OpenWrt has announced the release of version 24.10.0 after more than a year of development. This significant release of the distribution is specifically developed for network devices such as routers, switches, and access points. OpenWrt currently supports 1970 devices and offers an assembly system that enables cooler cross-compilation and the creation of custom assemblies. These assemblies allow users to create firmware with their desired set of pre-installed packages, optimized for specific tasks. Ready assemblies have been published for 39 target platforms, with 36 platforms supported in the previous branch.
Main changes in OpenWrt 24.10 include:
- By default, TLS 1.3 support is enabled with the update of the library mbedtls to version 3.6.
- Support for ACL (Posix Access Control List) and security attributes is activated for devices with large flash memory, affecting devices without the Small_Flash flag set.
- Support for MPTCP (Multipath TCP) has been added for devices with large flash memory size in the nucleus.
- Improved support for Wi-Fi 6 (802.11AX) and initial support for Wi-Fi 7 (802.11BE) has been included.
- The background process lldpd, implementing the LLDP protocol, has been improved.
- Over 100 new devices are now supported, including the OpenWrt One wireless router developed by the OpenWRT community, bringing the total number of supported devices to 1970.
- New platforms, including D1 and Starfive for devices based on SOC Allwinner D1 and Starfive JH71x0 (7100/7110) using the RISC-V architecture, have been added.
- The IXP4XX platform for SOC Intel XSCALE IXP4XX based on the ARM architecture has been introduced.
- The Loongarch64 platform for devices with processors based on the Loongarch architecture has been included.
- The STM32 platform for SOC Stmicroelectronics STM32 has been added.
- Platforms ATH25, BCM63XX, Octeontx, Oxnas/OXH, and the renamed IPQ807X platform (Qualcommax) are now supported.
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