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ORBI NEWSFLASH - Netgear Disabling Forced Auto-Update on Upcoming Orbi Firmware
Hello Netgear Community,
I have exciting news that pertains to Orbi users! A Netgear representative notified me today via Facebook Messenger that over the next Orbi firmware releases that they ...
I am delighted to inform you all that as of Monday, February 25th, 2019, Netgear has released the firmware version allowing you to now disable automatic updates along with multitudes of bug fixes. I have yet to update to this new FW version yet as I don’t have time to do so as of this moment along with monitoring my system’s stability, but will update my system’s firmware tomorrow afternoon. I will start a separate discussion to later outline my review of the firmware update.
Please navigate to your product’s webpage and click on “downloads” and install the new FW version to get access to disable automatic updates!
We have finally been heard!
Best,
I am delighted to inform you all that as of Monday, February 25th, 2019, Netgear has released the firmware version allowing you to now disable automatic updates along with multitudes of bug fixes. I have yet to update to this new FW version yet as I don’t have time to do so as of this moment along with monitoring my system’s stability, but will update my system’s firmware tomorrow afternoon. I will start a separate discussion to later outline my review of the firmware update.
Please navigate to your product’s webpage and click on “downloads” and install the new FW version to get access to disable automatic updates!
We have finally been heard!
Best,
Although I like this news, and the release notes of v2.3.0.32 do say "Adds customer firmware pull", I yet have to find the setting to put this into action.
Back to the original thread topic: Disabling Auto Update.
Hate to break it to you, but that feature is not included in the newest (.32) version of firmware.
If you carefully read the text referenced in the original message it says it will be included over the next FW RELEASES (not this release!)
Where in the UI is this disable of auto updates feature? Please post a picture.
DorkiOrbiFW wrote:
I am delighted to inform you all that as of Monday, February 25th, 2019, Netgear has released the firmware version allowing you to now disable automatic updates along with multitudes of bug fixes. I have yet to update to this new FW version yet as I don’t have time to do so as of this moment along with monitoring my system’s stability, but will update my system’s firmware tomorrow afternoon. I will start a separate discussion to later outline my review of the firmware update.
Please navigate to your product’s webpage and click on “downloads” and install the new FW version to get access to disable automatic updates!
We have finally been heard!
Best,
That's the whole point: there is no option... :smileysad:
Although the release notes of the latest FW say:
New feature and enhancements:
- Adds NETGEAR Armor support for SKUs with the RBR50 router. This includes the RBK50, RBK53, RBK50V, and RBK52W.
- Adds customer firmware pull.
- Expands the IP reservation function from 64 clients to 253 devices.
- Adds weak admin password checking
I guess this feature is something else.
So there is no "disabling of Auto-Update" feature in the new FW?
DorkiOrbiFW wrote:
I am delighted to inform you all that as of Monday, February 25th, 2019, Netgear has released the firmware version allowing you to now disable automatic updates along with multitudes of bug fixes. I have yet to update to this new FW version yet as I don’t have time to do so as of this moment along with monitoring my system’s stability, but will update my system’s firmware tomorrow afternoon. I will start a separate discussion to later outline my review of the firmware update.
Please navigate to your product’s webpage and click on “downloads” and install the new FW version to get access to disable automatic updates!
We have finally been heard!
Best,
FURRYe38, yes, you are correct in a sense. There is no actual “feature” that disables automatic updates as automatic updates no longer occur for Orbi.
Hope this claifies things for you and for others,
