OpenWrt is a highly extensible GNU/Linux distribution for embedded devices (typically wireless routers).

Release Released Active Support Security Support Latest
23.05 1 year and 1 month ago
(11 Oct 2023)
Yes Yes 23.05.5
(24 Sep 2024)
22.03 2 years ago
(03 Sep 2022)
Ended 1 year and 1 month ago
(11 Oct 2023)
Ended 7 months ago
(11 Apr 2024)
22.03.7
(23 Jul 2024)
21.02 3 years ago
(01 Sep 2021)
Ended 2 years ago
(03 Sep 2022)
Ended 1 year and 6 months ago
(30 Apr 2023)
21.02.7
(27 Apr 2023)
19.07 4 years and 10 months ago
(06 Jan 2020)
Ended 3 years ago
(01 Sep 2021)
Ended 2 years and 6 months ago
(30 Apr 2022)
19.07.10
(17 Apr 2022)
18.06 6 years ago
(30 Jul 2018)
Ended 4 years and 10 months ago
(06 Jan 2020)
Ended 3 years and 4 months ago
(01 Jul 2021)
18.06.9
(17 Nov 2020)
17.01 7 years ago
(20 Feb 2017)
Ended 6 years ago
(30 Jul 2018)
Ended 5 years and 9 months ago
(01 Feb 2019)
17.01.7
(21 Jun 2019)

The latest major release is fully supported with updates for the core packages, fixing security and other issues. The previous major release only receives security fixes till the End-of-Life date. Each major release becomes EoL 6 months after the release of the next major version, with a minimum of 1 year from its own release.

More information is available on the OpenWrt website.

You should be running one of the supported release numbers listed above in the rightmost column.

You can check the version that you are currently using by running:
cat /etc/os-release

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