Download Firmware LEDE 17.01.4

The developers of Linux Embedded Development Environment have released a new version with 17.01.4 as the version number. LEDE is a spin-off of OpenWrt, an open source firmware for a wide variety of routers and embedded devices. The reasons why people started with LEDE can be this page be proofread. It supports various socs which can be found in many devices. The abbreviated announcement of this release is as follows:

Highlights In LEDE 17.01.4

The LEDE Community is proud to announce the fourth service release of stable LEDE 17.01 series. LEDE 17.01.4 “Reboot” incorporates a fair number of fixes back ported from the development branch during the last two weeks. Some selected highlights of the service release are:

• Linux kernel updated to version 4.4.92 (from 4.4.89 in v17.01.3)
• Security fixes to brcmfmac, hostapd, mac80211, toolchain/gdb and the Linux kernel
• Introduce latest version of the Wireguard VPN software (0.0.20171017)
• Fix Xen support in the x86/generic subtarget, add Xen support in the x86/64 subtarget
• Assorted platform fixes for ar71xx, bcm53xx, ramips and x86

About the KRACK attack
While the LEDE 17.01.4 release includes fixes for the KRACK bugs in the WPA Protocol disclosed earlier this week in the router firmware, these fixes do not fix the problem on the client-side. You still need to update all your client devices – computers, phones, tablets, cameras, refrigerators, thermostats, light bulbs, and any other device using Wi-Fi. Since some client devices might never receive an update, hostapd contains an optional AP-side workaround to complicate these attacks, slowing them down. Please note that this does not fully protect you from them, especially when running older versions of wpa_supplicant vulnerable to CVE-2017-13086, which the workaround does not address. As this workaround can cause interoperability issues and reduced robustness of key negotiation, this workaround is disabled by default.

Due to the version bump of toolchain/gdb to 8.0.1, at least GCC 4.8 is now required to build LEDE.

For a detailed list of changes since 17.01.3 refer to https://lede-project.org/releases/17.01/changelog-17.01.4

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

Have fun!
The LEDE Community