Since I'm currently juggling with a bunch of balls all at once and people are a bit confused about things, here's a small update about the development side of things.
After 384.4 was released, focus was switched to 380.70. The plan is to backport a few simple fixes from 384, in addition to a few other 380-specific fixes I had been gathering these past few weeks. 380.70 will be the last, final 380.xx release. This release will not contain any new GPL or component updates.
In the meantime, development was started on 384.5. Things on the TODO list at this time for 384.5 are:
And a third ball has been juggled with this week, involving a 384.4_2 point release that will include two security fixes, to be hopefully released in the very near future (meaning this weekend).
In terms of release schedule:
384_4.2 (this weekend)
380.70 (in the next 2-3 weeks)
384.5 (no planned ETA, probably looking at something close to a 2-3 months development cycle, depending on how well things will go during the beta phase)
After 384.4 was released, focus was switched to 380.70. The plan is to backport a few simple fixes from 384, in addition to a few other 380-specific fixes I had been gathering these past few weeks. 380.70 will be the last, final 380.xx release. This release will not contain any new GPL or component updates.
In the meantime, development was started on 384.5. Things on the TODO list at this time for 384.5 are:
- Revising the OpenVPN configuration to make it a bit simpler to deal with, especially on the server side of things where a lot of options are either useless or broken
- Review some of the OpenVPN client settings as well, including the (probably broken) Poll setting
- Move the HND platform to the same Busybox version as all other models (which means at least 1.25.1)
- Evaluate the possibility of moving to a newer Busybox (some preliminary work was done by another developer a few months ago, but had been put on hold since the focus at the time was moving everyone to the new 384 platform, and catching up on Asus's own development
- Evaluate the feasibility of merging GPL 384_20467 (need to determine if it's compatible with older models first).
- Component updates (OpenVPN and Dropbear for example)
- Evaluate a reworked implementation of Traditional QoS that might hopefully be working properly (will require extensive testing on every models)
- Review the samba configuration on the performance side of things
And a third ball has been juggled with this week, involving a 384.4_2 point release that will include two security fixes, to be hopefully released in the very near future (meaning this weekend).
In terms of release schedule:
384_4.2 (this weekend)
380.70 (in the next 2-3 weeks)
384.5 (no planned ETA, probably looking at something close to a 2-3 months development cycle, depending on how well things will go during the beta phase)
