OpenWrt 24.10 highlights:
- TLS 1.3 support in default images with MbedTLS 3.6
- Activate POSIX Access Control Lists and file system security attributes for all file systems on devices with big flash sizes. Needed by docker. Note this is not enabled for all targets with the small_flash feature flag, including ath79/tiny, bcm47xx/legacy, lantiq/ase, lantiq/xrx200_legacy, lantiq/xway_legacy, ramips/mt76x8, ramips/rt288x, ramips/rt305x and ramips/rt3883 targets.
- Activate kernel support for Multipath TCP on devices with big flash sizes.
- Improved support for WiFi 6 (802.11ax) and initial support for WiFi 7 (802.11be)
- Improved Link Layer Discovery Protocol (LLDP) support
- OpenWrt 24.10 uses OPKG only, APK packages are NOT supported. Only the main branch was changed to APK.
- Updated package versions
- Linux kernel – 6.6.73 for all targets
- Toolchain – musl libc 1.2.5, glibc 2.38,gcc 13.3.0, binutils 2.42
- Network:
- hostapd master snapshot from September 2024, dnsmasq 2.90, dropbear 2024.86
- cfg80211/mac80211 from kernel 6.12.6
The following targets were added:
- d1 target for AllWinner D1 RISC-V SoC
- ixp4xx target for Intel XScale IXP4xx SoCs.
- loongarch64 target for SoCs with Loongson LoongArch CPUs.
- starfive target for StarFive JH71x0 (7100/7110) SoCs.
- stm32 target for STMicroelectronics STM32 SoCs.