Release FRR 8.5 Release · FRRouting/frr

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.

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