Your home router is usually your main gateway and firewall between your house full of connected devices, and the Wild West of the Internet. If you have a router that is no longer receiving updates every month or so, then you’re likely not getting the security patches that you need to protect your home network.
Or you may have an older, or cheaper, router that lacks many more advanced features.
OpenWRT is regularly updated and patched and is crammed with all sorts of management and security features. It can turn many “dumb” routers into more advanced devices (yes, it’s mostly all in the software). It is free to install and use, but will require you to reflash your router and start again with default settings.
See https://www.phoronix.com/news/OpenWrt-22.03-Released
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