Asus gebruikt voor zijn routers, zoals de RT-BE88U en RT-BE92U, een 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 3006.102.6 is uitgekomen en hierin zijn de volgende veranderingen en verbeteringen aangebracht:
Note:New:
- Asus has made some security related changes. Password requirements are stricter, and UPNP is no longer enabled by default. New password rules were slightly loosened for Asuswrt-Merlin, repeating characters are still allowed.
- For developers, the Tomato legacy files (tm*.*) are no longer included with the webui. Please update your addon pages accordingly.
Updated:
- Added support for the RT-BE58_Go.
- Added support for the GT-BE19000AI.
- Redesigned Traffic Monitor pages.
- Uses Chart.js for Realtime and Last24 pages
- Removes legacy Tomato code
- Last 24 can be zoomed in and panned (mouse wheel and pinch-to-zoom gestures are both supported)
- Realtime and Last 24 now show as bits/s instead of bytes/s
- Settings moved from the tab to the dropdown menu
- Removed NVRAM database location option and added JFFS. Also removed rarely used start-of-month setting.
Changed:
- Merged GPL 38978 (RT-BE58_GO only)
- Merged GPL 40103 (GT-BE19000AI only)
- Merged GPL 39099 (other Wifi 7 models)
- Merged GPL 37351 (Wifi 6 models)
- OpenVPN to 2.6.16.
- libcap-ng to 0.8.4 (to be in sync with upstream)
Removed:
- TrafficMonitor stats can now be saved to JFFS, and removed support for saving to NVRAM.
Fixed:
- Outdated setuprsa.sh script.
- IPv6 requests for prefix lengths other than 64 for routers with Multiwan support.
- CVE-2025-9230 in OpenSSL (backport by RSDNTWK).
- Client name would be missing on the Wireless Log page if the MAC was missing in the DHCP lease list (for static clients for example)
- OpenSSL 1.1.1 would prioritize CHACHA20 over AES on BCM4916 devices
- MU-MIMO couldn't be disabled on some models.
