Asuswrt-Merlin 386.3 is now available for all supported model. This release introduces major changes to OpenVPN client handling, and also introduces the ability to generate QR Codes to make it easier to connect your mobile clients to your Wifi network.
August 6th 386.3_2 is now available.
Code:
- 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.
NOTE: On first boot with 386.3, you must either force-refresh the browser page (shift-reload), or clear your browser cache. Failure to do so will prevent the new QR codes from being properly displayed, due to an old cached CSS.
The highlights of this release:
- QR Codes can now be generated both on the Network Map (first index page of the webui), and on the Guest Network page. QR Codes are supported by iOS as well as most modern Android mobile devices (see your device's documentation for more information on how to use it) making it easier to connect to a Wifi network.
- Introducing VPN Director, which replaces the previous per-client Policy routing rules with a centrally managed page. More details in the Wiki: https://github.com/RMerl/asuswrt-merlin.ng/wiki/VPN-Director.
- OpenVPN routing handling was rewritten, allowing the implementation of VPN Director, but also bringing additional fixes and improvements. Routes are now created by the firmware itself rather than by the OpenVPN process.
- OpenVPN DNS handling was revised, resolving various quirks and issues related to it
- Improved OpenVPN kill switch behavior, it can now be used with clients set to route All traffic through
- Component updates: nano (5.7), curl (7.76.1), dnsmasq (2.85-openssl), openvpn (2.5.3), getdns (1.7.0), stubby (0.4.0)
Please review the Changelog for more details.
Please keep discussions to this specific release. This thread will be locked after a while once the release feedback has died down.
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Changelog is
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