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Documentation updates - July 10, 2026

Summary of documentation changes made on July 10, 2026.

Bridging & Switching

  • Bridge: Restructured the bridge hardware-offloading support table into separate, grouped per-chip-class tables for easier reading, and normalized switch chip names (for example QCA-8337QCA8337).
  • Switch chip features: Transposed and simplified the switch chip features table.

Authentication & AAA

  • Dot1x: Renamed the reauth-timeout property to reauth-period to match RouterOS.

Documentation updates - July 9, 2026

Summary of documentation changes made on July 9, 2026.

Bridging & Switching

  • Bridge IGMP/MLD snooping: Added the querier-uses-bridge-address bridge setting (default yes), which makes the bridge IGMP querier use the bridge interface's own IPv4 address as the source for query packets instead of 0.0.0.0. Some multicast clients reject queries from 0.0.0.0, which could interrupt multicast streams when snooping entries time out. It applies only to IPv4 (IGMP) when igmp-snooping and multicast-querier are enabled and the bridge has an IPv4 address; MLD queries always use the bridge's IPv6 link-local address.

Documentation updates - July 8, 2026

Summary of documentation changes made on July 8, 2026.

Management Tools

  • Console: Merged the separate "Command Line Interface" page into the Console page so all CLI/console material lives in one place, updating cross-references from the Scripting, Bluetooth, and MQTT pages accordingly, and fixed a small formatting issue in the Quick Typing section.

Developer Guides

  • Scripting: Documented the order-by parameter for the print command, which sorts output by up to three properties (prefix a property with - for descending order), with examples.

High Availability Solutions

  • VRRP: Added the v3-checksum-as-v2 setting, which controls whether the VRRPv3 IPv4 checksum includes the IPv4 pseudoheader. The default (no) matches Linux-based implementations such as FRR; set it to yes for compatibility with Cisco and other vendors. It applies only to VRRPv3 IPv4, and all routers in a Virtual Router must use the same value to avoid "bad checksum" errors.

Documentation updates - July 7, 2026

Summary of documentation changes made on July 7, 2026.

Getting Started

Diagnostics & Monitoring

  • Downgrading RouterOS: New page covering the factory-software floor, a pre-downgrade checklist (binary backup plus export), and a step-by-step downgrade procedure using /system/package/downgrade.

Hardware

Wireless

  • WiFi: Added a "Network" section documenting the /interface/wifi/network menu, which bundles SSID, security, datapath, and radio settings into a single configuration entity applied to interfaces matching its labels, with configuration examples including Multi-Link Operation (MLO).

Site-wide

  • Property tables: Fixed fenced code blocks that the Confluence→Docusaurus migration had flattened into single table cells (showing as raw ```ros<br/> text) across 11 pages, including Disks, Scripting, Log, LTE/5G, NTP, L2TP, PPPoE, and WiFi interworking. They now render as inline code.

Documentation updates - July 6, 2026

Summary of documentation changes made on July 6, 2026.

Bridging & Switching

  • Bridge: Documented the valid-value stepping rules for STP/MSTP priority fields. Bridge and MSTI priorities must be set in steps of 4096 (0x1000) — the 12 lowest bits are ignored — with the full list of valid hex/decimal values; bridge port and MST-override port priorities must be set in steps of 16 (0x10) and now use an explicit 0x000xf0 value set. Also fixed the port-cost-mode path-cost reference table, which was broken during migration, rendering it as a proper collapsible table with both Long and Short columns.
  • Spanning Tree Protocol: Applied the same priority stepping and valid-value details to the CIST/MSTI/port priority descriptions.

System

  • Neighbor discovery: Added an "LLDP neighbors" section documenting the read-only /ip/neighbor/lldp menu, which shows detailed LLDP TLVs (chassis ID, port ID, system name/description) for LLDP-discovered neighbors only, with example output and a note that the lldpRemTable SNMP table excludes CDP/MNDP-only entries.

Documentation updates - July 3, 2026

Summary of documentation changes made on July 3, 2026.

  • Improved search ranking: Exact and whole-word page-title matches now rank at the top of the results, and full pages rank above section headings. Searching for a page's name (for example "Connectivity") now returns that page first, instead of unrelated headings that merely share a word stem ("Connecting", "Connections"). The MikroTik Connectivity page also gained search keywords so it surfaces for eSIM-related queries.

Documentation updates - July 2, 2026

Summary of documentation changes made on July 2, 2026.

Authentication & AAA

  • Certificates: Added a "Manual ACME renewal" section documenting the /certificate/acme-renew command with usage examples. Also clarified that PKCS12 export is encrypted using AES, and that PKCS12 import supports both AES and 3DES decryption.

System

  • Wake on LAN: Restructured the page — the property table was replaced by a link to the CLI reference, wording was tightened, and a WinBox screenshot of the Wake on LAN tool was added. The interface and mac arguments are now described in the CLI reference.

Diagnostics & Monitoring

  • Ping: Added a cross-link to the CLI reference, where every ping argument now has a description — address, interval, size, ttl, dscp, do-not-fragment, src-address, arp-ping, count, interface, and vrf, plus all read-only result fields such as packet-loss, min-rtt, avg-rtt, and max-rtt.

Documentation updates - July 1, 2026

Summary of documentation changes made on July 1, 2026.

Diagnostics & Monitoring

  • Netwatch: The probe-type list (Simple, ICMP, TCP-conn, HTTP-GET, HTTPS-GET, DNS) is now bolded for readability, and several spelling and wording issues were corrected. Every ICMP, TCP-conn, and HTTP/S-GET parameter in the CLI reference now links directly to the matching probe-type section on this page.

Network Management

  • Socksify: Added a cross-link to the CLI reference, and documented descriptions and defaults for all Socksify arguments — connection-timeout (60s), port (952), socks5-server (0.0.0.0, IPv4 only), socks5-port (1080), socks5-user, and socks5-password. The X flag is now noted as set by default.

CLI Reference

  • /app: Added descriptions for the container app flags (X, R, c, s) and for all arguments, including container-command-lines, auto-update, use-https, network, network-pvid, network-outgoing-access, firewall-redirects, yaml, and required-mounts.
  • /beep and /blink: Added command descriptions and argument details — frequency (Hz) and length for beep, duration for blink. Beep is noted as supported only on devices with a beeper.

Documentation updates - June 30, 2026

Summary of documentation changes made on June 30, 2026.

Bridging & Switching

  • Bridging & Switching: Reordered the section's sidebar into a more logical sequence — switch-chip feature pages (Marvell Prestera, Other Switch Chip Features, CRS1xx/2xx) grouped together, followed by L3 Hardware Offloading, Quality of Service, MACsec, MACVLAN, VXLAN, and VLAN. The "Switch Chip Features" page is now labelled "Other Switch Chip Features" in the navigation.