News: MikroTik RouterOS 6.16/6.17 Released

MikroTik have announced the availability of RouterOS v6.16.

This has now been upgraded to 6.17 to fix a bug in the CCR1009 switch chip on ether ports 1-4

This is the first release to include support for 802.11ac, using the QCA9880/9882 rev2 (-BR4A) wireless chipsets.

Another new feature is the ability to easily configure a routerboard as an L2TP-Server with IPSec, allowing simple roadwarrior setups, see the wiki for more details: http://wiki.mikrotik.com/wiki/Manual:Interface/L2TP#L2TP.2FIpSec_setup

Here is the changelog:

• 802.11ac support added in wireless-fp package;
• winbox – fixed random disconnection over encrypted tunnels;
• l2tp, pptp, pppoe – fixed possible packet corruption when encryption was enabled;
• ovpn – fixed ethernet mode;
• certificates – use SHA256 for fingerprinting;
• ipsec – fix AH proposal and problem when sometimes policy was not generated;
• snmp – support AES encryption (rfc3826);
• l2tp server: added option to enable IPsec automatically;
• poe-out: added power-cycle-ping and power-cycle-interval settings;
• gps – increased retry duration to 30 seconds;
• time – on routerboards, current time is saved in configuration on reboot
  and on clock adjustment, and is used to set initial time after reboot;
• sntp – disabling/enabling client was causing dynamic-servers to be ignored
  (bug introduced in 6.14);
• CCR – fixed rare file system corruption when none
  of configuration could be changed or some of it disappeared;
• ipsec – allow multiple encryption algorithms per peer;
• email – support tls only connections;
• smb – fixed usb share issues after reboot
• snmp – fix v3 protocol time window checks;
  updated timezone information;
• quickset – added VPN settings for HomeAP mode;
• latency improvements on CCR devices;