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Asuswrt-Merlin 386/NG Changelog
===============================
386.3_2 (6-Aug-2021)
- NOTE: closed down the Issue tracker on Github, as 90%
of it was people asking for technical support,
or failing to use the supplied submission form.
- CHANGED: Re-disabled jitterentropy-rngd on non-HND
models. It kept using CPU time every two
seconds and had a very marginal impact on
the entropy pool (which it never could push
above the target threshold of 1024).
- CHANGED: Moved the "Redirect Internet traffic" setting on
the OpenVPN Client page to the Network Settings
section to increase its visibility, as too many
users are forgetting to configure it.
- CHANGED: Display "Internet traffic not redirected" instead
of "Public IP Unknown" on the OpenVPN Client
status display when Redirect Internet traffic
is set to "No".
- FIXED: Only the first OpenVPN client would be used if
you had multiple clients connected and the first
one had a Redirect Internet set to "No". Now,
setting this to "No" means that client's routing
table will no longer get a default gateway
configured, allowing traffic to be processed
by other RPDB tables if there wasn't a matching
route within that client's table.
- FIXED: IPV6-compatible DNSFilter servers weren't
properly configured in dnsmasq.
- FIXED: DNSFilter client rules may get corrupted after a
reboot.
386.3 (23-July-2021)
- NOTE: First time you boot into this version, you need to
either shift-reload the main index page, or clear
your browser cache.
- NEW: Introducing VPN Director, which replaces the original
policy routing management interface for OpenVPN clients.
A bit similar to Asus's own VPN Fusion, OpenVPN routing
rules are now managed through a central web interface,
and they are stored in JFFS instead of nvram, to allow
creating more rules, and free up some nvram for
nvram-limited devices such as the RT-AC68U.
See the Wiki for more information.
- NEW: Added QR codes to the networkmap as well as the Guest
Network page, to allow easily connecting a mobile
device just by scanning the QR code.
The generated QR code can also be saved as a file
if you'd like to print it.
- CHANGED: Rewrote OpenVPN routing handling. The firmware will
now handle route creation itself rather than letting
the openvpn client create/remove routes.
The new implementation brings a few changes:
- "Force Internet traffic through tunnel" can now
be set to "No", "Yes (All)" or "VPN Director".
- This setting will now override whatever setting
pushed by the server regarding gateway redirection.
- The kill switch can now be used in both "Yes" and
"VPN Director" routing modes
- Manually stopping a client will remove the kill
switch. It will now only be applied at boot time
(if client was set to start at boot), or if the
tunnel is disconnected through a non-user event
- CHANGED: Reworked OpenVPN's DNS Exclusive mode implementation
and interaction with dnsmasq.
- CHANGED: Moved OpenVPN Custom settings content to JFFS, and
increased max storage length from around 350 chars
to 4095 chars.
- CHANGED: Added support for BCM50991 used for the 2.5G
interface in newer RT-AX86U revisions.
- UPDATED: nano to 5.7.
- UPDATED: curl to 7.76.1.
- UPDATED: dnsmasq to 2.85-openssl.
- UPDATED: openvpn to 2.5.3.
- UPDATED: getdns to 1.7.0.
- UPDATED: stubby to 0.4.0.
- FIXED: Setting an OpenVPN client's DNS mode to Exclusive
could fail to work for certain configurations
- FIXED: DNS Exclusive redirections applied in Policy mode
could be executed in the wrong order if you had
overlapping policy rules in two separate clients.
- FIXED: Clients connected to Guest Network 1 couldn't be
routed through an OpenVPN tunnel.
- FIXED: Clients connected to Guest Network 1 would bypass
DNSFilter rules.
- FIXED: USB disks not properly unmounted on reboot
on some router models.
- FIXED: Missing error report on OpenVPN client connection
failure
- FIXED: profile.add getting used even if JFFS scripting
was disabled (dave14305)
- FIXED: Freedns authentication errors would not
properly be reported as errors.
386.2_6 (6-June-2021)
- NOTE: The IRC channel, #asuswrt, has moved to the
Libera IRC network (https://libera.chat/).
- UPDATED: chart.js to 2.9.4.
- UPDATED: tor to 0.4.5.8.
- UPDATED: root certificate bundle to June 5th 2021.
- FIXED: Fragattack security issues
386.2_4 (30-Apr-2021)
- NEW: Added jitterentropy-rngd to non-HND models, in addition
to HND models.
- UPDATED: OpenVPN to 2.5.2.
- UPDATED: jitterentropy-rngd to 1.2.2 (library 3.0.3)
- FIXED: Scheduled new FW checks wouldn't display the webui
notification icon when the local router had a
new release available.
- FIXED: OpenVPN server would flip into an error state (being
shown as "initializing" on the webui) whenever an
inbound client failed to connect to it.
386.2_2 (13-Apr-2021)
- FIXED: IPv6 pings were blocked if sent below the rate limit
instead of above (issue introduced in 42095)
- FIXED: kernel debuging log entry (was removed) (RT-AC86U)
- FIXED: Field that accepted a float value would reject
values equal to the allowed minimum (for example
the QoS bandwidth limits)
- FIXED: QoS Bandwidth settings were hidden on
non-HND models when accessing the QoS page.
- CHANGED: Tweaks to the Firmware Upgrade page display.
- CHANGED: Enabling DOS protection will now also rate limit
ICMPV6 echo (type 128) packets, like with IPv4.
386.2 (2-Apr-2021)
- NOTE: due to changes in how custom device icons are handled,
first time you boot with 386.2 you need to either
shift-reload the main index page, or clear your
browser cache.
- NEW: Added support for the GT-AX11000. Note that VPN Fusion,
as well as the ROG-specific features such as the custom
UI are not supported.
- NEW: Added support for the RT-AX68U.
- NEW: Added jitterentropy-rngd daemon to HND routers. This will
ensure sufficient entropy is generated early on at
boot time, reducing boot stalls caused by insufficient
entropy for the kernel's random number generator,
and also generally improves security related to
crypto operations by the router.
- NEW: Added Cake QoS for HND routers. Note that just like
Traditional QoS, this is not compatible with hardware
acceleration, and therefore might not be usable on
connections faster than around 350 Mbps (may vary based
on router models).
- UPDATED: Merged GPL 386_42095.
- UPDATED: Openssl to 1.1.1k.
- UPDATED: OpenVPN to 2.5.1.
- UPDATED: iproute2 to 5.11.0 (HND models).
- UPDATED: root certificate bundle to March 9th 2021.
- CHANGED: qos-start "init" user script now runs in blocking
mode to ensure it's able to complete any changes
it may apply to qos configs before these
configs get applied.
- FIXED: Router could get stuck at boot time after the user
migrated from stock firmware, or just erased his
JFFS partition, requiring a factory default reset.
- FIXED: ATM checkbox could not be enabled on QOS page.
- FIXED: DST not getting applied to some timezones (snauton)
- FIXED: Traditional QoS was broken in 386.1 (dave14305)
- FIXED: Connected IPSEC clients weren't shown on the VPN Status
page.
- FIXED: Userspace conntrack tool was no longer working
- FIXED: Traffic Monitor spikes for HND models. (Asus backport)
- FIXED: webui incorrectly complaining about mismatched timezone
between browser and webui for some timezones (dave14305)
- REMOVED: SSH Brute Force Protection option (already handled
by Asuswrt's protect service daemon)
386.1_2 (12-Feb-2021)
- NEW: Added snmp support to the RT-AX86U.
- UPDATED: inadyn to 2.8.1.
- UPDATED: nano to 5.5.
- CHANGED: Use local OUI database instead of remote one hosted
on Asus's server (allows queries to work even when
accessing webui over https)
- CHANGED: If dropbear cannot create keys in /jffs then
create temporary ones in /etc so SSH can work even
without a working JFFS partition.
- FIXED: Missing Game Mode on RT-AC88U
- FIXED: Non-working 160 MHz settings for RT-AC88U region/versions
that should support it
- FIXED: Missing Instant Guard to RT-AX56U and RT-AC88U.
- FIXED: IPv6 ending with "::" were considered invalid on the
webui (was breaking the Prefix field on the 6in4 tunnel
page for instance).
- FIXED: OUI lookups on site survey page not working
(for non-HND models)
- FIXED: Wifi Radar missing on GT-AC2900
- FIXED: Netools-enabled pages not used by GT-AC2900 and
RT-AX86U
- FIXED: GeForce NOW UPNP not working
- FIXED: Erasing the JFFS partition would often require a second
reboot since the operation failed when encountering
a bad block. These are now properly skipped.
- FIXED: Parental Control's time scheduler not working properly.
386.1 (30-Jan-2021)
Switched to the new 386 codebase. 386 introduces
AiMesh 2.0, finalizes the move to OpenSSL 1.1.1
firmware-wide, adds a new speedtest (powered
by Ookla). For more details, please refer
to Asus's own release notes.
- NOTE: For developers, note that firmware code is
once again back on the master branch, with
both mainline and ax being reunified again.
- NOTE: Some users upgrading might have to go through some
database maintenance on first boot, which means the
router might be slower or have a non-responsive webui
for a while.
This can take anywhere from 5 minutes up to an hour,
depending on your model, just give it time to complete
the process.
- NEW: Added support for the RT-AX86U.
- NEW: Added support for the GT-AC2900, with a few restrictions:
- Non-ROG UI is used
- VPN Fusion is not supported
- A few other ROG-specific features are not supported
This is an experiment done in collaboration with Asus.
- NEW: Added support for the RT-AC68U V3.
- NEW: Added stub and stub-v2 compression options to OpenVPN
clients. Not added to server, since compression is
considered deprecated, and will be removed most likely
in OpenVPN 2.6, for security reasons.
- NEW: Added tls-crypt-v2 support to OpenVPN clients.
- NEW: Added option to select an OpenVPN client when
running Oookla Speedtest.
- UPDATED: Merged GPL 386_41700
- UPDATED: Openssl to 1.1.1i.
- UPDATED: Updated to OpenVPN 2.5.0. Note that OpenVPN
2.4.0 or newer is now required by the exported
client config file. You can still manually
configure an older client to connect with your
router.
- UPDATED: dnsmasq to 2.84, resolving CVE-2020-25681,
CVE-2020-25682, CVE-2020-25683, CVE-2020-25687,
CVE-2020-25684, CVE-2020-25685 and
CVE-2020-25686 aka DNSpooq (themiron)
- UPDATED: nano to 5.2.
- UPDATED: curl to 7.72.0.
- UPDATED: zlib to 1.2.11.
- UPDATED: lz4 to 1.9.2.
- UPDATED: e2fsprogs to 1.45.6.
- UPDATED: dropbear to 2020.81.
- UPDATED: miniupnpd to 2.2 (git snapshot from 20201129)
- UPDATED: Switched userspace ipset from 6.32 to 7.6 (to match
with upstream)
- CHANGED: firmware update checks are no longer using the
server address stored in nvram, for security
reasons. Devs who were using that nvram
should instead edit the webs_scripts/* to
use their own URL.
- CHANGED: The old legacy cipher setting in OpenVPN is now only
available when running with static key authentication.
- CHANGED: Tweaks to the OpenVPN webui layout
- CHANGED: OpenVPN clients will now NAT all outbound traffic,
regardless of the source subnet.
- CHANGED: Reworked the display of DNSPrivacy presets
- CHANGED: Added AdGuard (ad blocking) and CIRA Canadian Shield
(non US-based service) to the DNSPrivacy presets.
- CHANGED: At boot time, OpenVPN killswitch will only be
applied for clients set to auto-start with WAN.
- CHANGED: Increased number of available mount points for addon
webpages to 20.
- CHANGED: Multiple routes can now be defined per client on the
OpenVPN client-specific configuration.
- CHANGED: Improved NAT acceleration report for newer models on
the sysinfo page. Now query the hardware for the
current state instead of reporting the nvram values.
- CHANGED: When logging allowed connections is enabled, also log
outbound LAN connections (reverts to the behaviour from
a few years ago)
- FIXED: DHCP could fail to renew its lease with some ISPs when
Trend Micro engine was enabled (workaround provided
by Asus)
- FIXED: OpenVPN client remote IP wasn't updated on client
stop/restart.
- FIXED: Couldn't force generating a new SSL certificate for the
webui.
- REMOVED: Option to disable NCP. The NCP cipher list is
now used both for NCP and non-NCP endpoints.
- REMOVED: fq_codel support for Adaptive QoS. Due to a change
in how Trend Micro configures QoS, it is no longer
possible to intercept these to inject fq_codel.
- REMOVED: Option to select sfq as a queue scheduler for t.QoS
or Bandwidth Limiter, and always use fq_codel.
- REMOVED: Support for the Cloudcheck mobile app.
384.19 (14-Aug-2020)
- NOTE: Due to flash partitioning changes done by Asus, it is
strongly recommended to make a backup of your JFFS
partition before upgrading the RT-AC86U, and restoring
that backup afterward. If you run into issues,
reformat your JFFS partition and reboot.
- NOTE: The RT-AX56U build is not available for this release.
- NEW: Added support for static routes for PPTP/L2TP VPN
clients, on the Static Route page (themiron)
- NEW: Added notification when JFFS free space drops
below 3 MB.
- UPDATED: Merged GPL 384_9354 for AX models.
- UPDATED: Merged GPL 384_81992 for mainline models.
- UPDATED: Merged SDK + binary blobs 384_9354 for RT-AX58U.
- UPDATED: Merged SDK + binary blobs 384_9107 for RT_AX88U.
- UPDATED: Merged binary blobs + SDK 384_81981 for RT_AC5300.
- UPDATED: Merged binary blobs + SDK 384_81992 for RT-AC86U.
- UPDATED: Merged bwdpi components from 385_20630 firmware
image for RT-AC68U.
- UPDATED: dnsmasq to 2.82-openssl (themiron)
- CHANGED: Rewrote a large portion of the OpenVPN implementation,
to make the code easier to maintain. The new libovpn
code is released under a GPL licence. Functionality
should largely remain the same.
- CHANGED: Replaced updown-*.sh OpenVPN event handler scripts
with binary libovpn functions. The new code does
stricter validation of the configuration.
- CHANGED: Enabling Client Config Dir (ccd) for an OpenVPN
server in non-exclusive mode will no longer accept
duplicate common names (to prevent issues with
two clients trying to share the same settings).
If you need such an unusual setup, you should
enable "Username/Password auth only", which will
make the common name become the username. Or
better, ensure that you have unique certificates
for all of your users.
- CHANGED: Removed the (undocumented) vpn_debug setting. Debug
logging will now only come from OpenVPN itself
(configurable through the log verbosity setting).
- CHANGED: Improved mechanism for providing an available
mount point for addon API scripters (dave14305)
- CHANGED: Harmonized the various SSL certificate modes with
upstream.
0-None - will be self-generated
1-Imported - lets you upload your own (no longer
self generated unless you don't
upload one)
2-Let's Encrypt (unchanged)
Self-generated cert will be stored to /jffs/cert.tgz,
just like upstream.
- FIXED: Broken French webui on AX models (fixed with
Asus's GPL update)
- FIXED: Chacha20 wasn't prioritized for bcm675x models which
lacked AES acceleration (RT-AX56U and RT-AX58U)
- FIXED: ddns updates and OpenVPN instances might be launched
twice at boot time if the initial ntp clock sync
happened too fast.
- FIXED: Enforced DNS and tQoS fix would be lost when the
firewall gets restarted while an OpenVPN client
is running.
- FIXED: Various issues surrounding error state report
when an OpenVPN client failed to start properly.
- FIXED: WINS provided by an OpenVPN server weren't properly
used.
- FIXED: Some large DNS queries could fail when using DoT
(patch backported from upstream)
384.18 (28-June-2020)
- NOTE: A number of changes for some models are not backward
compatible with previous versions. Downgrading to
a previous release will require a factory default reset
afterward in many cases.
- UPDATED: Merged GPL 384_8563 for AX models.
- UPDATED: Merged GPL 384_81918 for mainline models.
- UPDATED: Merged SDK + binary blobs 384_81918 for RT-AC86U.
- UPDATED: Merged SDK + binary blobs 384_81902 for RT-AC5300.
- UPDATED: Merged SDK + binary blobs 385_20490 for RT-AC68U.
- UPDATED: Merged binary blobs 385_20490 for RT-AC3100.
- UPDATED: Merged binary blobs 384_81918 for RT-AC88U.
- UPDATED: Merged SDK + binary blobs 384_8563 for RT-AX58U.
- UPDATED: amtm to 3.1.7.
- UPDATED: Root certificate bundle to June 3rd 2020.
- UPDATED: OUI database used by the webui.
- UPDATED: Dropbear 2020.80 (themiron)
- UPDATED: nano to 4.9.3.
- CHANGED: Optimized OpenVPN routing policy storage (this change
is NOT backward compatible with previous firmwares)
- FIXED: ssh/scp client would fail to connect while negotiating
a chacha20 connection (themiron)
384.13_10 (28-June-2020)
This release will most likely be the last release for the
RT-AC87U and RT-AC3200, due to limited upstream support.
- UPDATED: amtm to 3.1.7.
- UPDATED: Root certificate bundle to June 3rd 2020.
- UPDATED: OUI database used by the webui.
- UPDATED: Dropbear 2020.80 (themiron)
- UPDATED: Wireless driver from 382_52230 for RT-AC87U and
RT-AC3200 (should in theory address Kr00k)
- FIXED: ssh/scp client would fail to connect while negotiating
a chacha20 connection (themiron)
384.17 (26-Apr-2020)
Updating some models (like the RT-AC88U) from stock firmware
3.0.0.4.384_81790 and newer will require a factory default reset
after flashing Asuswrt-Merlin, due to a change in how Asus
stores the admin password starting with 384_81790.
- NEW: Add Chacha20-poly1305 support to dropbear (themiron)
- UPDATED: dnsmasq to 2.81-openssl (themiron)
- UPDATED: openvpn to 2.4.9.
- UPDATED: curl to 7.69.1.
- UPDATED: openssl-1.1 to 1.1.1g (themiron)
- UPDATED: nano to 4.9.2.
- FIXED: RT-AC88U/RT-AC3100/RT-AC5300 could fail to upgrade
from newer stock versions to Asuswrt-Merlin.
- FIXED: Various webui issues with sorting DHCP reservations.
384.13_8 (26-Apr-2020)
This release is only available for the RT-AC87U and RT-AC3200.
- UPDATED: dnsmasq to 2.81-openssl (themiron)
- UPDATED: openvpn to 2.4.9.
- UPDATED: openssl-1.1 to 1.1.1g (themiron)
384.16 (5-Apr-2020)
- NEW: Added support for the RT-AX58U and RT-AX3000 (same
firmware), based on GPL 384_8253 + binary blobs 384_8137.
- NEW: Added support for the RT-AX56U, based on GPL + binary
blobs from 384_8253.
- NOTE: The RT-AC87U and RT-AC3200 are now officially considered
to be on limited support. The future for these two
models will depend on Asus's own support in the
coming months.
- NEW: Added ed25519 support in Dropbear (themiron)
- UPDATED: Merged GPL 384_8253 for AX models.
- UPDATED: Merged SDK + binary blobs 384_7977 for RT-AX88U.
- UPDATED: Merged SDK + binary blobs 384_81352 for RT-AC86U.
- UPDATED: Tor to 0.4.2.6.
- UPDATED: curl to 7.68.0.
- UPDATED: nano to 4.8.
- UPDATED: dnsmasq to 2.81rc4-33-g7558f2b-openssl (themiron)
- UPDATED: inadyn to 2.7 (themiron, merlin)
- UPDATED: getdns to 1.6.0 (themiron)
- UPDATED: stubby to 0.3.0 (themiron)
- UPDATED: amtm to 3.1.6 (thelonelycoder)
- UPDATED: openssl-1.1 to 1.1.1f (themiron, merlin)
- UPDATED: Chart.js to 2.9.3
- CHANGED: Wireless Log page will now regroup Guest Network
clients together and identify which guest instance
they are connected to.
- CHANGED: Report temperature of second 5 GHz radio on Sysinfo page
for tri-band models.
- CHANGED: Added down/upload monitor to network status page, and
removed useless RAM chart to free some space.
- CHANGED: Security hardening in dropbear dropped CBC and 3DES
ciphers, removed version disclosure from ident
string (themiron)
- FIXED: DNS server was unreachable when connecting to an OpenVPN
server with Advertise DNS enabled, due to firewall rules.
- FIXED: Router Security Assessment would fail to recognize WPA3
as being secure.
- FIXED: miniupnpd would reject private WAN IPs - changed that
upstream behaviour to allow these.
- FIXED: Would require you to reset the DHCP scope if you
changed the LAN hostname.
- FIXED: Couldn't set http mode to http-only if you previously
had WAN access enabled but have since switched to
non-router mode.
- FIXED: Disks with a single quote in their name would fail to
properly list on various USB service pages.
- FIXED: CVE-2020-8597 security issue.
384.13_6 (5-Apr-2020)
This release is only available for the RT-AC87U and RT-AC3200.
These two models are now considered to be on limited support, and
their future will depend on Asus's future support for these two.
- UPDATED: openssl-1.1 to 1.1.1f (themiron, merlin)
- UPDATED: amtm to 3.1.6 (thelonelycoder)
- CHANGED: Security hardening in dropbear: dropped CBC and 3DES
ciphers, removed version disclosure from ident
string (themiron)
- FIXED: DNS server was unreachable when connecting to an OpenVPN
server with Advertise DNS enabled, due to firewall rules.
- FIXED: miniupnpd would reject private WAN IPs - changed that
upstream behaviour to allow these.
- FIXED: Would require you to reset the DHCP scope if you
changed the LAN hostname.
- FIXED: Couldn't set http mode to http-only if you previously
had WAN access enabled but have since switched to
non-router mode.
- FIXED: Disks with a single quote in their name would fail to
properly list on various USB service pages.
- FIXED: CVE-2020-8597.
384.15 (8-Feb-2020)
The RT-AC87U and RT-AC3200 are not supported by this release, see
the 384.13_4 release released separately for these two models.
- NEW: wan-event script. The first parameter will be the WAN unit
(0 for first WAN, 1 for secondary). The second parameter
will be a string describing the type of event (init,
connected, etc...). A wan-event of type "connected" will
be identical to when the original wan-start script was
being run (wan-start should be considered deprecated
and will be removed in a future release)
- NEW: Implemented an official API for addon developers to
better integrate with the router. This includes up
to ten different pages that can be added anywhere within
the webui, and a dedicated storage repository for your
settings, which can be interacted with through your
custom web page or through a shell script.
See the Wiki for more information:
https://github.com/RMerl/asuswrt-merlin/wiki/Addons-API
- NEW: amtm (Asuswrt-Merlin Terminal Menu) by thelonelycoder has
been added to the firmware. Running "amtm" over SSH will
give you a menu allowing you to select and install various
addons, such as Diversion (ad blocker) or SKynet (an
advanced firewall extension). The plugins for amtm are
still maintained by its original author (thelonelycoder).
https://github.com/RMerl/asuswrt-merlin/wiki/AMTM
- UPDATED: Backported some fixes from 384_81981, mostly related
to WAN, port bonding and mdns.
- UPDATED: Merged GPL 384_7756 for RT-AX88U, which adds OFDMA and
WPA3 support to that model.
- UPDATED: Merged with GPL 385_10002 for other models (from
RT-AC68U)
- UPDATED: odhcp6c to 1.1-97-ge199804 (themiron)
- UPDATED: curl to 7.67.0.
- UPDATED: openssl-1.0 to 1.0.2u
- UPDATED: dnsmasq to 2.80-114-ge40d8be (themiron)
- CHANGED: Replaced entware-setup.sh script with link to amtm, as
using the amtm Entware installer is now the supported
method.
- CHANGED: Improved connection handling in httpd (themiron)
- FIXED: Some of the newest DNSFilter servers weren't properly set
up with IPv6 (dave14305)
384.13_4 (8-Feb-2020)
This release is only available for the RT-AC87U and RT-AC3200.
- NEW: wan-event script. The first parameter will be the WAN unit
(0 for first WAN, 1 for secondary). The second parameter
will be a string describing the type of event (init,
connected, etc...). A wan-event of type "connected" will
be identical to when the original wan-start script was
being run (wan-start should be considered deprecated
and will be removed in a future release)
- NEW: Implemented an official API for addon developers to
better integrate with the router. This includes up
to ten different pages that can be added anywhere within
the webui, and a dedicated storage repository for your
settings, which can be interacted with through your
custom web page or through a shell script.
See the Wiki for more information:
https://github.com/RMerl/asuswrt-merlin/wiki/Addons-API
- NEW: amtm (Asuswrt-Merlin Terminal Menu) by thelonelycoder has
been added to the firmware. Running "amtm" over SSH will
give you a menu allowing you to select and install various
addons, such as Diversion (ad blocker) or SKynet (an
advanced firewall extension). The plugins for amtm are
still maintained by its original author (thelonelycoder).
https://github.com/RMerl/asuswrt-merlin/wiki/AMTM
- UPDATED: odhcp6c to 1.1-97-ge199804 (themiron)
- UPDATED: openssl-1.0 to 1.0.2u
- UPDATED: curl to 7.67.0.
- UPDATED: OpenVPN to 2.4.8.
- UPDATED: dnsmasq to 2.80-114-ge40d8be (themiron)
- CHANGED: Replaced entware-setup.sh script with link to amtm, as
using the amtm Entware installer is now the supported
method.
- CHANGED: Improved connection handling in httpd (themiron)
- FIXED: Some of the newest DNSFilter servers weren't properly set
up with IPv6 (dave14305)
384.14_2 (1-1-2020)
- FIXED: Missing cifs kernel module
- FIXED: stubby was linked with OpenSSL 1.0 instead of 1.1
- FIXED: some routers were reporting the Internet connection being
disconnected. If you were affected and you had flashed
a customized bootloader, then please reflash your original
bootloader, as your modded bootloader is invalid, and other
potential issues may appear over time.
- FIXED: Random traffic spikes logged in Traffic Monitor (regression
from 384_81351)
384.14 (14-Dec-2019)
- NEW: Implement option to prevent Firefox's automatic usage of DoH.
By default, this will only apply if you have DNSPrivacy
enabled, or if you have DNSFilter enabled with a global
filter, to ensure that Firefox will not bypass either of
these. You can also have this override applied all the
time, or completely disable it.
- NEW: Added "split" busybox applet.
- NEW: Added IPv6 support to Network Analysis webui
- NOTE: You might need to reconfigure your device hostname on the
LAN -> LAN IP page due to a GPL-level change (exclusing
the RT-AX88U)
- UPDATED: RT-AX88U to GPL 384_6436 (with Let's Encrypt fixes
backported from 384_81351)
- UPDATED: RT-AC68U, RT-AC86U to GPL 384_81351
- UPDATED: RT-AC88U, RT-AC3100 to GPL 384_81351 and binary
blobs from 384_81116
- UPDATED: RT-AC5300 to GPL 384_81351 and binary blobs from
384_81219.
- UPDATED: miniupnpd 20190824
- UPDATED: dnsmasq 2.80-95-g1aef66b (themiron)
- UPDATED: OpenSSL 1.0.2 to 1.0.2t (themiron)
- UPDATED: OpenSSL 1.1.1 to 1.1.1d (themiron)
- UPDATED: Curl 7.66.0
- UPDATED: nano 4.4
- UPDATED: OpenVPN 2.4.8
- UPDATED: OUI database to 2018-08-17 version
- UPDATED: CA root certificates to October 9th 2019
- CHANGED: Made webui SSL certificate generation compliant with
IOS 13 and MacOS 10.15 new requirements.
- CHANGED: Rewrote the faketc script used to inject Codel into
Adaptive QoS as a C program for improved performance.
- CHANGED: Moved /usr/bin/ip to /usr/sbin/ip on the RT-AC86U and
RT-AX88U to match other models.
- CHANGED: IPv6 firewall now accepts empty values for local IP
(which means any local IP).
- FIXED: Webui wouldn't notify when running dangerously low on
free nvram (feature was lost at some point in the past)
- FIXED: Non-working link to YandexDNS on the webui for
Russian models.
- FIXED: Backported various httpd fixes to RT-AX88 from other
models.
- FIXED: Custom clientlist would be wiped if stopping an
OpenVPN server instance.
- FIXED: Incorrect detection of EUI64 addresses on the IPv6
firewall (would prevent using ::/0 for instance).
- FIXED: EUI64 support missing while in Load Balancing or
using Multicast IPTV.
- FIXED: Asus DDNS failing to update due to an invalid
certificate on Asus's server.
- FIXED: Let's Encrypt support would sometime fail when using
Asus DDNS (fixed DNS publishing of validation record)
(in addition to general failure fixed by GPL 81351)
- FIXED: IPv6 neighbour solicitation drop toggle not working
for some models
- FIXED: openvpn-event scripts would be executed even if custom
scripts were globally disabled
384.13_2 (14-Dec-2019)
This release is only available for the RT-AC87U and RT-AC3200.
- NEW: Added "split" busybox applet.
- UPDATED: OpenSSL 1.0.2 to 1.0.2t (themiron)
- UPDATED: OpenSSL 1.1.1 to 1.1.1d (themiron)
- UPDATED: CA root certificates to October 9th 2019
- CHANGED: Rewrote the faketc script used to inject Codel into
Adaptive QoS as a C program for improved performance.
- CHANGED: Made webui SSL certificate generation compliant with
IOS 13 and MacOS 10.15 new requirements.
- CHANGED: IPv6 firewall now accepts empty values for local IP
(which means any local IP).
- FIXED: Non-working link to YandexDNS on the webui for
Russian models.
- FIXED: Webui wouldn't notify when running dangerously low on
free nvram (feature was lost at some point in the past)
- FIXED: Custom clientlist would be wiped if stopping an
OpenVPN server instance.
- FIXED: Incorrect detection of EUI64 addresses on the IPv6
firewall (would prevent using ::/0 for instance).
- FIXED: EUI64 support missing while in Load Balancing or
using Multicast IPTV.
- FIXED: Asus DDNS failing to update due to an invalid
certificate on Asus's server.
- FIXED: Let's Encrypt no longer working due to deprecated ACMEv1
protocol usage (backport from GPL 81351)
- FIXED: Let's Encrypt support would sometime fail when using
Asus DDNS (fixed DNS publishing of validation record)
- FIXED: IPv6 neighbour solicitation drop toggle not working
for some models
384.13_1 (12-Aug-2019)
- FIXED: RT-AC87U failing to boot when configuring in AP mode.
384.13 (31-July-2019)
- NEW: AiMesh Router and node support. Note that automatic live
update of Merlin-based nodes is not supported, you will have
to manually update any Merlin-based nodes when a new firmware
is available. Asus-based nodes (which is recommended) will be
able to make use of the automatic live update.
- NEW: ChaCha20-Poly1305 support in Strongswan (themiron)
- UPDATED: RT-AX88U to GPL 384_6210.
- UPDATED: Curl 7.65.3.
- CHANGED: dhcp_staticlist no longer contains hostnames, these
have been moved to dhcp_hostnames for better
compatibility with upstream and closed source
components, also allows more static leases to be
defined before reaching the size limit.
- CHANGED: Replace Nettle with OpenSSL for dnsmasq's DNSSEC
validation, which opens the door to supporting
more ciphers. (themiron)
- FIXED: Firmware Update check button would redirect to Asus
support site if scheduled checks are disabled.
- FIXED: Firefox was showing a no-op Uninstall button on the
AiCloud page
- FIXED: 5 GHz radio showing as disabled on the Sysinfo page for
the RT-AC87U
- FIXED: FTP would be accessible from the WAN even while disabled
if you had DualWAN load balancing enabled, or IPTV
configured.
- FIXED: IGMP Snooper daemon crashing when more than 32 hosts
are present (themiron)
- FIXED: External DDNS IP checker would fail for Chinese users,
as checkip.dyndns.org is blocked - switched to .com TLD.
- FIXED: Devices without a networkmap-defined alias wouldn't fallback
to their hostname on some webui pages like the IPTraffic
and QoS Classification pages.
- FIXED: Remote IP field filtering on Classification page wasn't
working.
- FIXED: Incorrect user permissions displayed on the FTP page.
- FIXED: Performance issues for some users, following the kernel
security fixes in 384.12. (gzenux)
384.12 (22-June-2019)
- NOTE: The project now has its own domain name. Official website
is now https://www.asuswrt-merlin.net/ and my email address
for anything related to the project is now
- NEW: Added WS-Discovery support. This allows Windows clients
to detect the router's shared USB drives even if SMBv1
support is disabled.
- NEW: Re-added option to extend the WAN's TTL (from stock
firmware, was previously disabled as it used to
be broken)
- UPDATED: RT-AC3200 and RT-AC87U to 382_51640/51634 binary blobs
(with a few exceptions for 384_xxxx compatibility)
- UPDATED: Merged GPL 384_45717 (except for RT-AX88U)
- UPDATED: Nano 4.2.
- UPDATED: OpenSSL-11 to 1.1.1c.
- UPDATED: OpenSSL-10 to 1.0.2s.
- UPDATED: curl 7.65.1.
- UPDATED: miniupnpd 20190604.
- CHANGED: Local clients will be shown by their hostname
on the Classification page.
- CHANGED: Reworked handling of up/down events in OpenVPN.
Server instance will now also use its own
updown script, which will handle firing up
openvpn-event (if present).
- CHANGED: Inbound traffic sent to you through an OpenVPN client
will now be dropped by default. This can be changed
through the new "Inbound Firewall" parameter found
on the OpenVPN client page. You should only change
this to "Allow" if running a site2site tunnel with
a trusted remote server, or if you do expect
traffic to be forwarded to you through the tunnel.
- CHANGED: The router will now use ISP-provided resolvers
instead of local dnsmasq when attempting to
resolve addresses, for improved reliability.
This reproduces how stock firmware behaves.
This only affects name resolution done
by the router itself, not by the LAN clients.
The behaviour can still be changed on the
Tools -> Other Settings page.
- CHANGED: Randomize the serial number of certificates
generated by the router for its httpd. If
using a router-generated certificate, then
it's recommended to generate a new one.
- CHANGED: Allow USB idle values up to 9999.
- CHANGED: Replaced Network Analysis and Netstat pages (under
Network Tools) with new versions based on Asus's
Netool daemon for non-HND models, but based
around the more limited traceroute busybox applet.
RT-AC86U and RT-AX88U still use the newer
traceroute executable.
- CHANGED: Reworked how some services are started when the WAN
interface comes up to prevent deadlocks between
the WAN completing its initialisation, and the
clock getting set. These could result is fairly
long boot time for some ISPs.
- FIXED: openvpn-event script not launching if the
client was configured in Secret Key auth
mode.
- FIXED: IPv6 issues on RT-AX88U - backported accept_ra fix
from 45717 (themiron)
- FIXED: Memory leak in erp_monitor process.
- FIXED: Page redirection failing to apply at boot
time if WAN was down.
- FIXED: CVE-2019-11477, CVE-2019-11478 and
CVE-2019-11479 (themiron)
384.11_2 (18-May-2019)
- NEW: Implemented source/destination IP filtering
for the Netool version of Netstat web page.
- CHANGED: Backported multiple fixes and improvements
for ntpd from upstream, improving handling
of failed server hostname resolution, and better
clock sync discipline.
- FIXED: RT-AC88U/3100/5300 were accidentally compiled
with Netool enabled, which isn't compatible with
these model's kernel.
- FIXED: Movistar stopped working for some users. Re-disabled
udpxy on Movistar profile for now. A more complete
fix will have to come from Asus.
- FIXED: Re-disabled memaccess debugging tool, as it creates
a symlink called "sh" which is a pretty bad
idea from Broadcom. (RT-AC86U, RT-AX88U)
384.11 (8-May-2019)
- NEW: Added DNS Privacy feature, with support for
DNS-over-TLS (also known as DoT).
You can configure it on the WAN -> Internet Connection
page. You can manually add your own servers, or chose
one (or a few) from the preset list. (themiron)
- NEW: NTP daemon on the router, to allow your LAN clients to
synchronize their clocks with it.
- NEW: Option to intercept NTP requests from clients, and
redirect them to the router's own NTP daemon.
- NEW: Added service-event-end custom script, executed at the
end of an rc service call. Receives the same arguments
as service-event, but is a non-blocking script.
- NEW: Added sqlite3 CLI command, to allow script authors to
create/manage their own sqlite3 database
- UPDATED: RT-AX88U to 384_5951 GPL.
- UPDATED: Other models to 384_45713 GPL (RT-AC87U, RT-AC3200
and RT-AC5300 still using 384_45149 binary blobs)
- UPDATED: Nano 4.0.
- UPDATED: Curl 7.64.1.
- UPDATED: Dropbear 2019.78.
- CHANGED: Replaced the custom ntpclient with a proper ntpd
implementation, for reduced memory usage and
increased accuracy.
- CHANGED: Made the secondary NTP server configurable through the
webui. Note that ntpd will use both servers, so clear
the second server if there is one and you don't want
to use it.
- CHANGED: Re-designed firmware upgrade page, moving the schedule
option to that page, and removed support for the Beta
channel.
- CHANGED: Removed popup messages showing on the DDNS page when
a service state change was detected. Report it within
the page instead.
- CHANGED: Report firmware version within the new firmware
notification popup that appears at the top of the webui.
- CHANGED: Moved LED control (formerly known as Stealth Mode) to
the System page.
- CHANGED: Do not restart whole network whenever changing an IP
reservation on the Networkmap card.
- CHANGED: Allow URLs up to 64 chars long on the URL filter.
- CHANGED: pre-mount user script now receives the filesystem
as second argument.
- CHANGED: Moved various DNS-related settings from the DHCP page
to a more appropriate location on the WAN page.
- CHANGED: OpenSSL default dir moved to /etc/ssl/. Allows
programs to automatically locate the CA bundle
without requiring explicit configuration.
- CHANGED: Optimized service restarts generated by the
System page.
- CHANGED: Replaced Network Analysis and Netstat pages (under
Network Tools) with new versions based on Asus's
Netool daemon (RT-AC86U, RT-AX88U)
- FIXED: Reboot scheduler would sometime get stuck, or corrupt
plugged USB drives. Now doing a more thorough
shutdown of services, should hopefully make it
more reliable.
- FIXED: CVE-2019-1543 issue with Chacha20-poly1305 in
OpenSSL 1.1 (themiron)
- FIXED: Client count on the Sysinfo page was missing
Guest clients
- FIXED: Miniupnpd sometimes sending ssdp notifies to
the wrong interface (themiron)
- FIXED: udpxy not working when using the Movistar
IPTV profile on RT-AC86U and RT-AX88U.
384.10_2 (3-Apr-2019)
- CHANGED: Increased OpenVPN interface queue length from 100
to 1000 bytes, to reduce the amount of dropped
packets if router can't keep up.
- CHANGED: Updated CA bundle to January 23rd version
- FIXED: Moviestar VLAN routes weren't properly configured
(broken quagga configuration)
- FIXED: Layout issues on the Wireless Log page for some
models
- FIXED: Missing tooltip content for the new local DNS
resolution setting on the Tweak page
- FIXED: FAQ URL on Bandwidth Monitor points to a non-existing
page on Asus's servers (point to old page for now)
- FIXED: OpenVPN CA would be overwritten if there was no
server key or cert present - only generate them
if all three are missing.
- FIXED: Bandwidth Limiter not working properly in some
cases, as it failed to disable hardware acceleration
384.10 (24-March-2019)
- NEW: Added OpenSSL 1.1.1b in parallel to 1.0.2. Some services
like AiCloud are still linked against 1.0.2 because they
would require Asus to recompile them against 1.1.1.
Main services that currently use OpenSSL 1.1.1:
httpd (webui), OpenVPN, wget, net-snmp, Tor,
Strongswan (IPSEC server), inadyn, vsftpd, avahi.
Models that lack AES acceleration will prioritize the use
of CHACHA20 over AES-256-GCM, for a small performance
improvement (for instance with the webui).
Note that OpenVPN 2.4.7's support is still limited.
TLS 1.3 is supported, but CHACHA20 support is
only expected with OpenVPN 2.5.0.
The 1.0.2 userspace tool is still named "openssl", while
the 1.1.x version is named "openssl11".
- NEW: Updated RT-AX88U to GPL 384_5640.
- NEW: Implemented lcp-ident option in PPP (required by some ISPs)
(Themiron).
- NEW: Added NFSv2 support to HND models.
- NEW: You can now choose between having your router do internal
DNS queries locally (through dnsmasq) or with your WAN
configured DNS (like stock firmware). This does not
affect DNS lookups from your clients, only those made
by the router itself. The option is under Tools ->
Other Settings. (Themiron)
- CHANGED: Some firmware cleanups to regain flash space (for
use with the parallel OpenSSL 1.1.x install)
(RMerlin, Themiron)
- CHANGED: Updated curl to 7.64.0.
- CHANGED: Updated OpenVPN to 2.4.7.
- CHANGED: Updated Tor to 0.3.5.8.
- CHANGED: Updated strongswan to 5.7.2.
- CHANGED: Updated OpenSSL 1.0.x to 1.0.2r.
- CHANGED: Updated dnsmasq to 2.80-44-g608aa9f (Themiron)
- CHANGED: Re-worked the Classification page. New design
is much faster, allows filtering, and shows
additional info when hovering on a field. Thanks
to FreshJr for giving me the motivation to
spend more time on it.
- CHANGED: Strongswan is no longer compiled 64-bit
on HND, allowing it to use a shared openssl library
instead of a static one. This should significantly
reduce the memory and flash usage of Strongswan.
(Themiron)
- CHANGED: Reworked DNS WAN probe implementation (Themiron)
- FIXED: IPSEC log display wasn't properly formatted (showed
entirely on a single line)
- FIXED: Compatibility issues between recent Tuxera NTFS driver
and Samba
- FIXED: NFSv2 support
- FIXED: PPP host-uniq support (Themiron)
- FIXED: AiCloud not working on the RT-AX88U
- FIXED: OpenVPN key/certs would sometime end up in nvram in
addition to in /jffs
- FIXED: Couldn't remove an existing OpenVPN key/cert by
clearing the field on the webui
- FIXED: Resetting OpenVPN client to Default values wasn't
removing any existing Extra CA certificate
- REMOVED: Beceem Wimax driver. This is deprecated, and was
already removed from the HND models. This allows
to reclaim close to 2 MB of flash space.
- REMOVED: CFB and OFB ciphers from OpenVPN client
384.9 (2-Feb-2019)
- NEW: Temporarily reorganized code in separate branches, to handle