OpenWrt: Releases, patches & end-of-life
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Lifecycle guide for OpenWrt from OpenWrt

All releases, patches, maintenance and support periods at a glance

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📅 Last update on 2026-05-12

What is OpenWrt?

Automate product release and end-of-life managementOpenWrt is a Linux distribution for embedded systems such as CPE routers, smartphones (e.g. Neo FreeRunner) or pocket computers (e.g. Ben NanoNote). OpenWrt provides a fully writable file system and includes the opkg package manager. This is particularly unique for use in CPE and WLAN routers. As of August 2020, the package sources contained more than 15,000 software packages. These can be used to comprehensively configure the router and add many features not supported by the device manufacturer"s firmware. OpenWrt Buildroot, the tool for creating your own images, is a heavily modified Buildroot.
 

The entire lifecycle of OpenWrt

The following figure shows you the visualised product life cycle of OpenWrt. You can see all releases with the latest patch version, the long-term support characteristics (orange flag in the green circle, the periods for version provision, maintenance and support.
OpenWrt (OpenWrt) release, version and end-of-life information
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Figure: Release, patch and end-of-life cycle of product OpenWrt (OpenWrt)
 

Facts and figures about OpenWrt

Product
OpenWrt
Vendor
OpenWrt
Latest version
25.12.3
Number of releases
8
Number of versions
95
Number of unstable versions
32
Number of versions affected by CVE
80
Licence
Free software, GPL and other
Licence details
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_software
Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenWrt
 
 

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