There is a topic in allwinner subforum about the instability of the kernel 4.14.18 on some allwinner devices. 

 

 

I got that stability issues on my banana pi m1, and notice that the last kernel available on armbian still the 4.14.18.

Today I also run apt upgrade on raspberry pi 3 and it installed the kernel 4.14.30 that stop the ipsec vpn working, the same as in 4.14.18 used on armbian.

I feel some frustration on the latest kernel updates, and wondering if anyone have some info about the next kernel update that solve this issues.
Do you advise me to change to nightly builds to get a new kernel to test?

 

6 hours ago, inaciose said:

Do you advise me to change to nightly builds to get a new kernel to test?

Try switching to nightly DEV kernel (4.16.y) ... or back to some older 4.11.y version. Probably better, since 4.16.y is in an early development stage and many other things can simply be broken.

I share the frustration