All releases of BIRD


Release Notes: 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.


Release Notes: 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.


Release Notes: Generalized import and export route limits, RDNSS and DNSSL support for RAdv, support for wildcards in the config file, history deduplication in the BIRD client, new route attributes krt_source and krt_metric, different instance ID support for OSPFv3, a real broadcast mode for OSPFv2, and several minor bugfixes.


Release Notes: This release 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.


Release Notes: This release has an important bugfix in BGP.


Release Notes: Protocol templates, a deterministic MED option for BGP, support for link-local addresses in BGP and static protocols, and several bugfixes.


Release Notes: This release adds static recursive routes and several bugfixes.


Release Notes: OSPF NSSA, BGP extended communities, BGP TTL security, a configuration option "include", and some minor bugfixes.


Release Notes: Running with restricted privileges is now allowed. The community list filter operation was added. Several problems were fixed in the filter syntax, including several conflicts in the grammar and a bug in (a..b, c) pair patterns. Pair patterns were made orthogonal. Term expressions in pair patterns are allowed without additional parentheses. Several comma separated values are now allowed in switch cases. Many bugs were fixed.


Release Notes: 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.