Announcing FRR 8.0.0

[Quentin Young]

Hi all,

We are pleased to announce the 8.0 release of FRRouting!

Github Release - https://github.com/FRRouting/frr/releases/tag/frr-8.0
Debian Packaging - https://deb.frrouting.org/
RPM Packaging - https://rpm.frrouting.org/

Some major highlights:

- A new daemon, pathd, has been added. This daemon implements support for segment routing.
- EVPN Multihoming is now fully supported
- OSPFv3 now supports VRFs
- TI-LFA has been implemented in IS-IS and OSPF
- Zebra now has the ability to dump netlink messages in a human-friendly format
- LDP gained SNMP support

And of course, innumerable bug fixes and other improvements.

Please see the release notes for the detailed changelog:
https://frrouting.org/release/8.0/

We expect to have a bugfix release out in the near future to include some fixes that didn't make it into this release, so please stay tuned for that.

As always, thank you to all contributors!

Cheers,

- Quentin