Asus gebruikt voor zijn nieuwere routers, zoals de RT-AC66U en RT-AC87U, van Tomato afgeleide firmware met de naam Asuswrt. Deze firmware is, op enkele drivers na, opensource, waarbij de gesloten binaries wel meegeleverd worden. Asuswrt-merlin is op zijn beurt een aangepaste versie van de originele firmware van Asus. Het bevat onder meer bugfixes en kleine verbeteringen, maar probeert toch dicht bij het origineel te blijven, zodat het mogelijk blijft om nieuwe features die Asus introduceert toe te voegen aan de code. Versie 380.64 is uitgekomen en de belangrijkste veranderingen die hierin zijn doorgevoerd zijn hieronder voor je op een rijtje gezet.
The highlights of this release:
- New firmware availability notification. When a new firmware is available for download, there will be a flashing icon at the top of the webui. Going to the Firmware Upgrade page will display a popup containing the changelog, and a button that will take you directly to the download folder for your router model. You must still manually download and flash your firmware - for security reasons, online flashing is not implemented. The automated check is run every two days, and you can also manually launch the check from the Firmware Upgrade page (you can also select to check for the availability of beta firmware versions). Finally, the automated check can be completely disabled, under Tools -> Other Settings (there's also a link to that setting on the Firmware Upgrade page).
- Component updates for OpenVPN, nano and curl.
- Tor will now route all TCP ports, not just 80/443.
- Improvements to the QoS Stats page: automatic refresh, and fixed the number rounding.
- Improvements to the IPTraffic charts: slices are now sorted, and the consolidated slices will always be the least active clients.
- Improvements to the webui performance - better cache handling, large static Javascript files are now cached.
- Download Master installers has been removed from the firmware image for models that still contained them. The latest packages are always downloaded from Asus' servers at DM's install time. This results in smaller firmware images for some models (for instance, the RT-AC88U firmware went from 44 MB to 33 MB)
- Security enhancements to the webui, to better protect against cross-site attacks (backport from Asus's 4164 GPL)
- Webui fixes specific to Firefox (popup linked to the App icon at the top now works, JS errors when accessing the client list under certain situations was fixed)
- Fixes to the .ovpn config file import (crash on invalid key/certs, misconfigured HMAC setting)