Good morning Maria, that is amazing news, especially the inclusion of bgp dynamic peering is something I've been looking for for a long time. In regards to packaging, as soon as the updated bird lands in Alpine Linux, I will rebuild ungleich/bird. If I have some spare time I might also write a small script allowing for building a container from the bird source code directly - Maria ping me offlist in case you are interested/ready for building containers on your side, I'd then align the script with your CI capabilities. BR, Nico Maria Matejka via Bird-users <bird-users@network.cz> writes:
Dear BIRD users,
we are releasing BIRD versions 3.2.0 and 2.18.
We have implemented BGP dynamic onlink/unnumbered and link-local connection scenarios and fixed various behavior bugs in reconfiguration. Also, AS Sets in AS Paths are now considered malformed by default.
For BIRD 3.2.0, we have split back the igp_metric attribute so that now you may find also local_metric where applicable. There was a confusion in BIRD 3.0 and 3.1 arising from two distinct attributes in BIRD 2 named the same in the code, and me not understanding what Santiago was telling me about that. More on that in updated 3.2 documentation.
We have done various minor updates, e.g. flags in RAdv (both versions), fixed a RIP non-determinism (v3) and additional CLI configuration bugs.
There have been some more core reworks, removing some more performance chokepoints.
Both versions also include all relevant fixes applied for 3.1.5 and 2.17.3.
Considering unfinished work, we also have several Babel patches pending which we failed again to review in time to merge into 2.18. We’ll do them as soon as possible. Also, in BIRD 3.x, the “show route for” displays all covering routes instead of just the longest prefix match. We’re working on a fix but it’s quite a can of worms.
Officially supported versions are now:
* 3.2.0 and 2.18 until 6 months after 3.3.0 and 2.19 get released * LTS 3.1.x and 2.17.x, expected to track Debian Trixie
The DEB packages in pkg.labs.nic.cz are already there, and RPMs will come soon. Please note that the upstream DEBs weren’t built directly from the tagged commit but from the release-v2.18 and release-v3.2 branch because of our current CI limitations. We’ll fix that for later versions.
Happy new year! Maria and the BIRD Team
– Maria Matejka (she/her) | BIRD Team Leader | CZ.NIC, z.s.p.o.
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