So are formed the assemblies of the new significant release of OpenWRT — an open Linux distribution for home network routers. The main innovations visible to the user:
- The kernel 4.14.x is used on all devices.
- The ath79 architecture has been added, which supports devices previously categorized under the ar71xx architecture. The difference is the use of Device Tree instead of explicitly specifying the specifics of each device in C files.
- Routing performance has been significantly enhanced through the implementation of FLOWOFFLOAD technology. The essence of the technology is the ability to inform the kernel that all future packets belonging to a specific network connection no longer need to be checked against firewall rules, QoS policies, and changed routing rules; it is sufficient to simply rewrite the headers and send them through the remembered outgoing interface. Thus, the TP-Link Archer C7 v2 can now route not 250-300 megabits per second, but 700-800.
- Support for WPA3 is available for wireless networks (installation of the hostapd-openssl or wpad-openssl package is required).
- The web interface has become more responsive due to the transfer of templating to the client side.
- In the Transmission torrent client, issues with 100% CPU consumption and excessive memory usage have been resolved by disabling semi-working support for web seeds.
- An alternative lightweight implementation has been added strežnika of 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 to older versions of the SMB protocol, while SAMBA 4 takes up too much space. SAMBA 4 is also available and allows organizing a controller domene, compatible with Active Directory.
Izvor: linux.org.ru
