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At the suggestion of a follower on LinkedIn, I've changed the canonical URL for the Mikrotik Changelog Tracker to https://mct.hextet.net/
The old very-long-hyphenated URLs will redirect to the new ones.
I've often wished I could show #Mikrotik changelogs by component so that I could track a feature's progress. For instance recently a friend asked me about MLAG support in Mikrotik and I said.. ya its been mentioned in recent changelogs a few times. What I didn't realize was that it had also been mentioned in ancient 7.x versions like 7.1.2 so its actually been around a lot longer than I thought.
*one weekend coding session later*
And the Mikrotik Changelog Tracker was born. It can sort by version number or by date. It can show you changelogs only by component, or you can search for a specific keyword. You can limit your channels to stable, long-term, development and testing.
I have this theory: cooking is actually pretty easy and most dishes have a wide range of good outcomes. But it's sold as hard with "secret recipes" and "food crimes" and "Dad burned water again". But it's really not that hard!
And that's why the huge industry of low-effort recipe websites and cooking YouTube exists - almost everyone can do it, and when it turns out well people think they know some secret. It's also really easy to use affiliate links.
New blog post: Running your own Autonomous System on FreeBSD.
Got an AS number and IPv6 /48 via RIPE, set up a FreeBSD BGP router with FRR, two upstreams, and built GRE/GIF tunnels ti bring my own globally routable addresses to servers at different providers.
The interesting part: dual-FIB policy routing lets FreeBSD jails speak from both provider and BGP addresses simultaneously.
https://blog.hofstede.it/running-your-own-as-bgp-on-freebsd-with-frr-gre-tunnels-and-policy-routing/
Aaaaand my second peer is also online now. Latency from DTAG dropped by 50%!!!
Today I added a feature in my "Mikrotik Changelog Tracker" that lets you follow "(introduced in v....)" links to the changelog for that version. I immediately found one that had to backtrack at least 2 versions to where it was actually introduced b/c of the way that stable and long-term work. https://mikrotik-changelog-tracker.hextet.net/
Today I added a feature in my "Mikrotik Changelog Tracker" that lets you follow "(introduced in v....)" links to the changelog for that version. I immediately found one that had to backtrack at least 2 versions to where it was actually introduced b/c of the way that stable and long-term work.
Ron Bowes
Larvitz 
Julian Wecke