On Mon, Nov 5, 2018 at 12:45 PM Hauke Mehrtens <ha...@hauke-m.de> wrote: > > Hi all, > > We had a discussion about the future OpenWrt Roadmap in July here: > http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/openwrt-adm/2018-July/000849.html > > The outcome from my perspective is the following. > > The next release would be done in January 2019 and named 19.01, this > release will probably have code freeze and get branched off in December > 2018. > All targets included in 19.01 must use kernel 4.14, kernel 4.9 or older > will not be supported any more, kernel 4.19 will also not yet be > supported in 19.01. > The toolchain will use gcc 7.X, binutils 2.31.1 and musl 1.1.20, it > could be that we upgrade musl to 1.1.21, but gcc will stay on the 7.X > branch. I would like to point out that GCC 7.3.0 suffers from an annoying LTO bug: https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=81440
I have not tested if it impacts filesize. > We already upgraded the wireless drivers to match what is shipped with > kernel 4.19. > OpenSSL should be upgraded to version 1.1.1 before the release. > The rest depends on what people are interested and merge into master > before the branch is created. > > The following targets currently use kernel 4.9 and should be upgraded to > kernel 4.14 if they should be in the next release: > * ar7 > * ixp4xx > * layerscape > Someone from NXP said they will provide some patches in November. > * brcm2708 > I looked at the kernel patches from here: > https://github.com/raspberrypi/linux > * at91 > Someone from Microchip already proposed some patches > * orion > * rb532 > > > The next release after 19.01 would be planned for the summer or fall > 2019, this release will be based on kernel 4.19, all targets have to be > upgrade to kernel 4.19 by then. This release will probably not contain > ar71xx any more, but only ath79 for these boards. > > > Support for kernel 4.19 will be added into OpenWrt master soon, but we > will not use it as a default kernel for any target before the 19.01 > release is branched off. > > Support for kernel 3.18 should be removed soon, we will move the targets > that depend on kernel 3.18 to the unmaintained target feed: > https://github.com/openwrt/targets > If you are interested in one of them, please bring them to kernel 4.14. > > > The LEDE 17.01 branch will be fully end of life in January 2019, I plan > a final release with the current git status and then it will not even > get fixes for severe security problems any more, currently it only gets > limited security support and all users are already encouraged to upgrade > to OpenWrt 18.06. > OpenWrt 18.06 will get security support till sometime in 2019, we > haven't decided about a date. > > If you think we should do something differently please replay to this > mail, we can still change this. > > Hauke > > _______________________________________________ > openwrt-devel mailing list > openwrt-devel@lists.openwrt.org > https://lists.openwrt.org/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel _______________________________________________ openwrt-devel mailing list openwrt-devel@lists.openwrt.org https://lists.openwrt.org/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel
