I would update, but there are some things I can't do without clean mode.

 

To be more specific, Pokemon Diamond/Pearl can only connect to the Wii if it's run in clean mode. So there's no way to connect to Pokemon Battle Revolution or Pokemon Ranch without clean mode. And ever since the open betas, clean mode has been completely disabled. So I can't bring myself to update past version 1.7

 

Not to my knowledge. I tried 1.8 with the .ini file and the DS just froze up. I read they dropped it because of memory leaks or something, but if it's still there and you can tell me how to activate it, I would be a happy man.

 

Windirt has explain that clean mode has been removed because microSD HC was not "fast" enought to run it properly.
Even the chip memory has been removed on the new EZ5 Plus PCB

This mode just freeze with last kernel like you said zif.

BTW as far as i know 100 % download play appear since 1.72 open betas, so perhaps wii link works now in hybrid mode (don't activate cheat mode) ?

Or another solution is to have 2 microSD card and use this kernel for the clean mode.
You don't need to flash anything (ez5upldr.bin) every time you swap the microSD cards.