Download RouterOS 6.42.5

MikroTik has released RouterOS 6.42.5. RouterOS is an operating system that focuses on running router tasksThis includes routing network traffic, of course, but also a firewall, bandwidth management, controlling wireless access points, a hotspot gateway and a VPN server. It can be done on the hardware from MikroTik when doing its job on x86 or virtual machines. Before use, a license required, which is included with the purchase of MikroTik hardware. The list of changes for this release is as follows:

What’s new in 6.42.5:

• api – properly classify API sessions in log;
• chr – enabled promiscuous mode (requires to be enabled on host as well) when running CHR on Hyper-V;
• kidcontrol – added dynamic accept firewall rules to allow bandwidth limit when FastTrack is enabled;
• led – fixed LED default configuration for LtAP mini;
• snmp – added “rssi” and “tx-sector-info” value support for w60g type interfaces;
• snmp – added station “distance”, “phy-rate”, “rssi” value support for w60g type interfaces;
• ssh – allow to use “diffie-hellman-group1-sha1” on TILE and x86 devices with “strong-crypto” disabled;
• w60g – added 4th 802.11ad channel (CLI only);
• w60g – added distance measurement;
• w60g – general stability and performance improvements;
• w60g – improved maximum achievable distance;
• w60g – properly report center status under “tx-sector-info”;
• winbox – show “sector-writes” on ARM devices that have such counters;
• winbox – show “System/Health” only on devices that have health monitoring;

What’s new in 6.42.4:

• bridge – allow to make changes for bridge port when it is interface list;
• bridge – fixed FastPath for bridge master interfaces (introduced in v6.42);
• certificate – fixed “add-scep” template existence check when signing certificate;
• chr – fixed adding MSTI entries;
• chr – fixed boot on hosts older than Windows Server 2012 when running CHR on Hyper-V;
• chr – fixed various network hang scenarios when running CHR on Hyper-V;
• console – fixed script permissions if script is executed by other RouterOS service;
• dhcpv4 server – fixed DHCP server that was stuck on invalid state;
• health – changed “PSU-Voltage” to “PSU-State” for CRS328-4C-20S-4S+;
• health – fixed incorrect PSU index for CRS328-4C-20S-4S+;
• ipsec – improved reliability on IPsec hardware encryption for RB1100Dx4;
• kidcontrol – fixed dynamically created firewall rules order;
• led – added “dark-mode” functionality for hEX S and SXTsq 5 ac devices;
• led – fixed CCR1016-12S-1S+ LED behavior after Netinstall (introduced in v6.41rc58);
• led – use routers uptime as a starting point when turning off LEDs if option was not enabled on boot;
• ppp – fixed “hunged up” grammar to “hung up” within PPP log messages;
• quickset – added missing wireless “channel-width” settings;
• quickset – added support for “5ghz-a/n” band when CPE mode is used;
• snmp – added remote CAP count OID for CAPsMAN;
• snmp – fixed readings for CAPsMAN slave interfaces;
• supout – added “partitions” section to supout file;
• usb – properly detect USB 3.0 flash on RBM33G when jumper is removed;
• userman – improved unique username generation process when adding batch of users;
• w60g – improved RAM memory allocation processes;
• winbox – added missing “dscp” and “clamp-tcp-mss” settings to IPv6 tunnels;
• winbox – allow to specify full URL in SCEP certificate signing process;
• winbox – by default specify keepalive timeout value for tunnel type interfaces;
• winbox – show “scept-url” for certificates;
• winbox – show “System/Health” only on boards that have health monitoring;
• winbox – show firmware upgrade message at the bottom of “System/RouterBOARD” menu;
• wireless – enable all chains by default on devices without external antennas after configuration reset;
• wireless – improved Nv2 reliability on ARM devices;