Firmware update: FreshTomato 2021.6

By admin On Oct 14, 2021

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FreshTomato is Tomato-derived firmware for various Arm or MIPS-based routers from ASUS, D-Link, Huawei, Linksys, Netgear, Tenda, and Xiaomi. It can be seen as the continuation of ‘Tomato by Shibby’ since this developer, Michał Rupental, wants to spend his time on other projects. The FreshTomato firmware adds several additional options compared to the original manufacturer’s firmware, such as a real-time bandwidth monitor and extensive setting options. The developers have released the sixth edition of FreshTomato in 2021 and it is available for routers with a Arm– or MIPS-cpu.

FreshTomato-ARM 2021.6 Changelog

Note1: because of changes in GUI, clean your browser cache and/or use Ctrl+F5 (FF) to avoid artifacts.
Note2: because of changes in nvram variables, check your settings on ‘Advanced -> DHCP/DNS -> Client (WAN)’ page.
kernel: ipv6: send NEWLINK on RA managed/otherconf changes (fix from upstream)
kernel: ipv6: send only one NEWLINK when RA causes changes (fix from upstream)
openssl-1.1: update to 1.1.1l
e2fsprogs: update to 1.46.4
nginx: update to 1.21.3
ntfs-3g: update to 2021.8.22
tor: update to 0.4.6.7
miniupnpd: update to 2.2.3
dnsmasq: update to 2.86
libcurl: updated to 7.79.1
libexif: update to 0.6.23
openvpn: update to 2.5.4
Add Media Bridge Mode (for SDK6 and up)
WL SDK (RT-N branch and up): turn On wl setting STBC RX
Correct JFFS and crash memory storage R6400/R6400v2 NVRAM_128K
build: Makefile: nettle: compile with –disable-fat
build: Makefile: dnsmasq: switch to nettle for crypto backend
build: allow to build dnssec and stubby independently
GUI: Administration: Access: show ‘Allow Remote Upgrade’ regardless of ‘Remote Access’ state
GUI: Status: Device List: fix javascript error in targets without network discovery helper
GUI: Status: Overview: add missing space between unit and flash size/cpu clock
GUI: OpenVPN Server: fix the case in which after removing the CA key in GUI, re-generating keys will use its old version from nvram
GUI: OpenVPN Server: fix generation of the correct CA Key previously caused clients errors. In order to work properly, the key must be generated again both for the server and client(s).
GUI: Status: Overview: fix toggle of WAN and Virtual Wireless nodes
GUI: Improvements to Advanced MAC page; closes #125
GUI: add WiFi QR Code generator to ‘z’ (AIO) targets
GUI: Admin: Logging: add minimum log level watched for syslogd
GUI: Admin: Debugging: rename console log level into Kernel printk log level (it has better meaning); add a reboot after changing log level, since we setup klogd only at init, so it is required to reboot; addNotes
GUI: add new, improved log viewer
GUI: Basic: Network: fix javascript freezing when more than 1 WAN has been set
GUI: Status: Overview: fix WL label issue on some routers
GUI: Advanced: DHCP/DNS: move some options from Client to Server section
GUI: Admin: Configuration: add current date to backup file (closes #156)
GUI: Status: Overview: add MultiWAN Status and button to force watchdog check manually
GUI: advanced-wireless: – add one more example for USA country setup (Q2/96)
GUI: advanced-wireless – add Protected Management Frames option
adblock: remove inactive list (http://www.malwaredomainlist.com/hostslist/hosts.txt)
adblock: correct url of DOH servers list
ebtables: libebtc: fix malloc usage (fix from upstream)
httpd: log.c: fix a bug not showing all logs when external log is configured
OpenVPN: Server: add generated keys for client also to .ovpn configuration file
PPTP Server: bypass CTF (if enabled)
Revert “rc: do not restart nas services/wsdd2 on WAN up”
rc: network.c – repair function restart_wl() and do not start radio join (again)
rc: services.c: start_ntpd(): eval() will wait until process quits, so use _eval() with pid; otherwise, start_ntpd() never returns
watchdog/multiwan: fix a whole bunch of problems
www:at.css: add icons to Connect/Disconnect buttons for Advanced themes
www:advanced-wlanvifs.asp: fix bug causing js error

FreshTomato-MIPS 2021.6 Changelog

Note1: because of changes in GUI, clean your browser cache and/or use Ctrl+F5 (FF) to avoid artifacts.
Note2: because of changes in nvram variables, check your settings on ‘Advanced -> DHCP/DNS -> Client (WAN)’ page.
kernel: ipv6: send NEWLINK on RA managed/otherconf changes (fix from upstream)
kernel: ipv6: send only one NEWLINK when RA causes changes (fix from upstream)
openssl-1.1: update to 1.1.1l
e2fsprogs: update to 1.46.4
nginx: update to 1.21.3
ntfs-3g: update to 2021.8.22
tor: update to 0.4.6.7
miniupnpd: update to 2.2.3
dnsmasq: update to 2.86
libcurl: updated to 7.79.1
libexif: update to 0.6.23
openvpn: update to 2.5.4
Add Media Bridge Mode (for SDK6 and up)
WL SDK (RT-N branch and up): turn On wl setting STBC RX
build: Makefile: disable BCMNAT module for dir865le target – it doesn’t work anyway, for RT-AC branch
build: Makefile: nettle: compile with –disable-fat
build: Makefile: dnsmasq: switch to nettle for crypto backend
build: allow to build dnssec and stubby independently
build: remove DNSSEC for ‘e’, ’c’, ‘d’, ‘b’ and ‘m’ (VPN, BTgui-VPN, Nocat-VPN, Big-VPN, Max) targets to save space because of recent changes in dnsmasq (nettle for crypto backend); on the other hand, stubby can also handle DNSSEC
build: remove DNSSEC for ‘f5d’, ‘f7d’, ‘wndr64-vpn’, ‘rtn53’, ‘e2500’, ‘wndr3400v2-vpn’ and ‘n60’ targets to save space because of recent changes in dnsmasq (nettle for crypto backend); on the other hand, stubby can also handle DNSSEC
GUI: Administration: Access: show ‘Allow Remote Upgrade’ regardless of ‘Remote Access’ state
GUI: Status: Device List: fix javascript error in targets without network discovery helper
GUI: Status: Overview: add missing space between unit and flash size/cpu clock
GUI: OpenVPN Server: fix the case in which after removing the CA key in GUI, re-generating keys will use its old version from nvram
GUI: OpenVPN Server: fix generation of the correct CA Key previously caused clients errors. In order to work properly, the key must be generated again both for the server and client(s).
GUI: Status: Overview: fix toggle of WAN and Virtual Wireless nodes
GUI: Improvements to Advanced MAC page
GUI: add WiFi QR Code generator to ‘z’ (AIO) targets
GUI: Admin: Logging: add minimum log level watched for syslogd
GUI: Admin: Debugging: rename console log level into Kernel printk log level (it has better meaning); add a reboot after changing log level, since we setup klogd only at init, so it is required to reboot; addNotes
GUI: add new, improved log viewer
GUI: Basic: Network: fix javascript freezing when more than 1 WAN has been set
GUI: Status: Overview: fix WL label issue on some routers
GUI: Advanced: DHCP/DNS: move some options from Client to Server section
GUI: Admin: Configuration: add current date to backup file
GUI: Status: Overview: add MultiWAN Status and button to force watchdog check manually
adblock: remove inactive list (http://www.malwaredomainlist.com/hostslist/hosts.txt)
adblock: correct url of DOH servers list
ebtables: libebtc: fix malloc usage (fix from upstream)
httpd: log.c: fix a bug not showing all logs when external log is configured
OpenVPN: Server: add generated keys for client also to .ovpn configuration file
Revert “rc: do not restart nas services/wsdd2 on WAN up”
rc: network.c – repair function restart_wl() and do not start radio join (again)
rc: services.c: start_ntpd(): eval() will wait until process quits, so use _eval() with pid; otherwise, start_ntpd() never returns
watchdog/multiwan: fix a whole bunch of problems
www:at.css: add icons to Connect/Disconnect buttons for Advanced themes

Version number	2021.6
Release status	Final
Website	FreshTomato
Download	http://freshtomato.org/downloads/
License type	GPL