BMP in 2.18.1

David Petera david.petera at nic.cz
Mon Apr 6 13:27:41 CEST 2026


Hii,

sorry, you are right.

We have updated our build infrastructure for cross-builds and forgot to 
apply a patch for that to our stable branches.

Will rebuild and update the packages during this week.

Thanks for letting us know and happy routing,
David

David Petera (he/him) | BIRD Tech Support | CZ.NIC, z.s.p.o.

On 4/3/26 15:53, Srdjan Markovic via Bird-users wrote:
> Hi!
>
> Bird2 fails to start after upgrade to 2.18.1 with the following error 
> message:
> /etc/bird/bird.conf.d/bird-pmacctd.conf:1:10 syntax error, unexpected 
> CF_SYM_UNDEFINED
>
> Content of the file is:
> protocol bmp pmacctd {
>   station address ip 127.0.0.1 port 17917;
>   monitoring rib in pre_policy;
>   monitoring rib in post_policy;
>   tx buffer limit 64;
> }
>
> Downgrading back to 2.18 (apt-get install bird2=2.18-cznic.1~trixie), 
> without touching the config, lets bird2 start again.
>
> I can't find the build log in Gitlab to check if the configure option 
> was omitted, nor anything in the NEWS file.
>
> Kind regards,
> Srdjan


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