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Version 1.6.3 (2016-12-21)
o Large BGP communities
o BFD authentication (MD5, SHA1)
o SHA1 and SHA2 authentication for RIP and OSPF
o Improved documentation
o Several bug fixes
Version 1.6.2 (2016-09-29)
o Fixes serious bug introduced in the previous version
Version 1.6.1 (2016-09-22)
o Support for IPv6 ECMP
o Better handling of IPv6 tentative addresses
o Several updates and fixes in Babel protocol
o Filter: New !~ operator
o Filter: ASN ranges in bgpmask
o KRT: New kernel protocol option 'metric'
o KRT: New route attribute 'krt_scope'
o Improved BIRD help messages
o Fixes memory leak in BGP multipath
o Fixes handling of empty path segments in BGP AS_PATH
o Several bug fixes
Version 1.6.0 (2016-04-29)
o Major RIP protocol redesign
o New Babel routing protocol
o BGP multipath support
o KRT: Add support for plenty of kernel route metrics
o KRT: Allow more than 256 routing tables
o Static: Allow to specify attributes for static routes
o Static: Support for BFD controlled static routes
o FreeBSD: Setup password for BGP MD5 authentication
o IO: Remove socket number limit
o Plenty of bug fixes
Upgrade notes:
For RIP, most protocol options were moved to interface blocks.
Version 1.5.0 (2015-04-20)
o Major OSPF protocol redesign.
o OSPFv2 multi-instance extension (RFC 6549).
o BGP AS-wide unique router ID (RFC 6286).
o BGP enhanced route refresh (RFC 7313).
o Link state support in BGP.
o Latency tracking and internal watchdog.
o Uses high port range for BFD on BSD.
o Increase max symbol length to 64.
o Allows to define unnamed protocols from templates.
o Fixes two serious bugs in BGP.
o Several bugfixes and minor improvements.
o Several minor option changes:
- OSPF: Protocol-wide 'instance id' option added.
- BGP: Parameters to option 'neighbor' extended.
- BGP: Separate option 'interface' added.
- BGP: Option 'start delay time' renamed to 'connect delay time'.
- BGP: Option 'route limit' deprecated.
Upgrade notes:
For OSPF, there are deep internal changes, but user-visible changes
are limited to log messages and minor changes in formatting of command
output.
For BGP, version 1.5.0 is essentially a minor release. There are two
deprecated options ('start delay time' and 'route limit') and some
minor formatting changes.
tnn) into the Packages Collection.
The BIRD project aims to develop a fully functional dynamic IP
routing daemon primarily targetted on (but not limited to)
UNIX-like systems and distributed under the GNU General Public
License.
- This package is for IPv6, a separate IPv4 package is available
- Multiple routing tables
- BGP
- RIP
- OSPF
- Static routes
- Inter-table protocol
- Command-line interface
- Soft reconfiguration
- Powerful language for route filtering
Updated by myself from bird-1.3.4 to 1.3.6 (to correct a BGP protocol problem).
