BIRD 1 - End Of Life: Dec 31, 2023

Pim van Pelt pim at ipng.nl
Tue Apr 25 13:36:06 CEST 2023


Hi Tijn

You can also run two bird2 instances, one per address family.

Pim

On Tue, 25 Apr 2023 at 12:34, Cybertinus <bird at cybertinus.nl> wrote:

> Hello Ondrej,
>
> I'm still running Bird 1.6.8, because then I have at least 2 threads
> instead of 1 thread in Bird 2. My plan was to go straight from Bird 1.6
> to Bird 3.0 when it is released. Is there any chance that Bird 3.0 will
> be released before the end of this year? Or do I need to update my plans
> and really start the migration to Bird 2 in the mean time?
>
> Kind regards,
> Cybertinus
>
> On 25-04-2023 11:27, Ondrej Filip wrote:
> > Dear BIRD users and friends,
> >
> > BIRD 2 has been here since 2017. The joint daemon of IPv6 and legacy IP
> > quickly become stable and its last version is 2.13 just couple days
> > old.
> >
> > Last version of BIRD 1 was 1.6.8 released in September 2019. We have
> > already declared that we wouldn't release any other version of legacy
> > BIRD 1 unless a serious security bug is found. It's time to say that
> > BIRD 1 is reaching its end of life at the end of the year 2023.
> >
> > Please upgrade to BIRD 2 if you're still running BIRD 1. If you are
> > waiting for BIRD 3, you can stay assured that upgrade from BIRD 2 to
> > BIRD 3 will be smooth.
> >
> > Thank you for your ongoing support and understanding
> >
> >       Ondrej & BIRD team
>
-- 
Pim van Pelt <pim at ipng.nl>
PBVP1-RIPE - http://www.ipng.nl/
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