BIRD version 2.0.9

Matt Corallo birdlist at as397444.net
Wed May 4 02:32:01 CEST 2022


Looks like this failed to build on Debian on arm64.

https://buildd.debian.org/status/fetch.php?pkg=bird2&arch=arm64&ver=2.0.9-3&stamp=1649868353&raw=0

To quote:

Error(29): cannot understand prototype: 'const struct f_tree * find_tree(const struct f_tree *t, 
const struct f_val *val) '
     trie.c

On 2/20/22 5:37 AM, Ondrej Filip 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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