Thanks for all your hard work! When can we expect to see packages built? I've been using the OBS repository, but the packages there are still 2.0.8: https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/home:CZ-NIC:bird-latest/bird
On Sun, Feb 20, 2022 at 8:56 AM Ondrej Filip <fe...@network.cz> wrote: > Dears BIRD users, > Roughly after a year, I have got fantastic news for you, we just > release a news version 2.0.9. I have to thank my great colleagues! > Here is the list of the main features: > > Version 2.0.9 > o BGP: Flowspec validation procedure > o Babel: MAC authentication support > o Routing table configuration blocks > o Optional prefix trie in routing table for faster LPM/interval queries > o CLI: New 'show route in <prefix>' command > o Filter: Faster (16-way) prefix sets > o Filter: MPLS label route attribute > o Filter: Operators to pick community components > o Filter: Operators to find minimum and maximum element of lists > o BGP: New 'free bind' option > o BGP: Log route updates that were changed to withdraws > o BGP: Improved 'invalid next hop' error reporting > o OSPF: Allow ifaces with host address as unnumbered PtP or PtMP ifaces > o OSPF: All packets on PtP networks should be sent to AllSPFRouters > address > o Scripts for apkg-powered upstream packaging for deb and rpm > o Support for Blake2s and Blake2b hash functions > o Security keys / passwords can be entered in hexadecimal digits > o Memory statistics split into Effective and Overhead > o Linux: New option 'netlink rx buffer' to specify netlink socket > buffer size > o BSD: Assume onlink flag on ifaces with only host addresses > o Many bugfixes > > Notes: > > For OSPF on PtP network, BIRD now sends all packets to multicast > AllSPFRouters > address (as required in RFC 2328 8.1). This likely breaks setups > with multiple > neighbors on a network configured as PtP, which worked in previous > versions. > Such links should be configured as PtMP. > > Since Linux 5.3, netlink socket can be flooded by route cache > entries during > route table scan. This version mitigates that issue by using strict > netlink > filtering. >
