OpenWrt 26.XX (next major release)

Eric evil.function at proton.me
Thu Nov 12 15:33:56 PST 2026


On Thursday, November 12th, 2026 at 14:33, Hauke Mehrtens <hauke at hauke-m.de> wrote:
> I think mbedtls was about 250KB, wolfssl 500KB and openssl 1MB. Maybe
> all of them are bigger now.

>From current x86 snapshot:
$ apk query libmbedtls21 libwolfssl5.9.4.e624513f libopenssl3 --fields name,file-size
Name: libmbedtls21
File-Size: 339102

Name: libopenssl3
File-Size: 2556442

Name: libwolfssl5.9.4.e624513f
File-Size: 655856

That 340KB mbedtls -> 2.5MB for openssl is a huge pill to swallow
for devices with marginal flash, gonna make a lot of ewaste (or
more likely - and much worse - people will just stop upgrading).

Eric



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