New blog post 📰! What happened the last 9 months around MPTCP 🔀, and which new features will be available in the future LTS v6.18 Linux kernel version: https://blog.mptcp.dev/2025/10/16/v6.18-with-many-features.html

- Better load-balancer deployment support on the client side 🔄
- New 'laminar' endpoints for better controlling addresses signalled by a server 📢
- mptcpd: security review and improvements 🔐
- More apps natively supporting MPTCP 🧑‍💻
- Misc.: PM, counters, CI, perf, socket options, adaptive ADD_ADDR timeout and future work. 📈

MPTCP or Multipath TCP is an extension to the standard TCP to allow devices to make use of multiple interfaces at once. See https://mptcp.dev for more details.

Thanks to @nlnet for funding part of this work 🎉

#MPTCP #MultipathTCP #Linux

#OpenWrt 24.10.0 the #opensource #router-oriented distribution has been released. Changes include an update to the 6.6 #linux kernel, use of access control lists on larger systems, #MultipathTCP on devices with big flash size , better #WiFi6 (802.11ax) support, the beginning of #WiFi7 (802.11be) support.
https://openwrt.org/releases/24.10/notes-24.10.0