Keeping up with MikroTik RouterOS release notes is essential for anyone running MikroTik in production. Whether you are tracking a specific bug fix, evaluating an upgrade, or researching which version introduced or fixed (or re-fixed) a feature.
Born from a desire “to be able to grep for keywords across all Mikrotik releases” we are pleased to announce the MikroTik Changelog Tracker. This is a free tool for the operator community, providing a dedicated, searchable site for RouterOS changelogs. Available at mct.hextet.net.
What is it?
The MikroTik Changelog Tracker indexes official MikroTik changelogs across all 4 channels, stable, long-term, testing, and the recently-back-in-use development channel. You can:
- Search by text — Find entries that mention a keyword (e.g. “BGP”, “bridge”, “IPv6”, “MLAG”, or a specific device model or CPU architecture).
- Filter by component — Narrow results to a single area (e.g.
bgp,poe-out,snmp). - Browse by version — See all changes for a given release (e.g. 7.21.3 Stable, 7.20.8 Long-term).
- Use the API — Integrate changelog data into your own tooling or documentation. This is very early at this point and could change.
- Backtrack - the text string (introduced in v….) in a changelog entry is parsed and linked to a version (if it exists).
The site is kept in sync with MikroTik’s published changelogs so you get a single place to search and compare across hundreds of versions and thousands of changelog entries.
Why we built it
As a consulting and research network that works with RouterOS regularly, we often need to:
- Check when a particular fix or feature landed.
- Compare behavior across Stable vs Long-term.
- Quickly see what changed in a component (e.g. BGP, OSPF, MPLS or IPv6) over time.
Doing that by ctrl-f on the changelog page was slow and error-prone, and trying to do it by opening up various /CHANGELOG URLs and comparing was even slower, and probably just as error prone. We built this changelog tracker to make that workflow fast and repeatable. For example, drilling into a single component like bridge shows you every related change across versions and channels in one place:
And best of all, we are making it available to the wider community for free so others can benefit too.
Try it
- Website: https://mct.hextet.net/
- API: Documented on the site for programmatic access.
If you have feedback or suggestions, we’d love to hear from you—reach out via [email protected].