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What's new in 6.49.1 (2021-Nov-17 10:06):
MAJOR CHANGES IN v6.49.1:
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!) device-mode - added feature locking mechanism;
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Changes in this release:
*) certificate - improved stability when sending bogus SCEP message;
*) conntrack - limit total connection tracking table size based on installed RAM size;
*) crs3xx - fixed interface linking for some optical QSFP+ modules on CRS354 devices;
*) dhcpv6-server - fixed DUID generation with timestamp;
*) health - improved temperature reporting;
*) led - added "dark-mode" functionality control with Mode button for cAP XL ac;
*) leds - fixed LTE LED default mapping for LHGG;
*) lte - improved RSSI reporting on R11e-LTE6;
*) routerboot - enabling "protected-routerboot" feature requires a press of a button;
*) snmp - fixed IPsec-SA byte and packet counter reporting;
*) sstp - fixed client stuck in "nonce matching" state;
*) system - improved system stability if device is upgraded from RouterOS and/or RouterBOOT v6.41.4 or older;
*) traffic-flow - added systematic count-based packet sampling support;
*) upgrade - added new "upgrade" channel for upgrades between major versions;
*) winbox - added "Modbus" menu support;
*) wireless - added U-NII-2 support for US and Canada country profiles for cAP ac XL and QRT 5 ac;
*) wireless - fixed frequency range information on IPQ4019;
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;What's new in 7.1 (2021-Dec-01 16:07):
MAJOR CHANGES
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!) updated Linux Kernel based on version 5.6.3;
!) completely new NTP client and server implementation;
!) completely new User Manager implementation;
!) merged individual packages, only bundle and a few extra packages remain;
!) new Command Line Interface (CLI) style (RouterOS v6 commands are still supported);
!) support for Let's Encrypt certificate generation;
!) support for REST API;
!) support for UEFI boot mode on x86;
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NETWORKING
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!) CHR FastPath support for "vmxnet3" and "virtio-net" drivers;
!) support for "Cake" and "FQ_Codel" type queues;
!) support for IPv6 NAT;
!) support for Layer 3 hardware acceleration on all CRS3xx devices;
!) support for MBIM driver with basic functionality support for all modems with MBIM mode;
!) support for MLAG on CRS3xx devices;
!) support for VRRP grouping and connection tracking data synchronization between nodes;
!) support for Virtual eXtensible Local Area Network (VXLAN);
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ROUTING
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!) completely new BGP implementation with performance improvements;
!) completely new IPv6 stack;
!) completely new MPLS implementation with interface lists, multipath and LDPv6 support;
!) completely new OSPF implementation with performance improvements;
!) completely new routing filtering with script-like rule syntax, RPKI support and large and extended community filtering;
!) support for IPv6 ECMP and VRF (including VRF-lite);
!) support for IPv6 recursive routing and policy routing;
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VPN
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!) support for L2TPv3;
!) support for OpenVPN UDP transport protocol;
!) support for WireGuard;
!) support for ZeroTier on ARM and ARM64 devices;
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WIRELESS
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!) completely new alternative wireless package "wifiwave2" with 802.11ac Wave2, WPA3 and 802.11w management frame protection support (requires ARM CPU and 256MB RAM);
----------------------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 6.49.2 (2021-Dec-03 14:53):
*) device-mode - improved flagged router configuration detection;
What's new in 7.1.1 (2021-Dec-21 13:53):
*) backup - added "force-v6-to-v7-configuration-upgrade" option on backup load to clear RouterOS v7 configuration and trigger reimport of RouterOS v6 route configuration (CLI only);
*) backup - fixed automatic backup generation when resetting configuration;
*) bgp - improvements on detecting peers local address when IPv6 link-local addresses are used;
*) capsman - improved system stability when processing CAP packet by Mangle;
*) dhcpv4-server - allow adding comments;
*) ethernet - improved system stability when receiving large packets on devices with 88F3720 CPU (nRAY, LHGG);
*) l3hw - fixed HW offloaded routing when using 7 or more VLAN interfaces;
*) l3hw - fixed bonding source MAC address;
*) l3hw - improved system stability when using 7 or more VLAN interfaces;
*) ntp - print log change time with time-zone applied;
*) ospf - fixed distance if "originate-default" is set to "always";
*) ospf - fixed neighbor stuck in ExStart;
*) ospf - fixed simple authentication;
*) ospf - improved overall stability;
*) ospf - improves stability when handling looped back OSPF packets;
*) upgrade - improved 404 error handling when checking for new versions;
*) webfig - fixed user policy lookup for skin designer;
*) winbox - made "Routing Filters/Rules" table sortable;
*) winbox - moved "IP/Route/Nexthops" and "IPv6/Route/Nexthops" menus to "Routing/Nexthops";
*) winbox - updated default "Routing/BGP/Peer Cache" table appearance;