Yes, I had a new firmware ready to install as well so I did so and now shows firmware current version being 1.06. Since I cannot find documentation about the firmware updates, it's hard to know if this is security or performance enhancements or both....
I had a similar issue and just resolved it so I setup this user account specifically to help other others since the official responses are unhelpful. I had to go into the LAN settings and change the setting of DNS Server which was setup as my router'...