OpenWrt 25.12.0 released [LWN.net]

Version 25.12.0 of the OpenWrt router distribution is available; this release has been dedicated to the memory of Dave Täht. Changes include a switch to the apk package manager, the integration of the attended sysupgrade method, and support for a long list of new targets.

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Dave's Guitar

Posted Mar 6, 2026 17:58 UTC (Fri) by jch (guest, #51929) [Link] (2 responses)

"OpenWrt 25.12 is named Dave's Guitar to honor Dave Täht[1], who sadly passed away on April 1, 2025."

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_T%C3%A4ht

Dave's Guitar

Posted Mar 9, 2026 6:29 UTC (Mon) by ram (subscriber, #173565) [Link]

Thanks for the link! What a great man! I didn't know about "filkmusic"!

Dave's Guitar

Posted Mar 10, 2026 10:16 UTC (Tue) by Lennie (subscriber, #49641) [Link]

When I think of bufferbloat I think of Dave first, yes there are for example Google engineers and other people working on OpenWRT and Jim Gettys who pointed it out in a big way and CoDel was developed by Van Jacobson and Kathleen Nichols and the development of fq_codel and CAKE, but Dave feels like the center of it where things come together and than fan out again.

And bufferbloat is hugely important for the Interrnet, a real issue that needs to be solved (and now basically is).

attended-sysupgrade

Posted Mar 9, 2026 14:44 UTC (Mon) by mlankhorst (subscriber, #52260) [Link] (1 responses)

Attended sysupgrade makes it substantially easier to upgrade openwrt.

Instead of checking each router to see what extra packages they have installed, you can simply upgrade from the GUI and get all additional packages installed too.

I run 3 routers with OpenWRT at home, and now I can upgrade them from within the web interface without a lot of hassle.

attended-sysupgrade

Posted Mar 10, 2026 1:44 UTC (Tue) by xose (subscriber, #535) [Link]

There is also a CLI command: "owut" ("auc" in 23.05 or older).