RouterOS 7.23 [stable]

What's new in 7.23 (2026-May-25 12:05):

!) upgrade - use HTTPS by default when connecting to MikroTik upgrade servers;

*) app - added "network-outgoing-access=yes/no" setting to prevent containers from initiating outbound traffic;

*) app - added birdnet-go, cryptpad, diagrams-net, lorawan-stack, metube, mikrodash, nextcloud-whiteboard, paperless-ngx, wbo, zulip apps;

*) app - added docker-with-dockge, docker-with-komodo, docker-with-portainer, HA-otbr-matter, odoo, otbr, stalwart, trip apps;

*) app - added possibility to set app command-line parameter from CLI;

*) app - added restart command;

*) app - allow apps on XFS file systems;

*) app - allow filtering by installed apps;

*) app - allow overriding default stop signal;

*) app - allow parsing DNS in YAML;

*) app - allow passing stop signal from YAML and passing it to container as default;

*) app - allow picking app category from drop-down;

*) app - allow updating name parameter from YAML for custom apps;

*) app - allow updating YAML for existing custom app, forces cleanup;

*) app - apps now check for port availability, apps will not start on "internal" if app masks existing service;

*) app - automatically pass any required devices to container, such as otbr;

*) app - automatically restart app when required hardware device is changed;

*) app - bundled ollama with openwebui;

*) app - check if certificate already exists before creating a new one;

*) app - disabled PiHole syncing NTP to host;

*) app - fixed issue where XFS disks did not appear in the app disk drop-down;

*) app - fixed saving custom apps;

*) app - fixed showing ui-url for apps;

*) app - fixed some apps not containing the full repository URL;

*) app - fixed stability issue when running cleanup on many apps;

*) app - fixed store issue when adding a custom app;

*) app - fixed YAML not exported for custom apps;

*) app - improved app network and port behavior;

*) app - improved automatic hardware device passing to container;

*) app - improved YAML error message;

*) app - make sure all layer .tar.gz files are deleted after extraction finishes;

*) app - on file-based devices, swap is enabled on the file itself instead of creating another and enabling it on that;

*) app - stability fixes for the "/app" menu;

*) app - swap file is now created based on the mount-point it is attached to;

*) app - updated uptime-kuma image;

*) arm64,x86 - updated Broadcom bnxt Ethernet driver for 200G support;

*) bfd - fixed source address selection for IPv6 multihop sessions;

*) bridge - added ability to set custom Option 82 with dhcp-agent-circuit-id, dhcp-agent-remote-id settings (replaces add-dhcp-option82 setting; configuration is automatically updated after upgrade);

*) bridge - added DHCPv6 snooping feature with ability to set custom Option 18 and Option 37;

*) bridge - fixed dynamic VLAN update for WiFi interfaces;

*) bridge - improved MAC synchronization for MLAG;

*) bridge - recognize more DHCP message types when dhcp-snooping is enabled;

*) bth - fixed WireGuard client config IP address netmask;

*) certificate - added "ISRG Root X1" and "DigiCert Global Root G2" to SMIPS built-in root certificate authorities store;

*) certificate - allow deleting ACME certificate that failed to generate;

*) certificate - improved ACME logging;

*) certificate - improved ACME status reporting;

*) certificate - set Let's Encrypt as default ACME directory;

*) chr - improved guest tool config for arm64 CHR;

*) cloud - cloud backup file management now requires "policy" policy;

*) cloud - show error if cloud services are not supported on the device;

*) console - added comment in "/ip/dhcp-server/option/sets" and "/ipv6/dhcp-server/option/sets" menus;

*) console - added path parameter to export;

*) console - added syntax highlight for script properties in some menus (e.g. dhcp-client, dhcp-server, ppp/profile, interface/vrrp);

*) console - export mentions custom defconf script presence in header;

*) console - fixed "/log/print follow on-event" to work with "where" (introduced in v7.22);

*) console - fixed output when oversized completion present;

*) console - removed redundant keepalive for the serial-terminal, ensure that the device no longer periodically outputs /0 while using "/system/serial-terminal";

*) console - show "/system/resource/hardware/usb-power-reset" only on x86;

*) console - show warning in print header when terminal is too narrow to show any columns;

*) console - treat non-existent command parameters as runtime errors;

*) container - added restart-policy=no/always/on-failure, stop-on-unhealthy, restart-count, restart-interval, restart-max-count properties;

*) container - added support for noexec option to mounts;

*) container - added support for USB audio devices for containers;

*) container - allow disabling individual container environment variables without deleting them;

*) container - allow picking mount source directories with the file picker in WinBox;

*) container - allow setting memory-max globally and per container;

*) container - allow user-defined mounts overriding /sys and /dev;

*) container - check if root-dir does not exist before adding a container;

*) container - clean up layers of non-existing containers;

*) container - detect and show containers killed by out-of-memory killer;

*) container - do not allow starting container/shell with non-existing user or group;

*) container - draw graphs in container stats;

*) container - fixed container entrypoint and shell override by user;

*) container - fixed container layer size calculation;

*) container - fixed container shell not working with multi-arg commands;

*) container - fixed repull if root-dir of container was in tmpfs;

*) container - fixed running "/container shell" with the correct user, if container user is set or overridden;

*) container - improved errors at container start;

*) container - improved running container instance memory usage;

*) container - layers are now accessible under "Layers" tab;

*) container - pass any container startup error message back to "run" and make it exit immediately;

*) container - remove container backup directory if import fails;

*) container - removed "Layers" button;

*) container - show container size and container data size;

*) container - show default DNS servers;

*) container - show layer size calculation status;

*) container - updated /dev/net/tun permissions;

*) crypto - fixed fallback flag loss in qcrypto;

*) crypto - fixed stability issue;

*) crypto - improved safexcel driver with upstream changes and patches;

*) dhcpv4-server - added "add-dns-entries" and "add-dns-entries-suffix" properties for creating local DNS entries;

*) dhcpv4-server - changed lease agent-circuit-id and agent-remote-id format to hex;

*) dhcpv4-server - do not raise an alert when receiving a packet originating from the same device;

*) dhcpv4-server - do not suggest bogus pools when using setup command (e.g. when address is /31 or /32);

*) dhcpv4-server - fixed an issue where renew packets without giaddr were sometimes not processed;

*) discovery - added "add-dns-entries" and "add-dns-entries-suffix" properties for creating local DNS entries;

*) discovery - added option to disable/enable LLDP MED;

*) discovery - added separate read-only menu "/ip/neighbor/lldp" for neighbors discovered by LLDP (CLI only);

*) discovery - dynamically update advertised "interface-name";

*) discovery - fixed LLDP MAC/PHY TLV;

*) disk - added "/disk" smart-info;

*) disk - added disk check and repair for ext4, Btrfs and XFS file systems;

*) disk - improved device name tracking in "/system/resource/hardware" menu;

*) disk - show disk io errors in "/disk" menu;

*) dns - added HTTP/2 support to DoH on ARM64 and x86/CHR devices;

*) ethernet - improved system stability for RB3011, L009, NetMetal ax, hAP ax lite devices;

*) ethernet - improved system stability on devices with Alpine CPUs;

*) fetch - fixed non-working idle-timeout in some cases;

*) file - added copy, tail, head commands (CLI only);

*) firewall - added "action=drop" to mangle;

*) firewall - improved stability for SIP helper;

*) firewall - matcher "in-bridge-port" does not require "use-ip-firewall=yes";

*) graphing - improved service stability when storing data;

*) hardware - report the correct state of PCI devices in "/system/resource/hardware" menu;

*) health - hide health menu for RB951ui-2nD;

*) ike2 - fixed child SA cleanup during flush operation;

*) ike2 - fixed pending responder connection cleanup after peer removal;

*) ike2 - fixed SA delete handling on initiator during rekey;

*) ike2 - improved HMAC size validation checks;

*) interface - show warning when same MAC address is used on more than one virtual interface;

*) iot - added LoRa Tx delay setting;

*) iot - added MQTT subscribe message real-time monitoring option;

*) iot - added Wiliot support;

*) iot - fixed LoRa LBT issues, which caused Tx packets not getting delivered;

*) iot - fixed LoRa lockpack preventing lock from applying;

*) iot - improved LoRa stability;

*) iot - improved LoRa Tx handling;

*) iot - improved LoRa Tx scheduling;

*) ip - added IPv6 and VRF support for reverse-proxy;

*) ip - added SNI logging for reverse-proxy;

*) ip - fixed hanging connections for reverse-proxy;

*) ip-settings - added ipv4-fragment-time and ipv4-high-fragment-thresh settings, use default values based on total device memory;

*) ipip - disabled IPv6 link-local address generation;

*) ippool - fixed issue when changing pool with already used addresses;

*) ippool6 - allow variable length pool;

*) ippool6 - properly follow pool changes for already used prefixes;

*) ipsec - added netlink-based SA and policy handling;

*) ipsec - fixed SA proto parameter conversion and policy "none" type handling;

*) ipsec - improved NAT encapsulation parameter forwarding;

*) ipsec – fixed expired SA handling to prevent “no such item” errors during listing;

*) ipv6 - added from-pool-policy address property that controls how address is acquired from the pool;

*) ipv6 - added without-acquire address property;

*) ipv6 - always ensure that prefix length matches the one given by the pool even if address was set to 0;

*) ipv6,ra - added option to ignore MTU and DNS servers;

*) ipv6,ra - added router-advertisement-route-distance setting;

*) ipv6,ra - allow receiving DNS servers over multiple interfaces;

*) ipv6,ra - clamp valid-lifetime to minimum of 2h on deprecation;

*) ipv6,ra - extend processed RA logging;

*) ipv6,ra - fixed advertised DNS parameter logging;

*) ipv6,ra - fixed changing default "all" interface configuration;

*) ipv6,ra - fixed DNS and pref64 property unset;

*) ipv6,ra - fixed sending only DNS or MTU when prefix is set to "none";

*) ipv6,ra - improved service stability;

*) ipv6,ra - warn when interface is under the bridge;

*) isis - allow to configure metric-type;

*) l3hw - added HW offloaded VRF support on CRS8xx switches;

*) l3hw - added VRF assignment via switch ACL rules on CRS8xx switches (CLI only);

*) l3hw - fixed VXLAN packet matching by local IP;

*) leds - added new PoE fault LED cases (bad fw, PoE card power cable disconnected, PoE card not inserted);

*) leds - fixed power LED turning off while LTE interface is inactive (introduced in v7.22);

*) log - added "discover" topic and log events for discovered local DNS entries;

*) log - added CC option for e-mail action;

*) log - added ssld error logging;

*) log - added TLS support;

*) lte - added fast SIM switchover support using AT channel for MBIM modems without MBIM_CID_MS_UICC_RESET firmware support;

*) lte - configure IP address for AT modems even if no DNS is received from the network;

*) lte - delete CID profiles one by one instead of "delete all" for QMI modems, as command does not work for all modems;

*) lte - do not duplicate primary-band also in ca-band for QMI modems in 5G SA network;

*) lte - do not reconfigure modem in passthrough mode if passthrough cannot be activated because of slave interface;

*) lte - emit RS every 60s on LTE interface;

*) lte - filter packets by MAC in multi-apn setup for EC200A-EU modem;

*) lte - fixed automatic modeswitch for "Chateau 5G R16" and "Chateau 5G";

*) lte - fixed broken network scan after being interrupted by reconfiguration;

*) lte - fixed operator setting for QMI modems;

*) lte - fixed rare cases where the Tx queue could stop and never wake up on multi-core CPU devices;

*) lte - fixed RSSI signal monitor for 3rd party modems where AT+CSQ responses are not parsed;

*) lte - fixed user set MTU not applied to LTE interface;

*) lte - improved system stability for devices with QMI modems;

*) lte - improved system stability when modem configured in passthrough mode with VLANs for "Chateau 5G R16" and "Chateau 5G";

*) lte - improved system stability;

*) lte - improvements for passthrough mode in IPv6 only setup;

*) lte - keep MAC persistent across reboots for QMI modems;

*) lte - read subscriber number also for QMI modems;

*) lte - removed LTE external-antenna scan;

*) lte - set SMS send timeout to 180s;

*) lte - show external-antenna as "none" before actual scan is done instead of empty value;

*) lte - show MTU as "auto" also on interface level if "auto" used;

*) lte - SIMCom modems, skip error state when modem sends improperly formatted CREG response/URC;

*) lte - stop network scan on interruption for QMI modems;

*) lte - unify "modem-init" for all driver types;

*) macsec - added aes-gcm-xpn-128 cipher support;

*) netwatch - fixed memory leak when using HTTP/HTTPS GET probe with invalid src-address;

*) ospf - allow adding interface configuration manually, bypassing interface-template;

*) ospf - change virtual link configuration to use OSPF interface directly;

*) ospf - fixed missing interface-template configuration which previously was converted by upgrading from RouterOS v6;

*) ospf - fixed nssa bit check;

*) ospf - fixed routes not being installed on ABRs;

*) pimsm - do not ignore priority when selecting RP from BSR;

*) pimsm - fixed possible BSR loop;

*) pimsm - improved stability;

*) ping - resolve domain name to IPv6 if src-address is IPv6 address;

*) ping - show time in microseconds for flood-ping;

*) poe-out - firmware update for 802.3at capable boards (the update will cause a brief power interruption to poe-out interfaces);

*) port - added support for "tcp-client" and "udp" modes for "remote-access";

*) port - expose RG650E-EU diagnostics channel;

*) port - remove unused serial port on RB1100AHx4;

*) pppoe - do not reset pppoe-client interface when adding a comment;

*) ptp - added support for CRS812, CRS804;

*) ptp - fixed crash during initialization on some devices;

*) qos-hw - added automap setting to QoS Profiles (enabled by default);

*) qos-hw - added ECN and PFC support on CRS8xx;

*) qos-hw - added new default "auto" value to mirror-buffers, multicast-buffers, shared-buffers QoS Settings (old defaults are shown in export after upgrade);

*) qos-hw - added queueX-byte-max stats to port usage on CRS8xx;

*) qos-hw - fixed CPU traffic mapping to queues on CRS8xx switches;

*) qos-hw - introduced lossless-traffic-class and lossless-buffers settings;

*) qos-hw - removed shared-pool-index setting;

*) route - fixed link-local interface check when resolving IPv6 nexthops;

*) route - revert to old routing rule priorities for containers (introduced in v7.22);

*) routerboot - fixed Netinstall failure when using multiple partitions on AL73400, AL52400, AL32400 CPUs ("/system routerboard upgrade" required);

*) sftp - fixed path canonicalization request;

*) smb - do not start /ip smb server on container interfaces;

*) sniffer - added IP ECN field;

*) sniffer - fixed missing VLAN tag in the TZSP packets;

*) snmp - added missing BRIDGE-MIB OIDs (dot1dBaseNumPorts, dot1dBaseType, dot1dStpDesignatedRoot, dot1dStpPortDesignatedBridge, dot1dStpRootCost, dot1dStpRootPort, dot1dStpHoldTime, dot1dStpBridgeMaxAge, dot1dStpBridgeHelloTime, dot1dStpBridgeForwardDelay, dot1dStpPortForwardTransitions, dot1dTpAgingTime);

*) snmp - added missing LLDP-MIB OIDs (lldpMessageTxInterval, lldpMessageTxHoldMultiplier, lldpLocManAddrTable);

*) snmp - enforce minimum password length;

*) snmp - fixed compliance of LLDP-MIB lldpRemManAddrTable;

*) snmp - fixed connection tracking counter OID;

*) snmp - fixed dot1dStpPortDesignatedPort, dot1dStpPortDesignatedRoot OIDs;

*) snmp - fixed ifSpeed and ifHighSpeed OIDs for 802.3ad and balance-xor bonding interfaces;

*) snmp - fixed lldpLocSysDesc OID;

*) snmp - implemented LTE firmware upgrade option;

*) snmp - use "/ip/neighbor/lldp" for lldpRemTable and lldpRemManAddrTable (fixes lldpRemTable showing neighbors discovered by MNCP or CDP);

*) ssh - do not advertise password login method when it is disabled;

*) ssh - improved host resolve error logging;

*) switch - fixed issue with MAC table for RB2011 (introduced in v7.21);

*) switch - fixed missing ethernet counters for non-running interfaces on CRS8xx switches (introduced in v7.22);

*) switch - improved FDB operations on QCA8337, Atheros8327;

*) switch - rework how IEEE reserved MAC addresses are handled on QCA8337, Atheros8327;

*) switch - updated switch-marvell.npk driver;

*) switch - use names instead of numbers in switch menu configuration export;

*) system - improved handling of HTTP/2 connection closure;

*) system - improved RouterOS package download over slow connection;

*) system - improved switching to HTTP/1 if HTTP/2 is not supported by remote host;

*) system - keep HTTP/2 connection open if it is not closed by system or server;

*) system - make default identity based on board name;

*) timezone - updated timezone information from "tzdata2026b" release;

*) upgrade - added the option to configure HTTP/HTTPS modes when connecting to MikroTik upgrade servers;

*) upgrade - changed status message for scheduled installs;

*) upgrade - check for available packages when opening System/Packages in GUI;

*) usb - added ax88179_178a driver;

*) usb - improved USB Ethernet adapter recognition;

*) usb - show USB device reported maximum power;

*) user-manager - improved stability when removing user-profile while session updates counters;

*) veth - fixed link-local address not being configurable as a gateway;

*) vxlan - fixed fast-path when using "checksum=no" (introduced in v7.20);

*) vxlan - improved system stability;

*) webfig - added postfix byte value support (e.g. "/ip/settings/ipv4-high-fragment-thresh");

*) webfig - added support for filter in tables;

*) wifi - improved interface provisioning for WiFi 7 access points;

*) wifi - improved on-capsman traffic processing;

*) wifi-mediatek - fixed multicast-enhance functionality;

*) wifi-mediatek - fixed stability issue getting regulatory information and during initialization;

*) wifi-qcom-be - fixed incorrect channel info for punctured channels;

*) wifi-qcom-be - fixed stability issue during initialization;

*) wifi-qcom-be,mediatek - correctly advertise RRM capabilities when 802.11k neighbor reports are enabled;

*) winbox - added "MLD Static" and "MLD Datapath" properties under the "WiFi/CAP" menu;

*) winbox - added "Multipath" property under the "Routing/BGP/Instance" menu;

*) winbox - added “Remove” action under "System/Certificates/Requests" menu;

*) winbox - added comment for DHCPv6 relay;

*) winbox - added group numbers for DH and PFS groups for IPsec;

*) winbox - allow setting "CAPsMAN address" for CAP as domain name;

*) winbox - do not accept interface without specifying IP or MAC in "Ping To" field;

*) winbox - improved "External Antenna" property display;

*) winbox - improved Routing/PIM SM menu;

*) winbox - move bridge IGMP Snooping checkbox to IGMP tab;

*) winbox - rename DHCPv6 server binding "Peer Address" to "Client Address";

*) winbox - show "Directory URL" field for ACME certificates in Certificate view;

*) winbox - show "IPv6 Address" property by default under the "IP/Neighbors" menu;

*) winbox - show accepted connections in tree view under "IP/Services" menu;

*) winbox - updated socksify icon for firewall NAT rules;

*) wireguard - improved system stability;

*) www - added partial content (HTTP 206) support;

*) www - improved REST API user cache processing;

*) www - improved system stability;

*) zerotier - switch to 1.14.2 version;