Dear List, Most of the new devices that are coming, or that are useful for us as community networks are in the snapshot release [1] [2] [3]. I feel the new 19.07 is not benefiting this new devices that will remain unsupported by a stable branch (most of them, based on ath10k / 802.11ac).
We are between: (1) buying legacy devices (ath9k and 802.11n), for example right now classic nanostation XW m5 is locked right now [4]), (2) second hand devices or (3) buying new devices using ath10k and 802.11ac (using the wiki procedure still you can unlock them and install openwrt) Our use case requires stable releases because in a community network we remotely upgrade firmwares. Based on previous experiences (releases 17, 18) it worked perfectly. I don't feel good introducing the usage of snapshot for building our firmwares (image builder and so on). In that circumstances, I think we prefer known bugs that new bugs approaching. I thought of having my custom patches on top of 19.07 branch. Maybe someone is already doing it. I'm sure more people have this need. I don't feel confortable leading that proposed frozen branch that could help as a pre-work/alpha for future 20.x openwrt release. Anyone in the same situation? But maybe is too much effort and we should continue focusing on the plan right now (get 19.07 release done) Cheers, Pedro [1] https://openwrt.org/toh/ubiquiti/ubiquiti_nanostation_ac_loco [2] https://openwrt.org/toh/hwdata/ubiquiti/ubiquiti_liteap_ac_lap-120 [3] v2 and v3 https://openwrt.org/toh/tp-link/cpe510 [4] https://forum.openwrt.org/t/hw-of-ubiquiti-nanostation-m5-has-changed/39225
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