We are pleased to announce FRR 7.5. Thank you to all contributors.

Debian Packages - https://deb.frrouting.org/ RPM Packages - https://rpm.frrouting.org/ Snaps - https://snapcraft.io/frr

Changelog

Major Behavior Changes

- As a reminder for those upgrading from older releases, as of FRR 7.4 and beyond:

• RFC 8212 is now enabled by default. BGP will not advertise or use routes unless explicitly configured to do so with an export or import policy.

All daemons

• Minimum libyang version is now 1.0.184

bfdd

• Profile support
• Minimum TTL support

bgpd

• RPKI now has support for VRFs
• Add wide option to route show commands
• Add ability to count filtered prefixes when using maximum-prefix with new force option
• Add ability to show selected bestpath routes for a given neighbor with bestpath-routes option to neighbor show command
• Add ability to specify message when admin downing a session with bgp shutdown message MSG... command
• Add IPv6 support for Flowspec
• Add ability to shut down neighbor if RTT is too high with neighbor <neigh> shutdown rtt command
• Allow update-delay to be applied globally
• Graceful Restart fixes
• Stability and performance fixes EVPN
• Beginning of MultiHoming support; stay tuned

isisd

• Add VRF support
• Add support for Anycast-SIDs
• Fix adjacency timer display overflow

ospfd

• Segment Routing support for ECMP
• Prevent crash if transferring config amongst instances
• Various LSA-related fixes

pbrd

• Add JSON support to commands
• Add ability to match on DSCP/ECN fields

pimd

• Add more JSON support to commands
• Add support for MSDP SA forwarding
• (s,g,rpt) ifchannel is now cleared when (*, G) prune is received
• Fix IGMP querier election and IP address mapping
• Fix missing mesh-group commands
• Fix crash when RP is removed

staticd

• Add support for Northbound API

zebra

• Nexthop group support for FPM
• Netlink batching support
• Northbound support for RIB model
• Backup nexthop support
• Allow upper level protocols to request ARP
• Add json output for zebra ES, ES-EVI and access vlan dumps

vtysh

• Speed up output across daemons
• Fix build-time errors for some --enable flags

Northbound / YANG

• Filter and route-map support
• OSPF model definition
• BGP model definition

RPM Packaging

• Moved RPKI to subpackage
• Added SNMP subpackage

As always there are too many bugfixes to list individually. This release comprises just over 1k commits by the community, with contributons from 70 people.