[OpenWrt-Devel] Barrier Breaker 14.07 Final

[Nishant Sharma]

A big thank and many congratulations!

Cheers,
Nishant


On 2 October 2014 18:29:08 GMT+05:30, Steven Barth <cyrus at openwrt.org> wrote:
>The OpenWrt developers are proud to announce the final release
>of OpenWrt Barrier Breaker.
>
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>  |   -   ||  _  |  -__|     ||  |  |  ||   _||   _|
>  |_______||   __|_____|__|__||________||__|  |____|
>           |__| W I R E L E S S   F R E E D O M
>  -----------------------------------------------------
>  BARRIER BREAKER (14.07)
>  -----------------------------------------------------
>   * 1/2 oz Galliano         Pour all ingredients into
>   * 4 oz cold Coffee        an irish coffee mug filled
>   * 1 1/2 oz Dark Rum       with crushed ice. Stir.
>   * 2 tsp. Creme de Cacao
>  -----------------------------------------------------
>
>http://downloads.openwrt.org/barrier_breaker/14.07/
>
>Important changes since RC3
>* various ath9k related fixes
>* a few board related fixes
>* fixes for packages depdending on curl
>* per feed download folders
>
>Important changes since RC2
>* NAT & firewall throughput improvements
>* Security updates for OpenSSL & PolarSSL
>* Minor fixes in DHCP & DHCPv6 handling
>* Configuration support for GRE tunnels
>* Various other fixes
>
>Important changes since RC1
>* fix a long standing ath9k deadlock bug
>* all feeds are now built
>* image builder now works and RC2 contains all board specific images
>* various board/stability fixes
>
>** Highlights since Attitude Adjustment **
>Default configuration and images
>
>* Linux kernel updated to version 3.10
>* Procd: new preinit, init, hotplug and event system written in C
>* Native IPv6-support
>     - RA & DHCPv6+PD client and server
>     - Local prefix allocation & source-restricted routes
>       (multihoming)
>* Filesystem improvements
>     - Added support for sysupgrade on NAND-flash
>     - Added support for filesystem snapshot and rollback
>     - Rewritten mounting system in C for rootfs and block devices
>* UCI configuration improvements
>     - Support for testing configuration and rollback to working
>       last working state
>     - Unified change trigger system to restart services on-demand
>     - Added a data validation layer
>* Networking improvements
>     - Netifd now handles setup and configuration reload of
>       wireless interfaces
>     - Added reworked event support to allow obsoleting network
>       hotplug-scripts
>     - Added support for dynamic firewall rules and zones
>     - Added support for transparent multicast to unicast
>       translation for bridges
>     - Various other fixes and improvements
>
>Additional highlights selectable in the package feeds or SDK
>* Extended IPv6-support
>     - Added DS-Lite support and improved 6to4, 6in4 and 6rd-support
>     - Experimental support for Lightweight 4over6, MAP-E and MAP-T
>     - Draft-support for self-managing home networks (HNCP)
>* rpcd: new JSONRPC over HTTP-frontend for remote access to ubus
>* mdns: new lightweight mdns daemon (work in progress)
>* Initial support for the musl C standard library
>* Support for QMI-based 3g/4g modems
>* Support for DNSSEC validation
>* Added architecture for package signing and SHA256 hashing
>* ... and many more cool things
>
>Package feed reorganization
>For quite a while already we are not very satisfied with the quality
>of the packages-feed. To address this, we decided to do a fresh start
>on GitHub. The new feed https://github.com/openwrt/packages should be
>used from now on and package maintainers are asked to move their
>packages there. For the final release we will still build the old
>packages feed but it will be necessary to enable it manually in the
>opkg package list to be usable.
>Additionally we would like to give a big thank you to all of our 
>package
>maintainers working on our various feeds.
>
>New build servers
>We would like to express our gratitude to Imagination Technology for
>funding the 2 build servers that we used for the release.
>
>Whats next ?
>We aim at releasing Chaos Calmer (CC) before the end of the year. The
>CC release will use 3.14 or a newer LTS kernel as baseline.
>
>
>Have fun!
>     The OpenWrt developer team
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