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We have released new RouterOS versions in current channel.

To upgrade, click “Check for updates” at “System/Package” in your RouterOS configuration interface, or head to our download page: http://www.mikrotik.com/download

What’s new in 6.42 (2018-Apr-13 11:03):

!) tile – improved system performance and stability (“/system routerboard upgrade” required);
!) w60g – increased distance for wAP 60G to 200+ meters;
*) bridge – added host aging timer for CRS3xx and Atheros hw-bridges;
*) bridge – added per-port forwarding options for broadcasts, unknown-multicasts and unknown-unicasts;
*) bridge – added per-port learning options;
*) bridge – added support for static hosts;
*) bridge – fixed “master-port” configuration conversion from pre-v6.41 RouterOS versions;
*) bridge – fixed bridge port interface parameter under “/interface bridge host print detail”;
*) bridge – fixed false MAC address learning on hAP ac^2 and cAP ac devices;
*) bridge – fixed incorrect “fast-forward” enabling when ports were switched;
*) bridge – fixed MAC learning for VRRP interfaces on bridge;
*) bridge – fixed reliability on software bridges when used on devices without switch chip;
*) bridge – hide options for disabled bridge features in CLI;
*) bridge – show “hw” flags only on Ethernet interfaces and interface lists;
*) capsman – added “allow-signal-out-of-range” option for Access List entries;
*) capsman – added support for “interface-list” in Access List and Datapath entries;
*) capsman – improved CAPsMAN responsiveness with large amount of CAP interfaces;
*) capsman – log “signal-strength” when successfully connected to AP;
*) certificate – added PKCS#10 version check;
*) certificate – dropped DES support and added AES instead for SCEP;
*) certificate – dropped MD5 support and require SHA1 as minimum for SCEP;
*) certificate – fixed incorrect SCEP URL after an upgrade;
*) chr – added “open-vm-tools” on VMware installations;
*) chr – added “qemu-guest-agent” and “virtio-scsi” driver on KVM installations;
*) chr – added “xe-daemon” on Xen installations;
*) chr – added support for Amazon Elastic Network Adapter (ENA) driver;
*) chr – added support for booting from NVMe disks;
*) chr – added support for Hyper-V ballooning, guest quiescing, host-guest file transfer, integration services and static IP injection;
*) chr – added support for NIC hot-plug on VMware and Xen installations;
*) chr – fixed additional disk detaching on Xen installations;
*) chr – fixed interface matching by name on VMware installations;
*) chr – fixed interface naming order when adding more than 4 interfaces on VMware installations;
*) chr – fixed suspend on Xen installations;
*) chr – make additional disks visible under “/disk” on Xen installations;
*) chr – make Virtio disks visible under “/disk” on KVM installations;
*) chr – run startup scripts on the first boot on AWS and Google Cloud installations;
*) console – fixed “idpr-cmtp” protocol by changing its value from 39 to 38;
*) console – improved console stability after it has not been used for a long time;
*) crs1xx/2xx – added BPDU value for “ingress-vlan-translation” menu “protocol” option;
*) crs212 – fixed Ethernet boot when connected to boot server through CRS326 device;
*) crs326 – fixed known multicast flooding to the CPU;
*) crs3xx – added switch port “storm-rate” limiting options;
*) crs3xx – added “hw-offload” support for 802.3ad and “balance-xor” bonding;
*) detnet – fixed “detect-internet” feature unavailability if router had too long identity (introduced in v6.41);
*) dhcp – improved DHCP service reliability when it is configured on bridge interface;
*) dhcp – reduced resource usage of DHCP services;
*) dhcpv4-server – added “dns-none” option to “/ip dhcp-server network dns”;
*) dhcpv6 – make sure that time is set before restoring bindings;
*) dhcpv6-client – added info exchange support;
*) dhcpv6-client – added possibility to specify options;
*) dhcpv6-client – added support for options 15 and 16;
*) dhcpv6-client – implement confirm after reboot;
*) dhcpv6-server – added DHCPv4 style user options;
*) dns – do not generate “Undo” messages on changes to dynamic servers;
*) email – set maximum number of sessions to 100;
*) fetch – added “http-content-type” option to allow setting MIME type of the data in free text form;
*) fetch – added “output” option for all modes in order to return result to file, variable or ignore it;
*) fetch – increased maximum number of sessions to 100;
*) filesystem – implemented additional system storage maintenance checks on ARM CPU based devices;
*) flashfig – properly apply configuration provided by Flashfig;
*) gps – improved NMEA sentence handling;
*) health – added log warning when switching between redundant power supplies;
*) health – fixed empty measurements on CRS328-24P-4S+RM;
*) hotspot – improved HTTPS matching in Walled Garden rules;
*) ike1 – display error message when peer requests “mode-config” when it is not configured;
*) ike1 – do not accept “mode-config” reply more than once;
*) ike1 – fixed wildcard policy lookup on responder;
*) ike2 – fixed framed IP address received from RADIUS server;
*) interface – improved interface configuration responsiveness;
*) ippool – added ability to specify comment;
*) ippool6 – added pool name to “no more addresses left” error message;
*) ipsec – fixed AES-CTR and AES-GCM support on RB1200;
*) ipsec – improved single tunnel hardware acceleration performance on MMIPS devices;
*) ipsec – properly detect interface for “mode-config” client IP address assignment;
*) ipv6 – fixed IPv6 behaviour when bridge port leaves bridge;
*) ipv6 – update IPv6 DNS from RA only when it is changed;
*) kidcontrol – initial work on “/ip kid-control” feature;
*) led – added “Dark Mode” support for wAP 60G;
*) led – added w60g alignment trigger;
*) led – fixed unused “link-act-led” LED trigger on RBLHG 2nD, RBLHG 2nD-XL and RBSXTsq 2nD;
*) led – removed unused “link-act-led” trigger for devices which does not use it;
*) lte – added initial support for Quectel LTE EP06-E;
*) lte – added initial support for SIM7600 LTE modem interface;
*) lte – added support for the user and password authentication for wAP-LTE-kit-US (R11e-LTE-US);
*) lte – do not add DHCP client on LTE modems that doesn’t use DHCP;
*) lte – fixed DHCP client adding for MF823 modem;
*) lte – fixed LTE band setting for SXT LTE;
*) mac-ping – fixed duplicate responses;
*) modem – added initial support for AC340U;
*) netinstall – fixed MMIPS RouterOS package description;
*) netinstall – sign Netinstall executable with an Extended Validation Code Signing Certificate;
*) netwatch – limit to read, write, test and reboot policies for Netwatch script execution;
*) poe – do not show “poe-out-current” on devices which can not determine it;
*) poe – hide PoE related properties on interfaces that does not provide power output;
*) ppp – added initial support for NETGEAR AC340U and ZyXEL WAH1604;
*) ppp – allow to override remote user PPP profile via “Mikrotik-Group”;
*) quickset – fixed NAT if PPPoE client is used for Internet access;
*) quickset – properly detect IP address when one of the bridge modes is used;
*) quickset – properly detect LTE interface on startup;
*) quickset – show “G” flag for guest users;
*) quickset – use “/24” subnet for local network by default;
*) r11e-lte – improved LTE connection initialization process;
*) rb1100ahx4 – improved reliability on hardware encryption;
*) routerboard – added RouterBOOT “auto-upgrade” after RouterOS upgrade (extra reboot required);
*) routerboard – properly detect hAP ac^2 RAM size;
*) sniffer – fixed “/tool sniffer packet” results listed in incorrect order;
*) snmp – added “/caps-man interface print oid”;
*) snmp – added “/interface w60g print oid”;
*) snmp – added “board-name” OID;
*) snmp – improved request processing performance for wireless and CAP interfaces;
*) ssh – fixed SSH service becoming unavailable;
*) ssh – generate SSH keys only on the first connect attempt instead of the first boot;
*) ssh – improved key import error messages;
*) ssh – remove imported public SSH keys when their owner user is removed;
*) switch – hide “ingress-rate” and “egress-rate” for non-CRS3xx switches;
*) tile – added “aes-ctr” hardware acceleration support;
*) tr069-client – added “DownloadDiagnostics” and “UploadDiagnostics”;
*) tr069-client – correctly return “TransferComplete” after vendor configuration file transfer;
*) tr069-client – fixed “/tool fetch” commands executed with “.alter” script;
*) tr069-client – fixed HTTPS authentication process;
*) traffic-flow – fixed IPv6 destination address value when IPFIX protocol is used;
*) upgrade – improved RouterOS upgrade process and restrict upgrade from RouterOS older than v5.16;
*) ups – improved communication between router and UPS;
*) ups – improved disconnect message handling between RouterOS and UPS;
*) userman – added support for ARM and MMIPS platform;
*) w60g – added “tx-power” setting (CLI only);
*) w60g – added RSSI information (CLI only);
*) w60g – added TX sector alignment information (CLI only);
*) watchdog – retry to send “autosupout.rif” file to an e-mail if initial delivery failed up to 3 times within 20 second interval;
*) winbox – added “antenna” setting under GPS settings for MIPS platform devices;
*) winbox – added “crl-store” setting to certificate settings;
*) winbox – added “insert-queue-before” to DHCP server;
*) winbox – added “use-dn” setting in OSPF instance General menu;
*) winbox – added 160 MHz “channel-width” to wireless settings;
*) winbox – added DHCPv6 client info request type and updated statuses;
*) winbox – added missing protocol numbers to IPv4 and IPv6 firewall;
*) winbox – added possibility to delete SMS from inbox;
*) winbox – allow to comment new object without committing it;
*) winbox – allow to open bridge host entry;
*) winbox – fixed name for “out-bridge-list” parameter under bridge firewall rules;
*) winbox – fixed typo from “UPtime” to “Uptime”;
*) winbox – fixed Winbox closing when viewing graph which does not contain any data;
*) winbox – improved stability when using trackpad scrolling in large lists;
*) winbox – made UDP local and remote TX size parameters optional in Bandwidth Test tool;
*) winbox – moved “ageing-time” setting from STP to General tab;
*) winbox – moved OSPF instance “routing-table” setting in OSPF instance General menu;
*) winbox – removed “VLAN” section from “Switch” menu for CRS3xx devices;
*) winbox – show Bridge Port PVID column by default;
*) winbox – show CQI in LTE info;
*) winbox – show dual SIM options only for RouterBOARDS which does have two SIM slots;
*) winbox – show only master CAP interfaces under CAPsMAN wireless scan tool;
*) winbox – use proper graph name for HDD graphs;
*) wireless – added “realm-raw” setting for “/interface wireless interworking-profiles” (CLI only);
*) wireless – added initial support for “nstreme-plus”;
*) wireless – added support for “band=5ghz-n/ac”;
*) wireless – added support for “interface-list” for Access List entries;
*) wireless – added support for legacy AR9485 chipset;
*) wireless – enable all chains by default on devices without external antennas after configuration reset;
*) wireless – fixed “wds-slave” channel selection when single frequency is specified;
*) wireless – fixed incompatibility with macOS clients;
*) wireless – fixed long “scan-list” entries not working for ARM based wireless interfaces;
*) wireless – fixed nv2 protocol on ARM platform SXTsq devices;
*) wireless – fixed RB911-5HnD low transmit power issue;
*) wireless – fixed RTS/CTS option for the ARM based wireless devices;
*) wireless – fixed wsAP wrong 5 GHz interface MAC address;
*) wireless – improved compatibility with specific wireless AC standard clients;
*) wireless – improved Nv2 PtMP performance;
*) wireless – improved packet processing on ARM platform devices;
*) wireless – improved wireless performance on hAP ac^2 devices while USB is being used;
*) wireless – improved wireless scan functionality;