BIRD 3.1.0, 2.17, 3.0.2, 2.16.2 released

[Alexander Zubkov]

Hi,

Not sure how official it is. I know about this documents with something
like roadmap:
https://gitlab.nic.cz/labs/bird/-/blob/master/doc/roadmap.md
https://bird.network.cz/?get_doc&v=20&f=bird-7.html

Regards,
Alexander

On Tue, Apr 8, 2025 at 8:41 PM Douglas Fischer <fischerdouglas at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Sorry, I don't mean to be rude and hijack the thread...
> But I think the best place to ask this is in this thread.
>
> Is MRAI[1] on the Roadmap?
>
> By the way, is there a backlog or roadmap bird team could publicly share?
>
> [1] https://trubka.network.cz/pipermail/bird-users/2020-April/014431.html
>
> Em ter., 8 de abr. de 2025 às 09:55, Ondrej Filip <feela at network.cz>
> escreveu:
>
>> Dear BIRD Users,
>>
>> we have released four versions of BIRD at once; 2.17 and 3.1.0 with
>> new features and 2.16.2 and 3.0.2 fixing bugs in 2.16.1 and 3.0.1,
>> respectively. It may become common in the future to keep certain
>> versions stable with only fixes for some longer time.
>>
>> Specifically, 3.1.0 and 2.17 have already successfully migrated to
>> Debian testing, so these versions may get quite a long chain of
>> updates. In 2.17 and 3.1.0, we added TCP-AO support for BGP on Linux.
>>
>> We haven't found any resource for TCP-AO in any flavor of BSD; if you
>> know of any, please tell us.
>>
>> We also implemented graceful restart timer minima and maxima in BGP,
>> format specification for link-local-only next hops in BGP, to improve
>> compatibility with other routing stacks, and also we merged a new next
>> hop option for IPv4 routes in Babel.
>>
>> In 3.1.0, we also added a compatibility layer for show route outputs,
>> to allow your BIRD 2 automation to work with BIRD 3. Please tell us if
>> you find any significant difference there.
>>
>> In all versions, we fixed several rare crashes in BFD and table
>> removal, and other minor bugs. In 3.1.0 and 3.0.2, we also fixed quite
>> some crashes in route propagation and state machines.
>>
>> Also setting route gateway in 3.x by filters is now fixed.
>>
>> It also looks like that some bugs in 3.1.0 slipped through our release
>> process, most notably failure to build on FreeBSD 13 with Netlink and
>> some strange crash on BGP neighbor flap. We are currently
>> investigating that and we may release 3.1.1 soon. We apologize for for
>> that.
>>
>> Anyway, the packages are as always in our repository at
>> https://pkg.labs.nic.cz/ and on our website at https://bird.network.cz/
>>
>> Have a pleasant spring or autumn, and happy routing!
>> Ondrej and Maria
>>
>
>
> --
> Douglas Fernando Fischer
> Engº de Controle e Automação
>
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