[LEDE-DEV] LEDE v17.01.2 service release

[Jo-Philipp Wich]

The LEDE Community is proud to announce the second service release of
stable LEDE 17.01 series.

LEDE 17.01.2 "Reboot" incorporates a fair number of fixes back ported
from the development branch during the last seven weeks.

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Some selected highlights of the service release are:

* Linux kernel updated to version 4.4.71 (from 4.4.61 in v17.01.1)
* Fixed TX power limit handling of ath9k
* Various fixes to the rt2x00 wireless driver
* Various fixes to odhcpd
* Various fixes to firewall
* Security fixes to vulnerabilities in Samba, Dropbear, OpenVPN and
  Linux kernel
* Assorted platform fixes for ar71xx, bcm53xx, brcm63xx, ipq806x,
  lantiq, ramips and x86

For a detailed list of changes since 17.01.1 refer to
https://lede-project.org/releases/17.01/changelog-17.01.2

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For latest information about the 17.01 series, refer to the wiki at:
https://lede-project.org/releases/17.01/

To download the v17.01.2 images, navigate to:
https://downloads.lede-project.org/releases/17.01.2/

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

Have fun!

The LEDE Community