BIRD 3.0.0

[David S.]

Hi Ondrej & All,

Thank you for this fantastic news! Congrats to us All!

Happy Bird-ing 😁



Best regards,
David S.
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On Wed, Dec 18, 2024 at 7:32 PM Jeroen Massar via Bird-users <
bird-users at network.cz> wrote:

> Awesome news, and good timing, will be testing that over xmas :)
>
> Congrats on the release, and take a well deserved rest, bugs and feature
> request will likely come soon :)
>
> Merry routing! Happy peering!
>
>  Jeroen
>
> --
>
> > On 18 Dec 2024, at 13:03, Ondrej Filip <feela at network.cz> wrote:
> >
> > Dear BIRD Users,
> >
> > I know that some of you lost faith, but it's real! We are releasing BIRD
> version 3.0.0. After more than 5 years of sustained development, we came to
> conclusion that it's stable enough to be released. The feature list is the
> same as BIRD 2.16.
> >
> > But this version is multithreaded. By default, it spins one worker
> thread for BGP, BMP, RPKI and Pipe, another one for BFD, and the rest stays
> in the main thread.
> >
> > To enable this, we had to do a huge amount of internal reworks, so the
> table and channel implementation is very much different now. The protocols
> stayed almost the same.
> >
> > There are some minor breaking changes in config and CLI, most notably
> unified route attribute names to the filter variant. We are expecting to
> add a compatibility mode for the CLI. Anyway, it should be possible to
> reuse most of the configs and CLI scriptings from BIRD 2.
> >
> > The memory consumption has gone up significantly. We are still working
> on reducing the memory footprint and the next versions should be better in
> that.
> >
> > There is some documentation about what has changed between BIRD 2 and
> BIRD 3 from the users' perspective in doc/migration-bird3.md. if you find
> anything missing in that file, please send a patch, it would be deeply
> appreciated.
> >
> > We are expecting to keep developing BIRD 2 and BIRD 3 side by side for
> some more time as there are some old branches rooted in BIRD 2. New
> projects and contributions should primarily target BIRD 3 though.
> >
> > Thank you for running BIRD and testing the alpha versions. Your feedback
> and contributions have been instrumental in reaching this milestone. We
> look forward to hearing your experience with BIRD 3.
> >
> > As always, the tarball is available at
> https://bird.network.cz/download/bird-3.0.0.tar.gz and you can also setup
> our BIRD 3 repositories for Debian and Ubuntu:
> https://pkg.labs.nic.cz/doc/?project=bird
> >
> > Let me thank the whole BIRD team and specifically Maria as the team
> leader! Thank you so much guys!
> >
> > Merry routing!
> >
> > On behalf of the BIRD team
> > Ondrej
> >
>
>
>
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