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Back To Home is a convenience feature, that configures your device for secure VPN access from anywhere in the world to your router and your network, even if your router does not have a public IP address, is behind NAT or Firewall.

Configuration can be done manually, or with our MikroTik VPN companion app (Android, iPhone (coming soon)).

If the VPN server (your home router) has a public IP address, the VPN app will create a direct VPN connection between the phone and the router. However, if the router is not directly reachable from the internet, the connection will be made through the MikroTik relay server. The connection is always end-to-end encrypted, the relay server or any other device does not have access to the encryption keys. In case of going through relay, speed could be limited.

This feature is a convenient option to access your home network or view content available in your home country, from locations, where some content is not available. It is not meant for anonymity, it is for simple one click access to your home network. For more granular security controls, we recommend to manually configure and secure a VPN connection using the advanced RouterOS options.

More configuration https://help.mikrotik.com/docs/display/ROS/Back+To+Home

RouterOS version 7.11beta has been released on the "v7 testing" channel!

Before an upgrade:

1. Remember to make backup/export files before an upgrade and save them on another storage device;
2. Make sure the device will not lose power during upgrade process;
3. Device has enough free storage space for all RouterOS packages to be downloaded.

What's new in 7.11beta4 (2023-Jul-05 13:33):

*) bluetooth - added "decode-ad" command for decoding raw Bluetooth payloads (CLI only); *) bluetooth - added "Peripheral devices" section which displays decoded Eddystone TLM and UID, iBeacon and MikroTik Bluetooth payloads; *) bridge - added warning when VLAN interface list contains ports that are not bridged; *) bridge - prevent bridging the VLAN interface created on the same bridge; *) console - fixed incorrect default value of ":return" command (introduced in v7.11beta2); *) console - improved stability and responsiveness; *) container - fixed duplicate image name; *) dns - improved system stability when processing static DNS entries with specified address-list; *) ipsec - improved IKE2 rekey process; *) ipsec - properly check ph2 approval validity when using IKE1 exchange mode; *) l3hw - changed minimal supported values for "neigh-discovery-interval" and "neigh-keepalive-interval" properties; *) l3hw - fixed /32 and /128 route offloading after nexthop change; *) l3hw - fixed incorrect source MAC usage for offloaded bonding interface; *) l3hw - improved system responsiveness during partial offloading; *) l3hw - improved system stability; *) leds - blink red system-led when LTE is not connected to the network on D53 devices; *) leds - fixed system-led color for "GSM EGPRS" RAT on D53 devices; *) lte - fixed Dell DW5221E "at-chat" support; *) lte - only listen to DHCP packets for LTE passtrough interface in auto mode when looking for the host; *) package - treat disabled packages as enabled during upgrade; *) profile - added "container" process classifier; *) profile - properly classify "console" related processes; *) quickset - correctly apply configuration when using "DHCP Server Range" property; *) rose-storage - added "scsi-scan" command (CLI only); *) route - added comment for BFD configuration (CLI only); *) route - convert BFD timers from milliseconds to microseconds after upgrade; *) sfp - improved optical QSFP interface handling for 98DX8332, 98DX3257, 98DX4310, 98DX8525 switches; *) wifiwave2 - fixed "reg-info" information for several countries; *) wifiwave2 - fixed interface hangs on IPQ6010-based boards (introduced in v7.9); *) wifiwave2 - rename "reg-info" country argument from "Macedonia" to "North Macedonia"; *) winbox - fixed "Storm Rate" property under "Switch/Port" menu; *) winbox - fixed BGP affinity display; *) wireless - ignore EAPOL Logoff frames; *) x86 - updated e1000 driver;

What's new in 7.11beta2 (2023-Jun-21 14:39):

*) api - disallow executing commands without required parameters; *) bfd - fixed "actual-tx-interval" value and added "remote-min-tx" (CLI only); *) bluetooth - added new AD structure type "service-data" for Bluetooth advertisement; *) bridge - added more STP-related logging; *) bridge - fixed MSTP BPDU aging; *) bridge - fixed MSTP synchronization after link down; *) certificate - fixed PEM import; *) certificate - restored RSA with SHA512 support; *) console - added default value for "rndstr" command (16 characters from 0-9a-zA-Z); *) console - fixed minor typos; *) console - fixed missing "parent" for script jobs (introduced in v7.9); *) console - fixed missing return value for ping command in certain cases; *) console - fixed printing interval when resizing terminal; *) console - improved flag printing in certain menus; *) console - improved stability and responsiveness; *) console - improved timeout for certain commands and menus; *) console - improved VPLS "cisco-id" argument validation; *) container - added option to use overlayfs layers; *) discovery - fixed "lldp-med-net-policy-vlan" (introduced in v7.8 ); *) ethernet - improved interface stability for CRS312 device; *) fetch - improved timeout detection; *) firewall - added warning when PCC divider argument is smaller than remainder; *) firewall - fixed mangle "mark-connection" with "passthrough=yes" rule for TCP RST packets; *) graphing - added paging support; *) health - added more gradual control over fans for CRS3xx, CRS5xx, CCR2xxx devices; *) health - fixed configuration export for "/system/health/settings" menu; *) ike2 - improved system stability when closing phase1; *) ike2 - improved system stability when making configuration changes on active setup; *) l3hw - improved system stability during IPv6 route offloading; *) led - fixed manually configured user LED for RB2011; *) lora - added new EUI field; *) lora - moved LoRa service to IoT package; *) lora - properly apply configuration changes when multiple LoRa cards are used; *) lora - updated LoRa firmware for R11e-LR8, R11e-LR9 and R11e-LR2 cards; *) lte - added "at-chat" support for Dell DW5821e-eSIM modem; *) lte - added extended support for Neoway N75 modem; *) lte - fixed NR SINR reporting for Chateau 5G; *) lte - fixed Telit LE910C4 "at-chat" support; *) lte - improved initial interface startup time for SXT LTE 3-7; *) mpls - improved MPLS TCP performance; *) mqtt - added more MQTT publish configuration options; *) mqtt - added new MQTT subscribe feature; *) netwatch - added "src-address" property; *) netwatch - changed "thr-tcp-conn-time" argument to time interval; *) ovpn - fixed OVPN server peer-id negotiation; *) ovpn - fixed session-timeout when using UDP mode; *) ovpn - properly close OVPN session on the server when client gets disconnected; *) poe - fixed missing PoE configuration section under specific conditions; *) pppoe - fixed PPPoE client trying to establish connection when parent interface is inactive; *) rose-storage - added disk stats for ramdisks; *) rose-storage - fixed RAID 0 creation; *) rose-storage - limit striped RAID element size to smallest disk size; *) routerboard - fixed "gpio-function" setting on RBM33G ("/system routerboard upgrade" required); *) routerboard - improved RouterBOOT stability for Alpine CPUs ("/system routerboard upgrade" required); *) routerboard - removed unnecessary serial port for netPower16P and hAP ax lite devices ("/system routerboard upgrade" required); *) sfp - improved interface stability for 98DX8208, 98DX8212, 98DX8332, 98DX3257, 98DX4310, 98DX8525, 98DX3255, 98PX1012 based switches; *) ssh - fixed user RSA private key import; *) switch - fixed "reset-counters" for "switch-cpu"; *) system - disallow setting a non-existing CPU core number for system IRQ; *) system - increased maximum supported CPU core count to 512 on CHR and x86; *) system - reduced RAM usage for SMIPS devices; *) w60g - improved stability for Cube 60Pro ac and CubeSA 60Pro ac devices; *) webfig - added option to enable wide view in item list; *) webfig - use router time zone for date and time; *) wifiwave2 - added "steering" parameters and menu to set up and monitor AP neighbor groups (CLI only); *) wifiwave2 - added more information on roaming candidates to BSS transition management requests (802.11v) and neighbor report responses (802.11k); *) wifiwave2 - added option to filter frames captured by the sniffer command (CLI only); *) wifiwave2 - changed default behavior for handling duplicate client MAC addresses, added settings for changing it (CLI only); *) wifiwave2 - enabled PMK caching with EAP authentication types; *) wifiwave2 - fixed "security.sae-max-failure" rate not limiting authentications correctly in some cases; *) wifiwave2 - fixed clearing CAPsMAN Common Name when disabling "lock-to-caps-man"; *) wifiwave2 - improved stability when changing interface settings; *) wifiwave2 - improved stability when receiving malformed WPA3-PSK authentication frames; *) wifiwave2 - make info log less verbose during client roaming (some info moved to wireless,debug log); *) wifiwave2 - use correct status code when rejecting WPA3-PSK re-association; *) winbox - added missing status values for Ethernet and Cable Test; *) winbox - added warning about non-running probe due to "startup-delay"; *) winbox - fixed default "Ingress Filtering" value under "Bridge" menu; *) winbox - improved supout.rif progress display; *) winbox - rename "Group Master" property to "Group Authority" under "Interface/VRRP" menu; *) wireguard - fixed peer connection using DNS name on IP change;

To upgrade, click "Check for updates" at /system package in your RouterOS configuration interface, or head to our download page: http://www.mikrotik.com/download

If you experience version related issues, then please send supout file from your router to [email protected]. File must be generated while a router is not working as suspected or after some problem has appeared on the device

On 10/05/2023 (May 10th, 2023) MikroTik received information about a new vulnerability, which is assigned the ID CVE-2023-32154. The report stated, that vendor (MikroTik) was contacted in December, but we did not find record of such communication. The original report also says, that vendor was informed in person in an event in Toronto, where MikroTik was not present in any capacity.

What this issue affects: The issue affects devices running MikroTik RouterOS versions v6.xx and v7.xx with enabled IPv6 advertisement receiver functionality. You are only affected if one of the below settings is applied:

ipv6/settings/ set accept-router-advertisements=yes

or

ipv6/settings/set forward=no accept-router-advertisements=yes-if-forwarding-disabled

If the above settings are not set up like in the example, you are not affected. Note that the vulnerable setting combination is not normally found in routers and is rarely used.

What this issue can cause: This vulnerability allows network-adjacent attackers to execute arbitrary code on affected installations of Mikrotik RouterOS. Authentication is not required to exploit this vulnerability.

Recommended course of action: You can disable IPv6 advertisements, or upgrade to RouterOS 7.9.1, 6.49.8, 6.48.7, 7.10beta8 (all versions already released), and of course newer versions afterwards.

7.10.2 is out

*) wifiwave2 - fixed interface hangs on IPQ6010-based boards (introduced in v7.9);

https://mikrotik.com/download/changelogs