Download Firmware OpenWrt 22.03.6

Version 22.03.6 of OpenWrt has been released. OpenWrt is alternative open source firmware for a large number various routers and embedded devices. The opkg package management system makes it possible to determine for yourself what the router can and cannot do. There are also several people actively working on it on GoT; see this topic for that. You can simply update the version with sysupgrade from the web interface. The changelog for this release can be found below.

OpenWrt 22.03.6 sixth service release

The OpenWrt community is proud to announce the newest stable release of the OpenWrt 22.03 stable version series. It fixes security issues, improves device support, and brings a few bug fixes.

OpenWrt 22.03 EOL in April 2024

The OpenWrt 22.03 series will be supported until April 2024 according to the OpenWrt security policy. The last release from the OpenWrt 22.03 series is planned for April 2024, after this date we will not provide any updates for OpenWrt 22.03, not even for severe security problems. We encourage everyone to upgrade to OpenWrt 23.05 which will be supported until 2025. Main changes between OpenWrt 22.03.5 and OpenWrt 22.03.6:

Device support

• Support for the following devices was added:
  • ramips: Cudy X6 v2
  • ramips: Keenetic Lite III rev. a
  • ramips: SNR-CPE-W4N-MT router
• ath79: WLR-7100: fix packet loss
• ath79: wpj563: enable 2nd USB controller
• ath79: TP-Link Archer C7 v2: increase the rfkill debounce interval
• bmips: NETGEAR DGND3700v2: fix boot loop
• ipq40xx: switch to performance governor by default
• ramips: Cudy X6: fixes / improvements

Various fixes and improvements

• build: generate index.json
• build: fix generation of large .vdi images
• lua: fix integer overflow in LNUM patch
• dropbear: add ed25519 for failsafe key
• treewide: add PKG_CPE_ID to multiple packages
• mac80211: fix not set noscan option for wpa_supplicant
• hostapd: fix broke noscan option for mesh
• hostapd: permit also channel 7 for 2.5GHz to be set to HT40PLUS

Core components update

• Update Linux kernel from 5.10.176 to 5.10.201
• Update openssl from 1.1.1t to 1.1.1w
• Update wolfssl from 5.5.4 to 5.6.4
• Update mbedtls from 2.28.2 to 2.28.5
• Update mt76 22.03 from 2022-09-06 to 2023-09-11
• Update wireless-regdb from 2023.02.13 to 2023.09.01
• Update linux firmware from 20220411 to 20230804
• Update intel microcode from 20220809 to 20230808
• Update ca certificates from 20211016 to 20230311
• Update uhttpd from 2022-10-31 to 2023-06-25
• Update urgently from 2020-01-21 to 2023-11-01