FreshTomato is an open source, Linux-based firmware replacement project for home and SOHO WiFi routers. FreshTomato is distributed with the GPL license.

FreshTomato supports systems based on Broadcom chipsets, including ARM- and MIPS-based models. To see if FreshTomato runs on your hardware, please refer to the wiki's Hardware compatibility page.

FreshTomato includes a friendly interface considered easy to use even by inexperienced users. It offers many features including some not available on stock vendor firmware. It also includes many security and bug fixes not available on stock vendor firmware.

Tomato was originally written by Jonathan Zarate, and has been developed over time by the open source community. FreshTomato is currently the most up-to-date fork of Tomato and has about 4 to 5 releases a year and is managed by @pedro for over 7 years now.

Release names are based on the year of the release, then the number of the release (NOT the month or date). For example, release 2023.2 is the second release in the year 2023.

Contributions

The developers of this project work in their spare time, sometimes around the clock, to make FreshTomato great. Making a financial contribution helps motivate them to continue their hard work.

Your donation helps get bugs fixed, features added or other changes made. The developer also pays for webhosting and forum hosting services.

Please donate via Paypal or Bitcoin. See the Donations page for details.

Contributions of Code, help with testing or debugging, or writing documentation are also needed and appreciated. Discussions of these occur mostly on the Tomato ForumTomato forum.

If you'd like to contribute content to this wiki, please see the Style Guidelines page for details. You'll need to ask a Tomato forum moderator for permission to edit the wiki.