Hi, > Le 26 sept. 2025 à 04:01, Daniel Golle <[email protected]> a écrit : > > Hi, > > On Thu, Sep 25, 2025 at 10:33:51PM +0200, Hauke Mehrtens wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I would like to have the basic attended sysupgrade features in the default >> images for the next major release. >> >> I am not very familiar with the feature and what is needed. >> >> I think LuCI should inform the user when a new major release is available. > > Currently both, the LuCI app as well as owut only show possible updates > when instructed by the user to do so. > > We should better think twice before having all devices with those tools > installed query online services for updates when ever the admin logs in, > this has wide ranging implications regarding the user's privacy as well, > RAM usage for package lists, data consumption on metered connections, ...
+1 I think that if OpenWrt devices started *by default* to « phone home » (whether directly or via an in-browser query), that would certainly be a concern. Such a feature - while appealing - should *absolutely* be an opt-in, and not an opt-out. Opt-out may also have legal implications (e.g. GDPR?). > I'd therefore restrict this to query for release updates (and not just a > newer snapshot build in case of a device currently running a snapshot > image, and also only query for package updates upon user requests). > Checking the availability of an newer release could be done using a > TXT record in DNS, for example, which would be much more lightweight > (on both ends) than using HTTPS JSON RPC queries for that. That’s indeed better from a privacy point of view. My 2c. T _______________________________________________ openwrt-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openwrt.org/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel
