Bird 3 Status

[Douglas Fischer]

Yep!
A couple words to cheer us here far from the front.

I am especially interested in the "half-funny stories".
haha

Em ter., 22 de out. de 2024 às 14:48, Maria Matejka <maria.matejka at nic.cz>
escreveu:

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


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Douglas Fernando Fischer
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