OpenBGPD 7.0 released

4 June, 2021 by claudio@openbsd.org | openbsd
We have released OpenBGPD 7.0, which will be arriving in the
OpenBGPD directory of your local OpenBSD mirror soon.

This release includes the following changes to the previous release:

    * Stop processing queued UPDATES when the max-prefix limit was reached.

    * Improve negotiation for route refresh, graceful restart and
      multi-protocol capabilities

    * Correctly track 'rde evaluate all' and 'export' settings during reload.

    * Properly withdraw prefixes when 'rde evaluate all' is used.

    * Fix MRT handling on initial startup for message dump types.

    * Fix and use non-blocking connect for RTR sessions.

    * Fully implement RFC 6286 by checking for BGP ID collisions.

    * Adjust the 4-byte AS number handling to RFC 6793 by changing error
      behaviour from prefix witdraw to attribute discard.

    * In bgpctl print out both the sent "Neighbor capabilities" and the
      "Negotiated capabilities" for a session. 

    * Print timestamps both as a formatted and a pure time in seconds
      filed in various JSON objects.

OpenBGPD-portable is known to compile and run on FreeBSD, and
the Linux distributions Alpine, Debian, Fedora, RHEL/CentOS and Ubuntu.
It is our hope that packagers take interest and help adapt OpenBGPD-portable
to more distributions.

We welcome feedback and improvements from the broader community.
Thanks to all of the contributors who helped make this release
possible.