New significant release builds of OpenWRT have been created — an open Linux distribution for home network routers. Key enhancements visible to the user:
- All devices use the 4.14.x kernel.
- The ath79 architecture has been added, supporting devices previously classified under the ar71xx architecture. The difference is the use of Device Tree instead of explicitly specifying each device's characteristics in C files.
- Routing performance has significantly improved with the implementation of FLOWOFFLOAD technology. The essence of the technology allows the kernel to be informed that all future packets belonging to a specific network connection no longer need to be checked against firewall rules, QoS policies, and modified routing rules; it is sufficient to rewrite the headers and send them through the stored output interface. As a result, the TP-Link Archer C7 v2 can now route at speeds of 700-800 Mbps instead of 250-300 Mbps.
- Support for WPA3 is available for wireless networks (requires installation of the hostapd-openssl or wpad-openssl package).
- The web interface has become more responsive by shifting templating to the client side.
- Issues with 100% CPU consumption and excessive memory usage in the Transmission torrent client have been resolved by disabling rudimentary support for web seeds.
- An alternative lightweight implementation has been added. server SMB at the kernel level, as a solution to the problem that SAMBA 3.6 is no longer supported in terms of security and is limited by older versions of the SMB protocol, while SAMBA 4 takes up too much space. SAMBA 4 is also available and allows for the organization of a controller domain, compatible with Active Directory.
Source: linux.org.ru
