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R7000 New Firmware 1.0.6.28 released
New Features: Supports Arlo camera. Set up the R7000 as an Arlo base station and connect an Arlo camera to the R7000 without needing an extra base station.. Bug Fixes: Fixes the issue in which ...
If you are going backwards in release number you might still have them (that is from one of the older recalled beta's). However there is NO guarantee they will work. In cases like that you have to RESET the router and then re-apply manually your setting for proper operation.
If you are moving up from and older official release, like V1.0.4 or older you don't need to reset the router but it is advised. In this case I'd give it a try, have any problems, reset and re-enter is the first thing to try. DO NOT load saved settings from any other version into a new one. That seems to be asking for trouble these days.
Upgraded to this release and then the 2.4GHz SSID would always fail to authenticate on multiple devices from PC to iPad to Mac to Amazon Fire. Investigated the issue using WiFi analyser on Android phone and noted that the 2.4GHz non-Guest non-Arlo SSID existed twice with two different MAC addresses, one marked Netgear and the other marked Local Admin (which I believe indicates the vendor mac identifier). Trying to connect always resulted in an authentication problem reported on the Android phone. I reverted to 1.0.5 and immediately everything was fine and the strange duplicate SSID was no longer present.
Seems clear to me that this firmware has a major bug with SSID handling likely generated by the addition of the ARLO capability. Seems I need to wait for the next release after this.
Reset to factory defaults as has been mentioned in many places on the firmware 1.0.6.28 related threads.
If it still has problems, then abandon that version and downgrade.