From sharpd at cumulusnetworks.com  Tue Mar 10 09:33:48 2020
From: sharpd at cumulusnetworks.com (Donald Sharp)
Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2020 09:33:48 -0400
Subject: [FRR announce] 7.3 Belated Release
Message-ID: <CAK989yf60tASv9ibJRmgKR3Jt76avUQUSWbnXMGccVWJ3mU_SQ@mail.gmail.com>

All -

I'd like to announce the 7.3 release of FRRouting:

bgpd -
       EVPN PIP Support
       Route Aggregation code speed ups
       BGP Vector I/O speed ups
       New CLI: `set distance XXX`
       New CLI: `aggregate-address A.B.C.D/M route-map WORD`
       New CLI: `bgp reject-as-sets`
       New CLI: `advertise pip ...`
       New CLI: `match evpn rd ASN:NN_OR_IP-ADDRESS:NN`
       New CLI: `show bgp l2vpn evpn community|large-community X`
       New CLI: `show bgp l2vpn evpn A.B.C.D`
       Auto-completion for clear bgp command
       Add ability to set tcp socket buffer size

pbrd -
       New CLI: `set vrf unchanged|NAME`

pimd -
       Significant Speedups in accessing Internal Data for higher scale
       Support for joining any-source Multicast
       Updated CLI: 'show ip pim upstream-join-desired'
       New CLI: 'show ip pim channel'
       Debug Cleanup
       MLAG experimental support

bfdd -
       VRF Support
       New CLI: 'show bfd peers brief'
       New CLI: 'clear bfd peer ...'

ospfd -
       Partial MPLS TE support

vrrpd -
       VRF Support
       Northbound Conversion

vtysh -
       New CLI: `banner motd line LINE...`

watchfrr -
       Additional status messages of system state to systemd
       New CLI: `watchfrr ignore DAEMON`

yang -
       New CLI: `show yang operational-data XPATH`
       New CLI: `debug northbound`

zebra -
       Nexthop Group support
       New CLI: 'show nexthop-group rib [singleton]'
       New CLI: 'debug zebra nexthop [detail]'
       New CLI: 'show router-id'
      MLAG experimental support

Change in Behavior:
       isisd - All areas created default automatically to level-1-2
       zebra - Nexthop Group Installation in Kernel is turned on by
default if the kernel supports.
       Man Pages Renamed to frr-* to remove collision with other packages

As always all daemons have received too many bug fixes to fully list

Test Additions
       There has been a significant focus on increasing test coverage

Snapcraft
       vrrpd support added

Finally I'd like to thank each individual contributor, all 63 of them
this time with over 900 commits
As usual the release can be found on https://deb.frrouting.org

thanks!

donald