Changelog 386

Asuswrt-Merlin Changelog
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386.14 (20-July-2024)
- NOTE: Reminder that all models on the 386.xx series will
stop being supported by Asuswrt-Merlin at the end
of 2024.
- UPDATED: Merged with GPL 386_52805.

- UPDATED: wget to 1.24.5.
- FIXED: WPS wouldn't start on RT-AC68U (note: starting through
webui was fixed, however starting through button is
still broken for the RT-AC66U_B1, including with
stock firmware).
- REMOVED: Wifi Radar was removed (unsupported by Wifi 7 devices,
and security issues cited by Asus in their own recent
releases).
386.13_2 (26-Apr-2024)
- NOTE: This release is only available for the RT-AC86U
and GT-AC2900.
- UPDATED: strongswan to 5.9.13 (fixes CVE-2023-41913)
386.13 (7-Apr-2024)
- NOTE: all the models supported by Asuswrt-Merlin on the
386_xx series are now officialy on Asus' End of Life
list, which means unless there are new major security
issues, no new updates will be provided by Asus.
Asuswrt-Merlin will tentatively attempt to continue to

provide updates and fixes until the end of 2024, at which
point all the 386_xx models will no longer be actively
maintained.
- UPDATED: openvpn to 2.6.10.

- UPDATED: miniupnpd to 2.3.6.
- UPDATED: tor to 0.4.7.16.
- UPDATED: OUI database used by networkmap and the webui.
- CHANGED: QOS/Classification page can now resolve local IPv6
addresses.
- CHANGED: Display tracked connections on the QoS/Classification
page even if QoS isn't set to Adaptive QoS.
- CHANGED: Prevent the use of Apple's iCloud Private Relay
when enabling "Prevent client auto DoH".
- CHANGED: NAT Passthrough page - removed the "Enabled + NAT
Helper" option as the firewall no longer blocks
traffic when set to disabled. This is back to the
former behaviour, where this setting only controls
whether or not to load the NAT helper. You might
need to readjust that setting if you had previously
changed it.
- CHANGED: SIP, RTSP and H323 ALG (NAT helpers) are now
disabled by default, as these legacy features tend
to create issues with modern VoIP setups.
This change will only apply to people doing a
factory default reset of their router.
- FIXED: CVE-2023-48795 in dropbear.
- FIXED: Various issues with the QOS Classification page.
- FIXED: UPNP leases without a description would not appear
on the Forwarded Ports page.
- FIXED: web server crashing when entering certain settings on
the Network Filter Page. Bypassed bug in closed source
validation code for now.
- FIXED: Concurrent cronjob changes through cru could cause
collisions, leading to missing jobs (dave14305)
- FIXED: CVE-2023-5678 & CVE-2024-0727 in openssl (backport from
Ubuntu by RSDNTWK)
386.12_6 (26-Feb-2024)
- UPDATED: dnsmasq to 2.90 (resolves CVE 2023-50868 and CVE 2023-50387).
386.12_4 (21-Nov-2023)
- UPDATED: openvpn to 2.6.8 (fixes a crash introduced in 2.6.7)
386.12_2 (12-Nov-2023)
- UPDATED: openssl to 1.1.1w.
- UPDATED: curl to 8.4.0.
- FIXED: WPS not working on SDK6/SDK7 devices (affecting
RT-AC68U and RT-AC88U/3100/5300)
- FIXED: dcd constantly crashing (updated Trend Micro
components)
386.12 (4-Sept-2023)
- UPDATED: OpenVPN to 2.6.6.
- UPDATED: openssl to 1.1.1u.
- CHANGED: FTP server will now only support strong ciphers
in TLS mode.
- FIXED: QOS Classification showing no Upload data on some
WAN configurations.
- FIXED: Radio temperature graphs weren't updating
- FIXED: nvram usage reported on Sysinfo page was inaccurate
as it included JFFS stored values.
386.11 (14-May-2023)
- CHANGED: Reduce max OpenVPN clients to 2 for RT-AC68U and
DSL-AC68U due to lack of NVRAM on these two
models. Note that existing settings are not
automatically removed, you must run the following
command over SSH to remove them from nvram and
the /jffs/openvpn/ directory:
clear_vpnclients.sh
A backup will be saved in /jffs/openvpn_backup.tgz.

- FIXED: DDNS was being refreshed every time IPv6 bound6() event
occured even if IPv6 DDNS update was disabled.
- FIXED: Wireless Log wouldn't properly show IPv6 address
for clients with multiple addresses.
- FIXED: dnsmasq may crash if no DNS server is configured
(fix backported from dnsmasq upstream)
386.10 (10-Mar-2023)
- NOTE: 386_xx releases are only for Wifi 5 (AC) models.
- NEW: Added Site Survey page under Network Tools tab.
(RT-AC86U/GT-AC2900).
- UPDATED: dnsmasq to 2.89.
- UPDATED: openssl to 1.1.1t.
- UPDATED: Asus security daemon updated to 2.0 engine (patch
from Asus)
- CHANGED: Moved WiFi Radar and Site Survey to the
Network Tools tab
- CHANGED: Disabled auto logout on System Log and
Wireless Log pages.
- CHANGED: Reduced EDNS packet size from 1280 to 1232
bytes in dnsmasq, to better work with some
upstream servers not fully supporting EDNS0.
- FIXED: NTP redirection wouldn`t work properly with
Guest Network, removed redirection for these.
- FIXED: Added missing Tools icon on ROG UI (icon
contributed by Cody).
- FIXED: RT-AC68U may crash when using Media Bridge mode
with a specific SSID length (patch from Asus)
386.9 (6-Jan-2023)
- NOTE: 386_xx release are only for Wifi 5 (802.11ac) models.
- NEW: Merged with GPL 386_50757.
- UPDATED:
getdns/stubby to 1.7.2/0.4.2.
- UPDATED:
zlib to 1.2.12 + backports.
- UPDATED:
openssl to 1.1.1s.
- UPDATED:
inadyn to 2.10.0.
- UPDATED:
nettle to 3.8.1.
- UPDATED:
openvpn to 2.5.8.
- UPDATED:
dropbear to 2022.83.
- UPDATED:
dnsmasq to 2.88.
- CHANGED:
Rebranded DNSFilter as DNS Director. This will prevent
confusion with the company sharing the same name, and
also better describes what the feature does.
- CHANGED: Setting an OpenVPN client to redirect all traffic while
in "Exclusive" DNS mode will now force redirect ALL
DNS traffic just like in VPN Director mode.
While this will allow redirecting clients with
hardcoded DNS servers, it also means that your whole
LAN will lose the ability of doing local name
resolution. It might be best to use VPN Director
in that case to control which client should
be involved in the DNS redirection, or use
DNSFilter instead of Exclusive DNS mode.
editing VPNDirector rules.
- CHANGED: Switched generated self-signed certificate to an
EC certificate.
- CHANGED: Disabled DSS key support in Dropbear SSH.
- FIXED: Wrong temperatures used by the temperature graphs
(386.8 regression)
- FIXED: Guest Network clients couldn't route through VPN
(regression in 386.4 following a GPL merge).
- FIXED: Clients connected to Guest Network 1 aren't
redirected to the router's NTP if NTP interception is
enabled.
- FIXED: Name was truncated to 31 chars when enabling OpenVPN
client's Server Certificate Name Validation.
- FIXED: CVE-2022-37434 in zlib.
- REMOVED: Interface selector on Speedtest page (no longer
working, possibly due to an ookla client update)
386.8 (13-Aug-2022)
- NOTE: This release is only available for the RT-AX88U as
well as the two new models listed below.
- NEW: Added support for the GT-AXE16000.
- NEW: Added support for the GT-AX11000_Pro.
- NEW: Added support for new RT-AX88U hardware revision.
- CHANGED: Re-enabled IPv6 DDNS support.
- CHANGED: Once again block router DNS access over IPv6 when
using DNSFilter on a pre-HND model (reverted back
to 386.7 behaviour for that scenario)
- FIXED: inaccurate nvram usage on Sysinfo page for some HND
models. Now accurately report kernel nvram usage.
- FIXED: WiFi Radar page alignment.
- FIXED: AiMesh node new firmware popup would use the device model
(like RT-AC66U_B1) rather than the product id (like
RT-AC68U) for the generated download URL.
- FIXED: OVPN client with DNS set to strict had lower priority
than DNSPrivacy servers.
- FIXED: IPv6 DNS may be missing if DNSPrivacy is enabled.
- FIXED: Wifi Radar pages missing on XT12.
- FIXED: QRcode failing to generate if the SSID contained unicode
characters (like emojis or other UTF8 entities)
386.7_2 (24-July-2022)
- UPDATED: openssl to 1.1.1q.
- UPDATED: RT-AX86U driver + SDK updated to latest upstream version
- UPDATED: RT-AX88U and GT-AX11000 radio firmware downgraded to the
previous version.
- FIXED: Some ISPs would fail to allocate a proper IPv6 prefix (tvlz)
- FIXED: Packet checksum errors logged when using DNSFilter in Router
mode. Router mode will no longer use DNAT, except for newer
HND 5.04 models like the GT-AX6000 or XT12, which work
properly. Non-Router mode on HND will still use
the new DNAT support added in 386.7.
- FIXED: Some SSH clients would end up with an incorrect PATH
value for the default search path.
- FIXED: OpenVPN clients wouldn't get updated routing tables
if an OpenVPN server was stopped/started while an
OpenVPN client was connected
386.7 (22-June-2022)
- NEW: 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.
- UPDATED: Merged with 386_49335 GPL for the RT-AC5300.
- UPDATED: Merged with 386_48966 GPL for all other models.
- UPDATED: openssl to 1.1.1o.
- UPDATED: haveged to 1.9.18.
- CHANGED: dhcpc-event now has a second parameter that will
contain "4" or "6" depending on the IP protocol of
the event (dave14305)
- FIXED: JFFS backup/restore functions not working on XT12
and GT-AX6000.
- FIXED: CVE-2022-0934 in dnsmasq (backport)
- FIXED: CVE-2022-26376 (reported by Cisco Talos, fixed by Asus)
- FIXED: DNSFilter client list was limited to around 10 clients
on some models.
- FIXED: AuraRGB could be re-enabled on reboot if it was
previously disabled.
- FIXED: Wifi LEDs wouldn't turn back on when re-enabling
LEDs on the RT-AX86S.
386.6 (20-Apr-2022)
- NOTE: This release is only available on the GT-AX6000
and XT12.
- NEW: Added support for the GT-AX6000.
- NEW: Added support for the ZenWifi Pro XT12.
- NEW: Added Cloudflare and AdGuard to DNSFilter services.
- NEW: Added option to enable/disable IPv6 support to OpenVPN
server. This is disabled by default.
- NEW: Added NAT support for OpenVPN server in IPv6 mode.
This allows to redirect IPv6 Internet traffic
through your OpenVPN server.
- UPDATED: dropbear to 2022.82.
- CHANGED: Reworked DNSFilter page design.
- CHANGED: Allow requesting bigger IPv6 subnets from
your ISP (Tvlz)
- CHANGED: Allow hostuniq PPPoE value of up to 256
characters long.
- FIXED: Traditional QoS download traffic limited by
upstream bandwidth (dave14305)
386.5_2 (25-March-2022)
- UPDATED: openssl to 1.1.1n.
- CHANGED: Added Wireguard module + userspace tool to
GT-AXE11000.
- FIXED: Only a few DNSFilter clients are supported
on HND models (entries limited to 255 chars).
- FIXED: Security issue in AiCloud (backport from Asus)
- FIXED: Cannot enable Adaptive QoS under certain scenarios
on pre-HND router models.
386.5 (2-March-2022)
- NEW: Added support for the RT-AC68U V4. All
RT-AC68U models are using a combined
firmware file (like stock firmware),
with both firmwares within the same file.
- NEW: Added support for the GT-AXE11000.
- NEW: Added config option for the Boost key on
GT models. The option can be found on the
Administration -> System page.
- NEW: Basic IPv6 support for TQoS (Kevin Bracey)
- UPDATED: Reverted dnsmasq from 2.86 to 2.85.
- UPDATED: avahi to 0.8 + a few backports.
- CHANGED: Improved accuracy of overhead parameters
in Traditional QoS (Kevin Bracey)
- CHANGED: Report download stats for TQoS (Kevin Bracey)
- CHANGED: Report DFS scanning state for both 5 GHz bands
if appropriate on tri-band models
- CHANGED: Enabled pass_persist support in net-snmp.
- FIXED: Various TQoS issues (Kevin Bracey)
- FIXED: enabling/disabling 802.11b rates wouldn't get saved
to nvram.
- FIXED: netatalk failing to load extensions.
- FIXED: Large swapfiles reported the incorrect size on
the Tools page (Kevin Bracey)
- FIXED: User accounts would not show as connected on
the OpenVPN server username list if a remote
client connected over IPv6.
- FIXED: Earlier syslog content was missing on RT-AX86U
and RT-AX68U after a reboot.
- FIXED: WAN monitoring could fail if using IPv6 and
DNS Rebind protection was enabled.
- FIXED: RT-AX86U syslog could be truncated after a reboot.
- FIXED: Toggling FTP WAN access without applying settings
wouldn't reconfigure the FTP server properly.
- FIXED: Non-functionning TrendMicro features on the
RT-AX68U and RT-AX86U (reverted kernel components
to the previous version).
386.4 (1-Jan-2022)
- NEW: Added support for the RT-AX86S (uses the same firmware
as the RT-AX86U).
- NEW: Added wireguard kernel module + userspace tool to
HND models firmware images.
- NEW: IPv6 support for OpenVPN server. Allows to remotely
connect to your router's OpenVPN server over IPv6, and
reach LAN clients over their IPv6 (redirecting IPv6
Internet traffic does not work).
- UPDATED: Merged with GPL 386_45958 + a few newer patches
from Asus.
- UPDATED: vsftpd to 3.0.5.
- UPDATED: openssl to 1.1.1m.
- UPDATED: nettle to 3.7.3.
- UPDATED: dnsmasq to 2.86.
- UPDATED: miniupnpd to 2.2.3-git 20211017.
- UPDATED: inadyn to 2.9.1.
- UPDATED: CA bundle to 2021-12-13.
- UPDATED: amtm to 3.2.2 (thelonelycoder)
- CHANGED: replaced jitterentropy-rngd with haveged.
It uses more resources, but it works
properly on older platforms, and is
generally less CPU intensive in regular
use. This is implemented for all router
models.
- CHANGED: Switched dnsmasq crypto backend to nettle.
- CHANGED: Switched to Asus's own dhcp hostname support.
Existing dhcp_hostnames entries will be
converted on first boot.
- CHANGED: miniupnpd will now be supplied the public WAN
IP to improve compatibility with dual NAT
setups.
- CHANGED: Disabling Auto DoH will now also disable
Windows' new Discovery of Designated
Resolvers (DDR) feature.
- FIXED: Wrong interface might be used for the default
gateway in an openvpn client routing table.
- FIXED: Generated OpenVPN certs used SHA1 signatures
instead of SHA256 (regression from 386.1)
- FIXED: Various issues with protocol handling when
importing an ovpn client file.
- FIXED: IPv6 not working while in Dual WAN mode.
- FIXED: Failed OpenVPN client connections might sometime
be stuck with a "Connecting" state.
- FIXED: NTP sometimes failing to update at boot time
when using IPv6.
- FIXED: Changes done by firewall-start may be lost after
ddns service gets stopped when using tunnelbroker
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: dnsmasq to 2.85-openssl.
- 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: 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: 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: 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.
- 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: 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_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 binary blobs 385_20490 for RT-AC3100.
- UPDATED: Merged binary blobs 384_81918 for RT-AC88U.
- 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: 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: 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: Tor to 0.4.2.6.
- 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: 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)
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)

- 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)
- 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)
- 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
merlin@asuswrt-merlin.net.
- 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
Asus's currently scattered firmware source code releases.
The GPL situation for this release is as follow:
o RT-AX88U: Merged GPL 384_5329
o Other models: Merged GPL 384_45149.
o Special binary blobs provided by Asus for the RT-AC87U
and RT-AC3200 (compatible with 384_45149).
- NEW: Added NFS client support (V2 and V3) to the

RT-AC86U and RT-AX88U (already present in older models)
- NEW: Report the number of spatial streams and the PHY type
used by wireless clients for models supporting it
- NEW: Display tracked connections on the QoS Stats page (now
relabeled "Classification").
Fields can be sorted by clicking on the column headers.
Thanks to FreshJr for his help in deciphering the packet
mark values.
- NEW: Implemented ipsec.postconf and strongswan.postconf scripts.

- KNOWN ISSUE: dcd process crashing on RT-AC86U (bug in Trend
Micro's code, outside of my control).
- KNOWN ISSUE: IPv6s on Tracked Connections have their last
two bytes set to 00 (bug in Trend Micro's
code truncating the last two bytes).
- KNOWN ISSUE: No IPS events logged (bug in Asus's code,
IPS should work, just fails to log hits)
- KNOWN ISSUE: Networkmap listing may be unreliable.
(Bug in Asus's code)
- KNOWN ISSUE: Users failing to read changelogs will
probably complain about the above issues.
(Outside of my control).
- CHANGED: Updated wget to 1.20.
- CHANGED: Updated nano to 3.2.
- CHANGED: Updated Chart.js to 2.7.3.
- CHANGED: Updated dnsmasq to 2.80-32-g28cfe36 (themiron)
- CHANGED: Optimized some JS files to reduce their size
- CHANGED: OpenVPN clients can now accept CNs up to 255 chars
when using it to validate the certificate.
- CHANGED: No longer reset the OpenVPN client's description,
policy mode and existing rules when uploading an
.ovpn config file.
- CHANGED: No longer accept any server-provided route
when OpenVPN client set to Policy (Strict).
- CHANGED: Clients bound to DNSFilter rules will no longer
bypass it by using DoT. DNSFilter servers that
support DoT (like Quad9) will only allow filtered
clients to use that server
- FIXED: Firmware update checks would not run at boot time
on the RT-AX88U.
- FIXED: Name resolution issues for /etc/hosts entries on
HND models (themiron)
- FIXED: Syslog not properly copied to JFFS on reboot
(John Bacho)
- FIXED: Volumes not properly unmounted on HND platform
(John Bacho)
- FIXED: Added missing TEE Netfilter target on the RT-AC86U
- FIXED: SSH brute force protection didn't work in Dual WAN
load balancing mode.
- FIXED: httpd crashes on RT-AC86U (themiron)
- FIXED: DNSFilter clients could use a different nameserver
when using an IPv6 connection
- FIXED: USB disk idle config changes not applying without a
reboot.
- FIXED: "Strict" DNS mode wasn't working properly with OpenVPN
clients
- FIXED: Cannot upload JFFS backup on HND models
384.8_2 (8-Dec-2018)
- CHANGED: Updated miniupnpd to 20181205.
- CHANGED: Push LAN domain to OpenVPN clients as DNS suffix
for the connection.
- FIXED: Cannot save custom settings on OpenVPN server page
on non-HND models.
- FIXED: Some webui pages fail to load properly in French
- FIXED: dnsmasq fails to start when certain options are
configured (themiron)
- FIXED: Non-functionnal Show Password option on OpenVPN/PPTP
server page for RT-AX88U (removed)
- FIXED: Persistent SSL cert was wiped at boot time in
some specific scenarios.
384.8 (2-Dec-2018)
- NOTE: Asus has put the RT-AC56U on their End of Life
list, meaning no further firmware releases from
them. Since it's impossible for me to support
models without matching GPL releases from Asus,
I also have to retire the RT-AC56U. 384.6 is
the final release for that model.
- NOTE: The RT-AC3200 and RT-AC87U are not supported by this

release, Asus hasn't released any updated code yet for
these models.
- NEW: Added RT-AX88U support (based on GPL 384_4736).

- NEW: Merged with GPL + binary blobs from 384_32799 (all
supported models except RT-AX88U)
- NEW: Add LZ4 V2 option to OpenVPN compression
(more effective at handling already compressed
data)
- NEW: Added "extend" support to SNMP.
- NEW: Added CleanBrowsing to DNSFilter supported services.
- NEW: Webui HTTP LAN port can now be changed from the default 80.
- NEW: Added support for the Netfilter TEE target.
- CHANGED: Removed watchdog from OpenVPN clients, to avoid
conflicting with more advanced configurations.
- CHANGED: Vsftpd TLS mode will now reuse the web server
certificate (including any Let's Encrypt generated
one).
- CHANGED: SSL crypto/cipher hardening for httpd (themiron)
- CHANGED: Syslog will now ignore bwdpi debug output (themiron)
- CHANGED: Reworked Wireless Log page, adding a new button to
view low-level details (what stock firmware shows
on its Wireless Log page), and removed redundant
option to display DFS channel details.
- CHANGED: Update dnsmasq to 2.80-11-g59e4703 (themiron)
- CHANGED: Updated nettle to 3.4
- CHANGED: Updated net-snmp to 5.8
- CHANGED: Updated openssl to 1.0.2q
- CHANGED: Migrated /jffs/ssl/* content to /jffs/.cert (to
share the same folder used by Asus stock)
- CHANGED: Re-enabled WTFast on non-HND models (curl-related
crash has been fixed). This is still untested.
- CHANGED: Updated CA bundle to October 17th 2018 version.
- CHANGED: Support search domains pushed by a remote OpenVPN
server
- FIXED: UOPNP port forwarding not working in CGNAT/double NAT
scenario even if proper ports were forwarded upstream.
- FIXED: Pages based on table.js (like the port trigger one)
would fail to work properly under Firefox
(Michael Ziminsky)
- FIXED: Dnsmasq issues when running in non-router mode
(John Bacho)
- FIXED: Routing issues when in non-router mode (John Bacho)
- FIXED: Bug in curl that could cause some applications to
crash on non-HND models
- FIXED: IFTTT failing to start on non-HND models (caused by
curl issue).
- FIXED: Webui could complain about port 8080 being reserved for
http WAN port (which is no longer supported)
- FIXED: Cannot change image for device with a vendor name
containing an apostrophe (like Micro-Star int'l)
(Asus bug)
- FIXED: OpenVPN client download was capped by Adaptive QOS
upload limit (fix devised by FreshJR)
- FIXED: OpenVPN custom config might be lost after a reboot
on the RT-AC86U.
384.7_2 (21-Oct-2018)
- FIXED: Namecheap DDNS service not working
- FIXED: CVE-2018-15599 security issue in Dropbear
- FIXED: Potential buffer overrun in httpd
384.7 (7-Oct-2018)
- NOTE: The RT-AC3200 and RT-AC56U are not supported by this
release, Asus hasn't released any updated code yet for
these models.
- NOTE: Important changes to DDNS, please read below.
- NOTE: Important changes to DNSFilter, please read below.

- NEW: Merged RT-AC87U binary blobs + SDK from 382_50702.
- NEW: Replaced old ez-ipupdate DDNS client with In-a-Dyn.
A plugin was developed to fully support Asus's DDNS
service.
Custom services can now be configured through ddns-start,
inadyn.conf, inadyn.conf.add or inadyn.postconf. See the
In-a-Dyn documentation as many custom services can be
defined for it.
- NEW: Added support for freedns.afraid.org DDNS service to webui.
- NEW: Added option to retrieve WAN IP from either the local
interface (like before) or through a remote server
(which works through double NAT) for DDNS.
- NEW: Display DFS channel info on Wireless Log page.
- NEW: Added option to disable checks on unsigned DNSSEC replies.
Disabling these will speed up lookups, but it will also
remove part of the security benefits of DNSSEC, so it
should not be used unless you have a very specific reason
to do so.
- NEW: Added Quad9 to DNSFilter supported services.
- CHANGED: Updated wget to 1.19.5.
- CHANGED: Updated openssl to 1.0.2p.
- CHANGED: Updated dnsmasq to v2.80test8 (themiron).
- CHANGED: Updated nano to 3.1.
- CHANGED: All DDNS services now use HTTPS.
- CHANGED: Replaced Google Domains DDNS script with In-a-Dyn's own
plugin.
- CHANGED: Moved DNSFilter to the LAN section, to make it clear
that it's unrelated to Trend Micro's engine.
- CHANGED: Report hostname and IP on Wireless Log page if the
info is missing from dnsmasq but available from
networkmap.
- FIXED: Invalid dnsmasq config when setting DNSFilter to Router
mode and having IPv6 enabled (themiron).
- FIXED: dnsmasq crashing on RT-AC86U with IPv6 Stateful mode
(themiron).
- FIXED: client table would be shown twice on the VPN Status
page if the only connections to an OVPN server
were invalid clients (like a port scanner)
- FIXED: DDNS forced updates after "x" days wouldn't be
initiated.
- FIXED: CERT VU#598349 vulnerability (DHCP client could
claim the special "wpad" hostname)
- REMOVED: Ez-ipupdate DDNS client (replaced with In-a-Dyn).
Update your scripts if you were relying on it.
- REMOVED: Norton Safe DNSFilter services (being discontinued
by Symantec in November). Configured clients will
be automatically migrated to OpenDNS Family - make
sure to edit your DNSFIlter settings if you desire
to use a different service.
384.6 (25-July-2018)
- NOTE: The RT-AC87U is not supported in this release, as
Asus hasn't released any updated code for that model.
- NEW: Merged with GPL 384_21045/382_50624.
- NEW: Added support for the "-p" option to netstat.
- NEW: Added setting to enable DNS rebind protection, on the
DHCP page. This works by rejecting upstream server
responses that would point at a private IP.
- CHANGED: Updated nano to 2.9.8
- CHANGED: Updated curl to 7.60.0 (contains security fixes)
- CHANGED: Allow selecting text (for copy/paste operations)
on AiProtection pages.
- CHANGED: Added AES-*-GCM ciphers to the OpenVPN legacy
ciphers (so they can be explicitely used without
using NCP).
- CHANGED: Updated dnsmasq to 2.80test2-17-g51e4eee (themiron)
- CHANGED: Since dnsmasq 2.80, dnsmasq now ensures that unsigned
DNS replies received with DNSSEC enabled are legitimate.
If your upstream DNS doesn't support DNSSEC, this means
all replies from signed zones will be considered
invalid. Make sure you only enable DNSSEC if your
upstream DNS servers do support it. This behaviour is
a bit slower, but far more secure than the old default.
- CHANGED: Network Tools -> Netstat output also report program/PID
- CHANGED: Updated CA bundle to June 20th version.
- FIXED: IPv6-related issues on non-HND platform (themiron)
- FIXED: Couldn't log on WTFast if accessing the router
webui over https.
- FIXED: USB modem support code failing to properly pass
parameters to the kernel module (themiron)
- REMOVED: WTFast support for RT-AC88U/RT-AC3100/RT-AC5300,
as it's incompatible with recent versions of
curl (and has been broken for quite some time).
Not gonna revert back to a 7 years old curl
version just for wtfast.
384.5 (13-May-2018)
- NEW: Merged withh GPL 384_20648
- NEW: Merged RT-AC68U, RT-AC5300 binary blobs from 384_20648
- NEW: Merged RT-AC86U SDK and binary blobs from 384_20648
- NEW: service-event script, executed before any service
call is made. First argument is the event (typically
stop, start or restart), second argument is the target
(wireless, httpd, etc...).
Note that this script will block the execution of
the event until it returns.
- NEW: Added USB HID modules (for use with devices such
as UPS)
- NEW: Added ip6tables-save command.
- CHANGED: Updated Dropbear to 2018.76.
- CHANGED: Updated Openssl to 1.0.2o.
- CHANGED: Updated miniupnpd to version 2.1 (20180508).
- CHANGED: Updated nano to 2.9.5.
- CHANGED: Moved RT-AC86U to the same Busybox version (1.25.1)
as other models.
- CHANGED: Revised OpenVPN server options:
o Removed "TLS Reneg time" (rarely used, can manually
be set as a custom option)
o Removed "Server Poll" (which didn't work
properly), and reimplemented watchdog service,
hardcoded to 2 mins frequency.
o Removed "Push LAN" and "Redirect Gateway",
replaced with new Client Access setting
o Removed Firewall setting (firewall rules are now
always created, and the broken External mode
was fixed and integrated into the new Client
Access setting). You can now use the postconf
script to override it.
o Removed option to respond to DNS queries - enabling
the option to Push DNS will also handle it
o Added new Client Access setting to select between
three types of access: LAN only, WAN only (will
block access to the LAN, including the router
itself) and LAN + WAN.
o Keys and certificates can now be up to 7999
characters long.
- CHANGED: Revised OpenVPN client options:

o Reorganized settings into groups
o Removed "Poll Interval" (which didn't work
properly), and reimplemented watchdog service,
with a hardcoded frequency of 2 mins.
o Removed Firewall setting (firewall rules are now
always created). You can now use the postconf
script to override it.
o Modified behaviour of Connection Retry. Instead
of taking a value in seconds that only affected
resolution failure, it now takes a number of
attempts, and affects connection failures.
Resolution failures will now retry for an infinite
period of time (the default OpenVPN value).
o Added "refresh" link which can be clicked to
re-query the public IP endpoint of the tunnel
o Keys and certificates can now be up to 7999
characters long.
- CHANGED: Removed option to resolve names on the

Log -> Connections page.
That functionality was added to the
Network Tools -> Netstat page instead.
- CHANGED: Re-designed Log -> Connections page into a table
with sortable fields - click on a column header to
sort on that field.
- CHANGED: From now on, setting the router to act as a master
browser or a WINS server will also require you to
enable sharing. This will ensure that users understand
that enabling either of these settings requires disk
sharing to also be enabled (which it was already
silently doing before).
- CHANGED: Moved "Beta firmware" option to the Tools -> Other
Settings page
- CHANGED: Improved layout of the Firmware Update page
- CHANGED: WPAD behaviour (sending a carriage return on
DHCP option 252) can now be controlled in the
Tweaks section.
- CHANGED: Blocking custom scripts such as service-event
and pre-mount will now wait a maximum of 120
seconds before resuming normal operations, to
prevent accidental lockouts.
- CHANGED: Autofill start/end time for DST when selecting
a timezone (LostFreq)
- FIXED: Some dnsmasq issues related to DNSSEC were fixed,
including CVE-2017-15107. (backported from
dnsmasq 2.79 by John Bacho)
- FIXED: Restoring an OpenVPN instance to default values
would fail to disable its Start with WAN setting.
- FIXED: Hardware authentication failure for the RT-AC3100
and RT-AC5300.
- FIXED: Minidlna web status page could no longer be enabled.
- FIXED: CVE-2017-9022, CVE-2017-9023 and CVE-2017-11185 in
Strongswan (odkrys)
- FIXED: Various issues with download traffic in Traditional
QoS (Cédric Dufour)
- FIXED: TCP timeout values couldn't be changed on the
Tools -> Other Settings page.
- FIXED: Security issue related to webui logging in (Asus bug)
384.4_2 (24-Mar-2018)
- CHANGED: Added visual warning when manually enabling webui
access on WAN. Doing so carries serious potential
security risks, as Asuswrt's web server code should
not be considered hardened enough for this.
- FIXED: Security issue in httpd (CVE-2018-8879).
- FIXED: Potential security issue in httpd related to QiS.
- FIXED: Minor webui issue in the QoS overhead menu.
384.4 (16-Mar-2018)
- NEW: Merged with GPL 384_20379 (with some binary components
from 382_50010 and 384_20308 depending on models)
- NEW: Added support for the RT-AC5300.
- NEW: Added support for the RT-AC87U.
- NEW: Added IPSEC support to the RT-AC86U.
- NEW: Support the new Entware 64-bit repo on the RT-AC86U.
To switch to the new repository, re-run the
entware-setup.sh script. You will need to reinstall
your apps (your old config files are backed up on
your USB disk).
- CHANGED: Tightened security around some config files.
- CHANGED: Allow guest networks settings for AP isolation
and SSID broadcast to be set separately from
their parent interface (John Bacho)
- CHANGED: Samba protocol support can now be set to
SMBv1, SMBv2, or SMBv1 + SMBv2 (the new default).
This will result in a performance drop on all
models but the RT-AC86U, but will be more secure.
Ideally, people should change it to SMBv2 only,
and then reboot all their client devices to start
using only the new protocol.
- CHANGED: Re-added some of the logging sd-idle used to do
in 380.xx.
- CHANGED: Switched to the new Entware repo for armv7 models.
To upgrade, run the following commands TWICE:
opkg update; opkg upgrade
- FIXED: Resetting an OpenVPN client to default settings

might revert back after a reboot.
- FIXED: log flood from lldpd about "unable to send packet
on real device" (moved to debug level)
- FIXED: Potential racing condition that could lead to two
instances of miniupnpd running at boot time.
- FIXED: Single-char hostnames were rejected by DHCP static
leasees page. (theMIROn)
- FIXED: AiCloud could sometime generate a new SSL certificate
that would overwrite the one stored in jffs. Now,
AiCloud can also use the same one uploaded by the
user for the main webui, or the Let's Encrypt one.
- REMOVED: Telnet server. Please use SSH for console-based
management.
- REMOVED: SNMP support on the RT-AC86U (incompatible)
- REMOVED: Merlin NAT loopback mode (was increasingly
problematic as the firmware firewall handling became
more complex)
384.3 (14-Feb-2018)
- NOTE: To reduce confusion following the version
bump to 384, the current Github repository
was renamed from asuswrt-merlin.382 to
asuswrt-merlin.ng (for New Generation).
It's recommended that you update your
local repository if you're a developer,
for example by running:
git remote set-url origin \

git@github.com:RMerl/asuswrt-merlin.ng.git
- NOTE: AiMesh is currently not supported. Feasability of

supporting it is still under evaluation.
- NEW: Merged with GPL 384_10007
- NEW: Added support for RT-AC3200 (merged
SDK 7.x-main + binary blobs from 382_19466).
- NEW: nano can now be configured through /jffs/configs/nanorc
- CHANGED: Allow up to 5 OpenVPN clients on RT-AC3200.
- FIXED: Some routers coming from 380.xx would incorrectly
report a new firmware available at boot time.
- FIXED: Some broken clients (like Samsung TVs) try to use
reserved hostnames - ignore these. (theMIRon)
- FIXED: Added missing IPv6 local hostnames (theMIRon)
- FIXED: Issues withh DNS & broadcast relay for pptp
clients (theMIRon)
- FIXED: Fixed CVE-2018-5721 in httpd (Merlin & theMIROn)
- FIXED: helper.js wasn't properly handling parentheses
(John9527)
- FIXED: NAT acceleration of PPPoE for some models (fix
backported from 382_50010)
- FIXED: Networkmap-related issues on some models (missing
tx/rx rate and such).
- FIXED: ipset could cause the router to crash on the HND
platform (john9527)
- FIXED: Network Service Filter wasn't working when in
Blacklist mode.
- FIXED: Repeater mode (backport from 384_20287)
382.2 Beta (17-Jan-2018)

- NOTE: Due to various issues with GPL 382_18991, the 382.2
release is being dropped, and work is moving on to the
next version. 382.2 beta releases remain available
for those who still wish to use it (especially RT-AC56U
users for whom there is no ETA as to when Asus will
release the next GPL for that particular model.)
Known issues include lack of PPPoE HW acceleration and
Adaptive QoS sometimes failing to start at boot among
others.
- NOTE: The official IRC channel has moved to

Freenode (#asuswrt).

Most notable changes (will vary between models):
- Added IPSec VPN server
- Added IFTTT and Alexa support
- Let's Encrypt support (DDNS page)
- Better support for some longer settings (RT-AC86U)
- NEW: Merged HND SDK + binary components from 382_18848
(RT-AC86U)
- NEW: Added IPSec VPN status on the VPNStatus page.
- NEW: Added support for RT-AC56U and RT-AC68U
(and all of its variants)
- NEW: Enabled support for Let's Encrypt on RT-AC56U and
RT-AC68U (in addition to RT-AC88U/3100)
- CHANGED: Moved HTTPS cert management to the DDNS page (where
Asus has put theirs, as Let's Encrypt is tied to
the DDNS configuration)
- CHANGED: Updated openssl to 1.0.2n.
- CHANGED: Updated tor to 0.2.9.14.
- CHANGED: Increased max length for OpenVPN custom settings from
170 to 510 characters on RT-AC86U.
- CHANGED: Updated miniupnod to Github snapshot 20171212.
- CHANGED: OpenVPN firewall rules are now processed after the
various security chains (access restriction, network
service firewall, etc...), ensuring OVPN traffic no
longer bypasses them.
- FIXED: httpd crash on certain web pages if there are no Ethernet
clients connected
- FIXED: DNSFILTER rules would have priority over OPENVPN Client
rules (when client has DNS set to Exclusive mode).
- FIXED: traffic routing from the router itself would fail when
restarting the firewall while using an ovpn client with
policy rules in effect.
- FIXED: Dashes were rejected when used in an OpenVPN policy
client description.
- REMOVED: Removed option to select between active and passive
scan mode for a site survey (that code is now closed
source and therefore that option can no longer be
implemented).
382.1_2 (2-Dec-2017)
- NEW: Added custom/add/postconf support for mcpd.conf (RT-AC86U)
- CHANGED: Updated odhcp6c to latest upstream version
(patch by theMIRon)
- CHANGED: cifs and xt_set kernel modules will get automatically
loaded as needed.
- CHANGED: Updated openssl to 1.0.2m.
- CHANGED: Updated libogg to 1.3.3 and libvorbis to 1.3.5.
- CHANGED: Merged wireless components from GPL 382_18991 for
RT-AC88U and RT-AC3100 (should in theory fix KRACK
issue on these two models)
- FIXED: allow IA_NA mode downgrade with forced IA_PD
(for ISPs with broken IPv6 support)
(patch by theMIRon)
- FIXED: SSH brute force protection would break WAN
connectivity (RT-AC86U)
- FIXED: Wrong Trend Micro signature updater was used when
compiling with FW update checker enabled.
- FIXED: QoS Upload chart missing on PPPoE connections with
Adaptive QoS enabled.
- FIXED: client and vendor id fields on WAN page would fail
to accept new values longer than 32 characters.
- FIXED: The Desc field in the OpenVPN policy section would
reject ":" if field contained a MAC address.
- FIXED: Security issues CVE-2017-15275, CVE-2017-12163 and
CVE-2017-12150 (backported to Samba 3.6 and 3.5)
- FIXED: DHCP static lease list would refuse any change if
the list of leases+hostnames was longer than 1000
chars due to an HND platform limitation (RT-AC86U)
382.1 (12-Nov-2017)
Asuswrt-Merlin 382 was rebuilt from a clean GPL codebase, as
merging the new 382 GPL on top of the existing code proved too
difficult.
For simplicity, the following abbreviations are used below:

AM380 = Asuswrt-Merlin 380.xxx
AM382 = Asuswrt-Merlin 382.xxx
Asus380 = Asus's 3.0.0.4.380_xxxx
Asus382 = Asus's 3.0.0.4.382_xxxx
AM382.1 is based on AM380.68_4 merged on top of a clean
3.0.0.4.382_15098 GPL.
At this time, only the RT-AC86U, RT-AC88U and RT-AC3100

are supported by AM382. Other models will gradually be
moved to AM382 as Asus upgrade them to the new 382 code
base (and GPL code becomes available for them).
This changelog will focus on changes that happened between

AM380.68 and AM382.1, or between Asus382_16466 and AM382.
Also note that the primary download site was changed to

Sourceforge, due to numerous issues with Mediafire. Onedrive
will be the official mirror to the SF.net download site.
- NEW: Moved to Asus382 codebase. Some of the most important

changes between Asus380 and Asus382:
- New Trend Micro DPI engine, with two-way IPS
- New networkmap service (now closed source)
- New OpenVPN implementation (now closed source,
not used by AM382)
- Numerous security enhancements throughout the code
- NEW: Merged with GPL 382_16466 (RT-AC86U).

- NEW: Added support for the RT-AC86U and its Broadcom HND
platform (HND SDK from GPL 382_18219).
Note that IPTraffic is not supported by this model due to
its newer Linux kernel.
- NEW: Rewrote part of the OpenVPN implementation, as Asus's own
is now closed source. Asuswrt-Merlin's OpenVPN code will
now be independent of Asus's.
- NEW: Added support for inline CRLs when importing an ovpn file
- NEW: Added support for fullcone NAT (RT-AC86U)
- NEW: Added WiFi Radar (Broadcom's Visualization app) in the
Wireless section. You must enable data collection on
its Configuration page for all charts to work properly.
(RT-AC86U)
- NEW: Added option to disable the Asus NAT tunnel service under
Other Settings -> Tweak. Not quite sure what this
partly closed source service is for, but it eats a
fair amount of CPU and RAM.
- NEW: Option on OpenVPN Server page to quickly choose
between pushing LAN or LAN + Internet access (ported
from Asus382)
- NEW: Option to select the bitsize to use (1024 or 2048) when
automatically generating the OpenVPN server key/certs
(ported from Asus382)
- CHANGED: Updated wget to 1.19.2 (fixing connectivity to some
TLS 1.2 servers)
- CHANGED: SSH host keys are now stored in /jffs/ssl/ rather
than nvram.
- CHANGED: SMB2 is enabled by default on RT-AC86U (no performance
penalty on that platform)
- CHANGED: Moved UPnP Secure Mode setting from the Tweaks section
to the WAN page, next to other UPnP settings.
- CHANGED: Moved "Modify key and certs" link to its own dedicated
row and made it a button for improved visibility
(OpenVPN client & server pages)
- CHANGED: The firmware version check behaviour was slightly
changed. The "Get Beta" checkbox will now check
both the Beta and the Release channels for new
version availability. Automatic scheduled checks
will still only check the Release channel.
- CHANGED: Layout improvements to the SNMP, Login, and
Operation Mode pages (patches by Alin Trăistaru)
- CHANGED: Report both the local client IP as well as the
public/visible IP on the OpenVPN client page once
a client is connected (same info that was already
available on the VPN Status page).
- CHANGED: Moved Disk spindown settings to the System page,
to match with Asus382 which now offers this feature.
- REMOVED: Obsolete/exotic HMAC digests for OpenVPN servers (to
match with Asus' own supported list)
- REMOVED: "Custom" OpenVPN authentication mode (which probably
nobody used or even understood).

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- UPDATED: Merged with GPL 386_52805.

Asuswrt-Merlin will tentatively attempt to continue to

- UPDATED: openvpn to 2.6.10.

A backup will be saved in /jffs/openvpn_backup.tgz.

- NEW: Introducing VPN Director, which replaces the original

- NEW: Added QR codes to the networkmap as well as the Guest

- CHANGED: Rewrote OpenVPN routing handling. The firmware will

- "Force Internet traffic through tunnel" can now

- CHANGED: Reworked OpenVPN's DNS Exclusive mode implementation

- UPDATED: chart.js to 2.9.4.

- NOTE: For developers, note that firmware code is

- NOTE: Some users upgrading might have to go through some

- NEW: Added support for the RT-AX86U.

- NEW: Add Chacha20-poly1305 support to dropbear (themiron)

- UPDATED: dnsmasq to 2.81-openssl (themiron)

- NEW: Added ed25519 support in Dropbear (themiron)

- UPDATED: openssl-1.1 to 1.1.1f (themiron, merlin)

- NEW: amtm (Asuswrt-Merlin Terminal Menu) by thelonelycoder has

- UPDATED: Backported some fixes from 384_81981, mostly related

- NEW: amtm (Asuswrt-Merlin Terminal Menu) by thelonelycoder has

- UPDATED: miniupnpd 20190824

- NEW: Added "split" busybox applet.

- NEW: Added WS-Discovery support. This allows Windows clients

Main services that currently use OpenSSL 1.1.1:

Models that lack AES acceleration will prioritize the use

Note that OpenVPN 2.4.7's support is still limited.

The 1.0.2 userspace tool is still named "openssl", while

- NEW: Updated RT-AX88U to GPL 384_5640.

- NEW: Added NFS client support (V2 and V3) to the

- NEW: Implemented ipsec.postconf and strongswan.postconf scripts.

- NOTE: The RT-AC3200 and RT-AC87U are not supported by this

- NEW: Added RT-AX88U support (based on GPL 384_4736).

- NOTE: Important changes to DDNS, please read below.

- NOTE: Important changes to DNSFilter, please read below.

- NEW: Merged with GPL 384_21152.

- CHANGED: Revised OpenVPN client options:

- CHANGED: Removed option to resolve names on the

opkg update; opkg upgrade

- FIXED: Resetting an OpenVPN client to default settings

git remote set-url origin \

- NOTE: AiMesh is currently not supported. Feasability of

382.2 Beta (17-Jan-2018)

- NOTE: The official IRC channel has moved to

- NEW: Merged with GPL 382_18991.

For simplicity, the following abbreviations are used below:

At this time, only the RT-AC86U, RT-AC88U and RT-AC3100

This changelog will focus on changes that happened between

Also note that the primary download site was changed to

- NEW: Moved to Asus382 codebase. Some of the most important

- NEW: Merged with GPL 382_16466 (RT-AC86U).

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