Hi, The LEDE Community is proud to announce the first release candidate of the upcoming LEDE 17.01 stable version series. It incorporates thousands of commits made during the course of the last months and allows us to refine the code base for the final v17.01.0 version.
With this release, the LEDE development team closes out an intense
effort to modernize many parts of OpenWrt and incorporate many new
modules, packages, and technologies.
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Some selected highlights since the OpenWrt Chaos Calmer release are:
* Linux kernel updated to version 4.4.42 (from 3.18 in Chaos Calmer)
* Update of essential software:
* dnsmasq updated to 2.76 (from 2.73 in Chaos Calmer)
* busybox updated to 1.25.1 (from 1.23.2 in Chaos Calmer)
* mbedtls version 2.4.0 (updated from polarssl 1.3.14 in Chaos
Calmer)
* openssl updated to 1.0.2k
* Improved Security Features
* Use SHA256 instead of MD5 to validate source code for upstream
packages
* mbedtls: disable SSLv3 support
* OpenSSL: disable support for compression, heartbeats, NPN,
Whirlpool, and J-PAKE
* Memory Corruption Mitigation Methods
* gcc -Wformat -Wformat-security
* User space Stack-Smashing Protection (Regular)
* Kernel space Stack-Smashing Protection (Regular)
* buffer-overflows detection (FORTIFY_SOURCE) (Conservative)
* RELRO protection (Full)
* Improved Networking Support
* Smart Queue Management (SQM) minimizes bufferbloat by using the
cake and fq_codel qdisc's. //[[:docs:howto:sqm|More...]]//
* Improvements to the WiFi stack eliminating bufferbloat on ath9k,
mt76 and some ath10k chipsets
* Airtime fairness scheduler for ath9k to prevent slow stations
from hogging too much airtime
* Various stability and regression fixes to the Linux wireless
stack and ath9k in particular
* Provide alternative Candela-Tech ath10k-ct driver
* Updated toolchain
* musl 1.1.15
* gcc 5.4.0
* binutils 2.25.1
* Platform and Driver Support
* Lantiq
* Added redistributable DSL firmware
* Updated DSL phy drivers
* Added new targets:tickets
* apm821xx (AppliedMicro APM821xx)
* arc770 (Synopsys DesignWare ARC 770D)
* archs38 (Synopsys DesignWare ARC HS38)
* armvirt (QEMU ARM Virtual Machine)
* ipq806x (Qualcomm Atheros IPQ806X)
* layerscape (NXP Layerscape)
* zynq (Xilinx Zynq 7000 SoCs)
* Reorganized x86 target:
* Drop dedicated Xen DomU target, merged with x86/generic
* Enable AES-NI support
* Removed targets:
* realview, replaced by armvirt
* ppc44x, disabled due to code brokeness
* netlogic, dropped due to no available hardware
* Build system improvements
* Separation of base system and community feeds to simplify
distribution of binary package updates
* Fixes and enhancements in package dependency handling, better
support for virtual provides
* Per-device rootfs images to better tune package selection to each
individual device profile
* New image build code improving compilation times and simplifying
device profile declarations
* New package/.../check make target to run a series of standard
diagnostics on Makefiles
* Support for fetching sources using Curl
* Generate reproducible source tarballs when packing SCM checkouts
* Image Builder / SDK
* Rework library bundling to allow for better portability between
different Linux distributions
* Add support for building kernel modules using the SDK
* Added support for a many new routers and boards
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Known issues:
* Available space on devices with only 4MB flash is very low,
users requiring extra packages might want to consider using the
image builder to repack custom images
* The available memory on devices with 16MB RAM might be too low to
reliably run opkg or sysupgrade operations, especially in
conjunction with LuCI
* The source snapshot tarballs produced by Github do not correctly
compile all packages due to missing Git history information, this
will be fixed with the next RC
* The SDK tarballs embed a wrong revision and might report "r0+3043"
instead of "r3042", this is a cosmetic issue which will get fixed
with the next RC
* Any outstanding issues reported at https://bugs.lede-project.org/
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For the latest information about the 17.01 release and for detailed
change logs, refer to the wiki page at:
https://lede-project.org/releases/17.01/
To download the v17.01.0-rc1 images, navigate to:
https://downloads.lede-project.org/releases/17.01.0-rc1/
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A big thank you goes to all our active package maintainers, testers,
documenters and supporters.
Have fun!
The LEDE Community
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