Download Firmware OpenWrt 19.07.1

An update for version 19.07 of OpenWrt has been released. OpenWrt is an alternative open source firmware for a large number various routers and embedded devices. By means of the opkg package management system there is the possibility to determine for yourself what the router can and cannot do. Also on GoT there are several people actively working on it, see this topic. You can simply update the version with sysupgrade from the web interface. The main improvements made in this release are listed below.

Security fixes

• Security Advisory 2020-01-31-1 – Opkg susceptible to MITM (CVE-2020-7982)
• Security Advisory 2020-01-31-2 – libubox tagged binary data JSON serialization vulnerability (CVE-2020-7248)
• Other security fixes

Bug fixes and improvements

• Fix 5GHz Wi-Fi performance issue (FS#2679, FS#2563, FS#2682)
• Fix memory leak when using flow offload with lots of connections

Device support

• Fix ar71xx – ath79 sysupgrade for several devices: TL-MR3220 v1, TL-MR3420 v1, TL-WR2543 v1, TL-WR741ND v4, TL-WR841N/ND, UniFi AC Mesh, UniFi AC Mesh Pro, UniFi AC Pro
• Add support for more devices in ath79: TP-Link CPE220 v3, TL-WR841N/ND v10 and v12
• Various fixes and improvements for several devices: Ubiquiti Rocket M Titanium, Netgear WN2500RP v1, Zyxel NSA325, Netgear WNR3500 V2, Archer C6 v2, Ubiquiti EdgeRouter-X, Archer C20 v4, Archer C50 v4 Archer MR200, TL-WA801ND v562, HiWiFi HC592 , Xiaomi Mi Router 3 Pro, Netgear R6350

LuCI web interface

• Firewall: add support for configuring SNAT and MASQUERADE rules
• Fix detection of VLAN and switch configuration for some devices
• Update translations from website

Core components

• Update Linux kernel from 4.14.162 to 4.14.167
• Update mac80211 from 4.19.85 to 4.19.98
• Update process to 2020-01-24
• Update libu box to 2020-01-20
• Update ucert to 2019-12-19
• Update opkg to 2020-01-25

Known issues

• Transition to ath79: several devices that are supported in ar71xx are not yet supported in ath79: this is a community effort. Helping to port devices to ath79 to make them available in future releases is very welcome.
• Device support: images for some device became too big to support a persistent overlay, causing such devices to lose configuration after a reboot. If you experience this problem, please report the affected device in the forum and consider downgrading to OpenWrt 18.06 or using the Image Builder to pack a smaller custom image
• Device support: unstable Ethernet link with atheros switch on some ath79 devices (such as TL-WR841N): FS#2216, FS#2730
• LuCI web interface: some optional GUI packages crash with an error about missing “cbi.lua”, install the luci-compat package to fix these
• LuCI web interface: broken support for the nginx variant (not installed by default): #10134, #11197