The new version of DD-WRT (v24) is a completely new project. DD-WRT was created directly from Sveasoft's software decision to start charging for their firmware, closing the door to opensource.Īt present DD-WRT is available for free although a different business model is being drafted by BrainSlayer in order to pay his salary, as this is his full time job. The first versions of DD-WRT were based on the Alchemy Firmware from Sveasoft Inc, which is in turn based on the original GPL'd Linksys firmware and a number of other open source projects. The firmware is maintained by BrainSlayer and is hosted at. Next time you could make a new topic for an update like this, so as to not bump an old topic, and also grab more attn.DD-WRT is a third party developed firmware released under the terms of the GPL for many ieee802.11a/b/g/h/n wireless routers based on a Broadcom or Atheros chip reference design. Thanks for the notice, just updated, running good.

There was also a security issue in the site survey that is not published yet and is fixed in the v24 SP1.' We'd like to make clear that the DD-WRT default configuration in v23 / v24 is not vulnerable, so there was and is no risk for dd-wrt users. We did also incorporate the patches for the recently published dns exploit issue.

Besides the official support of new hardware platforms and the addition of some new features we did enhance the usability and stability of many functions inside DD-WRT. 'Two months after the release of the milestone v24 we are happy to give a refined release to the public, v24 SP1.

Or here is a quick copy and paste of what was said for there basic news headline for those to lasy to click link etc.

Dd wrt v24 micro