky and hard to understand to got back to main branch for stable
> releases.

Most of our components do not have it for 25.12, I saw this only for 
odhcpd and odhcp6c. For odhcp6c the branch matches master.

>> I would tag 25.12.5 beginning of next week.
>>
>> Any objections to this plan?
> 
> Minor caveat: we are almost out of space on the main download server.
> Each minor release takes 80 GB, and we have only 240 GB left.  So it's OK
> for these two releases, but it might block new releases after that.
> 
> We have been talking about cleaning up old releases but it's hard to do
> without breaking downloads and mirrors, discussion started here:
> 
>    https://lists.openwrt.org/pipermail/openwrt-adm/2026-January/002910.html
> 
> In the short term, I will ask the provider if they can allocate more disk space.
> 
> Baptiste

Thanks for the warning. With such a big update we should be prepared to 
do an other fix something breaks. It would be good to always have enough 
space for 3 additional release.

Hauke