OpenWRT-Forked LEDE Releases 17.01, Presents At The Embedded Linux Conf

Written by Michael Larabel in Operating Systems on 24 February 2017 at 07:55 AM EST. 17 Comments
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This week marks the 17.01.0 final release of the Linux Embedded Development Environment (LEDE). They also presented at this week's Linux Foundation Embedded Linux Conference about their project that's a fork of OpenWRT and aims for router/embedded use-cases.

LEDE 17.01.0 final was released on Wednesday and modernizes many parts of its OpenWRT stack, switches to the Linux 4.4 kernel (from Linux 3.18), updates many pieces of key software, adds additional security features, improves networking support, and has a wide variety of other improvements.

More details on LEDE 17.01.0 via LEDE-Project.org.

The project also presented at this week's Embedded Linux Conference about their work. If you want to learn more about LEDE, check out their PDF slides.
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