Awesome news, and good timing, will be testing that over xmas :) Congrats on the release, and take a well deserved rest, bugs and feature request will likely come soon :)
Merry routing! Happy peering! Jeroen -- > On 18 Dec 2024, at 13:03, Ondrej Filip <fe...@network.cz> wrote: > > Dear BIRD Users, > > I know that some of you lost faith, but it's real! We are releasing BIRD > version 3.0.0. After more than 5 years of sustained development, we came to > conclusion that it's stable enough to be released. The feature list is the > same as BIRD 2.16. > > But this version is multithreaded. By default, it spins one worker thread for > BGP, BMP, RPKI and Pipe, another one for BFD, and the rest stays in the main > thread. > > To enable this, we had to do a huge amount of internal reworks, so the table > and channel implementation is very much different now. The protocols stayed > almost the same. > > There are some minor breaking changes in config and CLI, most notably unified > route attribute names to the filter variant. We are expecting to add a > compatibility mode for the CLI. Anyway, it should be possible to reuse most > of the configs and CLI scriptings from BIRD 2. > > The memory consumption has gone up significantly. We are still working on > reducing the memory footprint and the next versions should be better in that. > > There is some documentation about what has changed between BIRD 2 and BIRD 3 > from the users' perspective in doc/migration-bird3.md. if you find anything > missing in that file, please send a patch, it would be deeply appreciated. > > We are expecting to keep developing BIRD 2 and BIRD 3 side by side for some > more time as there are some old branches rooted in BIRD 2. New projects and > contributions should primarily target BIRD 3 though. > > Thank you for running BIRD and testing the alpha versions. Your feedback and > contributions have been instrumental in reaching this milestone. We look > forward to hearing your experience with BIRD 3. > > As always, the tarball is available at > https://bird.network.cz/download/bird-3.0.0.tar.gz and you can also setup our > BIRD 3 repositories for Debian and Ubuntu: > https://pkg.labs.nic.cz/doc/?project=bird > > Let me thank the whole BIRD team and specifically Maria as the team leader! > Thank you so much guys! > > Merry routing! > > On behalf of the BIRD team > Ondrej >
