ExaBGP 'Michael' Release

Version 4.2.4:

• Change: display next-hop in flow redirect (fixes a bug with route generation too)
  reported by: Cathal Mooney

Version 4.2.3:

• Fix: issue with sending data toward API
  reported by: jkldgoefgkljefogeg
• Fix: bug in spin prevention (true vs True)
• Fix: peer and local ID for show neighbor commands

Version 4.2.2:

• Fix: issue with new respawn feature breaking the API

Version 4.2.1:

• Feature: use vendored ip_address module for healthcheck
• Feature: respawn option under the process (disable re-starting the api program on failure)
• Feature: support for single announcement for the healthcheck

ExaBGP 'setuptools' Release

Version 4.2.0:

• Feature: Support additional sub-type of BGP-Prefix-SID for SRv6-VPN
  patch by: Hiroki SHIROKURA
• Fix: issue with pypi release (can not pip install)
  reported by: Thomas Faivre
• Fix: on 'restart' config could improperly interference with current config which leads to inconsystent state and crash
  patch by: Alexander Petrovsky
• Feature: "rate-limit" (per neighbor) limit the number of BGP message(s) handled per second
• Feature: support draft-ietf-idr-flowspec-redirect-02 (previously only simpson was supported)
  patch by: Eli Lindsey
• Feature: BGP LS IPv6 parsing support
  patch by: Tinus Flagstad
• Feature: healthcheck handle loopback for non-Linux machines
• Fix: use local IP for router-id when the peer is auto-deteted (and not the remote IP)
• Fix: potential python3/python2 bytes vs string issues when generating updates
• Fix: label is mandatory when using RD, force it, and perform better checks on the configuration
• Fix: sending route-refresh message via the API was broken
  reported by: Konrad Zemek
• Fix: make sure exabgpcli does not hang when exabgp.api.ack is set to False
  patch by: basyron
• Fix: not correctly recording AFI for next-hop self use
• Fix: removal of ip address by healthcheck
  patch by: wavezhang
• Fix: healthcheck on ^C during time.sleep, exit gracefully
• Fix: healthcheck do not fail if the IP address exist when we are trying to add it
• Fix: healthcheck correctly remove the IP address on going down if it was added
• Fix: bug when parsing passive keyword alone (was false not true)
• Fix: was not always terminating with error code 0 when all was good
  patch by: badrabubker
• CHANGE: large change to the configuration code (should not have any effect but the devil is in the details)
• CHANGE: using next-hop self could lead to route generated with a IPv6 next-hop in the IPv4 next-hop
  This COULD have been accepted by peers. This version does prevent such generation.
• CHANGE: resolve symlink when reading the file and not when parsing the configuration
  reported by: juise (with alternative patch - thank you)
• CHANGE: the reactor was changed from using select to poll (removing the 1024 limit on connections)
• CHANGE: rewrote setup.py, moving release code into another file

ExaBGP 'Nice CLI' Release

Version 4.1.2

• Feature: exabgpcli autocomplete
• Fix: exabgpcli was not correctly removing data on the pipe in case of issues

Version 4.1.1

• CHANGE: some message are now printed using the log routes option and not parser anymore
• Fix: bug with functional testing code when using python3
  patch by: Cooper Lees
• Fix: bug with ExaBGP cli not working
  reported by: jlixfeld (thank you to Cooper Lees for providing time and a test env. to reproduce)

ExaBGP 'ISO' Release

Version 4.1.0

• CHANGE: when redifining a single parameter option using inheritence the value will be replaced
• CHANGE: FlowSpec TRUE and FALSE value have been updated to use the latest RFC and are therefore inverted from previous versions
• CHANGE: an invalid netmask for a network will now cause ExaBGP to fail the parsing of the route (it can stop ExaBGP from starting with bad routes)
• Feature: support for extended next-hop (RFC 5549)
• Feature: implemented API for "clear adj-rib out" and "flush adj-rib out"
• Fix: regression pointed in #873
  patch: Malcolm Dodds
• Fix: do not crash when trying to be helpful in presenting notification message
  reported by: Adam Jacob Muller
• Fix: issue while handling ranged neighbors
  patch: Wenxin Wang
• Fix: accumulating families when using multiple peers
  patch: Martin Topholm (reviewed)
• Fix: could not reload configuration
  reported by: gbock
• Feature: better RFC5575bis support, better treat as withdraw
  patch: Christoph Loibl
• Fix: Fix issue when using peer ASN discovery
  patch: Zac Medico
• Fix: MD5 encoding
  reported by: Adam Jacob Muller (with an initial idea for a patch)
• Fix: ignore unknown BGP-LS SID
  reported by: MosesN
• Fix: badly deciding when to send or not AddPath from parsing the Capability
  reported by: ivan-balan

ExaBGP 'Zarya' release

This version is most likely the last one before we consider the master branch ready to replace 3.4.x.

The control API / CLI command are however not yet frozen and will slightly change before a stable 4.1.0 release.

Version 4.0.10

• Feature: Add decoding for Mac Mobility

Version 4.0.9

• Change: re-enabled multiple source/destination in flow
• Fix: forward port of #845, send state down messages on peer removal
  orginal patch: Andre Kampert
• Feature: add != test of flows
  patch by: dhammika
• Fix: Read pipename from env file rather than using default
  patch by: Craig Milne
• Fix: using teardown could crash exabgp
  patch by: Matthias Wichtlhuber
• Fix: use of label and rd with announce attributes

ExaBGP 'Incomplete' Release

Version 4.0.9

• Change: re-enabled multiple source/destination in flow
• Fix: forward port of #845, send state down messages on peer removal
  orginal patch: Andre Kampert
• Feature: add != test of flows
  patch by: dhammika
• Fix: Read pipename from env file rather than using default
  patch by: Craig Milne
• Fix: using teardown could crash exabgp
  patch by: Matthias Wichtlhuber
• Fix: use of label and rd with announce attributes

ExaBGP 'PEP-0479' release

Released immediately after 4.0.7 which missed the fix for PEP-0479

Version 4.0.8

• Fix: PEP-0479

Version 4.0.7

• Feature: added prefix for ip-reachability-tlv
  patch: Tinus Flagstad
• Feature: forewardport #840 (RFC 7674 - Support redirect traffic to a VRF encoded as 4-octet AS)
  original patch by: Omri Matitiau
• Fix: handling of processes when the configuration reload fails
  patch by: Malcolm Dodds
• Fix: healthcheck, remove options.ip_setup in dynamic ip management
  patch by: Ahmet Demir
• Fix: present unknown RD as hexadecimal string (previous representation could not be JSON parsed)
  reported by: Jitoxxx
• Fix: fix permissions of systemd service files
  patch by: Malcolm Dodds
• Fix: properly show connection as down in the cli
  reported by: chantra
• Fix: JSON encoding for route-refresh
  reported by: nfz1
• Fix: Prevent busy spinning in multiple code path (including when a peer closed the connection on us)
  reported by: chantra
• Fix: busy spinning when the peer went away
  reported by: chantra
• Improvement: many fix to QA code
  patch by: Vincent Bernart
• Improvement: exit with error code 0 on SIGTERM
  reported by: Johan Guldmyr
• Fix: fix neighbor CLI to match against peer address
  patch by: Malcolm Dodds
• Fix: fix parsing of labelled default IP route
  patch by: Thomas Morin
• Fix: checks for consumption of data in bgp-ls
  patch by: he32
• Fix: support latest python3 (with async as keyword)

ExaBGP 'async' release

Version 4.0.7

• Feature: added prefix for ip-reachability-tlv
  patch: Tinus Flagstad
• Feature: forewardport #840 (RFC 7674 - Support redirect traffic to a VRF encoded as 4-octet AS)
  original patch by: Omri Matitiau
• Fix: handling of processes when the configuration reload fails
  patch by: Malcolm Dodds
• Fix: healthcheck, remove options.ip_setup in dynamic ip management
  patch by: Ahmet Demir
• Fix: present unknown RD as hexadecimal string (previous representation could not be JSON parsed)
  reported by: Jitoxxx
• Fix: fix permissions of systemd service files
  patch by: Malcolm Dodds
• Fix: properly show connection as down in the cli
  reported by: chantra
• Fix: JSON encoding for route-refresh
  reported by: nfz1
• Fix: Prevent busy spinning in multiple code path (including when a peer closed the connection on us)
  reported by: chantra
• Fix: busy spinning when the peer went away
  reported by: chantra
• Improvement: many fix to QA code
  patch by: Vincent Bernart
• Improvement: exit with error code 0 on SIGTERM
  reported by: Johan Guldmyr
• Fix: fix neighbor CLI to match against peer address
  patch by: Malcolm Dodds
• Fix: fix parsing of labelled default IP route
  patch by: Thomas Morin
• Fix: checks for consumption of data in bgp-ls
  patch by: he32
• Fix: support latest python3 (with async as keyword)

ExaBGP 'skip' 4.0.6

Version 4.0.6

• Fix: default network for IPv6 is 128 .. not 32
  patch by: Donatas Abraitis
• Fix: issue when parsing AS_SET with '['
  patch by: Kyle Birkeland
• Fix: parding of MD5 string in configuration
  patch by: Kyle Birkeland
• Fix: bug generating flows with redirect
  reported by: jasonsdn
• Fix: decoding of routes with label, the number of label to decode was badly calculated
• Fix: allow digit as first letter of hostname
  reported by: Vascko
• Fix: Fix strip default attributes from withdrawals
  patch by: dhammika
• Fix: make sure routes are removed on SIGUSR1
  patch by: Malcolm Dodds
• Fix: Fix RPM spec files
  patch by: Malcolm Dodds
• Change: if exabgp is installed in /usr, the configuration will be looked into /etc (and not /usr/etc)
  request by: Vascko

Version 4.0.5

• Fix: bad encoding of flow rules with &
  reported by: Iwase Yusuke

Version 4.0.4

• Feature: draft draft-ietf-idr-bgp-extended-messages-24 support (option capability extended-message)
• Fix: do not tear down session if not enough space is available to pack an NLRI after attribute but treat-as-withdraw
• Fix: BGP-LS parsing issue when using Python3
• Fix: Invalid JSON when parsing unknown OPEN capabilities
• Fix: The way we iterated over the action queue could cause out of order executions
• Fix: problem with encoding of Notification messages
• Fix: L being added to number with %ld on some platform and version on Python
• Fix: fix string representations with MPLS raw labels
  patch by: Thomas Morin
• Feature: Add a systemd exabgp instance service
  patch by: jmauro

ExaBGP 'catchup' 3.4.25

Version 3.4.25

• Fix: support range syntax in Flows protocol, added protocol validation
  patch by: Omri Matitiau

Version 3.4.24

• Fix: default for IPv6 should be 128 .. not 32 !