Openwrt cheap hardware manufacturer - Cudy

My dears, for some time i used to go for GL INET routers for openwrt hardware.
But GL INet started to use old versions of openwrt that does not update with the latest versions.

So I tryed to find another manufacturer that offered openwrt hardware.

So now I am using Cudy hardware, all of them being the WR1300 V3 hardware.

They offer a google drive that you can flash the firwmare and be able to change the rom to openwrt latest version
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1BKVarlwlNxf7uJUtRhuMGUqeCa5KpMnj

It is a long known fact, that firmware is old openwrt that permits sysupgrading to normal OpenWrt.
glinet has no problems of old versions, they even say for eoldevices to use OpenWrt instead.

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2021 called and requested their newsflash back ...

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Hello Brada, i have here several GL.iNet GL-SFT1200 that i bought that uses a siflower chipset that is not in the trunk, while selling, they adversited as openwrt and i waited a long time just to understand that they are not going to trunk this chipset.
So they are garbage to me.

The ones that offers openwrt updated are not cheap in GL Inet, while cudy wr1300 is totally affordable (40 usd)

yes, they're lying ...

it's kind of not their job, but the hw vendor's.
some progress have been made: SF19A2890 commit, possible new devices

the ones on the gdrive you posted, are the ones supported by openwrt, plus perhaps some new device where the openwrt transition image haven't been published.
Cudy got their own page about it https://www.cudy.com/blogs/faq/openwrt-software-download

Nice to know, i was going to donate them, let´s wait and see.

Thanks.