v6.0.0-beta.0

Pathvector 6 is the latest major revision and comes with some new features and breaking changes.

This is a beta release and should not be used in production.

Features

• Interactive CLI
• AS path filtering
• MRT support
• Template replacements
• Extend plugin API to include custom commands
• Export and receive limits
• Global config modification
• Origin community tagging
• Selective route announcement
• BGP path reset
• BGP path modification
• BGP hostname capability support
• Peer on error control
• Configurable route selection tiebreaker

Breaking changes

• Renamed augments to kernel and moved all kernel parameters to the kernel section
• Added Command to plugin interface to support plugin commands
• Rename import-communities => add-on-import, export-communities => add-on-export, and announce-communities => announce
• Rename cli command to birdsh (cli is now the interactive CLI)

Enhancements

• Process peers concurrently (a significant performance improvement)
• Support both comma and colon community syntax
• Minor bug fixes

Full Changelog

v5.12.0...v6.0.0-beta.0