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[Marcos Alano <2094785@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I'm analyzing a problem, actually a solution, related to re-connect in a
multi-band network.

My networks support 2.4GHz, 5GHz and 6GHz.

I update my router OS (OpenWrt) quite frequently, so when the machines reconnect, they go to the first available band, usually 2.4GHz. My laptop with version 2.11 connects to the 6GHz, since it can, but my other laptop that had 2.10 connects to 2.4GHz and when I try to disconnect it over router so it can reconnect to 5GHz, like most of my IT devices, it doesn't reconnect at all.
I updated to 2.11 today and I will check when I reboot the router and stuff if it I can get disconnect it so it tries to reconnect to 5GHz, as expected.
It's a long shot, but if works, one more reason to bump the version for questing.

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Title:
  New upstream 2.11 release for Wi-Fi 7 support

Status in wpa package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  [Impact]
  To support the Wi-Fi 7 features, we need to upgrade wpa_supplicant to 2.11, the latest upstream stable release.

  [Test case]
  The upgrade version should not break legacy Wi-Fi functions, we should test on all Wi-Fi chips as many as possible.

  [Where problem could occur]
  This is a new stable release which is required by Wi-Fi 7. The risk is high that we might break existing Wi-Fi solutions.

  [Additional information]
  Upstream has released 2.11 on 2024-07-20 [1].
  It provides more features which are required by Wi-Fi 7.

  [1] https://w1.fi/releases.html

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