FRR 8.0.1 Release

We are pleased to announce FRR 8.0.1

This release is a bugfix release of FRR 8.0.0 and contains the fixes listed below

• Debian Packaging - https://deb.frrouting.org/
• RPM Packaging - https://rpm.frrouting.org/

Snaps will be available within approx another week; when available they will be published here:

• Snap Packaging - https://snapcraft.io/frr

Additional release build logs, artifacts and package sources can also be found on
the CI system at https://ci1.netdef.org/browse/FRR-FRR80-20/artifact

Changelog

(Numbers behind the fix refer to the Github PR)

bgpd

• #9146 associate correct nexthop when using peer link-local
• #9151 BGP dampening JSON fixes
• #9356 bgp_packet_process_error can access peer after deletion
• #9168 Call bgp_dest_unlock_node() inside bgp_adj_in_remove()
• #9263 Clear capabilities field when resetting a bgp neighbor
• #9171 Do not check for NULL values for vni_hash_cmp()
• #9145 Do not delete peer_af structure when deactivating peer-group from an
  address-family
• #9160 Don't forget bgp_dest_unlock_node for bgp_static_set()
• #9230 Drop double-pointer for bgp_damp_info_free()
• #9152 Drop unnecessary chars for filtered reason
• #9141 Ensure v6 LL address is available before establishing peering
• #9407 Extended community bandwidth fixes
• #9358 Fix bgp routes filtering by [large]community-list
• #9226 Fix crash in "clear ip bgp dampening "
• #9223 fix double free in dampening code (fixes crash in dampening)
• #9245 fix missing damp info free when cleaning bgp path
• #9233 fix missing list add in dampening
• #9501 fix update-source for ipv6
• #9127 Fix rpki spacing to be 1 for indentation
• #9136 Force process networks on VRF creation
• #9170 hash compare functions never receive null values
• #9311 limit the length of opaque data sent to zebra
• #9221 Mark the node as the correct type for bgp ipv6 unicast
• #9142 nht unresolved with global address next-hop
• #9155 prevent routes loop through itself
• #9149 Reflect changes to pfxSnt when using default-originate
• #9257 Set extended msg size only if we advertised and received
  capability
• #9398 Stop prepending peer-as if self-originated and last AS
  configured
• #9161 Unlock bgp_dest for bgp_distance_unset if distance does not
  match
• #9266 Use strict AS4 capability when processing parsing/generating
  pkts
• #9320 per-peer dampening revert

fabricd

• #9132 fix running config

isisd

• #9177 argv fixes
• #9139 fix extra space in the mpls-te config output
• #9147 fix setting of the attached bit
• #9137 fix uninitialized variable when searching for LSP
• #9173 update interface_link_params callback to check for change

lib

• #9172 fix interface configuration after vrf change
• #9425 fix prefix-list duplication check
• #9122 remove vrf-interface config when removing the VRF
• #9415 Scan lib/resolver.c only when c-ares is installed
• #9277 Preserve user-configured VRF on netns deletion

nhrp

• #9279 fix display of nhs command

ospf6d

• #9154 always generate default route for stubs
• #9359 Check the cost only when asbr_present for ECMP routes
• #9119 consistent checksum JSON output
• #9296 fix argument processing in the "area ... range" command
• #9125 fix backlink check
• #9118 fix route-map config changed, not getting applied on all types of
  routes
• #9121 fix "show ipv6 ospf6 neighbor" command
• #9117 Max aged LSAs are not getting deleted from DB
• #9124 redistribute command minor fixes
• #9134 Release last dbdesc packet after router dead interval
• #9123 Drop LSA with bad seqnumber
• #9140 use per-vrf router id instead of one global

ospfd

• #9208 don't exit when VRF socket is not created
• #9421 explicitly exit from the router configuration node
• #9135 fix external lsa handling in opaque capabilities
  enable/disable
• #9423 fix initialization when vrf doesn't exist yet
• #9268 fix "no ip ospf passive" command
• #9153 fix ospfd crash while giving 'clear ip ospf neighbor'
• #9392 ospf redistribute originating LSA internal connected routes
• #9130 show ip ospf route json does not shown metric and tag
• #9433 Summarised External LSA is not flushed in one scenario
• #9173 update interface_link_params callback to check for
  change

pathd

• #9329 a couple of cli/doc fixes
• #9156 don't use localtime
• #9409 fix pcep node-entering commands

pimd

• #9186 fix IGMP VRF handling and PIM RP Prefix-list matching
• #9386 make show ip mroute output consistent
• #9297 memory leak fix and issue fix

ripd

• #9267 fix authentication key length

staticd

• fix bug of Null0 wrongly converted into blackhole in running config
  #9144

tools

• #9131 add mac access-list context to frr-reload.py
• #9138 limit bgp route-maps to direct changes only during reload
• #9133 make frr-reload recognize pbr table range lines as single-line
  contexts

vtysh

• #9183 another take at "enable" in vtysh user mode
• #9128 Handle end/enable commands better when in -u for vtysh
• #9157 fix exit from link-params and pseudowire nodes

zebra

• #9275 bugfix of error quit of zebra, due to no nexthop ACTIVE
• #9387 clean up nhg allocations in error path
• #9169 fix a couple of coverity warnings
• #9150 fix ifp pointer for groups/recursives
• #9174 Fix pseudowires with backup nexthops
• #9351 Prevent memory leak if route is rejected early
• #9278 remove checks for src address existence when using "set src"
• #9129 Remove unrelated info from evpn rmac json output
• #9159 trigger remove all access vlans info for access port
• #9277 Preserve user-configured VRF on netns deletion

build

• #9158 fix LDFLAGS confusion & gcov

doc

• #9270 bump sphinx version to 4.0.2, remove deprecated API, fix developer
  docs not built
• #9276 fix bgp user doc colons
• #9274 Fix code-block display for example shell commands
• #9377 move ospf6 area commands to the appropriate section
• #9406 Replace typo BANDIWDTH to BANDWIDTH

redhat

• #9349 Install frr.conf only if no per daemon config exists

snapcraft

• #9430 Snap update to 18.04 base

FRR 8.0.0 Release

The FRR community is pleased to announce FRR 8.0.

In this release there are over 2200 commits from 91 different authors.

Please note that we expect to release a bugfix point release relatively soon after this release.

• Debian Packaging - https://deb.frrouting.org/
• RPM Packaging - https://rpm.frrouting.org/

Snaps will be delayed by several weeks; when available they will be published here:

• Snap Packaging - https://snapcraft.io/frr

Due to the absence of a suitable libyang2 package for Alpine Linux, Docker builds will also be delayed.

Changelog

Major changes

Behavior

Coming up in the next release:

• Many users are familiar with vtysh's "walk up" behavior. If a command is entered which isn't valid in the current CLI context mode, vtysh will "walk up" to higher, more general contexts and attempt to evaluate the command there. In prior releases, this would happen if the command entered was ambiguous for the current context. This caused more problems than it was worth and so an upcoming release the behavior will be changed so that vtysh will no longer walk up when an ambiguous command is entered. Some users that have configurations which rely on this behavior may notice that their configurations no longer work. This should be a very small minority of users but please keep it in mind if you start seeing weird configuration issues in a future release. It's worth taking some time now to see if you're relying on ambiguous command walkup.

Features

• A new daemon, pathd, has been added. This daemon implements support for segment routing. Documentation is currently lacking, but there are example configurations to look at
  here.

• EVPN Multihoming is now fully supported

• OSPFv3 now supports VRFs

• TI-LFA has been implemented in IS-IS and OSPF

• Zebra now has the ability to dump netlink messages in a human-friendly format

• LDP gained SNMP support

Dependencies

• FRR uses libyang to implement support
  for YANG models and related functionality. In this release we've transitioned
  to libyang2 to provide both better performance and to receive better support
  from future libyang changes. Packaged libyang2 is provided in our Debian and
  RPM repositories.

All daemons

babeld

• Add distribute-list commands
• Fix memory leak in connected route handling

bgpd

• Add support for use of aliases with communities
• Add support of tcp-mss for neighbors
• Add support for EVPN Multihoming
• Add ability to show BGP routes from a particular table version
• Add support for for RFC 8050 (MRT add-path)
• Add SNMP support for MPLS VPN
• Add show bgp summary wide command to show more detailed output on wide
  terminals
• Add ability for peer-groups to have ttl-security hops configured
• Add support for conditional Advertisement
• Add support for RFC 4271 Delay Open Timer
• Add a knob to not advertise until route is installed in fib
• Add BGP-wide configuration for graceful shutdown
• Add support for RFC 8654 extended messages
• Improve RPKI reporting as well as new show commands
• Improve handling of VRF route leaking
• Improve scaling behavior for dynamic neighbors
• Improve LL nexthop tracking to be interface based
• Improve route reachability handling with respect to blackhole routes
• Improve SNMP traps to RFC 4273 notifications
• Improve EVPN routes to use L3 NHG's where applicable
• Improvements to EVPN
• Improvements to update behavior
• Fix various issues with connection resolution
• Fix statistics commands in some situations
• Fix non-determistic locally-originated paths in bestpath selection
• Continue working on transitioning to YANG/Northbound configuration
• Various bug fixes and performance improvements

eigrpd

• Add distribute-list commands
• Ensure received AS number is the same as ours in all situations
• Properly validate TLV lengths in some situations

isisd

• Add ldb-sync functionality
• Add TI-LFA functionality
• Add support for Anycast-SID's
• Add support for classic LFA RFC 5286
• Add show isis fast-reroute summary command
• Add support for Remote LFA RFC 7490
• Fix Attach-bit processing in some scenarios
• Cleanup BFD integration
• Various bug fixes and performance improvements

ldpd

• Add SNMP support
• Support for LDP IGP Synchronization
• Support for RLFA clients
• Various bug fixes and performance improvements

libfrr

• Various bugfixes and performance improvements

nhrpd

• Add nhrp multicast-nflog-group (1-65535) command
• Add configuration options for vici socket path
• Add support for forwarding multicast packets
• Fix handling of MTU
• Fix handling of NAT extension
• Retry IPsec under some conditions

ospfd

• Add OSPF GR helper support
• Add JSON support for various commands
• Add summary-address A.B.C.D/M ... commands
• Add area X nssa suppress-fa command
• Add support for TI-LFA
• Add support for BFD profiles
• Add support for Traffic Engineering database
• Add support for usage of DMPVPN with OSPF
• Add clear ip ospf neighbor commands
• Add YANG support for route-maps
• Improvements to SNMP
• Fixes for type 5 and type 7 LSA handling
• Various bug fixes and performance improvements

ospf6d

• Add support for VRFs
• Add JSON support to a bunch of commands
• Add ability to control maximum paths for routes
• Add show ipv6 ospf6 vrfs command
• Add support for BFD profiles
• Fix to not send hellos on loopbacks
• Cleanup area handling around interfaces
• YANG support for route-maps
• Various bug fixes and performance improvements

ospfclient

• Cleanup trust of user input

pathd

• Add support of SR-TE policy management daemon
• Add optional support for PCEP to pathd
• Integrate PCEP-LIB into FRR

pbrd

• Add set installable nhg command
• Improve interface up/down event handling

pimd

• Add YANG integration
• Add JSON support to various commands
• Add BFD profile support
• Fixes to IGMP conformance
• Fixes to behavior surrounding Prune and Prune-pending
• Various bug fixes and performance improvements

ripngd

• Fix interface wakeup after shutdown

sharpd

• Add ability to use Nexthop Groups
• Add v4 redistribute watching
• Add TED support
• Various bug fixes

staticd

• Fix nexthop handling in some situations
• Forbid blackhole and non-blackhole nexthops in a single route

vrrpd

• printf formatting cleanups

vtysh

• Add a show history command
• Add show memory <daemon> support
• Start deprecation cycle for address-family evpn
• Display version with --help
• Various bug fixes

watchfrr

• Fix some crashes

zebra

• Add JSON support to various commands
• Add Human readable netlink dumps
• Add L2 NHG support
• Add support for LSPs to FPM dataplane
• Add ability for other protocol daemons to install nexthop groups into the kernel
• Add YANG support for route-maps
• Improve scale performance when handling a large number of VRF's
• Improve network namespace handling
• Improve asic-offload handling
• Improve FreeBSD interface and route handling
• Improve handling of neighbors in kernel dataplane plugin
• Improve label manager
• Improve route-map processing
• Improve debug-ability of routes and VRFs
• Improve FPM dataplane plugin
• Improve handling of reachability / nexthop tracking on shutdown interfaces
• Improve EVPN support
• Fix startup handling of set src X
• Various bug fixes and performance improvements

---

Authors:

• Abhinay Ramesh
• Adriano Marto Reis
• Alexander Chernavin
• Ameya Dharkar
• Amold Lad
• Andy Lemin
• Anuradha Karuppiah
• Babis Chalios
• Biswajit Sadhu
• Bo Zhang
• Carlo Galiotto
• Carlos Goncalves
• Chirag Shah
• Christian Hopps
• Christian Poessinger
• Christophe Gouault
• Carles Kishimoto
• David Lamparter
• David Schweizer
• David Teach
• Dewi Morgan
• Donald Sharp
• Donatas Abraitis
• Donnie Savage
• Don Slice
• Duncan Eastoe
• Emanuele Altomare
• Emanuele Bovisio
• Emanuele Di Pascale
• Erik Kooistra
• Fredi Raspall
• Sascha Kattelmann
• Gaurav Goyal
• Yash Ranjan
• G. Paul Ziemba
• Harios Niral
• Hiroki Shirokura
• Igor Ryzhov
• Jafar Al-Gharaibeh
• Javier Garcia
• Joanne Mikkelson
• Joe Maimon
• Karen Schoener
• Kaushik Nath
• Kishore Kunal
• Kuldeep Kashyap
• liuze
• Lou Berger
• Louis Scalbert
• lynne Morrison
• Madhuri Kuruganti
• Mark Stapp
• Martin Buck
• Martin Winter
• Mathias Bøhn Grytemark
• Michael Hohl
• Miroslav Koškár
• Mobashshera Rasool
• Naveen Guggarigoudar
• Neal Shrader
• Nikolay Aleksandrov
• Sai Gomathi
• Olivier Dugeon
• Ondřej Surý
• Pat Ruddy
• Philippe Guibert
• Prerana GB
• Quentin Young
• Rafael Zalamena
• Renato Westphal
• Reuben Dowle
• Rajesh Girada
• Roy Marples
• Rubens Figueiredo
• Runar Borge
• Saravanan K
• Sarita Patra
• Sebastien Merle
• Simon Deziel
• Soman K S
• Stephen Worley
• Sudhanshu Kumar
• Tashana Mehta-Wilson
• Timo Teräs
• Trey Aspelund
• Mahdy Varasteh
• Vishal Dhingra
• Vijay Gupta
• Vincent Bernat
• Vivek Venkatraman
• Wesley Coakley
• Zoran Pericic
• zyxwvu Shi

Overall there have been 4207 files changed, 450802 insertions(+), 123468 deletions(-)

FRR 7.5.1 Release

We are pleased to announce FRR 7.5.1. This is a maintenance release of FRR 7.5 with lots of bug fixes.

Debian Packages - https://deb.frrouting.org/
RPM Packages - https://rpm.frrouting.org/
Snaps - https://snapcraft.io/frr

Changelog

Babel

• Fix connected route leak on change

BFD

• Fix some memory leaks & handling issues
• Fix mishandling of VRFs in some situations when receiving packets
• Fix occasional error in session lookup

BGP

• Fix issues with peers inheriting peer-group properties
• Fix erroneous BMP Peer Down Reason Code in BMP Peer Down message when
  peering fails due to nexthop tracking
• Fix evpn route-map vni filter at origin
• Fix various memory leaks in show commands
• Fix issues with encoding flowspec rules to zebra in some rare circumstances
• Fix issues parsing community and lcommunity values in some circumstances
• Fix handling of aggregator data when the AGG AS is 0
• Fix local routes using non-default distance
• Properly track if the nexthop was updated in some circumstances
• Properly withdraw exported routes when deleting a VRF
• Properly apply route-map for the default-originate command
• Properly handle neighbor peer-group allowas-in config changes
• Cleanup show running when running bgp with -e X values
• Prevent v6 routes with v4 nexthops from being installed
• Prevent attempt to peer peers reachable via blackholes
• Allow peer-groups to configure ttl-security hops
• Allow default-originate to be cleared from a peer group
• Generate statistics for routes in bgp when we have exactly 1 route

EIGRP

• Fix various memory leaks and use of uninitialized data
• Properly set MTU for egress EIGRP packets

ISIS

• Fix various memory leaks and use of uninitialized data
• When last area address is removed, resign if we were the DR

LDP

• Fix various memory leaks and use of uninitialized data

NHRP

• Use onlink routes when prefix == nh
• Shortcut routes are installed with proper nexthop

OSPFv2

• Prevent duplicate packet read in multiple VRF situation
• Fix area removal at interface level
• Restore Point to MultiPoint interface types
• Correctly handle MTU change on startup
• Fix multi-instance initialization sometimes not succeeding
• Fix nssa translate-always not working properly

OSPFv3

• Fix various memory leaks and use of uninitialized data
• Fix Link LSA not updating when router priority is modified
• Fix output from show commands
• Fix intra area remote connected prefixes sometimes not being installed
• Prevent sending hellos on loopback interfaces
• Improve ECMP handling when a sub-path is removed

PBR

• Fix various memory leaks and use of uninitialized data

PIM

• Fix various memory leaks and use of uninitialized data
• Fix (S,G,Rpt) prune received during prune not overriding holdtime

Static routes

• Fix issues with VRF usage on startup in some instances
• Fix tableid being mishandled in some cases

VTYSH

• Disable bracketed paste in readline

WATCHFRR

• Fix various memory leaks and use of uninitialized data

Zebra

• Fix various memory leaks and use of uninitialized data
• Fix routes getting stuck in Queued state when using the FPM
• Always install blackhole routes using kernel routes instead of nexthops
• Improve handling of VRF creation when using network namespaces
• Dissallow resolution to duplicate nexthops that created infinite nexthops
• Allow set src X to work on startup
• Set NUD_NOARP on sticky mac entries in addtion to NTF_STICKY

FRR Library

• Fix various memory leaks
• Fix VRF creation in some instances
• Fix issues handling RPKI when reloading configs
• Fix issues handling route-map configuration

Snapcraft

• Update to using rtrlib 0.7.0
• Fix passthrough path for Libyang 1.x

Docker

• Remove old dependencies from Alpine image

FRR 7.5 Release

We are pleased to announce FRR 7.5. Thank you to all contributors.

Debian Packages - https://deb.frrouting.org/
RPM Packages - https://rpm.frrouting.org/
Snaps - https://snapcraft.io/frr

Changelog

Major Behavior Changes

- As a reminder for those upgrading from older releases, as of FRR 7.4 and beyond:

• RFC 8212 is now enabled by default. BGP will not advertise or use routes unless explicitly configured to do so with an export or import policy.

All daemons

• Minimum libyang version is now 1.0.184

bfdd

• Profile support
• Minimum TTL support

bgpd

• RPKI now has support for VRFs
• Add wide option to route show commands
• Add ability to count filtered prefixes when using maximum-prefix with new force option
• Add ability to show selected bestpath routes for a given neighbor with bestpath-routes option to neighbor show command
• Add ability to specify message when admin downing a session with bgp shutdown message MSG... command
• Add IPv6 support for Flowspec
• Add ability to shut down neighbor if RTT is too high with neighbor <neigh> shutdown rtt command
• Allow update-delay to be applied globally
• Graceful Restart fixes
• Stability and performance fixes
  EVPN
• Beginning of MultiHoming support; stay tuned

isisd

• Add VRF support
• Add support for Anycast-SIDs
• Fix adjacency timer display overflow

ospfd

• Segment Routing support for ECMP
• Prevent crash if transferring config amongst instances
• Various LSA-related fixes

pbrd

• Add JSON support to commands
• Add ability to match on DSCP/ECN fields

pimd

• Add more JSON support to commands
• Add support for MSDP SA forwarding
• (s,g,rpt) ifchannel is now cleared when (*, G) prune is received
• Fix IGMP querier election and IP address mapping
• Fix missing mesh-group commands
• Fix crash when RP is removed

staticd

• Add support for Northbound API

zebra

• Nexthop group support for FPM
• Netlink batching support
• Northbound support for RIB model
• Backup nexthop support
• Allow upper level protocols to request ARP
• Add json output for zebra ES, ES-EVI and access vlan dumps

vtysh

• Speed up output across daemons
• Fix build-time errors for some --enable flags

Northbound / YANG

• Filter and route-map support
• OSPF model definition
• BGP model definition

RPM Packaging

• Moved RPKI to subpackage
• Added SNMP subpackage

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As always there are too many bugfixes to list individually. This release comprises just over 1k commits by the community, with contributons from 70 people.

FRR 7.4 Release

We are pleased to announce FRR 7.4. Thank you to all contributors.

Major additions in this release include:

• Segment Routing support for IS-IS
• BGP Graceful Restart
• BGP link bandwidth extended community support
• Full support for Python 3 (all platforms except Centos 6)

As of this release, we no longer accept patches via our mailing list.

Debian Packages - https://deb.frrouting.org/
RPM Packages - https://rpm.frrouting.org/
Snaps - https://snapcraft.io/frr

Changelog

Major Behavior Changes

• RFC 8212 is now enabled by default. BGP will not advertise or use routes unless explicitly configured to do so with an export or import policy.

All daemons:

• Performance improvements for route-maps

bfdd

• Improve debugging capabilities
• Fixes for VRF support
• Fix tx of garbage stack data in BFD packets
• Fix transmission timer calculation to match RFC 5880

bgpd

• Added additional information to EVPN JSON output
• Added ability to display large communities in default VRF
• Added ability to use add/subtract semantics for local-preference in route-maps
• Added ability to match on IPv4 nexthops in route-maps
• Added log message when router ID collision occurs during session bringup
• Added command to show listener sockets
• Added JSON support for statistics command
• Added statistics command for L2VPN EVPN address family
• Added support for link bandwidth extended community
• Added support for RFC 7607
• Added support for RFC 6286
• Added support for graceful restart
• Added support for SRv6 VPNv4 Prefix SID subtypes 4 and 5
• Added ability to set dampening on address families other than IPv4 unicast
• PfxSnt column in peer display output now reads "(Policy)" when no eBGP policy
  is set
• Number of prefixes sent is now shown when displaying AFI/SAFI information
• Static redistributed routes are no longer suppressed due to martian nexthop
• RFC 8212 is now enabled by default
• Ingress packet queue in peer display now reflects reality instead of a
  hardcoded 0
• Weighted ECMP is now used when multipaths have link bandwidth information
• Allow overriding ORIGIN attribute for aggregate-address
• Improved BFD handling in event of peering failure
• Improved status messages for peers who fail to establish
• Indicate that prefix is malformed if aggregated by AS0 when showing prefix
• Malformed extended and large community attributes are now handled with
  treat-as-withdraw strategy, per RFC 7606
• Ignore aggregator attribute if it is 0.0.0.0, per RFC 7606
• Zero-length cluster list attributes are now handled with treat-as-withdraw
  strategy
• Malformed EVPN Type-5 messages have improved treat-as-withdraw handling
• UPDATE messages with global nexthop set to :: are no longer discarded
• Static default route is no longer withdrawn when configuring default-originate
• Deleting numbered peers now always disables RAs for them
• Fix memory leak when parsing OPEN messages containing multiple oddly
  formatted FQDN capabilities
• Fix memory leak in some EVPN JSON show commands
• Fix handling of Flowspec NLRIs longer than 240 bytes
• Fix various Flowspec issues
• Fix rare crash when asking Zebra to send RA on our behalf
• Fix rare crash when issuing clear
• Fix handling of source instance router-id update when using route leaking
• Fix SNMP & BMP reporting of whether a session just went to Established
• Fix various memory issues

isisd

• Initial segment routing support per
  draft-ietf-isis-segment-routing-extensions-25
• Circuits are no longer destroyed when the underlying interface is deleted
• Support MTUs up to 16k (previous max was 8k)
• Fix issues with reloading hello-interval command

ldpd

• Add support for LDP ordered label distribution
• Ingress packets coming through broken LSP are no longer dropped
• Reloading configs after removing address-family blocks now works
• ACL rule modifications are now respected
• Correct DSCP byte is now set for both sides of LDP peering

nhrpd

• Added MTU and hold time to resolution request CIE, per RFC 2332
• Added JSON support for some commands
• Fix netlink handling for lladdr messages
• Fix integer underflow

ospfd

• Fix incorrect range check on metric values
• Fix UAF upon RX of self-originated LSA
• Fix length checks when validating RX'd LSAs
• Fixes for multi-instance OSPF

ospf6d

• Fix infinite loop when multiple ABRs acting as ASBRs in the same area were
  present

pbrd

• Allow deconfiguring table ranges
• Fix reloading failures around VRF related config
• Improve handling of set and match statements in pbr-map

pimd

• Add rpAddress key to JSON output for PIM rp-info
• Add support for setting IGMP group count watermarks
• Add no ip msdp mesh-group command to remove mesh groups
• JSON output for IGMP groups now lists groups in an array
• Drop JOIN, HELLO and ASSERT messages not destined for all-pim-routers address
• Change all JSON keys for BSM-related output to camelCase
• Fix incorrect BSR election
• Fix various VXLAN issues
• Fix various BSM issues
• Fix various crashes
• Fix various memory leaks

sharpd

• Added ability to install & remove LSPs
• Added ability to spam log messages
• Improve support for modifying route labels

staticd

• Improved debugging capabilities

vrrpd

• Fix several crashes related to deleting in-use VRFs and interfaces

zebra

• Added ability to toggle use of kernel nexthop IDs
• Added ability to set hoplimit for IPv6 RA's
• Added ability to set retransmit timer for IPv6 RA's
• Added support for IPv6 blackhole routes on *BSD
• Nexthop weight is now displayed in JSON output when showing nexthops
• Backup nexthops are now shown when displaying routes
• Hardened ZAPI interface against corrupt messages
• Router Advertisements now contain all IPv6 global interfaces on the egress
  interface, per RFC 4861
• Force reinstallation of EVPN-VXLAN flooding MAC if it is deleted from the
  kernel
• Fix missing weight value when installing V4 routes with V6 nexthops
• Fix various obscure memory leaks
• Fix learned kernel routes with admin distance of 255 not being marked as
  installed
• Fix IRDP checksum calculation
• Fix memory leak related to IPv6 RA's on shutdown
• Fix FPM sequencing issue when sending RMAC
• Fix intermittent 30 second delay when configuring LDP psuedowires

Miscellaneous

• vtysh can now load config files via a new CLI command
• Certain syslog messages related to daemon startup were incorrectly indicated
  as errors; they are now marked as information

Internal improvements

• Reloading performance improved
• Route-maps converted to use Northbound API
• Zebra gained Northbound support for some operational data
• Zebra had some commands converted to Northbound API
• Support for GCC 10

Packaging

Packaging work for this release is ongoing.

FRR Release 7.3.1

Binary Packages are available at
https://deb.frrouting.org (Debian, Ubuntu)
https://rpm.frrouting.org (RedHat, CentOS)

FRR Release 7.3

Binary Packages are available at
https://deb.frrouting.org (Debian, Ubuntu)
https://rpm.frrouting.org (RedHat, CentOS)

FRR Release 7.2.1

We are please to announce FRR Version 7.2.1. This is a maintenance release for 7.2 with many bug fixes.

Binary Packages are available at
https://deb.frrouting.org (Debian, Ubuntu)
https://rpm.frrouting.org (RedHat, CentOS)

Changelog of changes for 7.2.1 over 7.2

• BGPd
  • Fix Addpath issue
  • Do not apply eBGP policy for iBGP peers
  • Show ip and fqdn in json output for show [ip] bgp <route> json
  • Fix large route-distinguisher's format
  • Fix no bgp listen range ... configuration command
  • Autocomplete neighbor for clear bgp
  • Reflect the distance in RIB when it is changed for an arbitrary afi/safi
  • Notify "Peer De-configured" after entering 'no neighbor cmd
  • Fix per afi/safi addpath peer counting
  • Rework BGP dampening to be per AFI/SAFI
  • Do not send next-hop as :: in MP_REACH_NLRI if no link-local exists
  • Override peer's TTL only if peer-group is configured with TTL
  • Remove error message for unkown afi/safi combination
  • Keep the session down if maximum-prefix is reached
• OSPFd
  • Fix BFD down not tearing down OSPF adjacency for point-to-point net
• BFDd
  • Fix multiple VRF handling
  • VRF security improvement
• PIMd
  • Fix rp crash
• NHRPd
  • Make sure no ip nhrp map <something> works as expected
• LDPd
  • Add missing sanity check in the parsing of label messages
• Zebra
  • Use correct state when installing evpn macs
  • Capture dplane plugin flags
• lib
  • Fix interface config when vrf changes
  • Fix Interface Infinite Loop Walk (for special interfaces such as bond)
• snapcraft
  • Fix missing vrrpd daemon
• Others
  • Rename man pages (to avoid conflicts with other packages)
  • Various other fixes for code cleanup and memory leaks

FRR 7.2 Release 🎃

We are pleased to announce FRR 7.2. This is a very big release, with a lot of bugs fixed, new features and even a new protocol daemon. We're also very happy to share that this release has the largest number of individual contributors of any release to date! Big thanks to all contributors.

Major additions in this release include:

• Support for VRRP
• Support for BMP
• Support for PIM-BSM

Update

7.2 Debian packages are now available on the apt repository at https://deb.frrouting.org/.

Important Note

As of this post, we are still working on creating binary packages. Source tarballs can be found at the bottom of this post. This post will be updated when packaging operations are completed. As a reminder, our Debian repository is located at https://deb.frrouting.org/.

Changelog

All daemons:

• -N <namespace> allows specifying a path postfix on the normal FRR config directory. This is helpful when running multiple FRR instances within different network namespaces.
• access-lists now support sequence numbers
• Route-maps now support matching blackhole nexthops: match ip next-hop type blackhole
• Route-maps are now smarter when dependencies change
• New command log-filter WORD adds builtin support for log filtering at the output stage

New daemon: vrrpd

• Adds support for VRRPv2 and VRRPv3

bfdd

• Gained VRF support
• Gained support for Northbound API

bgpd

• aggregate-address gained support for route maps
• show bgp ipv4 unicast command family now shows FQDN for peers, if available
• For route show commands, display the bestpath selection criterion
• New show bgp <afi> <safi> summary failed command to show neighbors that failed to Establish
• clear bgp * command now clears all peers, instead of only IPv6 peers
• Improved JSON output for many commands
• New module adds support for BMP

eigrpd

• SIGHUP now signals a config reload
• Gained support for Northbound API
• Infrastructure changes to allow VRFs

isisd

• Gained BFD support
• Gained Support for circuits with MTUs > 8192

pbrd

• fwmark support as part of match criteria
• CLI commands gained autocomplete support for PBRMAPS
• Improved support for nexthops

pimd

• Gained support for PIM-BSM
• Improved debugging support
• Unusable ECMP paths are now saved in case they become valid in the future
• IGMP queries not originated from directly connected sources are now ignored
• Many new CLI improvements

sharpd

• sharp watch [import|nexthop] now accepts prefixes instead of assuming /32

staticd

• Significantly improved next-hop tracking support

zebra

• Many dataplane-level improvements for routes, neighbor tables and EVPN
• Next-hop tracking CLI is now VRF-aware
• Next-hop tracking show commands have new options to modify output
• Excised some duplicated work in route processing
• Improved debugging facilities
• Gained RMAC and VXLAN support for the FPM interface

Internal improvements

• Library now has RCU primitives and facilities
• Zebra continues to gain support for nexthop groups
• ripd, isisd and ospfd can now be built to use openssl for MD5 crypto operations instead of FRR library functions, if desired
• Builds will now fail by default if libcap is not present, due to severe performance issues when it is missing
• Glue code for Lua support has been updated
• Various improvements for cross compilation

Packaging changes

snapcraft:

• Add fabricd
• Add libyang
• Update rtrlib
• Update rpki

RPM Packages for 7.2:

Attached are some pre-built RPM binary packages.

The packages are all default builds based on the documentation with unmodified
source

Full Package Sources etc are available on the CI system as
artifacts

The packages require libyang and the RPKI packages require the rtrlib
package as well. Both of them are most likely not yet in any RPM repositories,
but can be downloaded from the NetDEF CI System.

• Libyang: https://ci1.netdef.org/browse/LIBYANG-YANGRELEASE/latestSuccessful/artifact
  Libyang is built from Github/libyang

• Rtrlib (for RPKI): https://ci1.netdef.org/browse/RPKI-RTRLIB/latestSuccessful/artifact
  Rtrlib is built from Github/rtrlib

CentOS 6: x86_64

Without RPKI

file	Description
frr-7.2-01.el6.x86_64.rpm	Main FRR Package
frr-debuginfo-7.2-01.el6.x86_64.rpm	FRR Debug Symbols
frr-pythontools-7.2-01.el6.x86_64.rpm	Python Reload tools for integrated config
frr-devel-7.2-01.el6.x86_64.rpm	FRR Development libs
frr-contrib-7.2-01.el6.x86_64.rpm	FRR Doc & Tools Contributions

With RPKI (see note above about RTRLIB requirement)

file	Description
frr-7.2RPKI-01.el6.x86_64.rpm	Main FRR Package
frr-debuginfo-7.2RPKI-01.el6.x86_64.rpm	FRR Debug Symbols
frr-pythontools-7.2RPKI-01.el6.x86_64.rpm	Python Reload tools for integrated config
frr-devel-7.2RPKI-01.el6.x86_64.rpm	FRR Development libs
frr-contrib-7.2RPKI-01.el6.x86_64.rpm	FRR Doc & Tools Contributions

CentOS 7: x86_64

Without RPKI

file	Description
frr-7.2-01.el7.centos.x86_64.rpm	Main FRR Package
frr-debuginfo-7.2-01.el7.centos.x86_64.rpm	FRR Debug Symbols
frr-pythontools-7.2-01.el7.centos.x86_64.rpm	Python Reload tools for integrated config
frr-devel-7.2-01.el7.centos.x86_64.rpm	FRR Development libs
frr-contrib-7.2-01.el7.centos.x86_64.rpm	FRR Doc & Tools Contributions

With RPKI (see note above about RTRLIB requirement)

file	Description
frr-7.2RPKI-01.el7.centos.x86_64.rpm	Main FRR Package
frr-debuginfo-7.2RPKI-01.el7.centos.x86_64.rpm	FRR Debug Symbols
frr-pythontools-7.2RPKI-01.el7.centos.x86_64.rpm	Python Reload tools for integrated config
frr-devel-7.2RPKI-01.el7.centos.x86_64.rpm	FRR Development libs
frr-contrib-7.2RPKI-01.el7.centos.x86_64.rpm	FRR Doc & Tools Contributions

FRR 7.1 Release

For Debian/Ubuntu packages, please refer to https://deb.frrouting.org/.

For RPM packages, please scroll down

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Note: this version is primarily numbered "7.1" due to feedback from users about the major version number increasing too rapidly. It has the same amount of ongoing development as the usual FRR release cycle.

User-visible changes since the 7.0 release:

• there is a new, work-in-progress gRPC northbound configuration interface plugin
• zebra:
  • the table NNN command was removed from zebra since it has been broken for a long time.
  • the dataplane interface modularization and multithreading work is progressing steadily.
  • IPv6 Router Advertisements sent by zebra can now have RFC 8106 DNS options added to them.
• bgpd:
  • EVPN can now be configured in non-default VRFs.
  • RFC 8212 — a default "deny" policy for eBGP sessions — can now be selected.

Aside from these, a huge amount of fixes and ongoing development is happening, as usual.

RPM Packages for 7.1:

Attached are some pre-built RPM binary packages.

The packages are all default builds based on the documentation with unmodified source

Full Package Sources etc are available on the CI system as artifacts

The packages require 'libyang' and the RPKI packages require the 'rtrlib' package as well.
Both of them are most likely not yet in any RPM repositories, but can be downloaded from the
NetDEF CI System.

• Libyang: https://ci1.netdef.org/browse/LIBYANG-YANGRELEASE/latestSuccessful/artifact
  Libyang is built from Github/libyang

• Rtrlib (for RPKI): https://ci1.netdef.org/browse/RPKI-RTRLIB/latestSuccessful/artifact
  Rtrlib is built from Github/rtrlib

• CentOS 6: x86_64

  • without RPKI

  file	Description
  frr-7.1-01.el6.x86_64.rpm	Main FRR Package
  frr-debuginfo-7.1-01.el6.x86_64.rpm	FRR Debug Symbols
  frr-pythontools-7.1-01.el6.x86_64.rpm	Python Reload tools for integrated config
  frr-devel-7.1-01.el6.x86_64.rpm	FRR Development libs
  frr-contrib-7.1-01.el6.x86_64.rpm	FRR Doc & Tools Contributions

  • with RPKI (see note above about RTRLIB requirement)

  file	Description
  frr-7.1RPKI-01.el6.x86_64.rpm	Main FRR Package
  frr-debuginfo-7.1RPKI-01.el6.x86_64.rpm	FRR Debug Symbols
  frr-pythontools-7.1RPKI-01.el6.x86_64.rpm	Python Reload tools for integrated config
  frr-devel-7.1RPKI-01.el6.x86_64.rpm	FRR Development libs
  frr-contrib-7.1RPKI-01.el6.x86_64.rpm	FRR Doc & Tools Contributions

• CentOS 7: x86_64

  • without RPKI

  file	Description
  frr-7.1-01.el7.centos.x86_64.rpm	Main FRR Package
  frr-debuginfo-7.1-01.el7.centos.x86_64.rpm	FRR Debug Symbols
  frr-pythontools-7.1-01.el7.centos.x86_64.rpm	Python Reload tools for integrated config
  frr-devel-7.1-01.el7.centos.x86_64.rpm	FRR Development libs
  frr-contrib-7.1-01.el7.centos.x86_64.rpm	FRR Doc & Tools Contributions

  • with RPKI (see note above about RTRLIB requirement)

  file	Description
  frr-7.1RPKI-01.el7.centos.x86_64.rpm	Main FRR Package
  frr-debuginfo-7.1RPKI-01.el7.centos.x86_64.rpm	FRR Debug Symbols
  frr-pythontools-7.1RPKI-01.el7.centos.x86_64.rpm	Python Reload tools for integrated config
  frr-devel-7.1RPKI-01.el7.centos.x86_64.rpm	FRR Development libs
  frr-contrib-7.1RPKI-01.el7.centos.x86_64.rpm	FRR Doc & Tools Contributions