RouterBOOT changelog

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What's new in 3.40

• removed support for QSFP28 swapped I2C;
• minor improvements and fixes for CRS317;

What's new in 3.39

• limit min CPU voltage on CCR1009 with fan;
• initial support for CRS317;

What's new in 3.34.6

• initial support for CRS326-24G-2S+;
• fix ethernet leds on RB M11;
• fix 10/100M etherboot on CRS106;

What's new in 3.33:

• fixed reliability on Groove 52HPn;
• fixed white screen issues on CCR1072;

What's new in 3.32:

• added support for USB init delay for SXT LTE, RB92x, RB91xG, hAP ac lite;
• fixed etherboot problems at 100Mbps speed for CCR1016-12S-1S+;

What's new in 3.31:

• fixed etherboot problems at 1Gbps speed on DynaDish & SXT 5 ac (problem introduced in v3.29);

What's new in 3.30:

• fixed reliability on Groove 52HPn;

What's new in 3.29:

• fixed etherboot problems at 100Mbps speed on DynaDish;

What's new in 3.28:

• fixed PCIe reset for RB953;
• fixed 100MBit etherboot in DynaDish;

What's new in 3.27:

• increased default RAM frequency for CCR1072;

What's new in 3.26:

• fixed rare NAND boot failure with a crash on CloudCoreRouter boards;

What's new in 3.25:

• shortened display strings for LCD;

What's new in 3.24:

• fixed "protected RouterBOOT" to disable pin-hole reset;

What's new in 3.23:

• fixed tilera NAND ALE init;

What's new in 3.22:

• added protected boot:

http://wiki.mikrotik.com/wiki/Manual:RouterBOARD_settings#Protected_bootloader

What's new in 3.21:

• disable RouterBOOT downgrade below backup booter version;
• ar7240: fixed wifi on Metal-2SHPn;

What's new in 3.19:

• fixed health monitor for "SXT 5HPnD r2"
• improvements for wifi on Metal 2SHPn

What's new in 3.18:

• fixeded boot from non-2-power partition count;

What's new in 3.17:

• fixeded boot from nand on yaffs (broken in 3.11);

What's new in 3.16:

• ar9344: fixed etherboot problems on CRS125 (probably other boards

as well);

What's new in 3.15:

• qca9550: fixed etherboot at 100Mbit/s speed (broken in v3.14);

What's new in 3.14:

• button: add cap function to reset button;

What's new in 3.13:

• setup menu: added 1 minute inactivity timeout;

What's new in 3.12:

• support for new products

What's new in 3.10:

• ar934x: fixed RAM configuration for better stability;
• lcd: improve speed;

What's new in 3.09:

• ar7240: fixed rare power-on problems;
• ar934x: fixedes possible ethernet problems;
• WARNING: will auto reboot RB if RouterOS is older than v5.26;

What's new in 3.07:

• lcd: show "ether boot" instead of "loading kernel" when ether booting;
• fixed rare "loading kernel" problem;
• ar9330: fixed RAM configuration for better stability;

What's new in 3.05:

• fixeded buzzer on Groove A-52HPn;
• fixeded support for non 2 power partition count;

What's new in 3.2.1:

• fixeded etherboot on p2020,mpc8544,amcc460;
• fixed possible etherboot problems on ar7100,ar7240,ar9330,ar9342,ar9344;

What's new in 3.1.1 (ar7100,ar7240,ar9330,ar9340,ar9344,tilegx 3.02 release):

• ar9344: added new product support;
• fixeded partition support not to hang bootup process;

What's new in 3.0.3:

• finished partition support, requires RouterOS v6.0rc5 or newer;

What's new in 3.0.1 (tilegx 3.0 release):

• pass routerboot version to RouterOS;

What's new in 3.0:

• reset buton now supports RouterOS reset also on serial-port devices (push button right after power is applied);

What's new in 3.0rc4

• ar9344: fixed etherboot with ar8327 switch chip;
• ar9344: fixed ethernet leds on 100MBs links;
• ar9344: fixed xlna on SXT-2nDr2;
• ar9344: added lcd support on RB2011;
• tilegx: added support for CCR 1016/1036 boards;

What's new in 2.40.5 (ar9330 2.41 release):

• ar9330: fixedes few rb951-2n errors;

What's new in 2.40.3 (ar7100 2.41 release):

• ar7100: fixed RB411L to have configuration reset with button;
• fixed sw version soft setting not to have multiple copies;

What's new in 2.40.2 (ar9344 2.41 release):

• fixed for easy ar9344 stale booter detection;
• mips: reset some more CP0 registers to 0 on bootup;

What's new in 2.40.1:

• AR934x: fixeded cache initialization (fixedes RB2011 stall on decompressing);

What's new in 2.39.5 (ar9344 2.40 release):

• AR9344: added user-led support for RB2011;
• added AR8327 rev B support (RB2011, RB433GL);

What's new in 2.39.4 (ar7240 2.39 release):

• yaffs kernel load improvement;
• P2020: faster kernel loading (ubifs optimization);

What's new in 2.39.3:

• AR934x: increase AHB bus speed from DDR / 3 -> CPU / 3;
• AR9344: improve NAND speed;
• AR7100: remove duplicate spi access code (bios got smaller);
• AR7240: fixeded button reset (broken in 2.38.3);

What's new in 2.39.2 (mpc8544 2.39 release):

• AR7100: fixed RB433L etherboot led behavior;
• AR9344: setup DDR RAM voltage before accessing it;
• mips: change cpu mode description;

What's new in 2.39.1 (ar9330 2.39 release):

• AR9330: fixeded support for 40 MHz crystal;
• AR7100: fixeded NAND access through CPLD (broken in 2.38.3);
• added 64MB large page nand support;

What's new in 2.38.4 (ar9344,ar9330 2.39 prerelease):

• AR9344: fixeded etherboot on RB2011;

What's new in 2.38.3 (p2020 2.39 release):

• P2020: increase kernel partition size to 8MB on large page nands;
• AR7xxx: fixed cfg not to be lost at kernel load from nand;

What's new in 2.38.2 (ar9344 2.38 release):

• AR9344: fixed ethernet switching on RB2011;
• P2020: fixed 128 MB Samsung nand detection;

What's new in 2.38.1 (amcc460 2.38 release):

• AMCC460: fixed support for some RAM modules;

What's new in 2.38:

• added support for some new products;

What's new in 2.37:

• pin-hole reset: changed default boot device to flashfig;
• added support for some new products;

What's new in 2.36:

• added support for some new products;

What's new in 2.35:

• fixeded wireless throughput on SXT 5HnD (broken in 2.34);

What's new in 2.34:

• fixeded wireless throughput on RB711 and Groove (broken in 2.31);

What's new in 2.33:

• added support for Groove;
• added support for RB751G;

What's new in 2.32:

• fixeded beep after failed flashfig on SXT 5HnD;

What's new in 2.31:

• Slight SXT booting speed improvement
• Flashfig initialization improvements (makes sound if Flashfig server not used)

What's new in 2.30:

• fixeded RB1000 not to reset configuration all the time (broken in v2.29);

What's new in 2.29:

• fixeded rare issue with large nand booting;
• fixeded RB800 and RB1100 to turn on user led during boot-up;
• fixeded RB711 to turn off user led during boot-up;

What's new in 2.28:

• fixeded problem - wireless did not show up on some RB411 units with 18V PoE power supply;

What's new in 2.27:

• memory fixed for RB800/RB1000/RB1100;
• fixeded problem - sometimes wireless was missing on RB711 after reboot;
• fixeded pin-hole reset on RB750G;

What's new in 2.26:

• added RB816 support on RB600;
• fixeded router hangup during etherboot if blasted with lots of packets;
• added silent boot;
• fixeded Flashfig;

What's new in 2.25:

• new feature - Flashfig;
• fixeded etherboot on RB493;
• fixeded occasional lockup of kernel image loading on RB400 series;
• added disable UART feature;

What's new in 2.24:

• added support for RB816;

What's new in 2.23:

• added support for RB750G;
• added support for RB800;

What's new in 2.22:

• fixeded support for RB750;

What's new in 2.21:

• added support for RB750;

What's new in 2.20:

• added support for RB450G;

What's new in 2.19:

• fixeded support for MLC NAND chip;
• fixeded memory issue on RB600;

What's new in 2.18:

• fixeded via-rhine disappearing on RB532 and RB564;
• added support for RB493AH;

What's new in 2.17:

• added support for MLC NAND chip;

What's new in 2.16:

• fixeded bug - boot from NAND on RB532A could fail (bug introduced in 2.13);
• fixeded bug - etherboot on RB433/RB450 at 10Mbit did not work;

What's new in 2.15:

• fixeded RB333 overheating problem;
• added support for microSD card on RB433;

What's new in 2.14:

• fixeded nand boot on RB150 (broken in v2.13);

What's new in 2.13:

• improved memtest;
• fixeded RB600 memory issue;

What's new in 2.12:

• nand improvement for RB532A;

What's new in 2.11:

• fixeded bug - in one rare case boot from NAND could fail with "data is corrupted" message while data is correctable in reality;

What's new in 2.10:

• 100ms delay before PCI bus are initialized;

What's new in 2.9:

• added support for RB192;

What's new in 2.8:

• fixeded CompactFlash resetting router config on RB153 (broken in v2.7);

What's new in 2.7:

• fixeded bug - RouterOS command "/system reset-configuration"

was not resetting RB532 VIA ethernet mac address to default;

• added support for RB532r5;

What's new in 2.6:

• fixeded CompactFlash reseting router config on RB153;

What's new in 2.4:

• fixeded etherboot on RB100 to work reliably;

What's new in 2.2:

• fixeded repeated initrd image loading;

What's new in 2.1:

• fixeded crash during memory test within RouterBOOT;

What's new in 2.0:

• added support for RB153;

What's new in 1.13:

• fixeded nand format feature to mark back really bad blocks as bad;

What's new in 1.12:

• reset-jumper resets bios settings to defaults;

What's new in 1.11:

• fixeded reboot failure on RB500 with new RAM modules;

What's new in 1.10:

• added workaround for reboot failure on RB500 with new RAM modules;

What's new in 1.9:

• new boot option - "boot NAND, if fail then Ethernet";

What's new in 1.8:

• fixeded bug - it was possible for RB500 booter to stop working completely;

What's new in 1.7:

• added nand format feature;

What's new in 1.3:

• added support for large block NAND devices;

What's new in 1.2:

• fixeded bios entering on <delete> key for hyperterminal;
• routerboard 100 beep before jumping to kernel code;
• added nand READY/BUSY checking for rb100;
• improved speed for memory test;