News OpenWRT 23.05.6 service release announced

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The OpenWrt community is proud to announce the newest stable release of the OpenWrt 23.05 stable series. It improves device support and brings a few bug fixes including security fixes.

Download firmware images using the OpenWrt Firmware Selector:

• https://firmware-selector.openwrt.org/?version=23.05.6

Download firmware images directly from our download servers:

• https://downloads.openwrt.org/releases/23.05.6/targets/

The OpenWrt 23.05 series is end of life according to the OpenWrt security policy. The last release from the OpenWrt 23.05 series is 23.05.6, after this date we will not provide any updates for OpenWrt 23.05, not even for severe security problems. We encourage everyone to upgrade to OpenWrt 24.10 which will be supported till 2026.

• Added devices:
  • ath79: Huawei AP6010DN
  • ath79: MikroTik RouterBOARD 750 r2 (hEX lite)
  • ath79: Sophos AP15C
  • ramips: netis N6
• ath79: ZTE MF286: fix 5GHz on QCA9886
• ath79: add extended AR9344 reset sequence
• ipq40xx: Aruba AP-303H: Fix PSE GPIO pin
• ipq40xx: Meraki MR33 and MR74: fix MAC address
• mediatek: Xiaomi Router AX3000T: Add support for Winbond W25N01KV flash
• ramips: TP-Link RE200 v1 and RE210 v1: Fix booting stuck issue
• octeon: ubnt-edgerouter: fix sysupgrade config backup/restore

• iptables: backport "nft: track each register individually" from 1.9
• wifi-scripts: Fix parsing of Capabilities

• Update Linux from 5.15.167 to 5.15.189
• Update mac80211 from 6.1.110-1 to 6.1.145-1
• Update wireless-regdb from 2024.07.04 to 2025.07.10
• Update openssl from 3.0.15 to 3.0.16
• Update mbedtls from 2.28.9 to 2.28.10
• Update wolfssl from 5.7.2 to 5.7.6
• Update ca-certificates from 20230311 to 20241223
• Update jsonfilter from 2024-01-23 to 2025-04-18
• Update libxml from 2.12.5 to 2.14.5

 

[ColinTaylor]

Source (including upgrading and known issues): https://openwrt.org/releases/23.05/notes-23.05.6#openwrt_23056_-_service_release_-_20_august_2025