Old wpa_supplicant version on osmc

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I had problems with wpa_supplicant on osmc. And if I search this forum and google I am not the only one.
I checked the version and discovered that osmc uses wpa_supplicant 2.3 - a version from 2014. There are newer version dating to 2016.
Why is osmc using this old version and is there a way to update it manually via ppa?

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@theincogtion ask debian maintainers instead OSMC has no bearings on that since that version comes outta the debian repo

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If you want to update it you can, but you will then be on an unsupported version of OSMC.

I don’t see a good reason to update this version / supply our own outside of Debian.

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If I look at the changelog, many things have been fixed. Some are not explicitly listed. I would give it a try.

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If you are aware of any issues and can confirm them it is better to get them in to Debian upstream.