New release 1.4.0

[Alexander V. Chernikov]

On 25.11.2013 18:34, Ondrej Filip wrote:
> Hi Bird users,
> a premature Christmas gift is here. We have a new version of your
> popular routing daemon. Since this version could potentially break
> some of you current installation and since it adds a new protocol -
> BFD, this version has number 1.4.0. The branch 1.4.0 is meant to be
> stable for production environment.
>
> 			Ondrej
Great work!

Ondrej, is it possible to make git web interface work again?
It is very useful to be able to track changes via rss (and this 
sometimes helps in seeing release preparations a bit before :))

Thanks.
>
> 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 exp/imp/recv 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.
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