Bird 3 Status

[Maria Matejka]

Hello Douglas,

we are working hard on fixing BMP (both in v2 and v3, there are quite some half-funny stories which we may share later) and regarding BIRD 3, there are several bugs like filter action restart doing weird things or show route export not working sometimes.

After this gets fixed, and judging by the state of BMP, I'm expecting to push out another alpha in a month or so, with a message like "now we consider this stable, please check".

Is this info what you were looking for?

Maria


On 22 October 2024 10:32:17 GMT-04:00, Douglas Fischer <fischerdouglas at gmail.com> wrote:
>Hello everyone!
>
>I've been reading a lot of references to Bird 3 over the last few days.
>
>And that made me want to ask if there's any news about Bird 3.
>
>Anything you can share?
>Any test scenarios that are exciting?
>
>Em qui., 18 de abr. de 2024 às 12:10, Maria Matejka via Bird-users <
>bird-users at network.cz> escreveu:
>
>> Hello Marcelo,
>>
>> On Thu, Apr 18, 2024 at 09:40:52AM -0300, Marcelo Balbinot wrote:
>>
>> Could you give us a brief update on the status of version 3 ?
>>
>> We found some grave bugs in BGP export implementation (which had to be
>> rewritten to support asynchronous Adj-RIP-Out / export table dumps) so
>> basically it’s delayed by this.
>>
>> We also did some refactoring, and partially, we had to include the new
>> features from version 2 which also slowed the process.
>>
>> Do you have any expected dates for a new release !?
>>
>> For the next release? As soon as we fix the BGP export table, there should
>> be 3.0alpha3.
>>
>> For stable? Well, we’re postponing it a lot, last estimation for stable
>> version was December 2023 and as you can see, we aren’t there yet.
>>
>> The problems which we’re fixing generally don’t manifest when running BIRD
>> on light loads, but in some corner cases and with high loads, it either
>> behaves weirdly or crashes. And we want long-term stability, not that you
>> have to restart your routing layer every other day.
>>
>> Hoping that this helps you at least a bit.
>>
>> Have a nice day!
>>
>> Maria
>>
>> – Maria Matejka (she/her) | BIRD Team Leader | CZ.NIC, z.s.p.o.
>>
>
>
>-- 
>Douglas Fernando Fischer
>Engº de Controle e Automação

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Maria Matejka (she/her) | BIRD Team Leader | CZ.NIC, z.s.p.o.
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