Today, Friday October 13th, the major release of OpenWRT 23.05.0 was released.
OpenWRT is a Linux-based OS designed for installation on network routers that currently supports more than 1790 devices.
What's new
The main features of this release, compared to version 22.03, are:
- added support for about 200 new devices;
- Improved performance of many existing devices:
- continued transition from swconfig to DSA;
- support for devices with 2.5G PHY;
- Wifi 6E (6Ghz) support;
- support for 2 Gbit/s LAN/WAN routing on ramips MT7621 devices;
- switch from wolfssl to mbedtls by default;
- support for Rust applications;
- updating system components, including the transition to kernel 5.15.134 for all devices.
The update process
Updating from 22.03 to 23.05 should go without problems saving settings.
Updating from 21.02 to 23.05 is not officially supported.
Known Issues
- The lantiq/xrx200 build target does not compile because the DSA driver of the built-in GSWIP switch has errors.
- bcm53xx: Netgear R8000 and Linksys EA9200 Ethernet are broken.
You can download the firmware for your device here.
Source: linux.org.ru