Two OpenWrt updates

This is true, but for some reason the most straightforward & least hassle upgrade method isn’t mentioned on the main website.

The sysupgrade service will take your package list & build you a custom image that can then be used to automatically upgrade your system, preserving the currently installed packages & then re-using the existing configuration. It “just works” (tm).

1) Go to https://sysupgrade.openwrt.org/ & follow the instructions.
2) Never suffer the pain of OpenWRT point release upgrades ever again.

(Full versions will still require a re-install IIRC - this method doesn’t support upgrades across major release versions.)