Hi,

The OpenWrt community is proud to announce the first release candidate of the upcoming OpenWrt 19.07 stable version series. It incorporates over 3700 commits since branching the previous OpenWrt 18.06 release and has been under development for about one a half years.

With this release the OpenWrt project brings all supported targets back to a single common kernel version and further refines and broadens existing device support. It also provides initial support for the new ath79 target, the future device tree based successor of the popular ar71xx target.

Some selected highlights of this release since the previous OpenWrt 18.06 version are:

Updated toolchain: musl libc 1.1.24 uClibc-ng 1.0.31 glibc 2.27 gcc 7.4.0 binutils 2.31.1

Updated Linux kernel 4.14.151 for all targets Flow offloading bugfixes

Network userland: Fixes in network and wireless configuration handling Bugfixes in DHCPv6 client and server WPA3 configuration support

System userland: Sysupgrade support for backup and upgrade capability checks Bugfixes in the process manager, system message bus, embedded web server and the configuration management library

Platform and Driver Support Dropped adm5120, adm8668, ar7, au1000, ixp4xx, mcs814x, omap24xx, ppc40x, ppc44x and xburst targets Updates and new device support across all targets

Web interface: Client side rendering of views for improved performance Security fixes



For a detailed list of changes since branching of the 18.06 release series, see https://openwrt.org/releases/19.07/changelog-19.07.0

Known issues:

Sysupgrade from ar71xx to ath79 and vice versa is not officially supported, a full manual reinstall is recommended to switch targets for devices supported by both ar71xx and ath79

Images for some device became too big to support a persistent overlay, causing such models to lose configuration after a reboot. If you experience this problem, please report the affected device and consider downgrading to OpenWrt 18.06 or using the Image Builder to pack a smaller custom image

Some optional GUI packages crash with an error about missing "cbi.lua", install the "luci-compat" package to fix these

Any outstanding issues reported at https://bugs.openwrt.org/

For latest information about the 19.07 series, refer to the wiki at:

https://openwrt.org/releases/19.07/

To download the v19.07.0-rc1 images, navigate to:

https://downloads.openwrt.org/releases/19.07.0-rc1/

As always, a big thank you goes to all our active package maintainers, testers, documenters, and supporters.

Have fun!

The OpenWrt Community