New release 1.3.6!

Mikhail A. Grishin magr at ripn.net
Mon Jan 23 10:38:44 CET 2012


Hi,

Ondrej Filip wrote, 23.01.2012 13:27:
> On 23.1.2012 09:57, Giuseppe Ravasio wrote:
>> Hi,
>> I think that many of us are intrested in how much is serious this BGP
>> issue...
>> I need to upgrade bird as soon as possible or I need to update *now* ?
>> :-)
>
> Giuseppe and Stefan,
> The issue was reported by Mikhail on January 20. So check the issue,
> Santiagu send a patch that is basically th eonly change in the new
> release.

I wrote that mail without bird-users list (because there was full 
configs). So probably Giuseppe and Stefan missed that mail thread.

>
> New deterministic MED feature broke the best route selection mechanism
> in BGP protocol. So your routing may become suboptimal or broken.
>
> So I recommend to upgrade no later than ASAP. :-)
>
> 			Ondrej

Another one answer: If you're using version below 1.3.5, and you don't 
have deterministic MED feature in source code, then you can wait.

>
>
>>
>> Thanks
>> Giuseppe
>>
>> On 01/20/2012 06:07 PM, Ondrej Filip wrote:
>>> Hi!
>>> A new version is ready!
>>>
>>> Changes:
>>> Version 1.3.6
>>>     o Important bugfix in BGP.
>>>
>>>
>




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