Dear FRR Community,


 We are pleased to announce FRR 8.3 release. This release brings a long list of enhancements and fixes with more than 1000 commits from 67 developers.

Packages:

  * Debian Packages - https://deb.frrouting.org/
  * RPM Packages - https://rpm.frrouting.org/
  * Snaps - https://snapcraft.io/frr
  * Docker - https://hub.docker.com/layers/frr/frrouting/frr/v8.3.0/images/sha256-4d1343030d2e1f48aa61860b85485a8245cb21ce70fff9187c05011bfaa7b296


Major Highlights:

   * Notification Message support for BGP Graceful Restart (http://docs.frrouting.org/en/latest/bgp.html#clicmd-bgp-graceful-restart-notification)
   * BGP Cease Notification Subcode For BFD
   * Send Hold Timer for BGP
   * RFC5424 syslog support (http://docs.frrouting.org/en/latest/extlog.html?#clicmd-destination-syslog-supports-rfc5424)
   * PIM passive command (http://docs.frrouting.org/en/latest/pim.html#clicmd-ip-pim-passive)

Breaking Change:
   * Require librtr >= 0.8.0 for BGP RPKI   (available in FRR package repos above)


Please see the release notes for the detailed changelog:

  * Github release:  https://github.com/FRRouting/frr/releases/tag/frr-8.3
  * FRRouting website: https://frrouting.org/release/8.3

Thanks to all contributors!

Cheers,

The FRR Development Team!