Release Plans - ntadmin/DGND3700v2 GitHub Wiki

Latest release

Feature set in this section with respect to the Netgear firmware.

Alpha 17A2 (here)

NEWT16B7 plus

  • Wake on LAN from outside added to the system
  • Busybox upgraded to 1.27.2
  • Various other packages upgraded
  • USB file share works for ext3 as well as FAT, and possibly others

Beta NEWT16B7 (here)

  • DNS, DHCP running (including address reservation)
  • ADSL configurable and starting first time
  • DDNS working with DNS-O-Matic
  • Adblocking, with ability to allow sites you wish to see ads from, or access for whatever reason.
  • Port forwarding now allows port change as part of the forward
  • ssh access to the router (no need to enable telnet)
  • Busybox upgraded to version 1.24.2 (about 8 years of updates)
  • utelentd replaced with busybox telnetd
  • mount_writable command to remount the file system so it can be written to
  • /usr/sbin/arp available from the command line (step towards WOL)

Roadmap

  • Other packages replaced by most recent versions
  • Enough use to call it stable

However, as per the overall plan, if we can switch to getting openWRT working on it, we will do!

History

This section for those who like to know how things were added etc, really only academic interest

Beta NEWTB7

  • /usr/sbin/arp added
  • adblocking httpd server much more stable.

Beta NEWT16B6

  • Adblocking "allow list" added
  • Busybox upgraded to version 1.24.2 (about 8 years of updates)
  • utelentd replaced with busybox telnetd

Beta NEWT16B4 (Not available because it had a major upgrade issue)

  • Busybox updates
  • Some bug fixes

Beta NEWT16B3

  • Adblocking with much fuller list of sites to block and return of "ad blocked" html.
  • Ssh access using web page password
  • uuencode, uudecode, chpasswd all enabled in busybox.

Beta NEWT16B2

  • Adblocking
  • Port forwarding now allows port change as part of the forward
  • DHCP address reservation now working
  • mount_writable command to remount the file system so it can be written to

Beta NEWT16B

  • DNS, DHCP running
  • ADSL configurable and starting first time
  • DDNS working with DNS-O-Matic