Hello BIRD Community! Latest bird-2.0.8 is available from most current downstream distro repos including: * Arch * EPEL/CentOS * Fedora * Gentoo * Manjaro * NixOS * OpenBSD You can use repology to get an overview: https://repology.org/project/bird/versions # Debian Debian is currently in Hard Freeze before 11/Bullseye release and thus updating bird2 package to 2.0.8 is problematic (it lacks autopkgtests): https://release.debian.org/bullseye/freeze_policy.html#hard Current Maintainer of Debian bird2 package Ondřej Surý has agreed to pass the maintenance to me but I don't have access yet. Once I gain it I'll release bird2-2.0.8 in experimental and eventually keep debian/master up-to-date after the freeze ends. The Community is also working on providing Debian backports for Debian stable. Until proper downstream packages are ready, I've prepared upstream packages for Debian 9, 10 and 11 in new bird-latest OBS repos: https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/CZ-NIC:/bird-latest/ However, OBS "Download Package" link is currently missing instructions for Debian for some reason: https://software.opensuse.org//download.html?project=home%3ACZ-NIC%3Abird-la... It's either a bug in OBS or a slow propagation of new repo. I'm trying to resolve this on #opensuse-buildservice but for now you're left to your Debian-fu in enabling these repos. # Ubuntu I've updated BIRD launchpad PPA with upstream bird2-2.0.8 packages for all current Ubuntu releases: https://launchpad.net/~cz.nic-labs/+archive/ubuntu/bird I've tested all of these packages lightly on respective Ubuntu VMs. They installed successfully and bird service started. Ubuntu uses Debian bird packages so once they're updated in Debian, Ubuntu downstream should pick them up. # openSUSE bird-2.0.8 is available from openSUSE Tumbleweed. I've prepared new bird-latest OBS to cover remaining SUSE platforms: https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/home:CZ-NIC:bird-latest/bird Please use "Download Package" link (top right) to enable: https://software.opensuse.org//download.html?project=home%3ACZ-NIC%3Abird-la... # upstream packaging All the upstream packages were created from official 2.0.8 archive using modified downstream sources from Debian and Fedora. Please note that I had to disable -docs subpackages to get working builds on older systems as well as other tweaks like relaxing deps. I've prepared an upstream MR adding packaging in apkg format directly to upstream repo: https://gitlab.nic.cz/labs/bird/-/merge_requests/25 In short it allows building upstream packages directly from upstream sources or from upstream archives(tarballs) or combination of both, see more info in the MR. More work is required for building from sources, but I was able to use apkg to create packages for different .deb/.rpm distros from official upstream archives. Best Regards, Jakub Ružička CZ.NIC packager 📦