OpenWrt 21.02.0 Released

Re:OpenWrt 21.02.0 Released by xook on Saturday September 04, 2021 @10:13PM (#28421135)

Been running OpenWRT on routers for the better part of 5+ years now. I'm not crazy about some of the software being very minimal[0], and it sometimes takes a few tries[1], but it runs quite well on a Linksys 1900ac. Time for a weekend upgrade!

[0] Dropbear doesn't {didn't?} support ed25519 at the time I was using it for SSH, but it took me an afternoon of dead ends and "it's not DNS" feelings before I found that out.

[1] I know about the serial console, but I'd prefer a simple, direct access keyboard/mouse setup if I screw it up.

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Re:OpenWrt 21.02.0 Released by happy-dude on Saturday September 04, 2021 @11:47PM (#28421487)

I'd like to express general caution with upgrading to 21.02 on Linksys WRT-series routers; the Marvell "open-source" firmware isn't truly open source (it has proprietary binary blobs) and development seems to have halted sometime in 2020.

Many users report Wi-Fi connectivity issues[0]. When I did an upgrade, I was unable to connect my laptop and Roomba to wifi, and had to rollback to 19.07.8.

[0] https://github.com/kaloz/mwlwifi/issues

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Re:OpenWrt 21.02.0 Released by m3adow on Sunday September 05, 2021 @08:27AM (#28423819)

Thanks for the heads-up. I was considering upgrading soon. Now I'll wait for the bug reports to be resolved first.

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