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During the year 2008 a total of 18 RouterOS 3 versions were released, from 3.0 to 3.17. So which one had the longest lifetime, which was the most stable release? Read on to find out.

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New router board was just announced, and it’s  featuring two USB ports! Basically it’s an expanded version of the well-known RouterBOARD 433AH.

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Lots of improvements and bufixes in the new RouterOS 3.23:

*) fixed installation on fresh disks or VMs;
*) add 802.1ad Service Tag support for VLAN;
*) wireless - fix for RTS/CTS when used together with dynamic ACK timeout;
*) serial ports are now grouped per USB device;
*) added gsm info command to ppp-client;
*) added URL support to fetch tool;
*) added dial-on-demand mode to PPTP & L2TP clients;
*) ssh - now non-interactive console commands can reference variables;
*) fixed TFTP server logging;
*) fixed problem - “/system upgrade” (autoupgrade) did not show proper package
architecture and was unable to fetch new packages;
*) fixed bug - hotspot ‘walled garden ip’ rules did not work on some boards
after reboot;
*) added ‘/interface print stats’ command;
*) improved support for OSPF as PE-CE routing protocol;
*) added OSPF sham links;
*) fixed a bug in set-bgp-prepend-path routing filter;
*) fixed some MPLS TE reoptimize bugs;
*) added MPLS TE bandwidth management features;
*) netwatch - ignore items with interval 0s, this value was causing
netwatch to fail;
*) routing-test - added new type of gateway argument: ip address together with interface;
*) api - ‘disabled’ property was not available from api since 3.21, fixed;
*) api - added support for retrieving OID values;
*) api - removed special behaviour of ‘find’ command under API. Use
‘print’ command with queries instead of ‘find’. This change fixes
scripts that are started from API and contain ‘find’ command.
*) console - removed support for octal numbers, now string of digits with
a leading zero is interpreted as decimal number;
*) console - added binary ~ operator that matches value against
POSIX extended regular expression;
*) console now accepts decimal numbers with k/K M G T P suffixes for
values of some properties;
*) console - fixed export problems:
if long line is wrapped just before space charater, the space character
has to be escaped, otherwise it is lost;
errors during export generated a comment line that was incorrectly enclosed
in quotes;
*) console - added binary ~ operator that matches value against
POSIX extended regular expression;
*) scheduler - added owner and policy properties; all existing
scheduler entries will get owner name “*sched” and policy
read,write,test;
*) routing-test - allow to specify that route gateway is in the main routing table;
*) added route cache statistics;
*) fixed mesh protocol;
*) graphing - fixed IP address mask display issue for low endian architectures;

RouterOS 4.0 beta2 just came out, here’s what’s new:

*) console: added ‘without-paging’ argument to ‘monitor’ commands;
*) console: now ‘without-paging’ and ‘interval’ arguments in of ‘print’
commands work together. Printing can be stopped by pressing ‘q’ or
ctrl-c, any other key triggers printing;
*) incorporated all the bugfixes since v3.22;

MikroTik company,  Mikrotīkls Ltd, just announced a new program for approved companies who build systems for RouterOS or make accessories for MikroTik products. Program is named MCI - MikroTik Certified Integrators, and the certified products will be recognisable by the “Powered by MikroTik” stickers.

RouterOS version 3.22 was released today with some new features:

*) added advanced switch features for RB450G;
*) added support for MetaROUTER on RB450G;
*) added support for adding physical interfaces to Metarouters;
*) added set-bgp-prepend-path action to routing filters;
*) added WinBox OSPFv3 support to routing-test package;
*) added WinBox IPv6 routes support to routing-test package;
*) console - added ‘hide-sensitive’ option to the export command;
*) user manager - fixed customer remove interface bug;
*) fixed Cisco BGP VPLS autodiscovery in mpls-test package;
*) fixed LDP to not disconnect on unknown capabilities of remote
peer (should help establish LDP session with Junos);
*) fixed ethernet port name reordering on RB493;
*) bonding mode balance-alb now works on RB1xx, RB4xx, RB616, RB600, RB750,
RB1000;
*) added ‘/interface ethernet print stats’ command for RB450G and RB750;
*) fixed CSPF in routing-test to properly interpret link bandwidth;
*) added support for C-motech CNU-680 CDMA 1x EV-DO 450Mhz USB Modem;

Version 3.21 brings a lot of fixes and few improvements:

*) backported MetaROUTER support for RB4xx from v4;
*) added WinBox MPLS & VPLS support mpls-test package;
*) added WinBox BGP support to routing-test package;
*) api - added query support for ‘print’ command;
*) added support for bsd-syslog;
*) added TFTP server;
*) added authorization and TLS support to email tool;
*) added pppoe-scanner;
*) added tftp protocol support to fetch tool;
*) fixed ipsec policy priority to work as documented;
*) fixed BGP route selection in routing package;
*) allow to use IPsec aggressive mode with pre-shared keys;
*) fixed some problems in mesh protocol;
*) fixed https proxying with parent proxy;
*) fixed Prism shared IRQ issue;
*) fixed multiple MPLS/VPLS bugs in mpls-test;
*) fixed boot problems on some RB1000s;
*) added /interface mesh traceroute command;
*) fixed web proxy source address selection;
*) fixed pcq queue - pcq sometimes could get through more traffic
than specified in max-limit;

Important IPv6 bugfix and lots of new features in MikroTik RouterOS 3.20:

*) added support for IPsec hardware acceleration on RB1000,
increases IPsec SHA1-3DES encryption from 45Mbps to 500Mbps
and SHA1-AES from 79Mbps to 500Mbps;
*) fixed IPv6 on RB1xx and RB5xx;
*) added support for ZTE MY 39, CDMA EVDO USB card;
*) added clear-df action to firewall;
*) fixed bug - sometimes netinstall could fail to install RouterBOARD
with “ERROR: could not format partitions”;
*) fixed PCQ bug - pcq-rate < 70000 did not work correctly (broken in 3.17);
*) added radius-mac-format setting in hotspot server profile;
*) allow to use ip firewall for encapsulated PPPoE packets;
*) graphing - fixed 10Gbit card bug;

New version of RouterOS 3.19 brings the following changes:

*) fixed problem - web proxy used up all router memory
if unlimited ram caching was enabled;
*) fixed problem - some log topics got swapped in configuration;
*) reduced maximum supported memory for RB1000 to 1.5Gb (was 1.75Gb);
*) interface mesh was not working in 3.18, fixed;
*) fixed Prism crash;
*) fixed VPLS interface related crash in mpls-test;
*) allow to enter range in BGP instance confederation peers;
*) console - fixed ‘/system backup save’ command, name argument is
optional, and backup file name is automatically generated if empty;
*) sped up IPv6 forwarding on RB4xx, RB1xx and RB5xx;
*) fixed BGP route selection in routing-test;
*) fixed dhcp server to update agent-circuit-id and agent-remote-id for lease
whenever it changes;

Mikrotik 3.18 came out today with a lot of fixes:

*) IPv6 address auto-configuration: added recursive DNS server option;
*) fixed problem - sometimes firewall did not work after reboot on RB1xx;
*) do not send IPv6 packets over PPTP, L2TP or PPPoE - could confuse some
servers or clients;
*) allow queues to have all traffic, not only ip (for example vpn);
*) added ability to specify dns name in bandwidth test in WinBox;
*) fixed problem - sometimes RB1xx (and RB4xx) could not start up or startup was very long;
*) improved ipv6 sniffing;
*) improve torch and sniffer behavior under high load;
*) improved queue statistics;
*) fix xen make-routeros-image command;
*) fix potential wireless crash under load when negotiating encryption;
*) fix several MPLS issues in mpls-test;
*) fixed support for Novatel Wireless Ovation MC950D HSUPA;
*) fixed some bugs in routing-test OSPF;
*) added support for D-Link DUB-E100 USB Ethernet adapter;
*) fixed user-manager database rebuild command to succeed in case of
malformed database disk image;
*) sms - added descriptions for error codes;
*) sms - added automatic ’smsc’ (service centre address) value detection,
to work around first time error when sending SMS without specifying
an ’smsc’ value;
*) fixed - during uptime 4:20 .. 5:00 interface traffic (byte and packet
count) was being reported 100 times larger than the actual value;
*) provide L2TP server address in Called-Station-Id when doing authentication over RADIUS;
*) added support for Sierra Wireless MC8790;
*) recalibrated noise floor adjustment for R5H;
*) updated drivers & kernel - fixed fast clock issue on x86;