Release life cycle

Release life cycle

The Gluon maintainers are releasing new versions on an irregular schedule, depending on the state of the master branch concerning the stability of new features and OpenWrt updates.

Minor releases appear in each of the supported branches on a regular basis, carrying backported fixes and updates to the OpenWrt base (kernel updates and bugfixes).

The support for a release usually ends some time after the next major release. Exceptions to the rule do exist.

Gluon Branch	OpenWrt Release	Release Date	End of Support	Comment
v2014.3.x	12.09	2014-08-02	2014-10-19	VPN over IPv6 and other IPv6 improvements
v2014.4.x	14.07	2014-12-30	2015-01-26	added batman-adv compat15
v2015.1.x	14.07	2015-05-16	2016-01-02	added mesh-on-lan, other targets than ar71xx-generic
v2016.1.x	15.05	2016-02-08	2016-09-18	added status page, 802.11s
v2016.2.x	15.05	2016-09-21	2018-04-10
v2017.1.x	lede-17.01	2017-06-10	2018-07-17 (v2017.1.8)
v2018.1.x	lede-17.01	2018-07-08	2018-12-20 (v2018.1.4)	added multidomain, vxlan, BATMAN_V
v2018.2.x	18.06	2018-12-29	2020-01-03 (v2018.2.4)
v2019.1.x	18.06	2019-09-14	2020-12	Last release with IBSS & batman-adv compat14 support
v2020.1.x	19.07	2020-02-10	2020-09-01 (v2020.1.4)
v2020.2.x	19.07	2020-07-19	2022-03-31	Last release to support updates from before v2018.2, added device classes (tiny/standard), WPA3, SAE
v2021.1.x	19.07	2021-06-10	2022-10-31	Last release to support devices with only 4MB flash
v2022.1.x	22.03	2022-09-05	2023-08-10
v2023.1.x	22.03	2023-08-10	2024-03-31
v2023.2.x	22.03	2024-01-05	tbd