Asus gebruikt voor zijn routers, zoals de RT-AC68 en RT-AX88, van een 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. Hieronder zijn de belangrijkste verbeteringen sinds versie 386.5_2 voor je op een rijtje gezet:
Asuswrt-Merlin 386.7
New:Updated:
- IPV6 support for DNSFilter for HND router models. Custom settings can also let you specify IPv6 servers. These (as well as providers that support IPv6) will now also get intercepted and redirected like the IPv4 DNS servers are.
Changed:
- Merged with 386_49335 GPL for the RT-AC5300.
- Merged with 386_48966 GPL for all other models.
- openssl to 1.1.1o.
- haveged to 1.9.18.
- openvpn to 2.5.7.
- tor to 0.4.7.8.
Fixed:
- dhcpc-event now has a second parameter that will contain "4" or "6" depending on the IP protocol of the event (dave14305)
- JFFS backup/restore functions not working on XT12 and GT-AX6000.
- CVE-2022-0934 in dnsmasq (backport)
- CVE-2022-26376 (reported by Cisco Talos, fixed by Asus)
- DNSFilter client list was limited to around 10 clients on some models.
- AuraRGB could be re-enabled on reboot if it was previously disabled.
- Wifi LEDs wouldn't turn back on when re-enabling LEDs on the RT-AX86S.
Asuswrt-Merlin 386.6
Note:New:
- This release is only available on the GT-AX6000 and XT12.
Updated:
- Added support for the GT-AX6000.
- Added support for the ZenWifi Pro XT12.
- Added Cloudflare and AdGuard to DNSFilter services.
- Added option to enable/disable IPv6 support to OpenVPN server. This is disabled by default.
- Added NAT support for OpenVPN server in IPv6 mode. This allows to redirect IPv6 Internet traffic through your OpenVPN server.
Changed:
- Merged with GPL 386_47885.
- wget to 1.21.3.
- dropbear to 2022.82.
- Reworked DNSFilter page design.
- Allow requesting bigger IPv6 subnets from your ISP (Tvlz)
- Allow hostuniq PPPoE value of up to 256 characters long.
Fixed:
- Traditional QoS download traffic limited by upstream bandwidth (dave14305)