DrayTek Weekly Update 19 August 2025
Security
Update
DrayTek Embraces EN 18031 - Setting a New Standard in Wireless Security
DrayTek is currently working on its commitment to meeting
the EU’s EN 18031-1 cybersecurity standard. This standard focuses on
internet-connected radio equipment and preventing network damage and service
degradation.
To find out more, click here
to read the article in the DrayTek Newsroom.
Upcoming
Webinar
Tuesday,26th August
2025, 12:00 noon EST
Duration: 30 minutes
Tune into our next YouTube Premiere webinar: Firewall
Features in DrayOS 5 Routers - Part 1
This webinar is the first part of
a 2-part series examining firewall and security features in DrayTek DrayOS 5
routers, with a focus on the Vigor2136 router. However, the insights provided
will also apply to other DrayOS 5 routers, such as the VigorC510 series.
Topics covered in this webinar
are:
- Understanding Firewall Filters in DrayOS 5
- How to create IP Filters
- How to create Content Filters
- How to create Default Filters
- How to back up and restore Firewall Filters
Stay tuned for an extra five
minutes, and we will be on hand to answer any questions.
Then click on “Notify me” to receive a reminder when
this event is scheduled to start (the “Notify me”
button will come up when you sign in on YouTube).
We hope to see you
there!
Latest Knowledge Base Articles
System
This article
describes the steps to recover the DrayTek device when the firmware has become
damaged and the device becomes unresponsive. The method uses Trivial File
Transfer Protocol (TFTP), which provides a method to upload the firmware file
to the device.
Click here to read this article.
ACS 3
This article helps to understand
how ACS 3 licensing is affected by MAC address changes in a virtual machine.
Click
here to read this
article.
Latest
Firmware
- Fixed: Unexpected failure to upgrade the
firmware via WUI
Click here
to download the firmware.
Improvements
- Fixed: Unexpected failure to upgrade the firmware via WUI
Click here
to download the firmware.
New Features
• Support VRRP
- Support XMPP
- Support OAuth 2.0 for Mail Service
- Support more port redirection modes in Port
Knocking
- Support the TR-069 parameter of certificate
management
- Add a new menu item, System Maintenance>>
Configuration Export/Import, for importing/exporting configuration
Improvements
- Add SNMP OID for WAN uptime
- Support Redistribute BGP route via OSPF router
- Add a second public/private community string for
SNMP
- Improve the behaviour of BGP (Border Gateway
Protocol)
For a complete list of
improvements, refer to the release notes in the download link.
Click here
to download the firmware.
Improvements
- Improve the Web GUI Security
- Fixed: Failure to set TR-069 parameters via the
telnet command
- Fixed: System reboot occurred unexpectedly
during authentication via the hotspot web portal
Click here
to download the firmware.
Improvements
- Improve the Web GUI Security
- Fixed: Router reboot due to unexpected reasons
- - Fixed: Failure to upgrade the CPE firmware via
Vigor ACS
Click
here to
download the firmware.
Improvements
I - Improve the Web GUI Security
- Improve the stability of ACS firmware upgrade
- Fixed: NAT loopback/openport did not work for IP
Alias WAN and TCP
- Fixed: "Failover to" option in Policy
Route disappeared when the rule was enabled
- Fixed: Viewing the dashboard, the router was
busy due to a high number of BFP entries
- Fixed: Linux IP used a random MAC address that
might cause trouble in Bind IP to MAC
- Fixed A certification generation issue where the
local certificate list was suddenly empty, and generating new certificates did
not work.
Click
here to
download the firmware.
Improvements
- Improve the Web GUI Security
- Fixed: Router reboot due to unexpected reasons
- Fixed: Failure to upgrade the CPE firmware via
Vigor ACS
Click
here to
download the firmware.
· Improvements
- Improve the Web GUI Security
- Improve the stability of ACS firmware upgrade
- Fixed: NAT loopback/openport did not work for IP
Alias WAN and TCP
- Fixed: "Failover to" option in Policy
Route disappeared when the rule was enabled
- Fixed: Viewing the dashboard, the router was
busy due to a high number of BFP entries
- Fixed: Linux IP used a random MAC address that
might cause trouble in Bind IP to MAC
- Fixed A certification generation issue where the
local certificate list was suddenly empty, and generating new certificates did
not work.
Click here
to download the firmware.
I Improvements
- Improve the Web GUI Security
- Improve the stability of ACS firmware upgrade
- Fixed: NAT loopback/openport did not work for IP Alias WAN and TCP
- Fixed: "Failover to" option in Policy Route disappeared when the rule was enabled
- Fixed: Viewing the dashboard, the router was busy due to a high number of BFP entries
- Fixed: Linux IP used a random MAC address that might cause trouble in Bind IP to MAC
- Fixed A certification generation issue where the local certificate list was suddenly empty, and generating new certificates did not work.
Click
here to
download the firmware.
Improvements
- Support the selection of more than one SSID
schedule profile in Configuration>>Wireless LAN>>Radio Settings
- Show the network connection status in System
Maintenance>>Management>>XMPP
- Fixed: Management VLAN would be set back to
default when using config sync in AP management
Click here
to download the firmware.
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