It took us really long time to release Turris OS 7.0, but it is finally out now. The only change in this release is a switch to a newer OpenWrt – namely 22.03. We are not introducing any new features (although we are for the first time using “Staging Updates“). We are even sticking with iptables for now, although upstream has moved towards nftables. All that to minimize impact on our users and provide smooth update experience. That was also part of the reason why it took so long. We tested it over and over again, fixed the issues we found and started with the tests from scratch again. Sometimes we found our feature not working, sometimes we encountered some problems with state of the upstream distribution we had to help to fix. But finally we got into state where we could release it and we did exactly that.
New Netmetr is called LibreSpeed and it is global
A long time ago, CZ.NIC started a project called Netmetr, which was performed in cooperation with the Czech Telecommunication Office (CTU). The goal was to provide a reliable Internet connectivity benchmark that ordinary people can use to verify the parameters of their Internet connection. The cooperation went well and CTU was getting more and more interesting data about the quality of Internet connectivity in the Czech
Republic. Moreover, CTU decided to integrate the service into their systems and maintain it by themselves. They used the open-source software Netmetr and created Nettest – their own instance integrated into their environment. That unfortunately meant that the Netmetr itself lost its main purpose and it no longer made sense to keep it running.
Turris OS 5.2 has been released
In the newly released Turris OS 5.2 version, you can find Overview after logging in to web interface reForis. It provides you easily recognized status about the activated services for automatic updates, data collection, dynamic firewall, test for Internet connectivity, speed test using Netmetr.cz, and added list of OpenVPN clients to any OpenVPN servers. Based on the community feedback, we prepared for you the requested missing features in reForis. Since this release, you can see the Storage tab, the possibility of doing a factory reset from the UI and adding a registration token to use Honeypot as a Service. Some of these features were missing from an old web interface or from the previous major version of Turris OS.
New Turris OS 5.0 version is out
We have released a new version of Turris OS 5.0. It is based on top of OpenWrt 19.07.3 with our patches and feed for all of Turris routers. In this article, we will go through new features and changes, including experimental migration from the Turris OS 3.x version. We will mention a few obstacles we faced during the development and introduce several features you can expect in future releases.