Mikrotik Beta5.2 Released

Changelog here.

I’ll highlight the interesting bits:

What’s new in 5.0beta2 (2010-Apr-30 11:35):

*) added wireless distance setting, removed ack-timeout;
*) improved 802.11 operation for outdoor distances;

This is terrific. Ubiquiti has had a slider for this in their GUI for a while now. You slide it to your distance and it automatically adjusts ack times and other optimizations. A good bit of recon on this one!

What’s new in 5.0beta2 (2010-Apr-29 12:10):

*) fixed sstp on x86;
*) console – removed ‘delay’ argument from ‘/system scheduler add’ command;
*) console – remove ‘comment=””‘ values from export;
*) console – updated ‘/system script job’:
– also show active login sessions here;
– new read-only property ‘type’ with values “command”, “login”
or “api-login” for running commands and either kind of login sessions;
– new optional read-only property ‘parent’ with id of the job that
has spawned this one;
*) console – changed “started” property of ‘/system script job’ to use
local time;
*) console – new property ‘type’ in ‘/system script job’
*) console – added ‘/port remote-access export’ command;
*) console – fixed bug that caused “cannot set …” error when using
some properties in ‘find’ commands;
*) show old software id in export file header;
*) api – can supply password to ‘/system/upgrade/upgrade-package-source/add’;
*) api – ‘print’ command was not showing values of some properties
such as ‘servers’ in “/ip/dns”;
*) api – fixed api login sessions not dissapearing from ‘/user active’ after
termination;
*) ‘/user active’ now lists type of api connections as ‘api’;
*) added support for hardware watchdog on RB1000 & RB800;
*) added support for ASIX AX88xxx based USB Ethernet Adapters on RB4xx;
*) fixed problem – ipv6 traffic was not bridged if ipv6 package was not enabled;
*) fixed getting interface stats in dude;
*) fixed metarouter stability problem on RB400s & RB750s;
*) fixed metarouter – it didn’t work on RB1000 with 2Gb;
*) fixed metarouter – it locked up on RB800;
*) fixed problem – SFQ queues did not work on interfaces (wireless) if none
of simple or tree queues were added;
*) fixed RB800 temperature;
*) fixed problem – WinBox crashed while opening VAP interface;
*) dhcp server – fixed possible inactive dhcp server in case of many
dhcp leases with address-pool enabled;
*) dhcp server – show non-printable option 82 agent-circuit-id and
agent-remote-id values in hexadecimal notation
(in the same way as client-id is shown);