Download Firmware Asuswrt-Merlin 380.69_0

Asus uses Tomato-derived firmware called Asuswrt for its newer routers, such as the RT-AC66U and RT-AC87U. This firmware is, with the exception of a few drivers, open source, whereby the closed binaries are included. Asuswrt-merlin, in turn, is a modified version of the original firmware from Asus. It includes bug fixes and minor improvements, but still tries to stay close to the original, so that it remains possible to add new features that Asus introduces to the code. While Asuswrt-Merlin version 382 has been out for a month, an update from the previous development branch has now appeared. The release notes for this release are as follows:

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 (backport from 382).

Changed:

• Updated odhcp6c to be in sync with upstream (patch by theMIRon)
• Updated libogg to 1.3.3 and libvorbis to 1.3.5.
• Updated wget to 1.19.2 (fixing connectivity to some TLS 1.2 servers)
• Updated RT-N66U and RT-AC66U SDK to GPL 380_8120’s (fixing KRACK in repeater/bridge mode)
• Updated openssl to 1.0.2n.
• Updated tor to 0.2.9.14.

Fixed:

• Allow IA_NA mode downgrade with forced IA_PD (for ISPs with broken IPv6 support) (patch by theMIRon)
• Trend Micro signature check might randomly fail the RSA validation.
• Security issues CVE-2017-15275, CVE-2017-12163 and CVE-2017-12150 (backported to Samba 3.6 and 3.5)
• Httpd crash when accessing certain webui pages with no connected Ethernet clients
• DNSFILTER rules would have priority over OPENVPN Client rules (when client has DNS set to Exclusive mode).
• traffic routing from the router itself would fail when restarting the firewall while using an ovpn client with policy rules in effect.