We are pleased to announce FRR 7.2. This is a very big release, with a lot of bugs fixed, new features and even a new protocol daemon. We're also very happy to share that this release has the largest number of individual contributors of any release to date! Big thanks to all contributors.

Major additions in this release include:

• Support for VRRP
• Support for BMP
• Support for PIM-BSM

Update

7.2 Debian packages are now available on the apt repository at https://deb.frrouting.org/.

Important Note

As of this post, we are still working on creating binary packages. Source tarballs can be found at the bottom of this post. This post will be updated when packaging operations are completed. As a reminder, our Debian repository is located at https://deb.frrouting.org/.

Changelog

All daemons:

• -N <namespace> allows specifying a path postfix on the normal FRR config directory. This is helpful when running multiple FRR instances within different network namespaces.
• access-lists now support sequence numbers
• Route-maps now support matching blackhole nexthops: match ip next-hop type blackhole
• Route-maps are now smarter when dependencies change
• New command log-filter WORD adds builtin support for log filtering at the output stage

New daemon: vrrpd

• Adds support for VRRPv2 and VRRPv3

bfdd

• Gained VRF support
• Gained support for Northbound API

bgpd

• aggregate-address gained support for route maps
• show bgp ipv4 unicast command family now shows FQDN for peers, if available
• For route show commands, display the bestpath selection criterion
• New show bgp <afi> <safi> summary failed command to show neighbors that failed to Establish
• clear bgp * command now clears all peers, instead of only IPv6 peers
• Improved JSON output for many commands
• New module adds support for BMP

eigrpd

• SIGHUP now signals a config reload
• Gained support for Northbound API
• Infrastructure changes to allow VRFs

isisd

• Gained BFD support
• Gained Support for circuits with MTUs > 8192

pbrd

• fwmark support as part of match criteria
• CLI commands gained autocomplete support for PBRMAPS
• Improved support for nexthops

pimd

• Gained support for PIM-BSM
• Improved debugging support
• Unusable ECMP paths are now saved in case they become valid in the future
• IGMP queries not originated from directly connected sources are now ignored
• Many new CLI improvements

sharpd

• sharp watch [import|nexthop] now accepts prefixes instead of assuming /32

staticd

• Significantly improved next-hop tracking support

zebra

• Many dataplane-level improvements for routes, neighbor tables and EVPN
• Next-hop tracking CLI is now VRF-aware
• Next-hop tracking show commands have new options to modify output
• Excised some duplicated work in route processing
• Improved debugging facilities
• Gained RMAC and VXLAN support for the FPM interface

Internal improvements

• Library now has RCU primitives and facilities
• Zebra continues to gain support for nexthop groups
• ripd, isisd and ospfd can now be built to use openssl for MD5 crypto operations instead of FRR library functions, if desired
• Builds will now fail by default if libcap is not present, due to severe performance issues when it is missing
• Glue code for Lua support has been updated
• Various improvements for cross compilation

Packaging changes

snapcraft:

• Add fabricd
• Add libyang
• Update rtrlib
• Update rpki

RPM Packages for 7.2:

Attached are some pre-built RPM binary packages.

The packages are all default builds based on the documentation with unmodified source

Full Package Sources etc are available on the CI system as artifacts

The packages require libyang and the RPKI packages require the rtrlib package as well. Both of them are most likely not yet in any RPM repositories, but can be downloaded from the NetDEF CI System.

• Libyang: https://ci1.netdef.org/browse/LIBYANG-YANGRELEASE/latestSuccessful/artifact Libyang is built from Github/libyang

• Rtrlib (for RPKI): https://ci1.netdef.org/browse/RPKI-RTRLIB/latestSuccessful/artifact Rtrlib is built from Github/rtrlib

CentOS 6: x86_64

Without RPKI

With RPKI (see note above about RTRLIB requirement)

CentOS 7: x86_64

Without RPKI

With RPKI (see note above about RTRLIB requirement)