I agree
No release notes yet or posted on their website. Came through internal updater. All they did was make minor gui changes, bug fixes and added a Wifi Scheduler. Basically a whole lot of nothing in the nearly 5 months since the last major release. Pathetic for a so called "flagship" router. Which I had warned about this earlier in another thread before release. It pales in comparison feature wise to what Asus and Netgear offer. Which a lot is pretty standard that is not in the Linksys firmware. Hardware is beastly and the firmware runs on training wheels. They really messed up big time. No real new features added and no 3rd party firmware support as advertised to this day. On a lighter note. Mine updated just fine.
I have to agree. I've been disappointed with the router from day one.
Never mind that they outright lied about it being fully OpernWRT compatible, which was the main reason I bought it, but the stock firmware is an embarrasment to hardware of this caliber (and price).
Since a list of complaints was requested of you, here's my list.
- Like you said, the stock firmware is like training wheels. It's clearly designed for novice home users who clearly aren't the demographic (initially) interested in this device.
- Lack of advanced features.
-- No AP isolation setting FFS. And the router seems to act as if this setting is toggled on and off randomly throuought the day.
-- No VPN client or server. It should have both. At the very least for OpenVPN.
-- No advanced DHCP client setup, including sticky IP's and client reservations outside the dynamic range.
-- No bandwidth management. That prioritize 4 devices nonsense aside.
-- No detailed usage accounting.
-- No decent firewall configuration.
- Stability issues.
-- randomly goes offline for a minute every few days. At least it comes back up on it's own.
-- As mentioned, it seems to act as if it does have an AP isolation setting, which it randomly toggles on and off.
- Performance is mediocre.
I know there's more, but this is off the top of my head.