Going to forgo normal release announcement as this is only a release candidate being posted up to -devel for additional eyes. Please take some time to test them on spare boxes and yell if things aren't working or your router moves packets slower than a European Swallow; we strive to beat African Swallows in all activities apart from coconut transport.

Images at http://downloads.openwrt.org/kamikaze/8.09.2-RC2/
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Below is a list of notable changes/bug fixes. As always, for a more complete list, refer to https://dev.openwrt.org/milestone/Kamikaze%208.09.2

Changes:
* madwifi: disable compression by default, as it can cause instabilities on various platforms (r16422)
* broadcom-diag: add support for WAP54Gv2 LEDs and GPIOs (#5335, r16435)
* atheros: backport swconfig and IP-175C support for DIR-300 (and similar devices) (r17382, r17383, r17384, r17385, r17386)
* brcm-2.4:
  - merge support for Asus WL-330gE (#5626, r15745, r17139)
  - allow hdparm to work with USB storage (r16979)
- pptp nat conntrack removed, cause of dnat off-by-one port forwarding bug (r17555)
* madwifi, wprobe: merge trunk changes (r17279, r17317)
* base-files: disable ECN by default (r17364)

Bug fixes:
* nvram: prevent corruption on the WGT634U (r16350, r16379)
* sysupgrade: improve reliability (r16489, r16868)
* base-files:
  - fix off-by-one error in the ip calculation routines (r16620)
  - fix ipv6 interface setup on boot (#5356, r17119, r17218)
  - fix udhcpc on interfaces not managed by UCI (r17365)
* madwifi:
  - fix distance setting (r16722)
  - fix diversity setting (r16847)
* kmod-arptables: fix wrong module names in autoload on 2.4 (#5452, r16726)
* atheros:
- fix flash access errors on devices that use a non-standard gpio line to control the spi flash chip select (r16766)
  - fix failsafe mode on fonera+ and fonera 2.0 (r17472)
* firewall: prevent frequent connection drops due to blocked dhcp renew messages (#4108, #4781, r17239)
* mtd: fix jffs2 eof marker search in mtd (r17523)

Yours truly,
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The release management team
Andy Boyett & Nicolas Thill
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