OpenBGPD 8.4 released

7 March, 2024 by claudio@openbsd.org | openbsd
We have released OpenBGPD 8.4, which will be arriving in the
OpenBGPD directory of your local OpenBSD mirror soon.

This release includes the following changes to the previous release:

    * Rewrite the internal message passing mechanism to use a new
      memory-safe API.

    * Rewrite most protocol parsers to use the new memory-safe API.
      Convert the UPDATE parser, all of RTR, as well as both the MRT
      dump code in bgpd and the parser in bgpctl.

    * Improve RTR logging, error handling and version negotiation.

    * Switch to autoconf 2.71 to generate the supplied configure scripts.

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.