FRRouting Release 7.5.1 [Download]

The FRRouting contributors are proud to announce that the latest release of FRR is now available for download:

• Debian Packaging - https://deb.frrouting.org/
• Snap Packaging - https://snapcraft.io/frr
• RPM Packaging - https://rpm.frrouting.org/
• Github Release - https://github.com/FRRouting/frr/releases/tag/frr-7.5.1

This is primarily a bugfix and performance improvement release.

Changes in 7.5.1

• Babel

  • Fix connected route leak on change

• BFD

  • Fix some memory leaks & handling issues
  • Fix mishandling of VRFs in some situations when receiving packets
  • Fix occasional error in session lookup

• BGP

  • Fix issues with peers inheriting peer-group properties
  • Fix erroneous BMP Peer Down Reason Code in BMP Peer Down message when peering fails due to nexthop tracking
  • Fix evpn route-map vni filter at origin
  • Fix various memory leaks in show commands
  • Fix issues with encoding flowspec rules to zebra in some rare circumstances
  • Fix issues parsing community and lcommunity values in some circumstances
  • Fix handling of aggregator data when the AGG AS is 0
  • Fix local routes using non-default distance
  • Properly track if the nexthop was updated in some circumstances
  • Properly withdraw exported routes when deleting a VRF
  • Properly apply route-map for the default-originate command
  • Properly handle neighbor peer-group allowas-in config changes
  • Cleanup show running when running bgp with -e X values
  • Prevent v6 routes with v4 nexthops from being installed
  • Prevent attempt to peer peers reachable via blackholes
  • Allow peer-groups to configure ttl-security hops
  • Allow default-originate to be cleared from a peer group
  • Generate statistics for routes in bgp when we have exactly 1 route

• EIGRP

  • Fix various memory leaks and use of uninitialized data
  • Properly set MTU for egress EIGRP packets

• ISIS

  • Fix various memory leaks and use of uninitialized data
  • When last area address is removed, resign if we were the DR

• LDP

  • Fix various memory leaks and use of uninitialized data

• NHRP

  • Use onlink routes when prefix == nh
  • Shortcut routes are installed with proper nexthop

• OSPFv2

  • Prevent duplicate packet read in multiple VRF situation
  • Fix area removal at interface level
  • Restore Point to MultiPoint interface types
  • Correctly handle MTU change on startup
  • Fix multi-instance initialization sometimes not succeeding
  • Fix nssa translate-always not working properly

• OSPFv3

  • Fix various memory leaks and use of uninitialized data
  • Fix Link LSA not updating when router priority is modified
  • Fix output from show commands
  • Fix intra area remote connected prefixes sometimes not being installed
  • Prevent sending hellos on loopback interfaces
  • Improve ECMP handling when a sub-path is removed

• PBR

  • Fix various memory leaks and use of uninitialized data

• PIM

  • Fix various memory leaks and use of uninitialized data
  • Fix (S,G,Rpt) prune received during prune not overriding holdtime

• Static routes

  • Fix issues with VRF usage on startup in some instances
  • Fix tableid being mishandled in some cases

• VTYSH

  • Disable bracketed paste in readline

• WATCHFRR

  • Fix various memory leaks and use of uninitialized data

• Zebra

  • Fix various memory leaks and use of uninitialized data
  • Fix routes getting stuck in Queued state when using the FPM
  • Always install blackhole routes using kernel routes instead of nexthops
  • Improve handling of VRF creation when using network namespaces
  • Dissallow resolution to duplicate nexthops that created infinite nexthops
  • Allow set src X to work on startup
  • Set NUD_NOARP on sticky mac entries in addtion to NTF_STICKY

• FRR Library

  • Fix various memory leaks
  • Fix VRF creation in some instances
  • Fix issues handling RPKI when reloading configs
  • Fix issues handling route-map configuration

• Snapcraft

  • Update to using rtrlib 0.7.0
  • Fix passthrough path for Libyang 1.x

• Docker

  • Remove old dependencies from Alpine image