Symbolic links not show in /files

I’ve upgraded my devices recently from 7.17.2 to 7.19.2, and since then symbolic links are not shown anymore, neither in Winbox nor CLI. The files are located on a disk attached to the USB port, and are belonging to the certbot container (mounted accordingly).

Up till version 7.17.2 symlinks were visible and one could get details about them (e.g. in scripts). I’ve observed that the symlinks are actually still present, because it’s not possible to create/copy to a new file with the same name in the same directory, and within the docker container they are still present and accessible. The issue is only outside of the container as described above.

I’m using a script which checks whether a certificate got renewed, in order to trigger distribution to various services. Since they are not visible the script is not seeing that certificate file anymore because certbot stores it as a symlink with a static name.

Anyone else made the same observation concerning symbolic links not being visible anymore since a certain ROS version (probably since 7.18 or since 7.19)?

Although running now ROS v7.21.3. and Winbox 4.01, and having now also a different router (CCR2004 → CCR2116), the file manager still doesn’t show any symlinks. The symlinks are there when checking the folder from within the docker image, but no traces of them in file manager suggesting that they simply do not exist.

Is it really only me having this issue?

It seems to me like you have all the data needed to open a support ticket with Mikrotik, it could well be a regression bug of some kind or an intentional change, but the only way to know is to open a ticket with them