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Please note that one side effect of this update is losing saved devices. I'm not sure whether the Linux version of WinBox attempts to convert your old settings to the new version; I have used the Windows version to perform the conversion as follows:

• Download WinBox 4 for Windows
• Run it as WINEPREFIX=~/.winbox/wine wine WinBox.exe
• It will pick up and convert your old config file :)
• cp -r ~/.winbox/wine/drive_c/users/$USER/Application\ Data/Mikrotik/Winbox/* ~/.local/share/MikroTik/WinBox/

OPTIONAL: delete ~/.winbox, as otherwise your passwords will linger there forever

Please note just FYI that as of 4.0beta3 I'm seeing graphical glitches, multi-line input boxes are rendered as single-line inputs, and Safe Mode is absent; so it is indeed not production ready for my use case as it's missing vital features :)

Looks like Mikrotik is already pushing this in social media, see: https://youtu.be/IOjkWJfmM24

Also interest is pretty high. So already pushed winbox 4.0beta3...

If you still want or need the "legacy" Winbox 3.x go for package 'winbox3'. These two can even be installed side by side.

I use this package for work. Switching to a new potentially unstable version wouldn't be so disruptive (in the sense that I can just download 3.41 again and keep working), but it would make the package unsuitable for my use case.

Thus, imho, this package should switch to 4.x whenever it is generally considered stable and equivalent to 3.x feature-wise. I agree that this first beta looks very promising!

Mikrotik has just release a first beta version of new Winbox 4.x, including a native Linux port: https://forum.mikrotik.com/viewtopic.php?t=210505

I guess we should switch to that one day or another... Any opinion when this should happen? First try looks very promising. :)

The download URL for winbox64.exe has changed. The new URL is: https://download.mikrotik.com/routeros/winbox/3.40/winbox64.exe.

diff --git a/PKGBUILD b/PKGBUILD
index a52f18c..e037d63 100644
--- a/PKGBUILD
+++ b/PKGBUILD
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ optdepends=(
   'ttf-ms-fonts: for better fonts'
 )
 install=${pkgname}.install
-source=("${pkgname}-${pkgver}.exe::https://download.mikrotik.com/winbox/${pkgver}/${pkgname}64.exe"
+source=("${pkgname}-${pkgver}.exe::https://download.mikrotik.com/routeros/winbox/${pkgver}/${pkgname}64.exe"
         "${pkgname}.desktop"
         "${pkgname}.png"
         "${pkgname}")

@yanboyang713 Remove sudo from the command. I'm not sure if it will resolve your problem, but regardless you shouldn't run it as root.

I get two error msg below. I don't know what is that.

yanboyang713@Meta-Scientific-Linux ~ % sudo winbox
[sudo] password for yanboyang713:
creating Window Class routeros_null
creating Window Class routeros_connect
DPI=96
EMS=13
ERROR: bad bmp format id=2329
biPlanes=1, biBitCount=1, biCompression=0
ERROR: bad bmp format id=3329
biPlanes=1, biBitCount=1, biCompression=0
creating Window Class routeros_dbl_canvas
rescaleDPI starting-dpi=96, zoom=0 result=96
 discovery started
rescaning
connecting to 10.153.63.255
connecting to 172.17.255.255

For configuring HiDPI run:

WINEPREFIX=$HOME/.winbox/wine /usr/bin/winecfg

and change the "Screen resolution dpi" setting found in the "Graphics" tab

Would someone mind explaining the versioning to me? This package is 3.40, but on the website, all I see are 6.x/7.x. Thanks.

6.x/7.x are RouterOS versions, not WinBox. If you click the WinBox dropdown on this page, you will see WinBox 3.40 downloads for x64 and x86_64.