Download Firmware OpenWrt 8.09.2

OpenWrt is a Linux-based firmware that can do its job on various routers. For example, a Linksys WRT54G or an Asus WL-500g can be set up entirely according to your own wishes. For a complete overview of supported hardware, we refer you to this page and more documentation is on this page to find. The developers have released version 8.09.2 which comes under Kamikaze series. The corresponding announcement looks like this:

Kamikaze 8.09.2

The OpenWrt team would like to announce the release of Kamikaze 8.09.2 The official binaries, generated from the 8.09.2 svn tag, can be found here. This is the last update of the 8.09 release series, with the following notable changes:

• pptp nat contracting removed on brcm-2.4, cause of dnat off-by-one port forwarding bug
• added antenna gpio support for nanostation loco2
• backported swconfig and IP-175C support for DIR-300 and similar atheros devices
• added a combined atheros image format with sysupgrade support
• fixed ethernet issues on phonera+
• fixed wgt634u regression introduced in 8.09.1
• disabled tcp ecn by default
• improved system upgrade reliability
• added mtd support for fis table layout on redboot based systems
• add support for creating VMware VMDK images for x86
• fixed ipv6 interface setup on boot
• numerous madwifi fixes
• fixed ImageBuilder and SDK
• fixed failsafe mode on fonera+ and fonera 2.0
• fixed memory leaks in miniupnpd
• fixed escaping issues in ddns scripts
• update X-Wrt to 8.09.2
• update LuCI to v0.8.8
• security fixes for openswan, tiff, libpng, kernel, curl, gnutls, openssl and dnsmasq

For a complete list of changes refer to https://dev.openwrt.org/milestone/Kamikaze%208.09.2.

Note: The brcm47xx still won’t work for those of you needing broadcom wifi, stick to brcm-2.4. We will tell you when it does work.

yours truly,
The release management team
Andy Boyett & Nicolas Thill