They actually did a good decision by branching 2 releases, one with old Openwrt but with proprietary and one with newer Openwrt open source drivers. Looking forward for both of it.
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They made an announcement about maintaining two branches: one based on OpenWRT 21.02 and another on 23.05. 4.5.x releases will be based on the older version of OpenWRT. 4.23.x releases will use 23.05.
I’ll give 4.5.8 a try once it’s released but only if it supports MU-MIMO. Can you test that version with your FRITZ!Repeater? For now, I’m back on 4.5.4.
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I tried the repeater with the 4.5.6 and 4.5.7 firmware, and with both the repeater does not report the presence of MU-MIMO on the MT6000, while with other routers it works, now I don’t know if MU-MIMO is actually working but the router doesn’t report its presence or anything else, I’m not very expert in this.
As far as I remember OpenWrt 21.x does not support MU-MIMO mostly.
They had big issues with it.
They made a very good decision indeed.
I hope that theyll use Openwrt snapshots branch rather than the stable release branch since the most commits with fixes are only present with the snapshots.
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So you want to make the bloody GL firmware even more bloody by using a snapshot firmware as base? That sounds some kind of insane. 
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I’m using the stable and it is very good indeed, better than the snapshot that I tried (that was released a day later) with which the wifi was not stable. With 23.05.3 5G wifi doubled the speed of the snapshot for me of course.
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I’m running the Open-WRT snaphots now…Completely stable on the MT-6000…But don’t expect the 2.4Ghz to be improved. That’s an issue that may never be solved no matter what driver you’re using…At least the MTK driver has improved it for people relying on WiFi.
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Can you give more details?
What is wrong with it?
Relax…I said “may”…But the fact that they’ve been working on improving the wifi for four months now and had to go back to the original MTK driver to just improve it a little says (to me) it’s not an easy thing to remedy…And whether you are using the open-source or the MTK driver it has problems. But who knows maybe they’ll find someway to really fix it…I’d say for people who really need to use WiFi the “fix” at least for now is to hookup an old reliable wifi router in Access Point mode to the Flint2 and use the wifi from that instead.
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Openwrt snapshot doesn’t directly translate to unstable release and mostly even better than release branch. But yup, if what GL finds better then Ill go with it
Does that snapshot have argon theme by default?
No…You add it…The current Argon on github won’t install but you can get the modded files here…
https://fantastic-packages.github.io/packages/releases/22.03/packages/x86_64/luci/
luci-app-argon-config_1.0_all.ipk and luci-theme-argon_2.3.1_all.ipk.
It seems it’s 4.5.7 rebranded, 
I do a clean setup from scratch update this weekend, but a dirty update so far (same) good 
Best of luck to GL.iNet with both firmware streams. I’m rooting for 4.23.x.
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Yeah, if the wifi stability it’s around the same than 4.5.7 I’m gonna switch to that stream instead
I have updated to 4.5.8 beta, for now I have only noticed that my Redmi Note 11 no longer wants to connect to 5Ghz despite being a few centimeters from the router.
Try to forget the network on the Redmi and connect again - this can help if it’s some WPA-problem.
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