BIRD version 2.0.9

[Ross Tajvar]

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 <feela at 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.
>
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