
The package upgrade feature connects to the MikroTik download servers and checks if there is a new RouterOS version for your device.Īfter clicking the Upgrade button in QuickSet or in Packages menu upgrade window will open with current Changelog (if newer version exists) and buttons to download and install latest versions.īy clicking "Download & Upgrade", downloads will start and after successful download will reboot to install downloaded packages.


Therefore v5.2 is older than v5.18, which is newer. An identifier of 2.5, for instance, is not "two and a half" or "half way to version three", it is the fifth second-level revision of the second first-level revision. RouterOS versions are numbered sequentially when a period is used to separate sequences, it does not represent a decimal point, and the sequences do not have positional significance.

The upgrade procedure on already installed devices is straight forward. MikroTik devices are preinstalled with RouterOS, so installation is usually not needed, except in the case where installing RouterOS on an x86 PC.
