I also own a axt1800 slate ax, to this also was promised kernel 5 but I’m still waiting. Once upon a time there was a beta (that was working badly) but now even that one is gone.
So I suppose they intend to base even they flagship new routers on a 4.x kernel that was basically built from another generation. That is not good especially for security. I also saw they changed the product description on the web site about the flint 2 and now say openwrt 21 and kernel 5.4 and even that is not true because the new 4.5.7 has an old 4.x.x kernel! It is a kernel from 2016 c’mon it is almost 10 years old and they do not even use the lts one. For this flint 2 there is luckily the option to put plain openwrt snapshot on it but for the slate ax there is no options, that means that when their shallow support ends I will have to throw it away since it is not supported by openwrt directly.
I will send it back to Amazon this week.
Another interesting fact is that they released a router with an openwrt version and a kernel version and then after a while they put it another very old one on it and for them this is normal. I never saw anyting like this in all my life (I’m 51) no IT company that I know of as ever downgraded they own OS after launch! My sincere compliments to Gl.inet, you are the first guys.
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