TheUnboundDeveloper/AM-Reaper v2.3.7-RT-BE88U

Reaper v2.3.7 — RT-BE88U

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v2.3.7 — The Wi-Fi pages stop misleading you, mesh nodes show their firmware, and Professional opens quickly

• The Professional Wi-Fi page opens much faster. It was asking the router for its wireless settings one at a time — 116 separate questions — and none of the page could be drawn until the last answer came back. On a three-radio router, 29 of those questions were about a fourth radio that does not exist. It now asks once, and only about the radios the router actually has, so the page adapts by itself to any model. Nothing you can see has changed; the page simply stops making the router work for it. (If the page still feels slow after this, the cause is elsewhere and worth reporting — this removed a large amount of work, but it has not yet been timed on hardware.)
• Auto Scan now assigns the channel it told you was best. On 5 GHz it used to rank individual narrow channels and then quietly apply the wider block containing the winner instead — so it could report channel 44 as best and set 36, which read as the tool ignoring its own results. It now measures at the width the radio will actually run, so the entry it ranks and the channel it sets are the same thing.
• Auto Scan covers each radio's full range and locks in the winner. The channels to sweep are taken from what each radio itself reports rather than a fixed list, so a router with two 5 GHz radios (or two 6 GHz radios) sweeps each one across only the channels that radio supports, and regions outside the US work without a code change. When a sweep finishes it now applies its winner instead of putting the old channel back and waiting for you to press a button. Two things worth knowing: radar-detection (DFS) channels are deliberately not swept, because each one requires a 60-second listening period with the radio off the air — up to ten minutes on some — which would turn a scan into a long outage; and applying a channel takes that radio off automatic channel selection until you set its control channel back to Auto. Both are now stated on the page.
• You can see your mesh nodes' firmware from the main router, and update them from there. The firmware page lists every AiMesh node paired with this router — name, address, the firmware version it reports, and whether it is online — and gives each online node an Update button that opens that node's own firmware page, where you pick an image and the node flashes itself. The image is never relayed through the main router. Update one node at a time and let it come back before starting the next.
• When adding a mesh node finds nothing, the router now records why. "Search for node" could come back empty with no explanation anywhere. There are two points where a discovered node is discarded for having incomplete information, and neither said anything. Both now write a line to the system log naming the node and exactly what was missing, so the next failed search explains itself instead of needing to be reproduced while someone watches. This changes no behaviour — it only makes an existing silence audible.
• Smart Connect wording. The note explaining the "- -" columns claimed 6 GHz is left out of Smart Connect by default "on this model". That is only true on some models and configurations, and the page is shown on all of them — and it was redundant anyway, since which radios take part is visible directly above it. Removed; the rest of the note stands.

Images & checksums (RT-BE88U)

Two flashable images: + AI Advisor (default) and Standard (noMCP, all AI components compiled out entirely). Flash the *_nand_squashfs.pkgtb via Administration > Firmware Upgrade.

Verify a download against the attached SHA256SUMS-RT-BE88U-Reaper_v2.3.7.txt.

Corresponding source & reproducibility

The RT-BE88U image for v2.3.7 is built from this repository at tag v2.3.7-RT-BE88U: the pinned Asuswrt-Merlin base (3006.102.8-beta2, a7ebfa133a) plus the complete patch series. The tag freezes the exact source that produced it.

• Patches: patches/ (0001-0406)
• Provenance record: provenance/manifest.json
• Source tree hash (release/src/router): f1e0db6373976ae8740a2484f74bb577ed3efbaf -- reproduce by git am --keep-cr of the patches onto the base, then git rev-parse HEAD:release/src/router.
• How to verify: docs/REPRODUCIBILITY.md and docs/SOURCE-AVAILABILITY.md

The auto-attached Source code (zip/tar.gz) asset below is this repository at tag v2.3.7-RT-BE88U (patches + docs).