BIRD 3.0-alpha0

[Ondrej Filip]

Dear BURD users,

We have something special for you today. We're releasing a
multi-threaded BIRD version 3.0-alpha0 for public testing. Protocols
BGP, RPKI and Pipe got their own channels which promises faster
convergence and better usage of system resources. Version 3.0-alpha0
is based on the previous 2.0.8 version and some enhancements from
2.0.9 will make it into the multi-threaded branch later on.

There is also a blogpost about performance comparison we have recently
done between 3.0-alpha0 and 2.0.8 (the previous single-threaded
version) and you can read there also other articles about the
multi-threaded version.

We do not recommend running this version in production setups, yet we


https://bird.network.cz/?download&tdir=3.0pre/
ftp://bird.network.cz/pub/bird/3.0pre/


Main credits goes to Maria! Thank you!

        Ondrej


Version 3.0-alpha0 (2022-02-07)
  o Removal of fixed protocol-specific route attributes
  o Asynchronous route export
  o Explicit table import / export hooks
  o Partially lockless route attribute cache
  o Thread-safe resource management
  o Thread-safe interface notifications
  o Thread-safe protocol API
  o Adoption of BFD IO loop for general use
  o Parallel Pipe protocol
  o Parallel RPKI protocol
  o Parallel BGP protocol
  o Lots of refactoring
  o Bugfixes and improvements as they came along

deeply appreciate any bugreports, including memory footprint problems. You can download the tgz package at the following URLs:

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