Because they want to surprise us!
They dont have a road map, they make it up as they go… NOT.
Its really none of your business, aka what their business plans are. They provide cheaper products with great flexiblity, buy it or not…
LoL, Yes and no. Depends on how much sales you want to generate/market share you want to tap into etc. Manufacturer and Partner integrator relationships are important but the value maybe oblivious to some.
The problem with roadmaps is that after you publish dates, you damn well stick to them. My impression is that MT has hard time when negotiating with manufacturers of MT’s designs (because, let’s face it, MT is a small vendor compared to some other well known low-end brands). And it might be that MT’s development teams can’t stick to some deadlines as well. So MT as a company have to act in a flexible way when it comes to production and product launches. Hence their habit of surprising us.
Sometimes a close look at beta packages gives some hints about what they are working on (or perhaps they are more wary not to reveal such things to us lately), but the information is mostly vague (e.g. we might see new SoC type mentioned, but it doesn’t tell us what kind of device that will be … or we see some commercial device names but we can only guess their functionality and/or performance levels).
So … relax, seat back and let them surprise you 
And don’t hold your breathe while waiting for a new product to appear, it may take longer than you can live without breathing
Corollary:
Do you think that’s air you’re breathing now? /size] 
Well, we can always look at the big corporations. For example, in the software (as well as gaming) industry, you can simply announce something with a estimated year of release. If Mikrotik agreed to at least that… Customers would be able to plan the lifecycle of their LAN or WAN equipment.
The way it is happening now - looks like complete crap and disrespect for their customers.
To give you an example, we’re thinking about migrating from 802.11ac to new access points right now. Last year was a good year, we were given a good budget, and most of our work equipment, including employee laptops at the branch offices, have already been upgraded to support at least Wi-Fi 6. In our country (where the head office is located) 6Ghz spectrum is allowed, so we are considering migration either to 6E or straight to Wi-Fi 7, which is still under discussion. Accordingly, I have to solve the issue of planning - either we move the entire corporation to mikrotik access points, or we change the infrastructure and migrate to another vendor with a more adequate attitude to the customer. We are not big as Coca-Cola or Google, but we have about 12.000 employees in 11 countries…
And yes, we use a Mikrotik. No, we don’t use Mikrotik as core routers (I want to sleep well at night 
and we still use DMVPN…)
P.S. If they hadn’t fixed the wireless drivers, migration wouldn’t have been an issue - we would have definitely migrated to another vendor’s hardware.
I agree that there should be a bit of a road-map from Mikrotik, at least in terms of “a product that will… and has a form factor of …”, because honestly they need to start concentrating on larger customers who as stated by avacha do have large budgets and do lifecycle planning. I also fall a bit into that category of getting a budget to work against, and honestly its getting real hard to justify Mikrotik in core/edge switch gear & wireless to some extent( especially busted drivers in new qcom-ac not working in capsman doing vlans), MT routers thou are generally ok(CCR). I do get a lot of pushback to just put in Cisco gear and be done with it. Its a tough life !
It probably wont hurt the bottom line of MT to increase ram/flash storage of future products too so they can jam in a larger OS’s( RoS v8+ ), so they don’t have to compromise on deliverable features.
Anyhow its a wait and see thing as per usual with MT’s wireless side of the house. I only hope they have 1 capsman to rule them all in future products, not this broken wifi/wireless ‘crap’ that has been thrust onto us poor souls who have to manage a large mix of AX + legacy ac2 gear.
Poor souls is the right wording.
It is quite sure that Mikrotik is working on some Mediathek based devices. We don’t know what kind these devices will be. I would guess wifi7 APs. But who knows.
I don’t even know why is so top secret.
there are only 2 options: wifi7 devices come or not come.
a) “we are in development and may release 2025”
b) “we focus on AX gear and currently no wifi7 in the making”
For b) this would make things clear. People could spend their wifi7 budgets on other vendors and done.
On the other hand: every new Mikrotik product or development even when public, needs at least some time for stabilization. Look how it went with ROS7, wifi wave2, Winbox 4. Even when it landed, it will most probably be far from production ready. my 2 cents
Maybe its time MT splits their product lines, and does a ‘budget’ version of their gear( which I understand reasons for ), and a PRO line of gear ( happy to pay more to have all the bells and whistles.)
Would make sense. Especially for the European market. Labour is very expensive. An European company can make a simple equation: “pay some more $$$ for hardware but get all the bells and whistles or save some bucks on hardware but spend $$$$$ IT admins for hours of hours for troubleshooting capsman”
I wonder if RoS v8, or a Kernel update( e.g v6.4+ ) will help assist with Wi-Fi 7.
E.g : https://www.phoronix.com/search/WiFi+7
I don’t think so. Support in kernel is IMHO mostly relevant for consumer PCs. Embedded devices and even Android smartphones often use very “old” Kernel versions with many patches applied. And SOC vendors like Qualcomm provide their own driver SDK as well.
Its been another month, still eager to see some news here.
I see they announced a refresh of the model I’d love to have WiFi 7 (6ghz support) in for shop floor industrial machines with ethernet ports that get moved around when the floor is reconfigured for new product runs. They refreshed the wAP ac LTE kit, yes, rounding out the end of 2024 and they released a hardware refresh with an 802.11AC WiFi chipset
Yea… @infabo… Year is almost over and still no be devices from mikrotik 
It’s over when it’s over
Yes, I would also like an SFP+ cage for my PON ONT, 2.5G Ethernet interfaces and get this Homeplug AV2 1300 standard back for CPL meshing over powerline option in a USB-C power supply option!
Rock.
Mikrotik has a serious problem with its product development timelines. This has been happening since the WiFi 5 lines, but especially since WiFi 6. For years, all manufacturers released complete WiFi 6 product lines while Mikrotik had nothing. When they finally started to release something, they didn’t introduce a complete line (indoor and outdoor APs, desktop devices, etc.). Instead, they started releasing products little by little: first desktop devices, then a month later an indoor AP… years later, an outdoor one. By the time they completed their WiFi 6 line, practically all manufacturers were already releasing their WiFi 7 product lines. Knowing Mikrotik, I don’t expect to see the first WiFi 7 products until at least late 2025 or 2026… not to mention when they will complete the line. This makes it impossible to think of Mikrotik as a serious provider of WiFi solutions. As of today, you cannot offer a reasonably serious client a solution that is not at least WiFi 6-based. Until recently, there were no outdoor WiFi 6 antenna options from Mikrotik, which forced us to look for solutions from other manufacturers… inevitably leading to a loss of customers to other platforms out of sheer necessity. It’s clear that Mikrotik has very solid solutions when it comes to routing, but we cannot deny that other platforms have them too, and they offer the possibility of implementing an integrated network with all their equipment from the same manufacturer, something that with Mikrotik becomes, at the very least, complicated, especially during periods of technological change.
MikroTik has definitely fallen behind, that much is clear. The real question is whether they can catch up. But without a solid roadmap, not even a letter to Santa is going to help them here.
I’ll bring it up to him, but this wish might be hard to fulfill.
The world is moving fast, and companies are making significant investments. It’s not just about a handful of devices; we’re talking about hundreds of APs being purchased and deployed, sometimes some more to have spare parts. These are investments planned for years ahead. If another vendor is chosen, MikroTik could be waiting years before they even become a theoretical option in the next purchasing cycle. But by then, Wi-Fi 9 could be the standard, and MikroTik might only have a Wi-Fi 7 lineup. Falling behind like this is not a sustainable business strategy for them in the long run.