Feature request: Select upgrade version from winbox

RouterOS General
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Hello,

I run routeros on many devices and locations and do not upgrade them with new version unless there is a fix, improvement or new feature that is relevant to my setup. Even when I do upgrade them I usually wait for a few days and read announcement forum thread to see what issues I may experience. I think it would be a very nice feature to have an option to select specific version in winbox for upgrade to, not just stable/development/testing channel. For example, I have a few devices which I have upgraded today and had to manually download and copy 7.17.2 version to them (fortunately had enough space) because I did not want to upgrade to 7.18 branch yet. Having this option in winbox would save me quite some time, not to mention devices with 16mb flash. Please consider adding this feature to winbox and cli. Thank you.

Best regards,
JF

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Regarding the space for upgrade packages, it’s exactly the same regardless the method of upgrade (via ROS upgrader versus manual download), they are downloaded (or uploaded) to whatever is considered root of storage (which may be RAM disk in case of devices with at least 64MB RAM and less than 32MB flash).