12.15.1.1 - 2026-01-30

⛰️ Features

• Add a few items to the top of the grid's header context menu - (eb9cd8b)
• Add a newer FreetTDS library for Windows, from the last successful VS 2022 build on https://ci.appveyor.com/project/FreeTDS/freetds - (93bfda0)
• Make grid-highlight-same-text-color part of the predefined color schemes - (7854157)
• Switch color scheme from Tools main menu - (c8c3b23)
• Introduce global AppColorSchemes for managing SQL and grid colors, and sync both with the app's dark mode (still only on Windows) - (d313a59)
• Sync active line color and brace highlight with the app's dark or light mode - (3510728)
• Auto-switch to dark or light SQL colors in sync with the app's dark mode - (8a08e77)
• Support dark mode, using MetaDarkStyle from OPM, and provide the 3 known custom settings: automatic, light and dark - (3f9e867)
• Re-enable dropping files from file manager to "insert files to BLOB" dialog - (23fc9c0)
• Upgrade DPI awareness to Per-Monitor v2, add TMainForm.FormChangeBounds as a replacement for the missing OnAfter/OnBeforeMonitorDpiChanged events - (9eab28e)
• Re-enable menu item on list header context menu: "Toggle visibility of all columns" - (41169f7)
• Support European umlauts/accents as \w (word char) in some regular expression areas - (304cd26)
• Auto-uppercase keywords, data types and functions - (62cda84)
• Recreate previous state of trigger after realizing the user edited code has errors - (e7e5e11)
• Create a TSynEditMarkup descendant and use it for highlighting selected text occurrences - (8a667f2)
• Create custom setting so the user may define a terminal app himself, and auto-detect terminal app if the setting is yet empty - (613e207)
• Enable InnoSetup script for creating Windows installer - (317edcd)
• Re-enable codepage => charset mapping using GetACP from DelphiCompat unit - (79e4654)
• Re-enable ValidFilename function with platform specific lists of disallowed characters - (f3a0594)
• Re-enable support for hyperlinks in message dialogues, and use TTaskDialog again for simple messages on Windows - (15eb52b)
• Support portable mode with a portable.lock file in the app folder - (c528c5d)
• Re-enable hints on query result tabs - (88115ac)
• Show connection details as a hint over status bar - (e1ad5c3)
• Add missing LCL translations, compiled to .mo files with msgfmt from Poedit with support for msgctxt - (505e3ec)
• Use the more native MessageDlg on all platforms when we don't need additional dialog features - (8c0e61f)
• Show only mono-space fonts in SQL font selector - (3388d9f)
• Support compilation and usage on FreeBSD - (425d099)
• Include libssl 1.1 in macOS app bundle - (f51d2a9)
• Include libmysql plugins in macOS app bundle - (85a15f8)
• Provide libmariadb plugins in macOS app bundle - (2967ad2)
• Assign OK button to Enter and Cancel button to Esc - (3ea4a90)
• Add translation files to macOS app bundle - (08735bc)
• Provide libmariadb in macOS app bundle - (2a1c725)
• Support SynEdit hints when mouse is over function names, tables etc - (82ef10e)

🚀 Enhancements

• Turn two more TButtons into TBitBtn with icon - (9300cbc)
• Immediately show new log lines on heavy operations, enhancing user experience - (b100479)
• Turn export options button into TBitBtn and give it an arrow-down icon - (4864900)
• Indicate drop-down menu through arrow-down image on buttons - (288b346)
• Reduce width of left gutter in popup text editor - (4215aee)
• Hide grid cell border lines in most VirtualStringTree's - (b31f78a)

🐛 Bug Fixes

• (ci) Get libqt6pas on ubuntu via 3rd party repo - (4205774)
• Remove MetaDarkStyle from the required packages, instead add a latest snapshot of the relevant files from https://github.com/zamtmn/metadarkstyle/ - (9f9cde0)
• ERangeError when editing text grid values which allow more than 2^31 chars, e.g. LONGTEXT - (42b5d52)
• Set default value for ThemeIsDark for cases where AppleInterfaceStyle does not exist (= light mode) - (26ca75e)
• Reload color scheme after auto-apply, reintroduce ThemeIsDark with a detection for Windows and macOS, use MetaDarkStyle units only on Windows - (b4afc3a)
• Invalid typecast in List.Add(BaseForm.Components[i]), when running debug builds - (38faf57)
• Wrong length of text detected (always 0) - (930a815)
• Crash in data grid when switching to an empty table on ArchLinux - (e9b6835)
• Next attempt to fix ERangeError crash in TBaseVirtualTree.UpdateVerticalRange - (c8e8bed)
• Wrong ModalResult on "Replace all" button - (2367ac6)
• Increase too tight node height - (60ad998)
• Auto fit columns in search-on-server results, taking the header caption into account - (4ce827b)
• Remove space eating gutter from SynEdit in search text dialog, disable scrollbars as long as not required - (7423aa3)
• Form dimensions reset to default values each time, and wrong check for empty SynEdit - (dab1cda)
• Confusion about modified default setting for DoubleClickInsertsNodeText, reset to old value - (f8dc796)
• Wrong BOM characters written to grid export files, when encoding is set to "UTF-8 BOM" for instance - (f951b78)
• Auto-uppercase when pressing Enter immediately after a keyword - (d34be7f)
• Missing selection highlighting and auto-uppercasing in data tab filter editor - (2e31c5e)
• Prevent triggers without quoted trigger name or table name from failing to be parsed (alexanderglueck) - (3028076)
• Convert usages of UnicodeString to String, in jsonregistry unit, and fix handling of Chinese characters - (39df339)
• Broken integers and floats after locale formatting on macOS - (fa1db76)
• Crash in file-picker with Windows path within Linux - (7f8dc30)
• Some more compiler warnings and hints - (3b24707)
• Missing top anchor control for new terminal edit box - (4271040)
• Missing SSHPASS environment variable when starting tunnel with sshpass -e - (6ce846b)
• Non working MySQL command line launcher, for all platforms - (d9b6f87)
• A few more compiler hints and warnings - (e18b3db)
• Crash at right-click on data grid header - (f88405b)
• Add missing dlls and MySQL plugin dlls for use on Windows, remove unused macOS dylibs - (287abde)
• Non working "Insert row" actions and its friends - (d1faf6b)
• Stretched preview image, and image metadata label too small - (20aded3)
• Ban Windows API code used in OnAdvancedHeaderDraw for painting column headers with sort chars - (485fb7d)
• Broken sort arrows in grid column header - (377d402)
• Fails to run netstat or netstat.exe on Windows, try a cross-platform socket approach - (633ee44)
• Fix various compiler hints and warnings - (f1ac6dc)
• Crash when switching between tables - (c054884)
• Bad anchors on edit-variable dialog, overlapping/hiding radio buttons - (3e77c0d)
• Conflicting grid edit shortcuts - (ad52dd3)
• Crash in grid initializing, likely due to a wrong node height - (4c6204a)
• Compile error on Linux due to "identifier not found: LoadStringW" - (7a73769)
• Translate button captions on TTaskDialog using LoadStringW on Windows - (9723210)
• Set MySQL plugins folder like in the classic branch - (eccf7b2)
• No locale influence and no scientific notation in JSON reformatter - (825447f)
• Bad anchors on "start" tab of session manager, plus add an info label for portable users - (a140b19)
• Set Screen.HintFont globally to what the editors use - (2b7d31b)
• Do not show ugly/solid grid lines on macOS and Linux - (c35a35c)
• Prevent host sub-tabs from getting disabled on macOS - (6f5a2d1)
• Missing control anchors on create-database dialog - (d26f128)
• Prevent editors from getting an empty font name - (74abc16)
• Show file modification time in about dialog - (50b6864)
• Skip harmless error when PG has no COLLATION_NAME in IS.COLUMNS - (eb3937a)
• Broken compiler conditionals - (556e4fb)
• Missing control anchors on copy-table dialog - (6cc530b)
• Set runtime search path for linker, so openssl finds libssl.1.1.dylib and we can access https pages now - (230ac8d)
• Missing control anchors on search/replace dialog - (c07b155)
• Missing control anchors and tab order on column selector - (f72156d)
• Wrong button positioning on macOS caused by differences of TButton/TBitBtn - (ba9442b)
• Search for translation files in the right folder within macOS app bundle - (52b065a)
• Prefer TBitBtn over TSpeedButton for native look on macOS - (bee61ec)
• Assign no Syn highlighter by default and call it "Text", in texteditor - (446d78c)
• Anchoring in about box - (3605706)
• Copy functions-*.ini files to the right folder, add iconset - (2f92db2)
• Sign and notarize exe file and dylibs on macOS, fix ini filenames - (c34bde3)
• Load libs from ../Frameworks on macOS - (8f6ba68)
• Remove dead code - (5f39a44)

🚜 Refactor

• Move grid null colors away from data types array to the new color scheme - (2bc36b4)
• Rename TSynEditHelper.TextIsEmpty to HasText - (ac095e4)
• Move macOS build to Makefile - (f41a6ff)

🎨 Styling

• Remove no longer needed and partly dead code for DpiChange detection - (23148e9)
• Remove dead code which is unlikely to get re-enabled in the future - (eb4a0b4)
• Remove non working context help button on session manager, we have a "general help" menu item in the "more" menu already - (b1122c5)
• Reduce borders around controls - (ff065ea)

⚙️ Miscellaneous Tasks

• Bump version to 12.15.1.1 - (cb03bec)
• Revert to using include-packages, now that it checks LazCompatibility to exclude outdated/incompatible package files from installation - (fcd45be)
• Attempt to fix compilation of unwanted and outdated package files - (04bee72)
• Attempt to fix broken dependency, use correct case of the package's DisplayName - (45e596c)
• Mention current Lazarus version in readme file, mention usage for macOS builds and plans for v13 - (93fdf77)
• Remove "Linux" from the Github release name, so I can have one release for all OS packages - (ab46fc5)
• Move translation source file from master to lazarus branch - (b211b44)
• Remove unused file extensions and add some others - (0b5ab25)
• Set release compiler option -WM10.15 identically to debug, relevant for macOS - (6144df2)
• Using the correct lazbuild - (c9c6be0)
• And I had to forget one more, right?!?! - (fc49d22)
• Windows executables have .exe extension!!! - (35d2ebd)
• Add Windows build to the matrix - (10776d6)
• Switch back to upstream setup-lazarus - (b2c049b)
• Add macOS - (6377e11)
• Test switching to forked setup-lazarus action - (dcdac1b)
• Debugging missing columns from IS.COLUMNS on PG v16 - (f65bd15)
• Remove dead code and calls: HasSizeGrip, FixControls, TranslateComponent, ConfirmIcon - (1527d35)
• Adding support for QT6 CI/CD - (c9d05e8)
• Dealing with end of line shenanigans - (d3fa0af)
• Remove Transifex integration, prefer precompiled .mo files in extra/locale/ - (4e5504f)
• Remove Wine hacks, now that we provide native Linux builds - (95df174)
• Remove notification for no longer created build updates - (5e2c8b5)
• Remove dead code - (fa4a14a)
• Set linker rpath for all build modes - (df80dbf)
• Notarize macOS bundle only with --notarize argument, include team id - (887a6cf)
• Apply trivial change to remaining units complaining about CR/LF mixup - (64cec90)

Contributors

• @ansgarbecker
• @gcarreno

New Contributors ❤️

• @D3SOX made their first contribution in #2356

12.14.1.1 - 2025-12-11

⛰️ Features

• Shell script for creating macOS app bundle - (af24108)
• Support XML formatting in grid popup text editor - (913fc9d)
• Switch to grayscale icons on inactive query tabs - (917e046)
• Support SSH tunnel configuration per commandline - (35a5225)
• Display some known file type icons in file open/save dialog - (b4c0566)
• Finalize keyboard shortcut customization in preferences - (637d2d6)
• Add new keyboard shortcut editors on preferences dialog - (cc4e6f1)
• Keep time fractions intact for CSV exports - (06322de)
• Use custom folder icons in tree on file dialogs, in non-Windows mode - (3094d79)
• Show NULL values in system variables listing - (06b44eb)
• Highlight same text in grids based on all selected rows - (afc9d8c)
• Support fractional UNIX timestamps in grids - (65c1472)
• Add "source table: xyz" hint to query result column headers - (2863a80)
• Support click on path parts on top label of file dialog - (98b796b)
• Convert all save/open dialogs to the new custom one - (4a8c53c)
• Create file-save dialog with linebreaks selector - (d5d34ad)
• Recreate basic TExtFileOpenDialog without OS owned dialog and room for customization - (bac0d7a)
• Full support for different icon packs, Silk and Icons8 - (dbca69d)
• Add 206 Silk icons into new TImageList - (769afa5)
• Require libsybdb5 in DEB package - (e1781f9)
• Mark MS SQL protocols like named pipe as unsupported, advise the user to change to TCP/IP - (b20f121)
• Dirty and basic support for MS SQL - (3df3673)
• Show more detailed backtrace in crash dialog - (bc0a7de)
• Support SSH passwords via sshpass - (f2b2dc3)

🚀 Enhancements

• Position session manager centered over main form, ignore position set by user - (571c671)
• Align bottom buttons on session manager - (ca7aad6)
• Set font style and color of size column in tree - (f987c81)
• Move RightEdge on SQL editors out of sight - (2a23e26)
• Light text color instead of ghosted/ugly icon for unseen tree nodes - (76aefb3)
• Disable tree option asDoubleClickInsertsNodeText by default - (1c9321c)

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Connect MS SQL query to session transaction, run .ExecSQL - (59191da)
• Prevent SQL delimiter being set to PostgreSQL quotes - (a3acc04)
• Crash when grid-exporting without required key - (ff6050f)
• Delete CLI-created session settings from registry after disconnect - (8778d40)
• Another broken thousand separator - (24f3e36)
• New attempt to hide SynEdit caret when unfocused - (03f4a5f)
• A TSpeedButton connected to a TAction, and a TMenuItem were not auto-checking - (42abf46)
• Database icon in Icons8 list too small - (dda44be)
• Cannot save new table when added column was removed - (1fe709a)
• Compile without MS SQL support on macOS - (9a4d841)
• Query batch stops at second last query if it has errors but StopOnErrors is off - (6e40c62)
• Drag'n drop on Linux requires VT.DragType = dtVCL - (4fd646c)
• Enable drag'n drop in table editor and session manager - (9afc60f)
• Detected empty text DEFAULT value for table columns - (4c0617d)
• Append quick filter without linebreak - (8ea3b94)
• Wrong icon sizes, disable right-click select for column list so selection is kept - (a145fc5)
• Remove dead code, fix some compiler hints - (79bcd1d)
• Bad position of TEdit on TInplaceEditorLink - (8d119a0)
• Quick filter > "more values" submenu not created/shown - (8696e61)
• Empty KeyStrokes list on text editor - (db00c83)
• Broken caption on inline text edit button - (1730956)
• User queries not showing up in log panel - (222a386)
• Do not edit grid cell on right-click, and set HotCursor on DBtree - (0257867)
• Flashing main form in background after cancel session manager - (0563b4d)
• Work around empty space artifact in ShellListView - (cf9ed85)
• Move all Application event assignments to .lpr file - (64919d6)
• Confusion with (selected) folder icons - (b488ca2)
• Tree with keyboard actions shows wrong captions - (5e20c53)
• Binary result values displayed as 000... - (4322372)
• TMySQLQuery.TableName() returns wrong string, and introduce apphelpers.GetAppDir - (bb517d7)
• Crash in AnyGridPaintText with no query result - (59659f0)
• Error: (4004) Variable identifier expected - (13a0127)
• Crash in printer dialog with 0 printers available - (6eecdd8)
• Missing file for previous commit - (857cca8)
• Some remaining issues in the new file-open/save dialogs - (34e3f32)
• Work around out-of-view item in left tree after FormShow - (ec4c237)
• Navigate to directory of currently loaded file when user opens dialog for loading another file - (251f632)
• Broken support for non UTF-8 encoding - (fe65231)
• Prompt to overwrite only if file exists - (91de2fc)
• Add encoding selector to file-open dialog - (56b783d)
• Crash when app exits, with deleted TSynGutterSeparator - (00627ae)
• Optical stuff, add bookmark icons for SynEdit - (29d1abc)
• Use GetApplicationName in InitMoFile as well, plus documentation - (93bf989)
• Make LCLTranslator independent of executable filename - (0469dd9)
• Make GetAppConfigDir independent of executable filename - (9e2611e)
• Make translation filename independent of executable filename - (5d487bb)
• More painting related crashes on QT, this time in OperationRunning() - (fbe32db)
• Compiler warnings, re-enable active line background - (a1c84ae)
• Two crashes in QT caused by aggressive control repainting - (7650efe)
• Hide library files which ldconfig shows up but don't exist - (85cf230)
• Provide at least one libmysql for macOS, plus its dependencies - (1fbc2ab)
• Fix compiler errors on macOS, set DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH run param to fix wrong path for libssl - (58b210a)
• Wrong integer size/type for ClientFlag in mysql_real_connect - (3213fe9)

⚙️ Miscellaneous Tasks

• Bump version to 12.14.1.1 - (1a2f1f3)
• Use Lazarus logo in readme - (aa49736)
• Remove now unused doc, written for converting to Lazarus - (b01e732)
• Fix generation of .deb - (e95aca8)
• Fix missing Package variable - (13c55ce)
• Using v4 of git-cliff-action - (81d613b)

Contributors

• @ansgarbecker
• @gcarreno

[12.13.1.1] - 2025-11-03

⛰️ Features

• Sort session folders at top per setting - (93dc936)
• Filter box in user manager - (b57b764)
• Add checkbox "Open file after creation" to grid export dialog - (613f4d8)
• Allow sorting columns in table designer - (8541eb4)

🚀 Enhancements

• Make file exit action OS friendly - (1f19d00)

🐛 Bug Fixes

• List procedures in PostgreSQL - (db902f7)
• Missing DELETE HISTORY privilege on MariaDB - (f7b80db)
• Prevent crash in auto-refresh action - (2c25e04)
• Bad message with no library selected - (f9a486b)
• Generate missing values for geometry columns - (eb1b5ea)
• Allow modify length of index with binary column - (173efeb)
• End global "edit function" mode for grid editing early - (5cac850)
• Take care for escaped ENUM definitions - (328fb72)
• Support return data type of stored function containing white spaces - (d7b1faa)
• Safety replacement for folder separator when renaming a session or folder - (18a21ef)
• Leave away schema when double-click table for inserting into query editor - (b72f259)
• Sticky empty-password warning after setting a non-empty one - (f2028e1)
• Support double dollar quotes on PostgreSQL - (caeae88)

📚 Documentation

• (CHANGELOG) Proper changelog - (79bb279)

⚙️ Miscellaneous Tasks

• Bumping version to 12.13.1.1 - (bf23332)
• Using correct target of build-* - (16a54a5)
• Fixing some blantant mistakes - (76dfa98)
• New category: Enhancements - (dd1ad34)
• Removing unnecessary tx-push recipe - (d293d64)
• Forgot to copy .ini files on run-* - (c513e53)
• Completing run-gtk2, run-qt5 - (04650d9)
• Adding empty tx-push to Makefile - (3ceed39)
• Adjusting workflow to skip secrets detection - (14dd9ce)
• Adding usage of secrets.mk - (123a2e7)
• Forgot to change the output folder - (78f1415)
• First batch of changes - (2bee126)

New Contributors ❤️

• @gcarreno made their first contribution
• @ansgarbecker made their first contribution
• @ made their first contribution

Hi,

The OpenWrt community is proud to announce the fourth release candidate of the OpenWrt 25.12 stable series.

Download firmware images using the OpenWrt Firmware Selector:

• https://firmware-selector.openwrt.org?version=25.12.0-rc4

Download firmware images directly from our download servers:

• https://downloads.openwrt.org/releases/25.12.0-rc4/targets/

Please test this version

This is not the final version, this is a test version. Please report problems and bugs in our issue tracker.

Highlights in OpenWrt 25.12

OpenWrt 25.12.0-rc4 incorporates over 4300 commits since branching the previous OpenWrt 24.10 release and has been under development for over one year.

Only the main changes are listed below. See changelog-25.12.0-rc4 for the full changelog.

General changes

The hardware requirements did not change significantly, most devices supported by OpenWrt 24.10 should also work with OpenWrt 25.12.

Switch package manager from opkg to apk

OpenWrt has transitioned from the traditional opkg package manager to apk (Alpine Package Keeper).

This change brings several advantages:

• apk is still maintained, the OpenWrt opkg fork was not maintained any more.

apk supports most features of opkg. Only very few package names changed. The command line arguments of apk are different from the command line arguments of opkg.

For users migrating existing systems, an official opkg to apk cheatsheet is available to ease the transition and map common workflows.

Integration of attended sysupgrade

The attended sysupgrade LuCI application is now installed by default.

ASU allows devices to:

• Upgrade to new OpenWrt firmware versions
• Automatically rebuild firmware images with all currently installed packages
• Preserve system configuration during upgrades

This dramatically simplifies upgrades: with just a few clicks in LuCI and a short wait, a custom firmware image is built and installed without manual intervention.

Shell history is preserved

Shell command history is now preserved across sessions by storing it in a RAM-backed filesystem.

Benefits:

• Command history is no longer lost between logins
• No unnecessary writes to flash storage by default

For users who prefer persistent history storage, this behavior can be changed by editing: /etc/profile.d/busybox-history-file.sh

⚠️ Note: Storing history on flash will increase write cycles and may impact flash endurance over time.

Integration of video feed

The OpenWrt video feed with Qt5 and UI applications is integrated by default.

Wi-Fi scripts in ucode

The wifi scripts were rewritten in ucode.

Target changes

• Extend realtek target with support for more switch SoCs like 10G Ethernet switches.
• Extend qualcommax target with support for ipq50xx and ipq60xx SoCs.
• Added siflower target for Siflower SF21A6826/SF21H8898 SoCs
• Added sunxi/arm926ejs subtarget for Allwinner F1C100/200s SoCs

Many new devices added

OpenWrt 25.12 supports over 2180 devices. Support for over 160 new devices was added in addition to the device support by OpenWrt 24.10.

Core components update

Core components have the following versions in 25.12.0-rc4:

• Updated toolchain:
  • musl libc 1.2.5
  • glibc 2.41
  • gcc 14.3.0
  • binutils 2.44
• Updated Linux kernel
  • 6.12.66 for all targets
• main packages:
  • cfg80211/mac80211 from kernel 6.18.7
  • hostapd master snapshot from August 2025
  • dnsmasq 2.91
  • dropbear 2025.89
  • busybox 1.37.0

In addition to the listed applications, many others were also updated.

Upgrading to 25.12

Upgrading from 24.10 to 25.12 should be transparent on most devices, as most configuration data has either remained the same or will be translated correctly on first boot by the package init scripts.

• Sysupgrade from 23.05 to 25.12 is not officially supported.

• Cron log level was fixed in busybox. system.@system[0].cronloglevel should be set to 7 for normal logging. 7 is the default now. If this option is not set, the default is used and no manual action is needed.

• Bananapi BPI-R4: Interfaces eth1 was renamed to sfp-lan or lan4 and the interface eth2 was renamed to sfp-wan to match the labels. You have to upgrade without saving the configuration.

Scratch installs/upgrades

If you wish to start from scratch (always the safest, but also the most work), simply download the pre-built image from the downloads site or from the Firmware Selector to your device. Make sure to create and save a backup, then install the image using sysupgrade -n /tmp/firmware.bin or the LuCI Backup/Flash Firmware, being sure to set "Keep settings and retain the current configuration" to its off position. Restore or reconstruct your configuration using the contents of the backup as a template.

Attended Sysupgrade options

Attended Sysupgrade (ASU) allows you to build a custom image that retains all of your installed packages and their configuration transparently. You need to use one of the three ASU clients that interface with the ASU server to produce this custom image:

• Firmware Selector - an online builder that requires you to manually supply it with the packages you wish to have installed. This package list is sent to the ASU server, and a new custom device image is created containing those packages. You may then download and install the image in LuCI Backup/Flash Firmware, but for this you would enable "Keep settings..."
• Luci Attended Sysupgrade - the web interface to the ASU server. This tool allows you to choose a new OpenWrt version, then collects the names of the packages on your device and sends them up to the ASU server. LuCI ASU then downloads the created image directly to your device and allows you to install it, without having to do any of the bookkeeping tasks involved with using the Firmware Selector.
• owut - a command line package that does the same job as LuCI ASU, but provides more diagnostics and better visibility into what's happening at the various steps before and during the build process.

Both the LuCI ASU app and owut are optional packages in 24.10, so if you have not installed them, they won't be there by default. Use either the LuCI Package Manager to install them, or you can do it from the command line with opkg:

$ opkg update
$ opkg install luci-app-attendedsysupgrade
$ opkg install owut

Note that you can install one or the other, or both together, they are completely independent packages.

Upgrades with Firmware Selector

The Firmware Selector does an excellent job of searching through the thousands of available device configurations and getting you to the right place. But, some devices have several variants and possibly different image formats, so if you're unsure about which one you need or which device you're dealing with or anything else, go to the |Firmware Selector support thread and ask away.

Upgrades with LuCI Attended Sysupgrade

The LuCI web interface should be fairly self explanatory. Since you have fairly limited options there that should be pretty obvious, but if anything is unclear or you're unsure about something, go to the LuCI Attended Sysupgrade support thread and ask.

Upgrades with owut

If you choose to use owut, the fact that it's a command line program means you'll need a little more explanation regarding best practices. In any situation, it's always safe to do a check to see what's going on.

$ owut check --verbose --version-to 25.12
... a lot of output ...

This check should show you all the details of what this upgrade entails with regards to the packages available, and will point out any issues with package versions and so on.

Assuming the results of the check look good, you can simply do an upgrade next.

$ owut upgrade --verbose --version-to 25.12
... even more output ...

If you are unsure of anything you see in the check, during the upgrade, or simply have questions, jump on over to the owut support thread on the forum and ask.

Known issues

• Users of Zyxel EX5601-T0 devices need to check their WAN interfaces as port was renamed from eth1 to wan.
• The rockchip target does not build. rockchip will be included in the next release candidate again.

Full release notes and upgrade instructions are available at
https://openwrt.org/releases/25.12/notes-25.12.0-rc4

In particular, make sure to read the regressions and known issues before upgrading:
https://openwrt.org/releases/25.12/notes-25.12.0-rc4#known_issues

For a detailed list of all changes since 25.12.0-rc3, refer to
https://openwrt.org/releases/25.12/changelog-25.12.0-rc4

To download the 25.12.0-rc4 images, navigate to:
https://downloads.openwrt.org/releases/25.12.0-rc4/targets/
Use OpenWrt Firmware Selector to download:
https://firmware-selector.openwrt.org?version=25.12.0-rc4

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

Have fun!

The OpenWrt Community

To stay informed of new OpenWrt releases and security advisories, there
are new channels available:

• a low-volume mailing list for important announcements:
  https://lists.openwrt.org/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-announce

• a dedicated "announcements" section in the forum:
  https://forum.openwrt.org/c/announcements/14

• other announcement channels (such as RSS feeds) might be added in the
  future, they will be listed at https://openwrt.org/contact

• [p]Damage from HE grenades that explode mid-air near the ground will no longer be calculated as if they exploded on the ground.[/p][/*]

• [p]Various knife sound adjustments.[/p][/*]

• [p]Performance optimizations for exploding chickens.[/p][/*]
• [p]Fixed a map scripting bug where Entity.SetOwner wasn't accepting undefined.[/p][/*]
• [p]Added a method for community maps to save modified user settings. Running 'host_writeconfig_with_prompt' will prompt the user for permission to save. If accepted, some of the modified settings (radar, viewmodel, safezones, etc) will be kept after the map exits. [/p][/*]
• [p]Community maps are now restricted to a smaller list of allowed console commands. Use -disable_workshop_command_filtering to disable this filtering.[/p][/*]

• [p]Updated to the latest version from the Community Workshop (Update Notes)[/p][/*]