FRRouting Release 8.3 [Download]

FRRouting Release 8.3 Available for Download

July 18, 2022

We are pleased to announce FRR 8.3.

FRR 8.3 brings a long list of enhancements and fixes with around 1000+ commits from 67 developers. Thanks to all contributors.

Debian Packages - https://deb.frrouting.org

RPM Packages - https://rpm.frrouting.org

Snaps - https://snapcraft.io/frr

Docker - frrouting/frr:v8.3

Release Overview

Features

• Notification Message support for BGP Graceful Restart (http://docs.frrouting.org/en/latest/bgp.html#clicmd-bgp-graceful-restart-notification)
• BGP Cease Notification Subcode For BFD
• Send Hold Timer for BGP
• RFC5424 syslog support (http://docs.frrouting.org/en/latest/extlog.html?#clicmd-destination-syslog-supports-rfc5424)
• PIM passive command (http://docs.frrouting.org/en/latest/pim.html#clicmd-ip-pim-passive)

Breaking changes

• Require librtr >= 0.8.0 for BGP RPKI

Changelog

all

• Add camelcase json keys in addition to pascalcase (Wrong JSON keys will be depracated)
• Fix corruption when route-map delete/add sequence happens (fast re-add)
• Reworked gRPC
• RFC5424 & journald extended syslog target

bfdd

• Fix broken FSM in active/passive modes

bgpd

• Notification Message Support for BGP Graceful Restart (rfc8538)
• BGP Cease Notification Subcode For BFD
• Send Hold Timer for BGP (own implementation without an additional knob)
• New set as-path replace command for BGP route-map
• New match peer command for BGP route-map
• New ead-es-frag evi-limit command for EVPN
• New match evpn route-type command for EVPN route-map to match Type-1/Type-4
• JSON outputs for all RPKI show commands
• Set attributes via route-map for BGP conditional advertisements
• Pass non-transitive extended communities between RS and RS-clients
• Send MED attribute when aggregate prefix is created
• Require librtr >= 0.8.0 for RPKI to fix connection handling (failover)
• Fix aspath memory leak in aggr_suppress_map_test
• Fix crash for show ip bgp vrf all all neighbors 192.168.0.1 ...
• Fix crash for show ip bgp vrf all all
• Fix memory leak for BGP Community Alias in CLI
• Fix memory leak when setting BGP community at egress
• Fix memory leak when setting BGP large-community at egress
• Fix SR color nexthop processing in BGP
• Fix setting local-preference in route-map using +/-
• Fix crash using Lua and route-map to set attributes via scripts
• Fix crash when issuing various forms of bgp no-rib

isisd

• JSON output for show summary command
• Fix crash when MTU mismatch occurs
• Fix crash with xfrm interface type
• Fix infinite loop when parsing LSPs
• Fix router capability TLV parsing issues

vtysh

• New show thread timers command

ospfd6

• Add LSA statistics to LSA database
• Add LSA stats to show area json output
• Show time left in hello timer for show ipv6 ospf6 int
• Permit route deletion without nexthops
• Restart SPF when distance is updated
• Stop refreshing Type-5 from NSSA
• Support keychain for ospf6 authentication

ospfd

• New show ip ospf reachable-routers command
• Restart SPF when distance is updated
• Use consistent JSON keys for show ip ospf neighbor and detail version

pimd

• Add additional IGMP stats
• Add IGMP join sent/failed statistics
• Add IGMP total groups and total source groups to statistics
• New debug igmp trace detail command
• New ip pim passive command
• JSON support added for command show ip igmp sources
• Allow the LPM match work properly with prefix lists and normal RP’s
• Do not allow 224.0.0.0/24 range in IGMP join
• Fix IGMP packet/query check
• Handle PIM join/prune receive flow for IPv6
• Handle receive of (*,G) register stop with source address as 0
• Handle of exclude mode IGMPv3 report messages for SSM-aware group
• Handle of IGMPv2 report message for SSM-aware group range
• Send immediate join with possible sg rpt prune bit set
• Show group-type under show ip pim rp-info
• Show total received messages IGMP stats

staticd

• Capture zebra’s advertised ECMP limit
• Don’t register existing nexthop to Zebra
• Reject route config with too many nexthops
• Track nexthops per-safi

watchfrr

• Add some more information to show watchfrr
• Send operational state to systemd

zebra

• Add ability to know when FRR is not ASIC offloaded
• Add command for setting protodown bit
• Add dplane type for netconf data
• Add ECMP supported to show zebra
• Add EVPN status to show zebra
• Add if v4/v6 forwarding is turned on/off to show zebra
• Add initial zebra tracepoint support
• Add kernel nexthop group support to show zebra
• Add knowledge about ra and rfc 5549 to show zebra
• Add mpls status to show zebra
• Add netlink debug dump for netconf messages
• Add netlink debugs for ip rules
• Add OS and version to show zebra
• Add support for end.dt4
• Add to show zebra the type of vrf devices being used
• Allow *BSD to specify a receive buffer size
• Allow multiple connected routes to be choosen for kernel routes
• Allow system routes to recurse through themselves
• Don’t send RAs w/o link-local v6 or on bridge-ports
• Evpn disable remove l2vni from l3vni list
• Evpn-mh bonds protodown check for set
• Evpn-mh use protodown update reason api
• Fix cleanup of meta queues on vrf disable
• Fix crash in evpn neigh cleanup all
• Fix missing delete vtep during vni transition
• Fix missing vrf change of l2vni on vxlan interface
• Fix rtadv startup when config read in is before interface up
• Fix use after deletion event in FreeBSD
• Fix v6 route replace failure turned into success
• Get zebra graceful restart working when restarting on *BSD
• Handle FreeBSD routing socket enobufs
• Handle protodown netlink for vxlan device
• Include mpls enabled status in interface output
• Include old reason in evpn-mh bond update
• Keep the interface flags safe on multiple ioctl calls
• Let /32 host route with same ip cross vrf
• Make router advertisement warnings show up once every 6 hours
• Prevent crash if zebra_route_all is used for a route type
• Prevent installation of connected multiple times
• Protodown-up event trigger interface up
• Register nht nexthops with proper safi
• Update advertise-svi-ip macips w/ new mac
• When handling unprocessed messages from kernel print usable string
• New show ip nht mrib command
• Handle ENOBUFS errors for FreeBSD

Contributors

• ARShreenidhi
• Abhinay Ramesh
• anlan_cs
• Anuradha Karuppiah
• Balaji Gurudoss
• Bijan
• Carl Baldwin
• Chirag Shah
• Christian Hopps
• Christian Poessinger
• ckishimo
• David Lamparter
• David Schweizer
• Dmitrii Turlupov
• Donald Sharp
• Donatas Abraitis
• Eugene Crosser
• ewlumpkin
• Fabio Antonini
• Francois Dumontet
• G. Paul Ziemba
• Igor Ryzhov
• Iqra Siddiqui
• Jafar Al-Gharaibeh
• Javier Garcia
• Juraj Vijtiuk
• Kuldeep Kashyap
• Loganaden Velvindron
• Louis Scalbert
• lynnemorrison
• Manoj Naragund
• Mark Stapp
• Martin Buck
• Martin Winter
• Mobashshera Rasool
• nguggarigoud
• Nobuhiro MIKI
• nsaigomathi
• Olivier Dugeon
• Pavel Shirshov
• Philippe Guibert
• plsaranya
• Punith Kumar
• qingkaishi
• Quentin Young
• Rafael Zalamena
• Rajesh Varatharaj
• Renato Westphal
• rgirada
• ron
• Ryoga Saito
• Sai Gomathi
• saravanank
• Sarita Patra
• Stephen Worley
• Tomi Salminen
• Trey Aspelund
• vdhingra
• Ville Skyttä
• Volodymyr Huti
• whichbug
• Xiao Liang
• Yash Ranjan