Download Firmware Asuswrt-Merlin 386.3_2

Asus uses a Tomato-derived firmware called Asuswrt for its routers, such as the RT-AC68 and RT-AX88. 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 Asus’ original firmware. 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. The changelog for version 386.3_2 looks like this:

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 could never push above the target threshold of 1024).
• 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.
• 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.
• IPV6-compatible DNSFilter servers weren’t properly configured in dnsmasq.
• DNSFilter client rules may get corrupted after a reboot.