LEDE (Linux Embedded Development Environment) was forked from OpenWrt project in 2016 due to disagreements among developers, and this lead to LEDE 17.01.0 “Reboot” release the following year.
But eventually, developers must have realized that running two separate and similar projects in parallel was not the best way to go, and OpentWrt and LEDE projects were re-merged right at the beginning of this year. So I’m pleased to announced the developers have now introduced the first release out of the new partnership with OpenWrt 18.06.
OpenWrt 18.06 is actually the first major release since LEDE 17.01, as the previous OpenWrt release was version 15.05. It focuses on support for network flow offloading and modernizing Atheros AR71xx target, brings updates to kernel and package, as well as other improvements and fixes.
You’ll find the binary packages for your hardware on the rtargets page, and the source code is hosted on Github.
If you don’t have specific hardware, you could still run OpenWrt 18.06 in VirtualBox to test it out. Simply download openwrt-18.06.0-x86-generic-combined-ext4.img, uncompress it, and convert it to a VDI image as below:
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VBoxManage convertfromraw --format VDI openwrt-18.06.0-x86-generic-combined-ext4.img openwrt-18.06.0-x86-generic-combined-ext4.vdi |
Create a new Linux virtual machine for Linux 2.6 / 3.x / 4.x (64-bit), and use your freshly generated VDI image as an “existing virtual hard disk file”, and you should have OpenWrt running in no time.
Via Phoronix
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Second sentence: “released” should be “realised”
Good to see this come together and see the results of the joined efforts!
no more cocktail recipes on the banner login 🙁
Probably they switched to beers 🙂
There was a discussion about it. The main reason that they don’t use the name of a cocktail (and the recipes) anymore is (as far as I remember): It causes to much discussions in the developer community.
Anyway, I am happy to have the new release 🙂
Worth mention a more convenient way to find an image for your hardware: https://mwarning.de/firmware-selector/
That link does not seem to be complete
Wow this is great! Gonna give it a try tonight on my Rpi…
There’s no mixed drink recipe? Disappointing.
ihave a wbs 210 and cpe 210 max is 18dbm although its on tiwan is there a problem with tx power