Zapret-OpenWrt: Complete Guide

What Zapret is

Zapret is an anti-DPI (Deep Packet Inspection) tool for OpenWrt routers. It is not a VPN — zapret does not change your IP address and does not hide traffic. Instead it modifies network packets to get past deep packet inspection systems.

Repository: https://github.com/remittor/zapret-openwrt Upstream: https://github.com/bol-van/zapret Current version: v72.20260307 (2026-03-07; nfqws/tpws from bol-van/zapret commit ef637c4, between v72.10 and v72.12). zapret2 flavour: v0.9.20260307 (bol-van/zapret2 d3b3011). Verified 2026-10-15. Branches: zap1 (default) — zapret + luci-app-zapret; master — zapret2 + luci-app-zapret2. Since then (unreleased in remittor as of 2026-10-15): updater uses apk add --force-non-repository (2026-04-22), Image Builder init fix, ipset exclude list refresh. Upstream bol-van v72.12 (armv7 crash fix), v72.13 (2026-07-21: Discord media port range in init.d), nfqws partial-root fix (2026-10-04) are not yet packaged; bol-van/zapret2 is at v1.0.5.2 (2026-09-15) while remittor ships 0.9.20260307.

Project architecture

The project consists of two packages: