The OpenWrt developers are proud to announce the first release candidate
of OpenWrt Chaos Calmer.
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CHAOS CALMER (15.05 RC2)
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* 1 1/2 oz Gin Shake with a glassful
* 1/4 oz Triple Sec of broken ice and pour
* 3/4 oz Lime Juice unstrained into a goblet.
* 1 1/2 oz Orange Juice
* 1 tsp. Grenadine Syrup
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http://downloads.openwrt.org/chaos_calmer/15.05-rc2/
** Improvements since RC 1 **
* Fixed broken ImageBuilders for most targets
* Updated 3.18 to 3.18.14
* Fixed broken IPv6 downstream DHCPv6-PD and onlink-route handling
* Images (special format) for Asus brcm47xx and bcm53xx devices
* Improved stability of sysupgrade on brcm47xx and bcm53xx
* Added HTTPS enforcement option to uhttpd
* Fixed umask issue
* Added support for a few new boards
** Highlights since Barrier Breaker **
* Linux kernel updated to version 3.18
* Improved Security Features
- Rewritten package signing architecture based on ed25519
- Added support for jails
- Added support for hardened builds
* Improved Networking Support
- Added or improved support for lots of 3G/4G modems (MBIM, QMI,
NCM, ...)
- Added support for 464XLAT (CLAT) [RFC 6877 + RFC 7050]
- Netfilter performance enhancements (conntrack route cache)
- Improved support for self-managing networks [draft-ietf-homenet-hncp]
- Better multi-core support for the network stack
- Improved support for MAP-E, MAP-T and LW4over6 IPv4 transitioning
technologies
[draft-ietf-softwire-map, -map-t, -map-dhcp, -lw4over6]
- Improved network auto-setup capable of detecting and bootstrapping
IPv4-only,
6rd, Dual-Stack, IPv6-only, DS-Lite, LW4over6, MAP-E, MAP-T, 464XLAT
and combinations without explicit configuration [based on RFC 7084]
- Added support for Smart Queue Management (SQM) QoS, AQM and
Traffic Shaping
- Improved support for DNSSEC
* Platform and Driver Support
- Added support for feeds of externally maintained targets
- New mt7621 subtarget for Mediatek 11ac SoC
- New mt76 mac80211 based wifi driver for MTK 11ac cores.
- New mwlwifi mac80211 based wifi driver for the Marvell 88W8864
- New bcm53xx target for Broadcom ARM BCM47xx/53xx devices
- New mxs target for Freescale i.MX23/28 family and various boards
- New sunxi target for AllWinner A10/A13/A20 family and various boards
- brcm2708: support for Raspberry Pi 2
- brcm63xx: support for BCM6318 and BCM63268 family
- brcm63xx: improved fallback sprom support with bcma support
* Known Issues
- Sysupgrade on brcm47xx may fail by running out of memory when
using .bin or .chk files. Please use .trx when using rc1 (it was fixed
in rc2).
- openssl and strongswan are outdated. If you intend to use either
of them please update the packages using the snapshots repository:
https://downloads.openwrt.org/snapshots/trunk/
And lots and lots of other advancements...
As always a big thank you goes to all our active package maintainers,
testers, supporters and documenters.
Have fun!
The OpenWrt developer team
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