We are pleased to announce FRR release 8.5.

FRR 8.5 brings a long list of enhancements and fixes with 947+ commits from 68 developers. Thanks to all contributors.

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

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

Snaps - https://snapcraft.io/frr

Docker - quay.io/frrouting/frr:8.5.0

Release Overview

This release includes several new features, improvements, and bug fixes for various protocols and daemons. Some notable changes include:

• Set the BGP Input/Output Queue limit for all peers when messaging parsing. Increase this only if you have the memory to handle large queues of messages at once. link1 link2
• Add support for per-VRF SRv6 SID. link
• Add BGP labeled-unicast Add-Path functionality
• Implementation of SNMP BGP4v2-MIB. link for better network management and monitoring
• Add BGP new command neighbor path-attribute discard. link
• Implement L3 route-target auto/wildcard configuration. link
• Implement BGP ACCEPT_OWN Community Attribute / rfc7611. link
• Implement The Accumulated IGP Metric Attribute for BGP / rfc7311. link
• Implement graceful-shutdown command per neighbor. link
• Add BGP new command to configure TCP keepalives for a peer bgp tcp-keepalive. link
• Traffic control (TC) ZAPI implementation
• SRv6 uSID (microSID) implementation. link
• Start deprecating start-shell ..., ssh ..., telnet ... commands due to security reasons
• Add VRRPv3 an ability to disable IPv4 pseudo-header checksum. link
• BFD integration for static routes. link
• Allow protocols to configure BFD sessions with automatic source selection
• Allow zero-length opaque LSAs for OSPF (rfc5250)
• Add ISIS new command set-overload-bit on-startup. link
• PIMv6 BSM support. link
• A lots of bugs, especially for PIM/PIMv6/BGP
• Many commands got VRF and/or JSON/detail output options support
• Several fixes for memory leaks and race conditions
• Improved the consistency of output for several commands

A full log of changes can be found by browsing the commit history of FRR 8.5 tag here