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Version 2.15.1 (2024-03-22)
o OSPF: Fix regression in handling PtP links
o RPKI: Handle connection resets properly
o Static: Reject invalid combination of options
o Fix builds with limited set of protocols
Version 2.15 (2024-03-10)
o BGP: Send hold timer
o BGP: New options to specify required BGP capabilities
o BFD: Improvements to 'show bfd sessions' command
o RPKI: New 'local address' configuration option
o Linux: Support for more route attributes, including
TCP congestion control algorithm
o Support for UDP logging
o Static routes can have both nexthop and interface specified
o Completion of command options in BIRD client
o Many bugfixes and improvements
Version 2.14 (2023-10-06)
o MPLS subsystem
o L3VPN: BGP/MPLS VPNs (RFC 4364)
o BGP: Access to unknown route attributes
o RAdv: Custom options
o Babel: RTT metric extension
o BMP: Refactored route monitoring
o BMP: Multiple instances of BMP protocol
o BMP: Both pre-policy and post-policy monitoring
o Experimental route aggregation
o Filter: Method framework
o Filter: Functions have return type statements
o Filter: New bytestring data type
o Kernel: Option to learn kernel routes
o Many bugfixes and improvements
Notes:
User-defined filter functions that return values now should have return type
statements. We still accept functions without such statement, if they could be
properly typed.
For loops allowed to use both existing iterator variables or ones defined in
the for statement. We no longer support the first case, all iterator variables
must be defined in the for statement (e.g. 'for int i in bgp_path ...').
Due to oversight, VRF interfaces were not included in respective VRFs, this is
fixed now.
Version 2.13.1 (2023-06-23)
o BGP: Fix role check when no capability option is present
o Filter: Fixed segfault when a case option had an empty block
This is a bugfix version.
Version 2.13 (2023-04-21)
o Babel: IPv4 via IPv6 extension (RFC 9229)
o Babel: Improve authentication on lossy networks
o BGP: New 'allow bgp_med' option
o BSD: Support for IPv4 routes with IPv6 nexthop on FreeBSD
o Experimental BMP protocol implementation
o Important bugfixes
Notes:
We changed versioning scheme from <epoch>.<major>.<minor> to more common
<major>.<minor>.<patch> . From now on, you may expect that BIRD 2.13.x will be
strictly only fixing bugs found in 2.13, whereas BIRD 2.14 will also contain
new features.
This BIRD version contains an alpha release of BMP protocol implementation.
It is not ready for production usage and therefore it is not compiled by
default and have to be enabled during installation.
Version 2.0.12 (2023-01-23)
o Filter: New 'onlink' route attribute
o Compile-time option to use 4-way tries instead of 16-way ones
o BSD: Support for kernel route metric and other improvements
o Important bugfixes
Version 2.0.11 (2022-11-12)
o BGP roles (RFC 9234)
o BGP: Keepalive time scaling
o BGP: New 'min hold time' and 'min keepalive time' options
o BGP: New 'next hop prefer global' option
o Filter: For loops and direct recursion
o Filter: Mixed declarations of local variables
o Filter: Improved static type checks
o Filter: Literal [] for empty set
o Linux: Netlink KRT improvements
o BSD: Experimental support for Netlink API
o Memory management improvements
o Many bugfixes
Notes:
In contrast to prior versions, configured keepalive time in BGP now scales
with negotiated hold time to maintain proportion between the keepalive time
and the hold time.
The Linux KRT was updated to use the recent API for IPv6 ECMP routes instead
of the legacy one. Consequently, the Linux versions older than 4.11 are no
longer supported, at least for IPv6 ECMP routes. Also, routing table scanning
now runs separately for each table to avoid congestion.
There is a minor change in recursive next hop processing. Previously,
recursive next hop must be resolved through a non-recursive route, now it must
be resolved through a prefix where both the best route and all routes with the
same preference (as the best route) are non-recursive. The old behavior might
lead in some corner cases to an infinite loop of recursive next hop resolution
due to a priority inversion.
There is a minor change in the 'configure undo' command, it is no longer
available after failed reconfiguration, as the old configuration is already
released.
Version 2.0.10 (2022-06-16)
o BGP performance improvements
o BFD: New 'strict bind' option
o RPKI: VRF support
o Allow use of 240.0.0.0/4 as a private range
o BIRD client uses exit status to report errors
o Important bugfixes
Version 2.0.9 (2022-02-09)
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.
Version 2.0.8 (2021-03-18)
o Automatic channel reloads based on RPKI changes
o Multiple static routes with the same network
o Use bitmaps to keep track of exported routes
o Per-channel debug flags
o CLI commands show info from multiple protocols
o Linux: IPv4 routes with IPv6 nexthops
o Filter: Optimized redesign of prefix sets
o Filter: Improved type checking of user filters
o Filter: New src/dst accessors for Flowspec and SADR
o Filter: New 'weight' route attribute
o Filter: BGP path mask loop operator
o Filter: Remove quitbird command
o RIP: Demand circuit support (RFC 2091)
o BGP: New 'allow as sets' and 'enforce first as' options
o BGP: Support for BGP hostname capability
o BGP: Support for MD5SIG with dynamic BGP
o BFD: Optional separation of IPv4 / IPv6 BFD instances
o BFD: Per-peer session options
o RPKI: Allow build without libSSH
o RPKI: New 'ignore max length' option
o OSPF: Redesign of handling of unnumbered PtPs
o OSPF: Allow key id 0 in authentication
o Babel: Use onlink flag for routes with unreachable next hop
o Many bugfixes
Notes:
Automatic channel reloads based on RPKI changes are enabled by default,
but require import table enabled when used in BGP import filter.
BIRD now uses bitmaps to keep track of exported routes instead of
re-evaluation of export filters. That should improve speed and accuracy in
route export handling during reconfiguration, but takes some more memory.
Per-channel debug logging and some CLI commands (like 'show ospf neighbors')
defaulting to all protocol instances lead to some minor changes in log and
CLI output. Caution is recommended when logs or CLI output are monitored by
scripts.
Version 2.0.7 (2019-10-11)
o BGP: Accumulated IGP metric (RFC 7311)
o Important filter reconfiguration bugfix
o Several other bugfixes
Version 2.0.6 (2019-09-10)
o RAdv: Solicited unicast RAs
o BGP: Optional Adj-RIB-Out
o BGP: Extended optional parameters length
o Filter: Sets and set expressions in path masks
o Several important bugfixes
Version 2.0.5 (2019-08-01)
o OSPF Graceful restart (RFC 3623, RFC 5187)
o BGP: Dynamic BGP
o BGP: Promiscuous ASN mode
o BGP: Mandatory option for channels
o BFD: Support for VRFs
o Graceful restart command
o Redesigned filtering code
o Many bugfixes
Notes:
Previous version introduced an error in handling of OSPF NSSA-LSA, causing
compatibility issues with proper implementations. The error is fixed in this
version, therefore there are compatibility issues in OSPF NSSA areas between
this and previous version.
Version 2.0.4 (2019-02-27)
o OSPF: Opaque LSAs (RFC 5250)
o OSPF: DN-bit handling (RFC 4576)
o Preferred route counters are back
o Important BGP bugfix
o Several bugfixes related to route propagation
o some minor bugfixes
Version 2.0.3 (2019-01-05)
o MRT table dumps (RFC 6396)
o BGP Long-lived graceful restart
o BGP: Optional import table (Adj-RIB-In)
o BGP: Extend 'next hop keep' and 'next hop self' options
o BGP: Improved VRF support
o OSPF: Authentication trailer for OSPFv3 (RFC 7166)
o Babel: New option to randomize router ID
o Filter: Custom route attributes
o Filter: Support for src accessor to SADR source prefix
o Filter: Support for VPN_RD sets
o Filter: Make ifname attribute modifiable
o Perf: Protocol to measure BIRD performance internally
o More verbose error messages in config processing
o Log file size limit / log rotation
o Many bugfixes
Notes:
Export of routes to RS EBGP (route server) sessions from other sources than
RS EBGP sessions was changed that ASN is no longer prepended to BGP_PATH in
that case. The change does not affect regular BGP configurations or regular
route servers that have only RS EBGP peers.
For BGP route servers and route reflectors, the default value of option
'next hop keep' was changed to a more appropriate value.
Attributes for OSPF and Babel metrics are no longer reset when exported to
these protocols and could be set anywhere in BIRD. As a result, OSPF metric is
kept when a route is reannounced between OSPF instances. Also, when route is
exported to OSPF with both ospf_metric1 and ospf_metric2 attributes it is now
propagated as OSPF-E2 route instead of as OSPF-E1 route.
Compiling BIRD with --enable-debug no longer automatically activates debug
mode (-d option) nor local mode (-l option). Also, debug mode with output to
file (-D option) no longer not forces foreground mode (-f option).
The configure script now uses standard option --runstatedir, the old option
--with-runtimedir is deprecated.
Version 2.0.2 (2018-03-22)
o Source-specific routing support for Linux kernel and Babel
o BGP: New option 'disable after cease'
o Filter: Allow silent filter execution
o Filter: Fixed stack overflow in BGP mask expressions.
o Several bugfixes
Notes:
Syntax prefix:netmask for IPv4 prefixes was dropped. Just use prefix/pxlen.
Version 2.0.1 (2018-01-16)
o Linux MPLS kernel support
o Better handling of channels inherited from templates
o Default EBGP Route Propagation Behavior without Policies (RFC 8212)
o Many bugfixes
Notes:
To satisfy requirements of RFC 8212, external BGP protocols now require
explicit configuration of import and export policies.
Version 2.0.0 (2017-12-11)
o Integrated IPv4 + IPv6 design
o Support for MPLS next hops
o Support for VPNv4 and VPNv6 networks
o Microsecond timers infrastructure
o Basic VRF support
o Babel: Support for dual-stack IPv4/IPv6
o Babel: Many improvements and bugfixes
o Major BGP protocol redesign
o Full support for Multiprotocol BGP
o BGP multicast support (SAFI 2)
o BGP flowspec support (RFC 5575)
o BGP with MPLS labels (RFC 3107)
o BGP MPLS/VPN support (RFC 4364)
o BGP 6PE - IPv6 NLRI over IPv4 MPLS (RFC 4798)
o BGP IPv4 NLRI with an IPv6 Next Hop (RFC 5549)
o BGP Confederations (RFC 5065)
o BGP Shutdown communication (RFC 8203)
o BGP: Allow exchanging LOCAL_PREF with eBGP peers
o BGP: Allow to specify interface for regular sessions
o OSPF: Support of address families in OSPFv3
o OSPF: Enable ECMP and Link detection by default
o RAdv: Support for more specific routes (RFC 4191)
o RAdv: Proper handling of prefix retraction
o RIP: Enable ECMP and Link detection by default
o Redesign of RPKI handling
o New RPKI-Router protocol
o Static: Minor overhaul
o Static: Support for all new route types
o Kenrel: Default Linux kernel metric changed to 32
o Kernel: Fix IPv6 ECMP handling with Linux 4.11+
o Update of show route command
o BIRD client persistent history
o New build system
o Unit tests
o ...
Notes:
Tables are now defined with appropriate net type keyword. Protocols and tables
are now connected by explicit channels, most related protocol options (table,
import, export, ...) are now channel options. See doc/bird.conf.example2 for
configuration examples. Some options were removed/replaced.
Version 1.6.3 (2016-12-21)
o Large BGP communities
o BFD authentication (MD5, SHA1)
o SHA1 and SHA2 authentication for RIP and OSPF
o Improved documentation
o Several bug fixes
Version 1.6.2 (2016-09-29)
o Fixes serious bug introduced in the previous version
Version 1.6.1 (2016-09-22)
o Support for IPv6 ECMP
o Better handling of IPv6 tentative addresses
o Several updates and fixes in Babel protocol
o Filter: New !~ operator
o Filter: ASN ranges in bgpmask
o KRT: New kernel protocol option 'metric'
o KRT: New route attribute 'krt_scope'
o Improved BIRD help messages
o Fixes memory leak in BGP multipath
o Fixes handling of empty path segments in BGP AS_PATH
o Several bug fixes
Version 1.6.0 (2016-04-29)
o Major RIP protocol redesign
o New Babel routing protocol
o BGP multipath support
o KRT: Add support for plenty of kernel route metrics
o KRT: Allow more than 256 routing tables
o Static: Allow to specify attributes for static routes
o Static: Support for BFD controlled static routes
o FreeBSD: Setup password for BGP MD5 authentication
o IO: Remove socket number limit
o Plenty of bug fixes
Upgrade notes:
For RIP, most protocol options were moved to interface blocks.
Version 1.5.0 (2015-04-20)
o Major OSPF protocol redesign.
o OSPFv2 multi-instance extension (RFC 6549).
o BGP AS-wide unique router ID (RFC 6286).
o BGP enhanced route refresh (RFC 7313).
o Link state support in BGP.
o Latency tracking and internal watchdog.
o Uses high port range for BFD on BSD.
o Increase max symbol length to 64.
o Allows to define unnamed protocols from templates.
o Fixes two serious bugs in BGP.
o Several bugfixes and minor improvements.
o Several minor option changes:
- OSPF: Protocol-wide 'instance id' option added.
- BGP: Parameters to option 'neighbor' extended.
- BGP: Separate option 'interface' added.
- BGP: Option 'start delay time' renamed to 'connect delay time'.
- BGP: Option 'route limit' deprecated.
Upgrade notes:
For OSPF, there are deep internal changes, but user-visible changes
are limited to log messages and minor changes in formatting of command
output.
For BGP, version 1.5.0 is essentially a minor release. There are two
deprecated options ('start delay time' and 'route limit') and some
minor formatting changes.
Version 1.4.5 (2014-10-06)
o New 'show route noexport' command option.
o Port option for BGP sessions.
o Better constant handling in set literals.
o Better rate filtering of log messages.
o Several minor bugfixes.
Version 1.4.4 (2014-07-09)
o Extended OSPF multipath support.
o Default router preference for RAdv.
o Significant changes in socket layer.
o Important bugfix in BGP.
o Several minor bugfixes.
Version 1.4.3 (2014-04-14)
o Important bugfix in IPv6 BGP.
Version 1.4.2 (2014-04-02)
o Important bugfix in BFD.
Version 1.4.1 (2014-03-31)
o BGP add-path support (RFC draft).
o BGP graceful restart (RFC 4724).
o OSPF: many changes in socket layer.
o OSPF: support for secondary addresses in BSD.
o OSPF: names for vlink pseudointerfaces (vlinkX).
o Several bugfixes.
Version 1.4.0 (2013-11-25)
o BFD protocol (RFC 5880).
o BFD support for OSPF and BGP.
o New 'allow local as' option for BGP.
o Filters allows setting gw, ifname and ifindex.
o Filter operator 'delete/filter' extended to bgp_paths.
o Filter operator 'len' extended to [e]clists.
o BIRD client now allows shorthands for noninteractive commands.
o Flag -P for PID file support.
o Flag -f added to force BIRD to run in foreground.
o Protocol export/import/receive limits are checked during reconfiguration.
o Several bugfixes and minor improvements.
o Several minor but incompatible changes:
- IBGP is multihop by default.
- Changes primary address selection on BSD to the first one.
- Integers in filters are handled as unsigned.
- ISO 8601 time formats used by default.
- Import of device routes from kernel protocol allowed.
- Last state change now tracks just protocol state change.
- Minor changes to default router ID calculation.
Version 1.3.11 (2013-07-27)
o OSPF stub router option (RFC 3137).
o TTL security for OSPF and RIP.
o Protocol packet priority and traffic class handling.
o Multiple routing tables support for FreeBSD and OpenBSD.
o Extends constants to all filter data types.
o Implements eval command.
o 'bgppath ~ int set' filter operation.
o Several bugfixes.
Version 1.3.10 (2013-04-30)
o Lightweight BIRD client for embedded environments.
o Dynamic IPv6 router advertisements.
o New 'next hop keep' option for BGP.
o Smart default routing table for 'show route export/preexport/protocol'.
o Automatic router ID selection could be configured to use address of loopback.
o Allows configured global addresses of NBMA neighbors in OSPFv3.
o Allows BIRD commands from UNIX shell even in restricted mode.
o Route limits inherited from templates can be disabled.
o Symbol names enclosed by apostrophes can contain dots.
o Several bugfixes.
Version 1.3.9 (2013-01-11)
o BIRD can be configured to keep and show filtered routes.
o Separate receive and import limits.
o Several new reconfiguration cmd options (undo, timeout, check).
o Configurable automatic router ID selection.
o Dragonfly BSD support.
o Fixed OSPFv3 vlinks.
o Several minor bugfixes.
Version 1.3.8 (2012-08-07)
o Generalized import and export route limits.
o RDNSS and DNSSL support for RAdv.
o Include in config file support wildcards.
o History deduplication in BIRD client.
o New route attributes krt_source, krt_metric.
o Different instance ID support for OSPFv3.
o Real broadcast mode for OSPFv2.
o Several minor bugfixes.
Version 1.3.7 (2012-03-22)
o Route Origin Authorization basics.
o RIPng working again.
o Extended clist operations in filters.
o Fixes several bugs in BSD iface handling.
o Several minor bugfixes and enhancements.
Version 1.3.6 (2012-01-20)
o Important bugfix in BGP.
Version 1.3.5 (2012-01-10)
o Protocol templates.
o Deterministic MED option for BGP.
o Support for link-local addresses in BGP and static protocols.
o Several bugfixes.
Version 1.3.4 (2011-10-10)
o Static recursive routes.
o Several bugfixes.
Version 1.3.3 (2011-09-11)
o OSPF NSSA.
o BGP extended communities.
o BGP TTL security.
o Configuration option "include" added (based on patch from Alexander V. Chernikov).
o Some minor bugfixes.
Version 1.3.2 (2011-07-08)
o Allows run with restricted privileges.
o Community list filter operation.
o Fixes several problems in filter syntax:
- Fixes several conflicts in the grammar.
- Fixes a bug in (a..b, c) pair patterns.
- Makes pair patterns orthogonal.
- Allows term expressions in pair patterns without additional ( ).
- Allows several comma separated values in switch cases.
o Many bugfixes.
Version 1.3.1 (2011-05-02)
o Added Linux kernel route attributes krt_prefsrc and krt_realm.
o Added BGP option 'med metric' related to MED handling.
o Allows to use constants from /etc/iproute2/rt_* files.
o Several bugfixes.
Version 1.3.0 (2011-03-31)
o Proper iBGP (can be used with IGP).
o Multipath support (OSPF and static).
o L2 link state detection.
o IPv6 router advertisements.
o Much improved OSPF reconfiguration.
o Point-to-MultiPoint interfaces (OSPF).
o Minor changes and improvements in config file grammar.
o Better community list matching.
o Changes default behavior of BGP IPv6 socket to v6only.
Use 'listen bgp dual' for the old behavior.
o Changes default for handling missing link-local addresses on
route servers. Use 'missing lladdr drop' for the old behavior.
o Important bugfix for OSPF.
o Several minor bugfixes.
Version 1.2.5 (2010-10-10)
o Several mostly minor bugfixes.
Version 1.2.4 (2010-08-03)
o Added 'show memory' command.
o Important bugfix in IPv6 BGP.
o Several minor bugfixes.
Version 1.2.3 (2010-06-01)
o Pattern matching for community lists.
o Many fixes in OSPF protocol (esp. in multi-areas and vlinks).
o Several minor bugfixes.
Version 1.2.2 (2010-04-10)
o Much better BSD kernel support (IPv6, alien routes, ...).
o Deep OSPF socket changes, fixes OSPFv2/v3 behavior on BSD.
o OSPFv2 in Linux now supports more non-stub IP prefixes
on one physical iface.
o Export of device routes to the kernel is more restricted.
o Routes with strange scope not allowed in BIRD routing tables.
o New filterable route attributes bgp_originator_id,
bgp_cluster_list and ospf_router_id.
o Restricted read-only CLI (option -r).
o Pattern matching for 'show protocols' command.
o BGP protocol details in 'show protocols all' command.
o Configurable syslog name (and default on IPv6 changed).
o Statistic counters for pipes were fixed.
o Many bugfixes in BGP, OSPF, filters, ...
Version 1.2.1 (2010-02-11)
o Option 'interpret communities' allows to override implicit handling
of well-known communities.
o 'configure' command uses route reload when filters change.
o Adds router ID of advertising router as OSPF route attribute.
o 'show route' command indicates primary route and shows OSPF Router ID.
o Configurable date/time formats.
o Symbol names can be enclosed by '' and so include hyphen and start with number.
o Several minor bugfixes.
Version 1.2.0 (2010-01-05)
o Implements OSPFv3 (IPv6 support for OSPF). Because the code is
shared with OSPFv2 and there were deep changes in it, we suggest
caution during upgrade to OSPF users. Some advanced features
(like NSSA, vlinks and authentication) are not yet implemented.
o Implements MRTdump - binary logging protocol compatible with other
routing daemons. Only BGP part of MRTdump is yet implemented.
o Changes default value of BGP attribute LOCAL_PREF from 0 to 100.
Use 'default bgp_local_pref 0' BGP protocol option for the old
behavior. The new value is suggested by RFC 4277.
o Changes default mode of pipes from opaque to transparent.
Use 'mode opaque' protocol option if the old behavior is needed.
Opaque pipe mode is deprecated and might be removed in the future.
Version 1.1.7 (2009-12-20)
o Implements BGP Route Refresh (RFC 2918).
o Implements route reload command.
o Deep changes and bugfixes in pipe protocol.
o Bugfix in OSPF premature aging of LSA.
o Bugfix in OSPF next hop calculation.
o Bugfix in core related to route withdraws.
o Several minor bugfixes.
Version 1.1.6 (2009-11-19)
o Implements RFC 5004 - prefer older external routes.
o There is a change how route servers handle missing IPv6 link
local addresses in next hop atribute - see 'missing lladdr'
option.
o Several minor features (description field, parse check option).
o Several minor bugfixes.
Version 1.1.5 (2009-10-29)
o Better scalability of BGP.
o New accessors for AS path - first and last.
o Allows to set protocol-specific router ID.
o Allows import kernel 'onlink' routes.
o Endianity check in buildsystem changed.
Version 1.1.4 (2009-10-02)
o BGP passive option.
o Several minor bugfixes.
Version 1.1.3 (2009-09-11)
o Bugfix in core
o Bugfix in BGP related to AS2->AS4 conversion.
Version 1.1.2 (2009-08-23)
o Allow more kernel routing tables in IPv6.
o Bugfix in core
Version 1.1.1 (2009-08-14)
o 'more' style paging in BIRD client.
o Important core bug fixed.
o Portability to non-x86 related bugfixes.
o As usual, miscellaneous bugfixes.
Version 1.1.0 (2009-06-28)
o Parametrized pair and path mask expressions in the filter language.
o Transparent pipe mode allows to implement BGP route server with
independent route policy for each peer.
o Kernel route table synchronization does not allow overwriting
of alien routes.
o Configurable BGP import route limits.
o During BGP error delay, incoming connections are rejected.
o BGP route statistics.
o Better support for multiple network addresses on OSPF interfaces.
o As usual, miscellaneous bugfixes.
Version 1.0.15 (2009-05-25)
o FreeBSD and NetBSD port renewed. OpenBSD port introduced.
o import/preimport 'show route' modifiers was renamed to export/preexport
for consistency with filters.
o Minor change in the grammar of 'interface' config option.
o Many bugfixes in IPv6 BGP.
o As usual, miscellaneous bugfixes.
Version 1.0.14 (2009-04-28)
o A lot of bugfixes in BGP, OSPF and core.
o A bugfix in filters in the pipe protocol. It is recommended to
check whether the new behavior of used pipe filters is consistent
with expectations.
o Reimplementation of prefix sets and a slight change in the meaning
of some prefix set patterns.
Version 1.0.13 (2009-03-14)
o A lot of bugfixes in BGP, OSPF and core
o A new syntax for BGP masks
Version 1.0.12 (2008-11-12)
o new BGP features: BGP MD5, ASN32, BGP route reflector
o BGP bugfixes
...
Version 1.0.9 (2004-07-15)
o Minor bugfix in RIP
o A lot of OSPF code rewritten, OSPF supports multiple areas,
virtual links, MD5 authentication. It is fully compatible
with rfc2329.
Version 1.0.8 (2004-06-07)
o A lot of bug fixes in RIP, OSPF and BGP (thanx to Andreas Steinmetz)
o FreeBSD and NetBSD port introduced
o Complete code clean up
Version 1.0.7 (2003-08-20)
o OSPF bug fixes
Version 1.0.6 (2003-04-06)
o No more byte order problems in RIP authentication. Thanks to
Eric Leblond <eleblond@init-sys.com> for a patch.
o Fixed interoperability problems with Cisco and Zebra when talking
IPv6 BGP.
o Handle more primary addresses with different scopes gracefully.
IPv6 needs that.
o Comparison of prefixes in filters doesn't ignore their lengts.
o As usually, OSPF bug fixes.
o Documentation building tools now work with recent linuxdoc-tools.
Version 1.0.5 (2001-06-09)
o Minor cleanups in the libraries.
o Removed a couple of warnings when compiling with newer glibc.
o OSPF bug fixes.
Version 1.0.4 (2000-09-04)
o Fixed a serious bug in 1.0.3.
Version 1.0.3 (2000-09-03)
o OSPF works better on NBMA networks. Some configuration tags added.
Version 1.0.2 (2000-08-24)
o Minor bug fixes to OSPF.
Version 1.0.1 (2000-06-22)
o Updated documentation and fixed a couple of bugs.
Version 1.0.0 (2000-06-09)
o First stable release.
Version 0.0.0 (2000-05-13)
o First public development release.
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