TheUnboundDeveloper/AM-Reaper v3.2.1-beta-RT-BE88U

Reaper v3.2.1-beta — RT-BE88U

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v3.2.1 — Wireless Mode returns with its Wi-Fi 6 coupling, the Professional page keeps only settings a user can change, Rule Status walker fixes

• Wireless Mode is back on the WiFi Professional page, with the coupling it never had. Per
  radio, stock's own option sets: 2.4 GHz Auto / N only / Legacy; 5 GHz Auto / AX only /
  N-AC-AX mixed / Legacy; 6 GHz Auto / AX only. Every mode except Auto, N/AC/AX mixed and AX only
  makes bringup write wl<unit>_11ax=0, which removes Wi-Fi 6 and, because Wi-Fi 7 rides on it,
  Wi-Fi 7 too, and nothing in the firmware ever wrote it back: rc/init.c seeds the key only when
  unset and stock hides both selects on Wi-Fi 7 platforms. Apply now writes wl<unit>_11ax=1
  whenever the mode being applied allows Wi-Fi 6 and the stored value is not 1, so a radio once set
  to N only recovers. OFDMA is greyed under a mode without Wi-Fi 6, AMPDU RTS and RTS Threshold
  under Legacy, Disable 802.11b unless Auto; a mode that drops Wi-Fi 6 asks first, AX only asks with
  stock's note. Behaviour change: this supersedes the v3.2.0 note that Wireless Mode is no
  longer exposed; the nvram set recovery is no longer needed, and on its own it was incomplete.
• Seven Professional rows removed. WMM, MU-MIMO, explicit and universal beamforming, modulation
  scheme, AMPDU aggregation and Bluetooth coexistence are gone; stock hides all of them on Wi-Fi 7
  platforms. Bringup consumes several (txbf into the beamforming caps, turbo_qam into
  vht_features, mumimo into mu_features) and forces WMM on in Auto, the only mode most
  radios run, so a free control could only mislead or degrade. MU-MIMO now follows the OFDMA choice
  at apply, as stock derives it. Roaming assistant validates to stock's range, -90 to -40 dBm with
  0 meaning off.
• The radio toggle is linked to the tabs that also drive it. A radio that is on cannot be
  switched off while MLO is enabled; the MLO tab forces every radio on, and stock refuses the same
  way. A radio the wireless scheduler owns wears a chip, since the schedule decides when it is
  actually up. Applying a radio-off in router or AP mode confirms first, because the setting
  reaches AiMesh nodes. AMPDU RTS set to Disable greys and parks that radio's RTS and Fragmentation
  thresholds.
• Rule Status: a policy-routing rule behind ipset rules is witnessed again. The walker capped
  the policy-routing rows at eight and counted the set-keyed notes against the cap, so a
  source-address rule behind eight ipset rules never produced a row (field, v3.1.9). Cap raised to
  32. The out-of-scope note reaches the page whole in both columns; its buffers were 120 and 100
  bytes against a 267-byte text. The VPN group reads "VPN", since it holds the policy-routing and
  Killswitch rows too. Walker v1.6.
• Dictionaries. One token added and two retired in all 25 packs.

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.

This is a beta release. Its filename carries _BETA and the router reports the same string on the dashboard and the About page, so you can always tell which channel a flashed image came from. Stable releases carry no marker.

Verify a download against the attached SHA256SUMS-RT-BE88U-Reaper_v3.2.1.txt.

Corresponding source & reproducibility

The RT-BE88U image for v3.2.1-beta is built from this repository at tag v3.2.1-beta-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/
• Provenance record: provenance/manifest.json
• 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 v3.2.1-beta-RT-BE88U (patches + docs).