Highlights in OpenWrt 19.07.0-rc2

The OpenWrt community is proud to announce the second release candidate of the upcoming OpenWrt 19.07 stable version series. It incorporates 126 commits since the previous release candidate 19.07.0-rc1.

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. For 19.07, both targets are still built, but it is recommended to switch to the ath79 target whenever possible: future releases of OpenWrt will drop support for the ar71xx target.

Highlights of this release candidate since the previous OpenWrt 19.07.0-rc1 release candidate are:

Linux kernel updated to versions 4.14.156 (from 4.14.151 in v19.07.0-rc1)

GCC update to version 7.5.0 (from 7.4.0 in v19.07.0-rc1)

Hostapd update to version 2.9

Device support bugfixes for many devices

Security fixes for curl, e2fsprogs, expat, wolfssl, intel-microcode

Sysupgrade bugfix for an issue that could cause sysupgrade to silently fail to upgrade

Added support for the following devices: YunCore XD4200 and A782, TP-Link Archer C60 v1/v2, ALFA Network Quad-E4G and R36M-E4G, AVM FRITZ!Repeater 1200

Disable image generation for several devices due to insufficient flash space for the default set of packages. Images can still be built with the help of the ImageBuilder or SDK with a more minimal set of packages

When upgrading from 19.07.0-rc1, if you are affected by the sysupgrade bug, you need to manually edit /lib/upgrade/stage2 and add /usr/share/libubox/jshn.sh to list of files in the install_file line (around line 51).

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

Possible Wi-Fi issues with ath10k-based boards. If you encounter such an issue, please file a bug report against openwrt-19.07.

https://openwrt.org/releases/19.07/notes-19.07.0-rc2

https://downloads.openwrt.org/releases/19.07.0-rc2/targets/