Version history for The Dude
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Changes for v6.42.1 - v6.42.2
- *) bridge - do not allow to add same interface list to bridge more than once;
- *) bridge - fixed LLDP packet receiving;
- *) bridge - fixed processing of fragmented packets when hardware offloading is enabled;
- *) console - fixed type "on" and "wireless-status" LED trigger value setting (introduced in v6.42.1);
- *) crs317 - fixed link flapping when inserted S+RJ10 module without any cable;
- *) defconf - fixed wAP LTE kit default configuration;
- *) dhcpv4 - prevent sending out ICMP port unreachable packets;
- *) dhcpv4-client - fixed DHCP client stuck in renewing state;
- *) dhcpv6-relay - fixed missing configuration after reboot;
- *) filesystem - fixed NAND memory going into read-only mode;
- *) hotspot - fixed user authentication when queue from old session is not removed yet;
- *) interface - fixed "built-in=no" parameter for manually created interface lists;
- *) interface - fixed "dynamic" built-in interface list behaviour;
- *) interface - fixed interface list which include disabled member;
- *) interface - fixed interface list which include/exclude another list;
- *) interface - fixed interface configuration responsiveness;
- *) ipsec - fixed policies becoming invalid if added after a disabled policy;
- *) ipsec - improved reliability on IPsec hardware encryption for ARM devices except RB1100Dx4;
- *) led - added "dark-mode" functionality for hAP ac and hAP ac^2 devices;
- *) lte - improved LTE communication process on MMIPS platform devices;
- *) quickset - fixed dual radio mode detection process;
- *) routerboard - properly represent board name for hAP ac^2;
- *) tile - fixed Ethernet interfaces becoming unresponsive;
- *) winbox - allow to specify "any" as wireless "access-list" interface;
- *) winbox - fixed "/ip dhcp-server network set dns-none" parameter;
- *) wireless - enable all chains by default on devices without external antennas after configuration reset;
- *) wireless - fixed packet processing when "static-algo-0=40bit-wep" is being used (introduced in v6.42);
- *) wireless - fixed usage of allowed signal strength values received from RADIUS;
- *) wireless - improved wireless throughput on hAP ac^2 and cAP ac;
- *) x86 - fixed reboot caused by MAC Winbox connection;
Changes for v6.41.2 - v6.42 RC 39
- *) 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 reliability on software bridges when used on devices without switch chip;
- *) capsman - added "allow-signal-out-of-range" option for Access List entries;
- *) capsman - added support for "interface-list" in Access List and Datapath entries;
- *) console - fixed "idpr-cmtp" protocol by changing its value from 39 to 38;
- *) crs3xx - added initial “hw-offload” support for 802.3ad and “balance-xor” bonding;
- *) crs3xx - added switch port "storm-rate" limiting options;
- *) dhcp - improved DHCP service reliability when it is configured on bridge interface;
- *) email - set maximum number of sessions to 100;
- *) fetch - increased maximum number of sessions to 100;
- *) ike1 - fixed wildcard policy lookup on responder;
- *) quickset - fixed NAT if PPPoE client is used for Internet access;
- *) winbox - made UDP local and remote TX size parameter optional in Bandwidth Test tool;
- *) winbox - moved "ageing-time" setting from STP to General tab;
- *) winbox - added "antenna" setting under GPS settings for MIPS platform devices;
- *) winbox - added 160 MHz "channel-width" to wireless settings;
- *) winbox - added broadcast and flood settings to bridge ports;
- *) winbox - added missing protocol numbers to IPv4 and IPv6 firewall;
- *) winbox - removed “VLAN” section from “Switch” menu for CRS3xx devices;
- *) winbox - fixed maximal ID for Traffic Generator stream;
- *) winbox - fixed name for "out-bridge-list" parameter under bridge firewall rules;
- *) winbox - removed Enable and Disable buttons from IPsec "mode-config" list;
- *) winbox - show "D" flag under "/ip dhcp-client" menu;
- *) winbox - show CQI in LTE info;
- *) winbox - show only master CAP interfaces under CAPsMAN wireless scan tool;
- *) 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 - improved wireless scan functionality;
Changes for v6.40.4 - v6.41.2
- *) bridge - fixed ARP settings on bridge interfaces (introduced v6.41);
- *) discovery - fixed discovery interface list change;
- *) disk - fixed disk related processes becoming unresponsive after unplugging used disk;
- *) filesystem - fixed situations when "/flash" directory lost files after upgrade;
- *) ppp - do not lose "/ppp profile" script configuration after other profile parameters are edited;
- *) routerboard - properly report warnings under "/system routerboard" menu;
- *) snmp - added w60g support;
- *) w60g - fixed "/interface w60g reset-configuration";
- *) webfig - fixed backup loading from Webfig on RouterBOARD running default configuration;
- *) winbox - changed default bridge port PVID value to 1;
- *) wireless - fixed wireless protocol mode restrictions if lockpack is installed and has limits for it;
Changes for v6.40.3 - v6.40.4
- *) address - show warning on IPv6 address when acquire from pool has failed;
- *) arp - properly update dynamic ARP entries after interface related changes;
- *) crs1xx/2xx - fixed 1 Gbps forced mode for several SFP modules;
- *) crs317 - added L2MTU support;
- *) crs3xx - improved packet processing in slowpath;
- *) defconf - fixed RouterOS default configuration (introduced in v6.40.3);
- *) dhcp - fixed downgrade from RouterOS v6.41 or higher;
- *) dhcpv6 client - added IAID check in reply;
- *) dhcpv6-client - fixed IA check on solicit when "rapid-commit" is enabled;
- *) dhcpv6-client - ignore unknown IA;
- *) dhcpv6-client - require pool name to be unique;
- *) e-mail - auto complete file name on "file" parameter (introduced in v6.40);
- *) export - fixed wireless "ssid" and "supplicant-identity" compact export;
- *) hotspot - fixed missing "/ip hotspot server profile" if invalid "dns-name" was specified;
- *) hotspot - improved user statistics collection process;
- *) ike1 - remove PH1 and PH2 when "mode-config" exchange fails;
- *) ipsec - kill PH1 on "mode-config" address failure;
- *) ipv6 - fixed IPv6 address request from pool;
- *) lte - fixed modem initialization after reboot;
- *) ntp-client - properly start NTP client after reboot if manual server IP is not configured;
- *) rb931-2nd - fixed startup problems (requires additional reboot after upgrade);
- *) routerboard - fixed "/system routerboard upgrade" for CRS212-8G-4S;
- *) sfp - fixed OPTON module DDM information readings;
- *) sfp - fixed temperature readings for various SFP modules;
- *) snmp - fixed "/caps-man registration-table" uptime values;
- *) snmp - fixed "/system license" parameters for CHR;
- *) tile - improved reliability on MPLS package processing;
- *) userman - fixed unresponsive RADIUS server (introduced in v6.40.3);
- *) vlan - do not allow VLAN MTU to be higher than L2MTU;
- *) webfig - improved reliability of login process;
- *) wireless - added "etsi1" regulatory domain information;
- *) wireless - improved WPA2 key exchange reliability;
- *) wireless - updated "norway" regulatory domain information;
Changes for v6.40.2 - v6.40.3
- *) dhcpv6-server - do not release address of static binding from pool after server removal;
- *) export - fixed "/system routerboard" export (introduced in 6.40.1);
- *) export - fixed export for PoE-OUT related settings;
- *) ike1 - fixed initiator ID comparison to NAT-OA;
- *) led - fixed "on" and "off" triggers when multiple LEDs are selected;
- *) led - fixed RB711UA ether1 LED (introduced in v6.38rc16);
- *) lte - do not show USB LTE modem under "/port" menu;
- *) lte - fixed ethernet flap when LTE establishes connection;
- *) lte - fixed SXT LTE graphs in QuickSet;
- *) lte - improved reliability of USB LTE modems;
- *) poe-out - fixed router reboot after "poe-out-status" changes;
- *) rb1100ahx4 - fixed HW acceleration fragmented packet decryption when fragment is smaller than 64 bytes;
- *) rb750gr3 - show warning and do not allow to use "protected-bootloader" feature if "factory-firmware" older than 3.34.4 version;
- *) routerboard - added "mode-button" support for RB750Gr3 (CLI only);
- *) ssh - do not execute command if it starts with "-" symbol;
- *) traffic-flow - fixed reboots when IPv6 address has been set as target address without active IPv6 package;
- *) userman - fixed "limitation" and "profile-limitation" update;
- *) userman - fixed CoA packet processing after changes in "/tool user-manager router" configuration;
- *) webfig - allow to open table entry even if table is not sorted by # (introduced in v6.40);
- *) webfig - allow to unset "rate-limit" for DHCP leases;
- *) winbox - added possibility to define "comment" for "/routing bgp network" entries;
- *) winbox - do not show FAN related information under "/system health" menu for devices which does not have it;
- *) winbox - do not show LCD menu for devices which does not have it;
- *) winbox - fixed ARP table update after entry changes state to incomplete;
- *) wireless - added "russia3" country settings;
- *) wireless - added New Zealand regulatory domain information for P2P links;
- *) wireless - updated China and New Zealand regulatory domain information;
- *) www - fixed unresponsive Web services (introduced in v6.40);
Changes for v6.38.3 - v6.38.4
- *) chr - fixed problem when transmit speed was reduced by interface queues;
- *) dhcpv6-server - require "address-pool" to be specified;
- *) export - do not show "read-only" IRQ entries;
- *) filesystem - implemented procedures to verify and restore internal file structure integrity upon upgrading;
- *) firewall - do not allow to set "time" parameter to 0s for "limit" option;
- *) hotspot - fixed redirect to URL where escape characters are used (requires newly generated HTML files);
- *) hotspot - show Host table commentaries also in Active tab and vice versa;
- *) ike1 - fixed “xauth” Radius login;
- *) ike2 - also kill IKEv2 connections on proposal change;
- *) ike2 - always limit empty remote selector;
- *) ike2 - fixed proposal change crash;
- *) ike2 - fixed responder subsequent new child creation when PFS is used;
- *) ike2 - fixed responder TS updating on wild match;
- *) ipsec - deducted policy SA src/dst address from src/dst address;
- *) ipsec - do not require "sa-dst-address" if "action=none" or "action=discard";
- *) ipsec - fixed SA address check in policy lookup;
- *) ipsec - hide SA address for transport policies;
- *) ipsec - keep policy in kernel even with bad proposal;
- *) ipsec - kill ph2 on policy removal;
- *) ipsec - updated/fixed Radius attributes;
- *) irq - properly detect all IRQ entries;
- *) l2tp-client - fixed IPSec policy generation after reboot;
- *) l2tp-client - require working IPSec encryption if "use-ipsec=yes";
- *) lcd - show fan2 speed only if it is available;
- *) profile - classify ethernet driver activity properly in ARM architecture;
- *) snmp - added SSID to CAPsMAN registration table;
- *) snmp - fixed "/tool snmp-get" crash on session timeout;
- *) snmp - fixed CAPsMAN registration table OID print;
- *) snmp - fixed situation when SNMP could not read "/system health" values after reboot;
- *) userman - allow access to User Manager users page only through "/user" URL;
- *) userman - show warning when no users are selected for CSV file generation;
- *) winbox - do not hide "power-cycle-after" option;
- *) winbox - hide advertise tab in Hotspot user profile configuration if "transparent-proxy" is not enabled;
- *) winbox - make "power-cycle-interval" not to depend on "power-cycle-ping-enabled" in PoE settings;
- *) winbox - properly show BGP communities in routing filters table filter;
- *) wireless - fixed scan tool stuck in background;
- *) wireless - improved compatibility with Intel 2200BG wireless card;
Changes for v3.5 - v3.6
- improved spectrum analyzer tool - added density view, other improvements
- changing link settings could cause a spike of traffic in graph, fixed
Changes for v3.4 - v3.5
- spectrum analyzer tool
- open files dialog sometimes could crash
- fixed log file management
- improved logs entries to include ip address if available
Changes for v3.3 - v3.4
- fixed find
- improved unicode support
- minimal probe interval now 1 second
Changes for v3.2 - v3.3
- improved dude admin and device password security
- fixed devices loosing dns names
- fixed snmp
- other fixes
Changes for v3.1 - v3.2
- some status information in dude client could not be up to date in some cases
- fixed chart drawing - graphs sometimes could be drawn out of bounds
- fixed outages table - sometimes was selecting 'virtual memory' probe
- fixed running external tools - sometimes could crash dude client
- fixed compatibility with new routeros packages
- fixed dude web server on routeros could not work
- improved bandwidth conservation
- other fixes
Changes for v3.0 - v3.1
- routeros dude supports multiple stores
- fixed occasional server crash
- fixed client crash in open/save file or color chooser dialog
- fixed client crash when closing some windows
- other fixes
Changes for v3.0 RC 3 - v3.0
- fixed - client could sometimes crash when scrolling a table
- fixed - search for unexisting items made dude unresponsive
- fixed - charts sometimes could show incorrect data
- other fixes
Changes for v3.0 RC 2 - v3.0 RC 3
- fix bug in web server introduced in previous release
- other bug fixes
Changes for v3.0 RC 1 - v3.0 RC 2
- routeros dude package is now independent from routeros version
- fixed bug - opening notification -> advanced tab was crashing
- fixed bug - dude could not handle large network map backgrounds
- other bug fixes
Changes for v3.0 Beta 7 - v3.0 Beta 8
- F11 puts any panel in fullscreen mode
- reworked font stuff, only uses fonts added to dude server for exact output on different clients (fonts have to be added to files just like images)
- routeros server can export maps/charts
- routeros web server can display maps/charts
- added many traslations, simple language choosing from 'Preferences'
- dropped support for windows metafile, not possible to render in routeros environment
- improved svg, png image support
- map, chart output to many new formats - bmp, jpeg, ps, svg
- drag&drop files to/from dude server and routeros devices
- drop files straight on routeros device in network map to upload
- server files can be organized in directories
- fixed bug - dude could freeze when opening device window
- fixed bug - dude server could stop polling
- improved mac mappings - refresh of mac mappings is distributed evenly across refresh interval to avoid traffic congestion
- many other bug fixes
Changes for v3.0 Beta 6 - v3.0 Beta 7
- improved pdf export
- double click in contents pane replaces all existing panes by default (configurable in Settings->Misc)
- improved dude server for routeros
- support for dude server on RB333
- server files support drag&drop
- handle client and server time differences correctly
- other bug fixes
Changes for v3.0 Beta 4 - v3.0 Beta 5
- added week scale to charts
- fixed ping/traceroute from agents
- improved compatibility with some snmp agents
- time and date variables in notifications added
- improved filters
- some memory leaks fixed
- big images as network map background could not work
- many other fixes
Changes for v3.0 Beta 3 - v3.0 Beta 4
- mib modules shows missing imports if any
- routeros simple queues management
- horizontal scroll bar in lists and tables
- other ui improvements
- macaddresses are resolved to manufacturer names
- new snmp table - dhcp leases
- new ros tables - arp, route, dhcp leases
- mac to ip address mapping table
- devices can be binded to mac address
- polling of services can be disabled per service, device, map, globally
- dude server can work as service again
- added syslog server
- added mib modules for cisco wireless, canopy, alvarion, avantcom, colubris, smartbridges, ieee 802.11, redline, ceragon, wimax, orinoco, proxim, atmel, trango, tranzeo
- network map label refresh interval is now configurable
- bug fixes
Changes for v3.0 Beta 2 - v3.0 Beta 3
- copy and paste feature added to network maps and all lists and tables, also paste in text editor and you get xml configuration for later use
- discovery sometimes could stall
- fixed traceroute tool
- resolves dns names in traceroute and ping tools
- other bug fixes
Changes for v3.0 Beta 1 - v3.0 Beta 2
- added speech notification
- bug fixes
Changes for v2.1 - v2.2
- fixed loading of maps, sometimes could stall
- fixed too many digits after comma bug
- other bug fixes
