BIRD 3.2.0 and 2.18 released

[Nico Schottelius]

Good morning Maria,

that is amazing news, especially the inclusion of bgp dynamic peering
is something I've been looking for for a long time.

In regards to packaging, as soon as the updated bird lands in Alpine
Linux, I will rebuild ungleich/bird. If I have some spare time I might
also write a small script allowing for building a container from the
bird source code directly - Maria ping me offlist in case you are
interested/ready for building containers on your side, I'd then align
the script with your CI capabilities.

BR,

Nico

Maria Matejka via Bird-users <bird-users at network.cz> writes:

> Dear BIRD users,
>
> we are releasing BIRD versions 3.2.0 and 2.18.
>
> We have implemented BGP dynamic onlink/unnumbered and link-local connection scenarios and fixed various behavior bugs in
> reconfiguration. Also, AS Sets in AS Paths are now considered malformed by default.
>
> For BIRD 3.2.0, we have split back the igp_metric attribute so that now you may find also local_metric where applicable. There was
> a confusion in BIRD 3.0 and 3.1 arising from two distinct attributes in BIRD 2 named the same in the code, and me not understanding
> what Santiago was telling me about that. More on that in updated 3.2 documentation.
>
> We have done various minor updates, e.g. flags in RAdv (both versions), fixed a RIP non-determinism (v3) and additional CLI
> configuration bugs.
>
> There have been some more core reworks, removing some more performance chokepoints.
>
> Both versions also include all relevant fixes applied for 3.1.5 and 2.17.3.
>
> Considering unfinished work, we also have several Babel patches pending which we failed again to review in time to merge into 2.18.
> We’ll do them as soon as possible. Also, in BIRD 3.x, the “show route for” displays all covering routes instead of just the longest prefix
> match. We’re working on a fix but it’s quite a can of worms.
>
> Officially supported versions are now:
>
> * 3.2.0 and 2.18 until 6 months after 3.3.0 and 2.19 get released
> * LTS 3.1.x and 2.17.x, expected to track Debian Trixie
>
> The DEB packages in pkg.labs.nic.cz are already there, and RPMs will come soon. Please note that the upstream DEBs weren’t built
> directly from the tagged commit but from the release-v2.18 and release-v3.2 branch because of our current CI limitations. We’ll fix
> that for later versions.
>
> Happy new year!
> Maria and the BIRD Team
>
> –
> Maria Matejka (she/her) | BIRD Team Leader | CZ.NIC, z.s.p.o.
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