What's new in 7.7rc2 (2022-Dec-16 20:23):

Changes in this release:

*) bgp - properly set "bgp-ext-communities" from "communities" list;
*) dns - fixed handling of FWD entries where "forward-to" is a hostname;
*) dns - improved service stability when CNAME points to a FWD entry;
*) hotspot - improved limitation of maximum allowed connections;
*) ipsec - improved IKE payload processing;
*) snmp - improved stability when receiving bogus packets;
*) wifiwave2 - improved compliance with regulatory domain information;

Other changes since v7.6:

*) bgp - added comment functionality for BGP VPN (CLI only);
*) bgp - improved BGP advertisement printing;
*) bgp - improved BGP session load distribution across multiple CPU cores;
*) bluetooth - added unique advertise message filtering;
*) bonding - properly detect VPLS interface state changes;
*) branding - fixed identity setting from branding package;
*) bridge - added support for static MDB entries;
*) bridge - disallow port-controller while the bridge has MSTP enabled;
*) bridge - fixed "edge=yes" setting for MSTP;
*) bridge - fixed host moving with fast-path;
*) bridge - fixed incorrect root port blocking for MSTP;
*) bridge - fixed master port conversion;
*) bridge - fixed mst-override port priority for MSTP;
*) bridge - fixed MSTP compatibility with STP;
*) bridge - fixed port priority for STP and RSTP;
*) bridge - fixed R/M/STP bridge identifier on protocol-mode change;
*) bridge - fixed RSTP BCP with bridged PPP interfaces;
*) bridge - fixed STP blocking state on port-controller;
*) bridge - improved port-controller system stability;
*) bridge - improved system stability when using MSTP and many VLAN mappings;
*) bridge - removed "age" monitoring property from the host table;
*) certificate - improved certificate management, signing and storing processes;
*) certificate - improved Let's Encrypt logging and error recovery;
*) conntrack - improved system stability when PPTP helper is used;
*) conntrack - improved system stability when processing SCTP connections on TILE;
*) container - fixed access to "/dev/stderr" from containers;
*) container - fixed handling of groups and usernames from Dockerfile;
*) container - fixed tar extracting;
*) container - made "ram" and "tmp" directories use tmpfs;
*) crs1xx/2xx - fixed "new-customer-pcp" setting for ACL rules;
*) dhcpv6-client - handle receiving of invalid T1 and T2 times;
*) discovery - added "discovered-by" parameter to indicate which protocol discovered the neighbor;
*) discovery - added "mode" parameter for discovery configuration;
*) discovery - fixed neighbor discovery on Mesh interfaces;
*) discovery - report IPv6 LL address if global address does not exist;
*) disk - added support for manual RAM file system (TMPFS) creation (CLI only);
*) disk - improved external storage file system mounting, formatting and naming;
*) dns - do not query upstream DNS servers for matched regex records;
*) dns - fixed changing of "forward-to" parameter for FWD entries;
*) dns - fixed handling of CNAME entry pointing to another FWD entry;
*) dns - fixed regex matching (introduced in v7.7beta9);
*) dns - fixed resolving of FWD entries (introduced in v7.7beta8);
*) dns - improved resolved static entry addition to address list;
*) dns - require "write" policy for DNS cache flushing;
*) dns - respond with lowest TTL for inner queries containing A, AAAA, CNAME chains;
*) filesystem - fixed repartition on devices with containers;
*) firewall - added "set-priority" option for IPv6 mangle firewall;
*) firewall - made "dynamic" parameter settable for IPv4 address lists;
*) health - fixed firmware update process on CCR1036-8G-2S+ (introduced in v7.7beta8);
*) hotspot - added "install-hotspot-queue" parameter to control dynamic queue creation (CLI only);
*) hotspot - fixed maximum allowed connections limitation;
*) hotspot - fixed minor memory leak after each successful login from WEB;
*) hotspot - improved system stability when clients migrate between bridge ports or VLANs;
*) ike1 - disallow "remote-id" setting for identity;
*) ike1 - fixed XAuth responder trying to recreate phase 1;
*) ike1 - improved expired IPsec-SA processing;
*) ike2 - added support for ChaChaPoly1305 encryption (CLI only);
*) ike2 - added support for DH Group 31 (EC25519) (CLI only);
*) ike2 - fixed rekey notify creation;
*) ike2 - improved certificate payload parsing;
*) interface - do not allow adding invalid "veth" interfaces;
*) interface - improved system stability when handling large packets on CCR2216;
*) interface - show RTL8153 CDC Modem Device as ethernet;
*) ipsec - added "current-address" parameter for peers with DNS address;
*) ipsec - added hardware acceleration support for IPQ-6010;
*) ipsec - added support for AVX optimized SHA acceleration;
*) ipsec - improved "H" (hw-aead) flag presence for accelerated SA's;
*) ipsec - improved configuration of IPsec proposal auth-algorithms;
*) ipsec - improved IKE payload processing;
*) ipsec - removed Blowfish and Camellia encryption algorithms for IKE;
*) ipv6 - do not generate LL addresses for VPN interfaces when IPv6 is disabled;
*) ipv6 - do not use invalid/disabled global addresses for IPv6 ND;
*) l2tp - added VRF support for L2TP Ether interfaces;
*) l3hw - fixed host offloading in a case of MAC address change;
*) l3hw - fixed offloaded NAT for CRS309 switch;
*) l3hw - improved system stability when disabling or enabling L3HW offloading;
*) leds - fixed default LED configuration on netFiber 9;
*) leds - fixed turning off LEDs after system shutdown;
*) lte - added AT channel support for Telit FN990;
*) lte - added CA information in 5G mode;
*) lte - fixed error handling on opening AT control channel;
*) lte - fixed new MTU value validation;
*) lte - properly show leading zeros in MCC and MNC strings;
*) lte - show band number in "ca-band" in NSA mode on Chateau 5G;
*) lte - use RSRP value reported by MBIM signal for MBIM type modems;
*) macsec - fixed packet duplication on Ethernet interface;
*) macsec - fixed packet transmission using traffic-generator;
*) macsec - fixed packet validation;
*) modem - added USB tethering support for Google Pixel 7 devices;
*) mpls - added VPLS LDP information in remote/local-mappings;
*) mpls - fixed assigning of explicit null label for IPv6;
*) netinstall - added "-i " parameter for Netinstall (CLI Linux);
*) netinstall - fixed netinstal procedure on RouterBOOT versions from 3.27 to 6.41;
*) netinstall - improved automatic netbooting interface selection;
*) netwatch - added support for "https-get" type (CLI only);
*) netwatch - fixed reporting of VRF name in logging messages;
*) netwatch - improved "interval" and "packet-interval" coexistence for ICMP type;
*) ntp - log error message when server is unreachable;
*) ospf - fixed MD5 checksum calculation;
*) ospf - fixed simple authentication and checksums for NBMA and PTMP links;
*) ospf - fixed virtual-link address selection for PTP links;
*) ovpn - added "CBC" postfix to AES cipher names;
*) ovpn - added "route-nopull" option for client side;
*) ovpn - added hardware acceleration support for IPQ-6010;
*) ovpn - added support for IPv6 tunneling;
*) ovpn - fixed "Called-Station-Id" usage in RADIUS requests;
*) package - fixed missing menus when both "lora" and "wifiwave2" packages are installed;
*) ping - fixed ARP ping;
*) port - added serial port support for Telit FB990 modem;
*) port - do not show unusable USB port on hAP ax^2;
*) ppp - changed default lease time of dynamic DHCPv6 server to 1 day;
*) ppp - do not inherit routing mark for encapsulated packets;
*) ppp - fixed displaying of "info" command for PPP client;
*) ppp - improved authentication method negotiation;
*) quickset - fixed addition of bridge filter rules in bridged mode;
*) quickset - fixed interface list member table on configuration changes;
*) quickset - update DNS server IP address when changing router's IP address;
*) rb4011 - fixed reporting of current CPU frequency and changed default frequency to "auto";
*) sfp - added 2.5G SFP module support for RB5009;
*) sfp - allow usage of "10G Base-LR" mode for XS+31LC10D module;
*) snmp - added support for "lldpRemLocalPortNum" OID's;
*) ssh - added support for Ed25519 key exchange;
*) ssh - do not allow SHA1 usage with strong crypto enabled;
*) ssh - fixed handling of non standard size RSA keys;
*) supout - added missing IPv6 firewall sections;
*) supout - added MSTI and mst-override monitor for bridge MSTP;
*) switch - avoid packet corruption in some setups for 98DX3257, 98DX3255, 98DX4310, 98DX8525 and 98PX1012 switches;
*) switch - fixed egress mirror for 98DX4310 and 98DX8525 switches;
*) switch - fixed Ethernet monitor when disabling auto-negotiation for 10G interfaces for 98DX8212 switch (introduce in v7.7beta3);
*) switch - fixed SFP Tx disable when changing auto-negotiation settings for 98DXxxxx and 98PX1012 switches;
*) switch - hide invalid settings for 98DX3255 and 98DX8525 switch chips;
*) switch - improved 10G, 25G and 40G interface stability for 98DX8208, 98DX8212, 98DX8332, 98DX3257, 98DX4310, 98DX8525, 98DX3255, 98DX8525, 98PX1012 switches;
*) switch - improved 10G, 25G and 40G interface stability for 98DX8208, 98DX8212, 98DX8332, 98DX3257, 98DX4310, 98DX8525, 98DX3255, 98PX1012 switches;
*) switch - improved 10G, 25G, 40G and 100G interface stability for 98DX8208, 98DX8212, 98DX8332, 98DX3257, 98DX4310, 98DX8525, 98DX3255, 98PX1012 switches;
*) switch - improved 10Gbps Ethernet interface stability for 98DX8212 switch;
*) switch - improved 25G interface stability for 98PX1012, 98DX4310 and 98DX8525 switches (introduced in v7.6);
*) switch - improved system stability when routing traffic over CPU on 98DX224S, 98DX226S, 98DX3236, 98DX8208 switch chips (introduced in v7.7beta3);
*) switch - increased the maximum value of "rate" for ACL rules;
*) swos - fixed "allow-from-ports" setting;
*) swos - fixed SwOS configuration changes from RouterOS;
*) swos - improved default SwOS backup file name;
*) system - allow up to 4GB of RAM allocation per process on x86, ARM64 and TILE;
*) system - improved handling of user policies;
*) tr069-client - updated data model to version 2.15;
*) traffic-flow - fixed sending of sampling interval;
*) tunnels - added VRF support for EoIP, IPIP and GRE tunnels;
*) vpls - expose VPLS related debug logs to "vpls" logging topic;
*) vrrp - always use slave interface MTU;
*) vrrp - improved interface stability on configuration changes;
*) vxlan - added "local-address" parameter support;
*) vxlan - added VRF support;
*) w60g - improved system stability for Cube Pro devices;
*) webfig - ensure login page is displayed after each log out;
*) webfig - fixed accessing of WebFig when "Interface" menu is disabled by skin;
*) webfig - fixed displaying of VRF routes;
*) webfig - fixed input validation for "VPLS ID" parameter;
*) webfig - fixed setting of "DHCP Option Set" parameter;
*) webfig - improved WEB caching capabilities;
*) webfig - properly detect current location for navigation buttons;
*) webfig - properly show limited number of available options;
*) wifiwave2 - added "datapath" settings to configure data forwarding for an interface (CLI only);
*) wifiwave2 - added "ft-preserve-vlanid" parameter to control whether to change VLAN ID after FT;
*) wifiwave2 - added "provisioning" menu to automatically assign interface configurations to radios (CLI only);
*) wifiwave2 - added disable/enable commands to configuration profile sub-menus (CLI only);
*) wifiwave2 - added information of per-station throughput in the registration table;
*) wifiwave2 - added initial CAPsMAN support (only compatible with wifiwave2 interfaces) (CLI only);
*) wifiwave2 - added interworking/Hotspot 2.0 support (CLI only);
*) wifiwave2 - added more informative log messages on configuration profile changes;
*) wifiwave2 - added option to set per-client vlan-id in access list (only supported on 802.11ax interfaces) (CLI only);
*) wifiwave2 - do not permit a client device to be connected to more than one interface at a time;
*) wifiwave2 - fixed "radio-mac" provisioning matcher;
*) wifiwave2 - fixed 4-way handshake with TKIP;
*) wifiwave2 - fixed authentication issues (introduced in 7.7beta8);
*) wifiwave2 - improved general system stability;
*) wifiwave2 - improved system stability when multiple virtual AP are configured;
*) wifiwave2 - properly report interface on which traffic is received when multiple station interfaces are used concurrently;
*) wifiwave2 - released packages for MMIPS, PPC, TILE and x86;
*) wifiwave2 - removed maximum limit for group key update interval and changed the default to 1 day;
*) winbox - added "Active" prefix for current "Circuit ID" and "Cookie Length" fields for L2TP-Ether interfaces;
*) winbox - added "bus" parameter for "USB Power Reset" command on Chateau ax;
*) winbox - added "Make Static" button to "IP/DHCP Server/Leases" menu;
*) winbox - added missing "force" parameter for new "IP/DHCP Server/Options" entries;
*) winbox - added missing "vlan-id" column under "IP/Hotspot/Hosts" table;
*) winbox - do not show LACP related status parameters for other bonding types;
*) winbox - fixed default MTU value for CAP interfaces;
*) winbox - fixed minor typo in "Zerotier" menu;
*) winbox - improved handling of large WinBox protocol messages;
*) winbox - increased maximum number of Winbox read-only sessions 5->25;
*) winbox - properly save "Interfaces/Detect Internet/Detect Internet State" menu in session file;
*) winbox - removed bogus VRF tab from "Interface" menu;
*) winbox - show "Switch" menu on Chateau 5G ax;
*) winbox - show "Switch" menu on NetFiber 9;
*) winbox - show "System/Health/Settings" only on boards that have configurable values;
*) winbox - show "System/RouterBOARD/Mode Button" on devices that have such feature;
*) winbox - show "USB Power Reset" menu on Chateau 5G ax;
*) winbox - show dynamic comment in WifiWave2 registration table;
*) wireless - fixed "nstreme" related parameter control in skins;
*) wireless - fixed setting of realms interworking parameter if realms-raw is unset;
*) x86 - added support for SUN 10G NICs;
*) x86 - improved igc driver support;

What's new in 6.48.6 (2021-Dec-03 12:15):

MAJOR CHANGES IN v6.48.6:
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!) device-mode - added feature locking mechanism;
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*) certificate - improved stability when sending bogus SCEP message;
*) quickset - use 5GHz interface's country for "Home AP Dual" configuration;
*) system - improved system stability if device is upgraded from RouterOS and/or RouterBOOT v6.41.4 or older;
*) upgrade - added new "upgrade" channel for upgrades between major versions;
*) winbox - do not allow to add/remove W60G interfaces;
*) wireless - added U-NII-2 support for US and Canada country profiles for cAP ac XL and QRT 5 ac;

What's new in 5.26 (2013-Sep-04 15:01):

*) ssh - fixed denial of service;

What's new in 5.25 (2013-Apr-25 15:59):

*) web proxy - speed up startup;
*) metarouter - fixed occasional lockups on mipsbe boards;
*) wireless - update required when using small width channel RB2011 RB9xx
caveat: update remote end/s before updating AP as both side are required to use new/same version for a link

What's new in 7.1rc7 (2021-Nov-25 16:35):

!) device-mode - added feature locking mechanism;
*) arp - limit total ARP table size based on installed RAM size;
*) bgp - fixed "nexthop-choice" selection;
*) bgp - fixed peer handling on point-to-point addresses;
*) bgp - ignore empty filter names on upgrade;
*) bgp - implemented BGP VPN configuration upgrade and other configuration upgrade fixes;
*) conntrack - limit total connection tracking table size based on installed RAM size;
*) crs3xx - fixed interface linking for some optical QSFP+ modules on CRS354 devices;
*) health - improved temperature reporting;
*) ipsec - fixed hardware acceleration support for ARM and ARM64 devices;
*) ipsec - fixed software fallback mode for AES-192 on IPQ4018/IPQ4019;
*) led - added "dark-mode" functionality control with Mode button for cAP XL ac;
*) lte - added "cell-monitor" support for Chateau 5G;
*) lte - improved LTE setting reporting to supout file;
*) ospf - fixed MD5 authentication with large packets;
*) ospf - fixed OSPFv3 interface configuration;
*) ospf - improved DB exchange speeds;
*) ospf - improved stability with large LS update packets;
*) route - fixed "Route Target" byte order;
*) route - fixed unreachable routed networks on VRFs;
*) route - fixed route rule upgrade;
*) route - fixed situation when routes with unequal distances got treated as ECMP routes;
*) route - improvements on VRF isolation;
*) route-filters - added "as-path" regexp testing tool;
*) route-filters - added "as-path-slow-legacy" to support old style "as-path" filtering;
*) route-filters - fixed "as-path" bracket parsing and 4byte ASN usage;
*) routerboard - fixed "mode-button" functionality on devices that have such feature;
*) upgrade - improved major version upgrade process on hAP ac2 and cAP ac;
*) wifiwave2 - fixed enforcement of access list rules which only checks client signal strength for new connections;
*) wifiwave2 - removed non-functioning VLAN configuration parameters from access list;