Suggestion for improved ROS update/upgrade process

RouterOS General
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The current ROS software update and firmware upgrade process is way too slow and time-consuming. While two reboots might be no problem for a home router or AP, in fact it is a HUGE PROBLEM for core routers having lots BGP sessions. In combination with the still very poor BGP convergence time on all the CCR models with full BGP feeds, the current situation is very unsatisfactory.

The new /system routerboard settings set auto-upgrade=yes setting was a first step in the right direction, although it still requires the second reboot for the firmware upgrade to be performed manually. It would be quite nice if the whole update/upgrade process would be a single click/command including all the necessary reboots. The second reboot for the firmware upgrade could even be speeded up by skipping the interface and routing engine initialization once for that purpose.

Thanks

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This has been asked many times since the new routerboot firmware versioning but it has been ignored.

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Hopefully they will fix it somewhen :slight_smile:

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Before we did not all times had to update the firmware. If Mikrotikvonly increase the firmware version number if there has been a change to it in real you could spare yourself a load of second reboots.

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Or they combine package update and ROS firmware upgrade into a single process, which would be the best and most straight-forward solution.