TheUnboundDeveloper/AM-Reaper v3.3.2-beta-RT-BE88U

Reaper v3.3.2-beta — RT-BE88U

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v3.3.2 — a flash releases the USB volumes first, the setup box ends in the reboot screen, the ZenWiFi BQ16 joins

• A firmware flash releases the USB volumes before it ejects them (field, RT-BE86U). Every
  flash path - the GUI upload handlers, the upgrade service and the update-check script - ran
  ejusb -1 0 before anything else was stopped. Stock's unmount stops only the NAS services and
  the ASUS apps, so Entware's daemons (they stop from the user's services-stop, which only the
  normal reboot path runs), a dnsmasq writing its log under /opt and rtrafd's history store
  kept the volume busy: the eject failed for forty seconds, fell back to a lazy detach, and the
  router flashed with a filesystem that was never cleanly unmounted. The next boot mounted it
  only after dnsmasq had already failed to start. A new step, reaper_usb_release
  (rc/reaper_usbrel.c), runs just before each of those ejects (and before the factory reset's)
  and does what a reboot would have done first: the user's services-stop (once per flash),
  rtrafd (it saves on SIGTERM), then every process still holding a file, its working directory,
  its executable or a mapped library under /tmp/mnt - SIGTERM, five seconds, SIGKILL, names
  logged. It does nothing while no USB volume is mounted, and the GUI's own Eject does not use
  it. The watchdog leaves dnsmasq alone while it runs, so it cannot restart one that would
  reopen a log on the volume. Behaviour change: a dnsmasq holding a file on the USB volume is
  stopped for the length of the flash. Test test_usb_flash_release.py runs the sweep against
  real holder processes.
• A boot clears a service request that survived the flash. The new image refused every
  notify_rc with "rc could not be informed (rc_last:restart_upgrade)" because rc_service still
  named a service from the previous image; nothing on a boot ever cleared it. init.c now unsets
  rc_service, rc_service_pid and last_rc_service beside the ASUS_STOP_COMMIT unset -
  nothing can be mid-service that early. (The same report's reboot loop is not explained by
  either fix and is still open.)
• The first-boot setup box (field, GT-BE98). Chrome's saved-login autofill could put the
  router password into the Wi-Fi password field, because both sat in one form and a browser
  pairs a saved login with the first visible password field there. The Wi-Fi fields now live
  outside the credential form, and the Wi-Fi key and the new login password are marked as new
  passwords. Nothing is prepopulated any more, the router login name is lowercase only (folded
  as you type), and the button reads Apply & Reboot. The form used to send a wait of zero,
  so the hidden frame's reply sent the page back to itself within seconds while the router went
  down; it now sends the model's reboot time, and the page shows the same REBOOTING screen the
  GUI's Reboot shows - countdown, then it waits for the router to answer and goes to the login
  page.
• ZenWiFi BQ16 (BE25000) joins the roster. Quad-band 2.4/5/5/6 GHz on the BCM4916, built
  from the ASUS 102_39256 GPL drop for every closed object and the stock 102_39256 image for the
  radio firmware (BCM6717 + BCM6726, both stamped for the BQ16). networkmap is pinned to the
  fleet's binary, so the client list does not hit the shared-memory mismatch the GT-BE98 once
  had. No Realtek switch on this board (Broadcom PHYs and a BCM53134), so no switch blob. Both
  variants build and pass verification; the System Information page maps its four radios like
  the GT-BE98's. It publishes only as a prerelease until a unit has booted an image.

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_v3.3.2.txt.

Corresponding source & reproducibility

The RT-BE88U image for v3.3.2-beta is built from this repository at tag v3.3.2-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 v3.3.2-beta-RT-BE88U (patches + docs).