What's new in BIRD 1.4.0
Nov 27, 2013
- BFD support for OSPF and BGP, BGP - allow-local-as and many other improvements.
New in BIRD 1.3.11 (Jul 30, 2013)
- This version adds an OSPF stub router option (RFC 3137), TTL security for OSPF and RIP, protocol packet priority and traffic class handling, multiple routing tables support for FreeBSD and OpenBSD, extension of constants to all filter data types, an eval command, an "bgppath ~ int set" filter operation, and several bugfixes.
New in BIRD 1.3.10 (May 9, 2013)
- A Lightweight BIRD client for embedded environments.
- Dynamic IPv6 router advertisements.
- A new 'next hop keep' option for BGP.
- A smart default routing table for 'show route export/preexport/protocol'.
- Automatic router ID selection could be configured to use the loopback address.
- Allows configured global addresses of NBMA neighbors in OSPFv3.
- Allows BIRD commands from the Unix shell even in restricted mode.
- Route limits inherited from templates can be disabled.
- Symbol names enclosed by apostrophes can contain dots.
- Several bugfixes.
New in BIRD 1.3.9 (Jan 14, 2013)
- BIRD can now be configured to keep and show filtered routes.
- This release adds separate receive and import limits, several new reconfiguration cmd options (undo, timeout, check), configurable automatic router ID selection, Dragonfly BSD support, and fixes for OSPFv3 vlinks.
New in BIRD 1.3.7 (Mar 23, 2012)
- This version adds Route Origin Authorization basics, makes RIPng work again, extends clist operations in filters, fixes several bugs in BSD iface handling, and adds several minor bugfixes and enhancements.
New in BIRD 1.3.6 (Jan 23, 2012)
- This version has an important bugfix in BGP.
New in BIRD 1.3.5 (Jan 12, 2012)
- Protocol templates, a deterministic MED option for BGP, support for link-local addresses in BGP and static protocols, and several bugfixes.
New in BIRD 1.3.4 (Oct 10, 2011)
- This version adds static recursive routes and several bugfixes.
New in BIRD 1.3.3 (Sep 13, 2011)
- OSPF NSSA, BGP extended communities, BGP TTL security, a configuration option "include", and some minor bugfixes.
New in BIRD 1.3.2 (Jul 11, 2011)
- Various minor bugfixes.
- Minor improvements in configuration syntax.
New in BIRD 1.3.1 (May 2, 2011)
- The Linux kernel route attributes krt_prefsrc and krt_realm were added.
- The BGP option "med metric" related to MED handling was added.
- Constants from /etc/iproute2/rt_* files may now be used.
- Several bugs were fixed.
New in BIRD 1.3.0 (Mar 31, 2011)
- iBGP improved, IPv6 RA added, many changes and bufixes, watch the NEWS file.
New in BIRD 1.2.5 (Oct 12, 2010)
- Just minor bugfixes; no new features.
New in BIRD 1.2.4 (Aug 4, 2010)
- 'show memory' command added, bugfix in IPv6 BGP.
New in BIRD 1.2.3 (Jun 1, 2010)
- Pattern matching for community lists, minor bugfixes - mainly OSPF related.
New in BIRD 1.2.1 (Feb 11, 2010)
- Some minor improvements and bugfixes.
New in BIRD 1.1.4 (Oct 2, 2009)
- This release adds a BGP passive option and several minor bugfixes.
New in BIRD 1.1.3 (Sep 11, 2009)
- This release fixes bugs in the core and a bug in BGP related to AS2-AS4 conversion.
New in BIRD 1.1.2 (Aug 25, 2009)
- This release allows more kernel routing tables in IPv6 Linux.
- There is a bugfix in the core.
New in BIRD 1.1.1 (Aug 17, 2009)
- 'more'-style paging in the BIRD client has been introduced.
- An important core bug has been fixed.
New in BIRD 1.0.15 (May 27, 2009)
- BSD port renewed, minor changes in cli and config, miscellaneous bugfixes .
New in BIRD 1.0.14 (Apr 28, 2009)
- A lot of bugfixes to BGP, OSPF and in PIPE protocol filtering.
New in BIRD 1.0.13 (Mar 15, 2009)
- This release adds a lot of bugfixes to BGP, OSPF, and core, and a new syntax for BGP masks.
New in BIRD 1.0.12 (Nov 12, 2008)
- There are a lot of bugfixes in this release.
- New features include BGP md5 support, BGP ASN32 support, 4bytes AS numbers, eBGP route reflector, and iBGP route reflector.