[OpenWrt-Devel] OpenWrt 19.07.0 first release candidate

[Jo-Philipp Wich]

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 year.

With this release the OpenWrt project brings all supported targets back
to a single common kernel version and to 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.

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Some selected highlights 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

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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/

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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/

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

Have fun!

The OpenWrt Community

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