Happy new year 2020

December 7, 2019

The whole Freifunk Luxembourg team wishes you a happy new year.

A lot has happened in 2019:

• installation of a new gateway
• implementation of an mailing list for our community
• pushing a major firmware release
• making FritzBox Freifunk compatible
• re-structuring our internal organization

In 2020 we plan to release the gluon 2019 firmware. This will bring a lot of wished features and functions.

• 5GHz compatibility for Luxembourg for our outdoor models
• Mesh on WAN configuration over the webgui
• Mesh on LAN configuration over the webgui

From our side, there is also a lot planned.

• re-setup of our GW2
• increasing the information regarding configuration, setup and running nodes
• Updating our website
• pushing model diversity

Sadly, not everything that is coming in 2020 will be good.

From gluon 2018.2.3 to 2020.X , all routers with ar71xx-tiny architecture will become depreciated. This means end-of-support for a lot of our favorite router models.

• D-Link
  • DIR-615 (C1)
• TP-Link
  • TL-MR13U (v1)
  • TL-MR3020 (v1)
  • TL-MR3040 (v1, v2)
  • TL-MR3220 (v1, v2)
  • TL-MR3420 (v1, v2)
  • TL-WA701N/ND (v1, v2)
  • TL-WA730RE (v1)
  • TL-WA750RE (v1)
  • TL-WA801N/ND (v1, v2, v3)
  • TL-WA830RE (v1, v2)
  • TL-WA850RE (v1)
  • TL-WA860RE (v1)
  • TL-WA901N/ND (v1, v2, v3, v4, v5)
  • TL-WA7210N (v2)
  • TL-WA7510N (v1)
  • TL-WR703N (v1)
  • TL-WR710N (v2)
  • TL-WR740N (v1, v3, v4, v5)
  • TL-WR741N/ND (v1, v2, v4, v5)
  • TL-WR743N/ND (v1, v2)
  • TL-WR840N (v2)
  • TL-WR841N/ND (v3, v5, v7, v8, v9, v10, v11, v12)
  • TL-WR843N/ND (v1)
  • TL-WR940N (v1, v2, v3, v4, v5, v6)
  • TL-WR941ND (v2, v3, v4, v5, v6)

In case your Freifunk node is on this list, you have no reason to fear. We have already a few models in mind to replace them, they are as good and cheap as the old ones. We also have a way to re-flash the original OS on your routers.