Re: 22.03.4 and 21.02.6 were officially announced 3 days ago, but only partially.

[Paul Tow]

Ok. Thank you.

> On Apr 17, 2023, at 4:43 PM, Paul Spooren [Masked] 
>  wrote:
> 
>> but the 21.02.6 release notes say that 21.02 has reached end of life and 
>> will not receive any more updates. It seems odd to leave a branch in a state 
>> where the last official stable release will not boot on all targets. 
>> Thoughts?
> 
> Where do you read that? Are you referring to the note that a newer version is 
> out and fresh installs should use 22.03.x if possible?

Oh, my mistake. The release notes don’t say that. I was actually thinking of 
this mailing list message from Hauke: 
http://lists.openwrt.org/pipermail/openwrt-devel/2023-March/040749.html

Has that decision changed in light of the ipq40xx boot problems?

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Re: 22.03.4 and 21.02.6 were officially announced 3 days ago, but only partially.

[Paul Spooren]

Hi,

> On one hand:
>* two threads were posted in the "Release and security announcements” 
> section of the OpenWrt forum
>* the OpenWrt.org front page has been updated with links to the new 
> versions
>* the release notes are no longer WIP
>* the firmware selector has the new versions
>* the #openwrt IRC channel topic has been updated with the new versions
> 
> But on the other hand:
>* the openwrt-announce and openwrt-devel mailing lists haven’t been 
> notified

I just sent the email on openwrt-devel and don’t have access to the announce 
list, it will be taken care of shortly.

>* the links on https://downloads.openwrt.org haven’t been updated (still 
> show 22.03.3 and 21.02.5 as the latest)

I just updated the servers, please enjoy.

> I’m also seeing comments on the forum about these builds not booting on at 
> least some ipq40xx devices, due to a UBI issue. They say it’s been patched in 
> master snapshots, 22.03 snapshots, and 21.02 snapshots

Yes it’s broken in the release and was fixed. The next point release will take 
care of that, sorry for the inconvenience.

> but the 21.02.6 release notes say that 21.02 has reached end of life and will 
> not receive any more updates. It seems odd to leave a branch in a state where 
> the last official stable release will not boot on all targets. Thoughts?

Where do you read that? Are you referring to the note that a newer version is 
out and fresh installs should use 22.03.x if possible?

> On my devices (Rpi 4B, R7800, and Archer C7 v2), 22.03.4 is working as 
> expected.

Glad to hear that.

> I really appreciate all the work you guys do making this great firmware.

🚀

Sunshine,
Paul
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Re: 22.03.4 and 21.02.6 were officially announced 3 days ago, but only partially.

[B]

There are also some dead or out-of-date links on the wiki when I looked 
a day or two ago.


You people at OpenWRT need a checklist and a tiny bit of formality and 
discipline to your processes. This has been a long-term problem and has 
been brought up many many times.


At least they have end-user oriented mailing lists now. For years it was 
like end-users didn't exist and releases were not announced in any way 
at all.





On 4/17/23 14:01, 5o7awbsbl048--- via openwrt-devel wrote:

But on the other hand:
 * the openwrt-announce and openwrt-devel mailing lists haven’t been 
notified
 * the links onhttps://downloads.openwrt.org  haven’t been updated (still 
show 22.03.3 and 21.02.5 as the latest)




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22.03.4 and 21.02.6 were officially announced 3 days ago, but only partially.

[5o7awbsbl048--- via openwrt-devel]

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On one hand:
* two threads were posted in the "Release and security announcements” 
section of the OpenWrt forum
* the OpenWrt.org front page has been updated with links to the new versions
* the release notes are no longer WIP
* the firmware selector has the new versions
* the #openwrt IRC channel topic has been updated with the new versions

But on the other hand:
* the openwrt-announce and openwrt-devel mailing lists haven’t been notified
* the links on https://downloads.openwrt.org haven’t been updated (still 
show 22.03.3 and 21.02.5 as the latest)

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I’m also seeing comments on the forum about these builds not booting on at 
least some ipq40xx devices, due to a UBI issue. They say it’s been patched in 
master snapshots, 22.03 snapshots, and 21.02 snapshots, but the 21.02.6 release 
notes say that 21.02 has reached end of life and will not receive any more 
updates. It seems odd to leave a branch in a state where the last official 
stable release will not boot on all targets. Thoughts?

https://forum.openwrt.org/t/openwrt-22-03-4-service-release/157477/2
https://forum.openwrt.org/t/openwrt-21-02-6-service-release/157476/4
https://github.com/openwrt/openwrt/issues/12232 


On my devices (Rpi 4B, R7800, and Archer C7 v2), 22.03.4 is working as 
expected. I really appreciate all the work you guys do making this great 
firmware.

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