WinBox v4.0rc released!

What's new in 4.0rc3 (2026-Feb-06 15:05):

  • ui: add new field type support
  • table: fix crash on Files table when subdirectories opened and remove event received
  • fix crash when pressing disconnect while set/add/remove command has not responded

What's new in 4.0rc1 (2026-Feb-04 13:26):

  • linux: try to use XDG Desktop Portals to support better File selector dialogs
  • table: auto adjust width of popup while scrolling for table quick filter
  • table: fix rare cases where view hangs when filtering/removing many rows which are not in viewport
  • ui: fix invisible scrollbar when UI is zoomed out too much
  • terminal: add text strike-through support (will be used by newer RouterOS to show deprecated parameters)
  • about: add MikroTik license text

WinBox files for Windows, Linux and macOS are available here:

https://mikrotik.com/download/winbox

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:rofl:

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Now this looks good on Linux! Thanks for listening to feedback!

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Matured software.

I hope you are joking. There are so many problems in it, that I won't even think about moving it to rc branch.

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Hi, why is my history always empty since I started using WinBox 4 in all versions, including the new RC, on different Windows PCs?

Hope is your only hope .... of course that it was invisibly surrounded with [joking=on]...[joking=off]

Try with RouterOS 7.21 (or newer)

*) undo - show console commands in WinBox/WebFig for /system/history entries;

While I still have quibbles on a few of the design choices... In terms stability and functionality, it's hard to argue it not release quality. e.g. I cannot think of any issue where it broke config because it updated something wrong, displaying wrong info, etc. And, been probably been a year since I launched wine+winbox3 for anything, so clearly it works.

So sincere congratulations on the milestone! Now get back to working on The Dude, which IMO should have been the priority, not WinBox.

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Small bug. Scrolling left on right on the license using a trackpad doesnt “work”
This is (sadly) on Windows

Even if it doesn't break anything, there are problems, like freezes, stupid layout and bad contrast in some places (though, it's better, than in beta1 of course). So, for me it's not usable and I remain on v3.


Offtopic, but...

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I think I have seen at least one remark already about something not working anymore in V3, only V4.

cooool

Is that possible to give all multi-line textbox controls (which are used mostly for inputting script, not only under /system/script but also all the PPP and DHCP event handlers) a monospace font? You can just reuse the font of Terminal, which is by default JetBrains Mono.

In fact even the textboxes used for License and Third-Party Licenses would benefit from a fixed width font, because that how most opensource licenses assume their content will be displayed.

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While I prefer "dark mode" on most applications, I even got used to this forum's dark mode: the Winbox 4 dark mode hurts my eyes. I can't stand it. The light theme is okay, but dark mode really needs improvments to colors.

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Would be nice when you could select a command from that list and undo it…

Is this following that post where a company refused engineers to use ‘beta’ software?

There is still the issue that when a window is displayed with unchanged content (e.g. the log), the window is still being re-drawn at a high rate. This problem has been introduced a couple of beta versions ago, it wasn’t always like that.

Please fix that, as it causes lots of unnecessary network traffic when WinBox is run on a headless server with remote display. Which is a convenient way of managing devices on a remote network.

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Allowing native file dialog for upload/download instead of that built in QT quick version is sooooo much better.

Works perfectly for gnome

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Congrats on the RC! Lots of good work, feedback and fixes! I'm glad that I'm able to use WinBox 4 as a daily driver, and that are finally Native Linux & Mac Clients!

It's also great to finally switch to one forum thread per release as the Beta thread became entirely unnavigable.

Keep the fixes & improvements coming!

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