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MikroTik RouterOS 7.23.1 – safe to update?
0 problem reports and 0 positive reports found on Reddit (plus 9 other mentions). Out for 137 days and we haven't found any problem reports. Quiet isn't proof — but most bad releases get noticed within a week.
Newer release in this line: MikroTik RouterOS 7.23.8 (2026-10-08). If you're updating now, check that one instead — it may already fix the issues reported here.
Requirements and changes
Lines from the official notes worth checking before you update:
- route - removed deprecated "/routing/route/rule" menu
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What's in this release
Stable release with 16 changelog entries (9 are fixes or stability changes).
Source: MikroTik changelog (upgrade.mikrotik.com, stable channel)
CVEs fixed
No CVEs mapped to this release.
Community reports
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hAP ax s forgot the default configuration and behaves weird · Reddit · 2026-07-05
EDIT: The problem was a missing package - in my case "wifi-mediatek", which I forgot to add in Netinstall. ________________________________________ It seems like my hAP ax s has forgot its default configuration. I have reset the thing and did a Netinstall multiple times, but the…
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wifi-qcom local config: DHCP OFFER never reaches wireless client on second SSID/VLAN — "offered" never "bound" · Reddit · 2026-07-02
Hardware / Software: Controller/Router: RB5009UG+S+, RouterOS 7.23.1 (stable), arm64 AP: wAP ax (wAPG-5HaxD2HaxD), RouterOS 7.23.1, wifi-qcom package, arm Switch: Ubiquiti EdgeSwitch ES-8-150W (trunk configured and verified) Goal: Two SSIDs via VLANs — "Home" (VLAN 10) and "IoT"…
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RB5009: Now with 100% more demon slaughter · Reddit · 2026-06-28
Proof that it's not just a router — it's a gaming rig. (KasmVNC + Chocolate Doom on Alpine in a container.) My coworker sent me this forum thread about running GUI apps in containers on MikroTik. One thing led to another, and now I have Chocolate Doom running on an RB5009. It's…
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hAP be lite : First impression · Reddit · 2026-06-24
I finally received the hAP be lite, Mikrotik's first 'purchasable' Wi-Fi 7 device :D *This post is based on a brief test after the product arrived and may contain inaccurate information. 1 . It is larger than the hAP ax lite, and while there are molded flow marks on the front, t…
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Got bored so made an update automation · Reddit · 2026-06-20
So I had an issue after moving all of my Mikrotik gear to VRF MGMT cause I couldn't get updates directly and wasn't feeling it to deal with the hustle of copying files every time and executing a reboot, So I built this instead. https://preview.redd.it/gu76rgdjtf8h1.png?width=251…
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E50UG, can’t get Android phone to work as usb modem · Reddit · 2026-06-18
I previously used RB951Ui-2HnD as a test platform for developing configuration for a project. Today I swapped to E50UG, and I can't get Android phone to be detected as usb modem by the router. On old platform it worked just when I plugged in the phone and selected tethering opti…
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RouterOS 7 / CRS5xx — any way to map a learned MAC to a specific physical bond member (sfp28-6 vs sfp28-7)? · Reddit · 2026-06-16
Running a CRS5xx (Marvell Prestera, RouterOS 7) with a 2x SFP28 802.3ad LACP bond to a QNAP that's also LACP-bonded on its end. HW offload is active. Bond is healthy, both legs up, LACP converged. I need to determine which of the QNAP's two NIC MACs is physically cabled to sfp28…
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IPv6 routing between VRFs (MDU use case) · Reddit · 2026-06-06
I have an RB5009UPr+S+ which I'm using to provide 4 apartments Internet access via a cable provider. This provider gives a /60 via PD and the router is receiving that, and I have it setting the interface addresses for the VRFs. IPv4 is working, well other than fasttrack causing…
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RouterOS 7.23.1 [stable] released · Reddit · 2026-06-03
What's new in 7.23.1 (2026-Jun-02 12:25): app - fixed bogus configuration export; app - fixed making empty directories when running configuration export; bgp - fixed memory leak; bridge - fixed stability issue when using DHCPv4 snooping; disk - avoid reading SCSI stats all the t…
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Other MikroTik RouterOS versions
- 7.23.8 2026-10-08
- 7.24.5 2026-10-01
- 7.24.4 2026-09-16
- 7.23.7 2026-09-16
- 7.24.3 2026-09-14
- 7.23.6 2026-09-14
- 7.23.5 2026-09-04
- 7.24.2 2026-09-03
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