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Hi,
As the XR500 is officially out of service from Netgear according to their website (https://www.netgear.com/support/product/xr500/#download), two questions :
Can't you release a proper fix to the DHCP issue as NetGear doesn't care anymore ? What is the very latest version of the firmware you provide here (official final being 2.3.3.136) Thanks

Hi,
Are we actually going to have a "stable" version at some point ? (Stable in quote as for out of a beta)
Thanks

Does it mean the deal with Netgear is off and that if we want a reliable router with regular working update we need to switch?
Is that the result of two years of working hybrid releases with Netgear?

Short answer: yes.
Long answer: The whole idea of DumaOS is for it to be hardware agnostic. Once the rapp store is fully launched, updates for different routers will be a piece of cake.
Currently we have no plans to make any hardware exclusive features. When it comes to firmware, the main difference will be the speed of updates. We expect that the R2 will be updated more quickly than the XR500 because there are less verification steps to get an R2 firmware published. That said, both are great routers and both will be updated.
The R2 can handle much faster WAN connections than the R1 could, the processor is better so that bottleneck is lifted. I don't have any hard numbers on Hybrid-VPN performance but in my personal testing I've found that it feels very responsive. It largely depends on your VPN provider and chosen server location, of course.
The R2 has better hardware in terms of processor, memory, wifi. The R2 supports 2.4GHz and 5GHz, the R1 only supports 2.4GHz. Once DumaOS 3.0 is released, the two units will have the same software features. In future, we may have to set limits for the R1 that won't be there for other units, but we have no plans to do this yet. We would never artificially limit a unit, but if a feature we develop needs more power than the R1 can provide, we won't have a choice.
That's totally fair, the XR500 is still an awesome router and we'll continue to support it with software updates.
The R2 is only a router, so you'll need a modem in addition to the R2.

Any updates from Netgear for Duma must be supplied from Netduma to start with. NGs firmware is stable on the 500 and does what it says in the background so you have your WiFi drivers, beamforming and so on but the gaming software that had bugs that we all kept on about is within Duma and as NG don’t develop that they can’t fix it unless a fix is supplied to them. 
so leaky VPN, bufferbloat issues, PPPoE, lack of support for mobile browser and so on are nothing to do with NG, they can’t fix them unless they get updates from Netduma. 
in very simple terms NG supply the hardware and Duma is the software. It also doesn’t matter whether the Router is older or newer for support, normally new routers will get more updates due to bug fixes but as time goes on you end up with more security fixes than bug fixes. 
No router is going to be bug free, that’s the nature of them.
With the R2 as it’s their own router updates should be quicker on 3.0 and as long as any bugs that are found across the platforms are also passed on to Netgear the XR series will be updated to.

Not sure it's worth updating from an XR500 just to get updates a bit quicker. Esp when I haven't had any issues with the XR500...

Can i ask something 
I have XR500 
The R2 will be better of XR500 about firmware?? 
Does it worth to get the R2? 

So now you'll have 5 routers to support.
The outdated R1 (sorry), 3 Netgear that you'll need validation from them to be authaurized to release anything on them and your new flagship that should be the center of attention.
These routers have different specs so will require more testing and validating. 
Are you still confident that you can support all of that in the same roadmap without having to delay version for one of these routers or worse, skip feature because Netgear said no or the R1 can't handle it?
Thanks