Version 4.0.10

Feature: Add decoding for Mac Mobility

Version 4.0.9

Change: re-enabled multiple source/destination in flow
Fix: forward port of #845, send state down messages on peer removal orginal patch: Andre Kampert
Feature: add != test of flows patch by: dhammika
Fix: Read pipename from env file rather than using default patch by: Craig Milne
Fix: using teardown could crash exabgp patch by: Matthias Wichtlhuber
Fix: use of label and rd with announce attributes

Version 4.0.8

Fix: PEP-0479

Version 4.0.7

Feature: added prefix for ip-reachability-tlv patch: Tinus Flagstad
Feature: forewardport #840 (RFC 7674 - Support redirect traffic to a VRF encoded as 4-octet AS) original patch by: Omri Matitiau
Fix: handling of processes when the configuration reload fails patch by: Malcolm Dodds
Fix: healthcheck, remove options.ip_setup in dynamic ip management patch by: Ahmet Demir
Fix: present unknown RD as hexadecimal string (previous representation could not be JSON parsed) reported by: Jitoxxx
Fix: fix permissions of systemd service files patch by: Malcolm Dodds
Fix: properly show connection as down in the cli reported by: chantra
Fix: JSON encoding for route-refresh reported by: nfz1
Fix: Prevent busy spinning in multiple code path (including when a peer closed the connection on us) reported by: chantra
Fix: busy spinning when the peer went away reported by: chantra
Improvement: many fix to QA code patch by: Vincent Bernart
Improvement: exit with error code 0 on SIGTERM reported by: Johan Guldmyr
Fix: fix neighbor CLI to match against peer address patch by: Malcolm Dodds
Fix: fix parsing of labelled default IP route patch by: Thomas Morin
Fix: checks for consumption of data in bgp-ls patch by: he32
Fix: support latest python3 (with async as keyword)

Version 4.0.6

Fix: default network for IPv6 is 128 .. not 32 patch by: Donatas Abraitis
Fix: issue when parsing AS_SET with '[' patch by: Kyle Birkeland
Fix: parding of MD5 string in configuration patch by: Kyle Birkeland
Fix: bug generating flows with redirect reported by: jasonsdn
Fix: decoding of routes with label, the number of label to decode was badly calculated
Fix: allow digit as first letter of hostname reported by: Vascko
Fix: Fix strip default attributes from withdrawals patch by: dhammika
Fix: make sure routes are removed on SIGUSR1 patch by: Malcolm Dodds
Fix: Fix RPM spec files patch by: Malcolm Dodds
Change: if exabgp is installed in /usr, the configuration will be looked into /etc (and not /usr/etc) request by: Vascko

Version 4.0.5

Fix: bad encoding of flow rules with & reported by: Iwase Yusuke

Version 4.0.4

Feature: draft draft-ietf-idr-bgp-extended-messages-24 support (option capability extended-message)
Fix: do not tear down session if not enough space is available to pack an NLRI after attribute but treat-as-withdraw
Fix: BGP-LS parsing issue when using Python3
Fix: Invalid JSON when parsing unknown OPEN capabilities
Fix: The way we iterated over the action queue could cause out of order executions
Fix: problem with encoding of Notification messages
Fix: L being added to number with %ld on some platform and version on Python
Fix: fix string representations with MPLS raw labels patch by: Thomas Morin
Feature: Add a systemd exabgp instance service patch by: jmauro

Version 4.0.3

Fix: MD5 issue with python3
Fix: control of logging for timer events
Fix: possible packet data not being reset in update generation
Fix: could miss API command if sent at faster than read rate
Fix: bad json encoding reported by: Tyson Clugg
Fix: missing L2VPN/EVPN to next-hop sizing check patch by: jsynack
Fix: allow an hold-time of zero patch by: andrius-adamavicius
Fix: printing of RT reported by: abreu75
Fix: allow a single KA for hold-time of zero reported by: andrius-adamavicius
Fix: api report writing the word neighbor twice patch by: chantra
Fix: setup.py script functions not working patch by: aabdnn
Fix: the API would spin on EOF (issue #704) patch by: chantra
Fix: exabgp.tcp.once was not exiting patch by: dhammika
Fix: api poller slow down patch by: dhammika
Fix: EVPN decoding on type 4 NLRI patch by: kvlangenhove

Version 4.0.2

Feature: exabgpcli
Feature: draft-ietf-idr-link-bandwidth-06
Feature: colored output
Feature: script to use as flow-spec receiver for Cumulus Linux
Feature: added all families to announce { ipv4 {} ipv6 {} }
Feature: API to clear RIB
Feature: Per family negotiation of Add-Path ( add-path section, like family )
Feature: add --sink and --echo to test bgp daemon
Feature: include negotiated information with update / packets API messages
Feature: allow multiple inheritance
Feature: new "functional" program for functional testing with many new goodies
Fix: BGP-LS encoding patch by: Evelio Vila
Fix: Issue with received timer
Fix: internal API using named FIFO
Fix: add support for netbsd for heathcheck
Fix: issue with api inheritance
Fix: several issue with BGP-LS
Fix: issues with NLRI decoding (bug introduced between 4.0.0 and 4.0.1)
Fix: various
Change: BGPLS with BGP-LS
Change: rewrote may part of the code (reactor/async, log, API, ...)
Change: renamed exabgp.api.file to exabgp.api.cli - now a boolean, enabled by default
Change: --folder option now --root, and not need when installed in /
Change: deprecated route-distinguisher only rd will now be parsed
Change: ASN in JSON are now correctly expressed as numbers and not strings

Version 4.0.1

Change: makes python3 the default interpreter
Change: major change to log output format
Change: refactor the core for much faster session establishment
Change: JSON format for extended-community now reports both the value and decoded string
Change: new section: announce { ipv4 { unicast ...; multicast ...; } } same syntax as route ...;
Change: new section: announce { ipv6 { unicast ...; multicast ...; } } same syntax as route ...;
Fix: correcly parse single element flow rule reported by: Christoph Loibl
Fix: much faster session establishment
Feature: allow to disable command acknowledgement via environment reported by: nidotech
Feature: https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-idr-bgp-prefix-sid-05 patch by: Evelio Vila
Feature: added a new API message "negotiated" which gives the negotiated feature of the session
Feature: added a new API message "fsm" which gives the BGP state machine information
Feature: added a new API message "signal" which inform of the signals received by ExaBGP
Feature: it is now possible to use ip/netmask as notation for neighbor
Feature: local-as can be set to "auto", to auto-setup an iBGP session using the OPEN's ASN
Feature: Allow binding to multiple global IP addresses
Feature: Add --validate option to check configuration
Feature: Added option to save ADJ-RIB-IN
Fix: Handle MD5 authentication on global IP addresses
Fix: profiling code
Fix: issue when waiting on a TCP connection then closed
Fix: parsing flowspec port
Fix: correctly inherit API data when using templated neighbors
Fix: hexstring function
Fix: VPLS JSON decoding
Fix: Notification when encountering issues
Fix: Many fixes to make sure all tests pass again

Version 4.0.0

Feature: add support for interface-set for BGP flowspec routes
Change: the configuration format is not compatible with ExaBGP 3.x
Change: BMP support is deprecated for BGP-LS
Change: move and install healthcheck in bin
Change: removed old environment support ( DEBUG_* )
Change: configuration logging is now disabled by default
Change: all API commands returns an 'done' or 'error' message after running patch by: Jérôme Marteaux
Change: when API commands are failing, returns a 'error' message patch by: Jérôme Marteaux
Change: md5 is now called md5-password
Change: always use neighbor local address for next-hop self (and not router-id for on IPv4 connections)
Feature: support for large communities (-03) patch by: Job Snijders
Feature: add support for upstart patch by: Pierre-Yves Kerembellec
Feature/Fix: Port of bagpipe EVPN code patch by: Thomas Morrin
Feature: EVPN RT5 support patch by: Diego Garcia del Rio
Feature: Can use numerical values for Flow elements requested by: jpan613 (on github)
Feature: show route (extensive) can take a neighbor as parameter requested by: jtkdpu
Feature: allow to run exabgp from python -m exabgp
Feature: support for BGP-LS decoding
Change: ExaBGP is now run as user/group exabgp/exabgp with the systemd service file. patch by: Vincent Bernat
Change: Update are now grouped by default
Change: Configuration format
- all deprecated name remove
- no more process group within neighbor
Change: Change the API configuration syntax and format
- default changed
  
  JSON is now the default API encoder
  
  JSON now use high resolution time
- syntax changes to the Text API format
  
  added direction of message
  
  change received/sent to receive/send
  
  add extra informatiom (detail here)
- syntax changes to the JSON API format
  
  add direction to object
  
  pid, ppid are now numbers and not string
  
  remove deprecated 'ip' from neighbor
  
  rename 'restart flags' to be 'restart-flags'
  
  rename 'address family flags' to be 'address-family-flags'
  
  format change for notification and shutdown message
  
  VPLS endpoint, base, offset, and size are now numbers and not strings
  
  nlris are now a list and not nrli indexed object
  
  ipv4/ipv6 nlri without label or rd are now a list of nlri (as string) and not key to empty objects
  
  nlris with label or rd are returned as a list of objects
Change: remove all ExaBGP 2.0 compatibily
Change: remove all ExaBGP 2.0 compatibily environment variables
Change: include time when we log to file (and not application)
Change: ttl-security is now called outgoing-ttl
Change: the reactor does not exit if there is no peer configured patch by: Jordan Gedney
Change: API format for BGP flowspec updates, flowspec updates is now a list of dicts where each dict contains a single flowspec rule patch by: Stacey Sheldon (Corsa)
Fix: JSON reporting of VPLS ( endpoint, base, offset, and size were mixed up during printing )
Fix: Do shutdown when waiting for a new connection to a peer
Fix: Bad ASN enconding when ASN4 is not negotiated reported by: Orangefish on github
Fix: Shutdown when waiting for a new outgoing connection to establish
Fix: JSON counter reported by:
Fix: JSON flow printing for source and destination
Fix: Do not always locate exabgp.env reported by: Florian Obser
Fix: Correctly drop root privileges reported by: Florian Obser
Fix: validation of flow routes
Fix: Python differences between Unix version breaking process forking reported by: Raphael Mazelier
Fix: Allow = with flowspec singleton reported by: Pavel Odintsov
Fix: selfcheck feature
Fix: do not refuse to parse multiple MP attributes in an update
Fix: possible bug with attribute information due to caching reported by: Colin Petrie
Fix: issue with unknown capabilities reported by: Sandy Breeze
Fix: notification messages were not passed to the API reported by: Florian Obser
Fix: ExaBGP was crashing if it could not write to a logfile reported by: Pavel Odintsov
Fix: only grouping IPv4 routes reported by: Sergey Viuchny (stroboscope)
Fix: Flow redirect to nexhop encoding reported by: Mickael Marchand (Thank you to Peng Xiao and Nicolas Fevrier for their help)
Fix: remove useless PYTHONPATH in sbin/exabgp reported by: Håvard Eidnes
Fix: add semi-colon in syslog ouput
Fix: parsing multiple NLRI in flow routes reported by: Dmitry Onuchin
Fix: bad parsing of flow routes / missing support for exact bit matches reported by: hengchai reported by: Dmitry Onuchin
Fix: reading large buffered data from helper process caused truncation reported by: qqTYXn7
Fix: better --version output patch by: Ebben Aries
Fix: mistakenly made a function private breaking some ASN4 code path reported by: Victor Sudakov
Fix: the ttl-security parameter didn´t really work. Fixed for outgoing connections now. patch by: Borja Marcos
Fix: AS4Path Message Registration patch by: Adam Twardowski
Fix: ASN4 boundary off by one
Fix: Bad peer IP when using show routes patch by: Wayne Tucker
Fix: broken route-refresh command reported by: Bryan Schwerer
Fix: handle mulitple bits of flags in flow routes (Fragments and TCPFlags) reported by: Pavel Odintsov
Fix: does not use label information when handling the RIB reported by: choisuibun
Fix: healthcheck removes added IPs on exit patch by: Ben Agricola
Fix: Bad encoding of capability when multiple families are used for add-path reported by: Alexander Bespalov
Fix: support non ASN4 use of AS_TRANS (AS23456) reported by: Todd Crane
Fix: the json format would not allow normal parsers to extract all the NLRIs reported by: Marco Marzetti
Feature: Allow single line flow route requested by: Pavel Odintsov
Feature: add support for rpm packaging patch by: Arun Babu Neelicattu
Feature: manually sending EOR pach by: Charles Ng
Feature: add per neighbor connection port requested by: dbarrosop
Feature: support MIN_TTL for incoming connection (for OS with support - FreeBSD) requested by: Borja Marcos
Feature: md5-ip allows to override local-address for the MD5 calculations requested by: Bryan Benson
Feature: allow setting process umask via exabgp.daemon.umask patch by: Bryan Le Gear
Change: Update syslog message format patch by: Brian Johnson
Fix: flush route api patch by: Brian Johnson
Feature: Add 'show neighbor status' api patch by: Brian Johnson
Fix: Broken EOR printing reported by: Pier Carlo Chiodi
Fix: Allow asn4 peer to speak with asn2 only peer patch by: Brian Johnson
Fix: ExaBGP was crashing when serializing BGP flowspec updates patch by: Stacey Sheldon (Corsa)
Fix: API encoding of IPv4 Unicast EOR messages were being encoded as NLRI updates patch by: Stacey Sheldon (Corsa)
Fix: Update RIB cache families on configuration reload patch by: Brian Johnson
Change: Update show neighbors output to be parseable by configuration parser patch by: Brian Johnson
Feature: Allow configuration parsing of a string or a file patch by: Brian Johnson
Fix: Do not add IPv4/unicast family unless specifically configured patch by: Brian Johnson
Fix: ParseAPI should always use the class version of the _built dict patch by: Brian Johnson
Fix: Off by one error when getting message type for send-* api patch by: Brian Johnson
Fix: md5-ip config option is an ip address not a router_id patch by: Brian Johnson
Feature: Show routes by type (static/flow/l2vpn) patch by: Brian Johnson
Fix: Rewrite Update.messages so it will only include one MP_REACH or MP_UNREACH per UPDATE patch by: Brian Johnson
Fix: Remove a peer's RIB cache when it is deleted from the config file patch by: Brian Johnson
Feature: Allow md5 password to be base64 encoded patch by: Brian Johnson

Version 3.4.19

Add: IPv6 nlri-mpls to list of enabled protocol (was missing) requested by: adrian62
Fix: encoding of Flow Label requiring more than 2 bytes reported by: BLAKEMMM
Fix: decoding of capability (was potentially over reading)
Fix: trace when trying to access PID file and this is not allowed reported by: George Shuklin
Fix: Remove a peer's RIB cache when it is deleted from the config file patch by: Brian Johnson
Fix: do not crash the reactor when an invalid IP is passed via the API reported by: Yevgeniy Ovsyannikov
Fix: bad defintion of Flow for ICMPType, ICMPCode and Fragment reported by: Christoph Loibl
Feature: allow add-path for mpls-vpn reported by: adrian62
Change: Backported setup.py from master
Feature: added SRPMS for exabgp patch by: Leonardo Amaral

Version 3.4.18

Backport: backhole community (RFC 7999) original patch by: Job Snijders
Fix: Configuration parser does not accept configs without neighbors. patch by doddt
Fix: 'connect' keyword is now also allowed in neighbor scope patch by: Stacey Sheldon (Corsa)
Fix: removing protocol auto-cleanup (it should never be called and seems to cause a CG issue) reported by: Colin Petrie
Change: default to a 0 offset for ipv6 flowspec source/destination match patch by: Brian Johnson
Fix: Better PID file handling reported by: Ben Agricola
Fix: Update RIB cache families on configuration reload patch by: Brian Johnson
Fix: Backport fix on SIGUSR2 (restarting process not needing to be) patch by: Shawn Zhou
Change: group-updates now generates one UPDATE per address family (and not one per NLRI for non IPv4) patch by: Brian Johnson

Version 3.4.17

Fix: does not accept IPv6 as router-id reported by: yuriya
Fix: JSON output for flow routes with rd reported by droon5
Fix: Fix Path-Information
Fix: Bad encoding of capability when multiple families are used for add-path reported: by Alexander Bespalov
Fix: support non ASN4 use of AS_TRANS (AS23456) reported by: Todd Crane
Fix: do not exit when we can not accept incoming connection reported by: Pavel Batkov
Fix: quote where not escaped in JSON reason field reported by: Rob Barnes
Fix: decoding of IPv6 flow routes reported by: stoffi92
Fix: decoding of Graceful Restart Capability patch by: florinz
Fix: ASN4 encoding patch by: Shu Sugimoto and Eiichiro Watanabe
Change: Run without even peers configured patch by: Jordan Gedney
Fix: JSON encoding of updates without NLRIs patch by: Dhammika Pathirana
Fix: Possible race conditions in api handling patch by: Brian Johnson
Feature: Add 'show neighbor status' api patch by: Brian Johnson
Fix: flush route api patch by: Brian Johnson
Fix: Allow asn4 peer to speak with asn2 only peer patch by: Brian Johnson
Fix: only one MP NLRI is allow per UPDATE reported by: subsecond
Change: configuration output does not includes ':' anymore patch by: doddt
Change: syslog format changed to be in line with other application patch by: Brian Johnson

Version 3.4.16

Feature: allow users to decide if processes must be run before or after we drop privileges requested by: Ben Agricola
Fix: correctly look in /etc/exabgp for programs to run when the path is relative reported by: Vincent Bernat
Fix: missing handler for NOTIFICATION patch by: minglvyy

Version 3.4.15

Fix: the ttl-security parameter didn´t really work. Fixed for outgoing connections now. patch by: Borja Marcos
Fix: configuration leak between processes for neighbor-changes and send-packets reported by: spakka
Feature: add per neighbor connection port requested by: dbarrosop
Fix: ASN4 boundary off by one
Fix: Bad peer IP when using show routes patch by (backported): Wayne Tucker
Fix: Missing next-hop in the text api reported by: Lisa Roach
Fix: broken route-refresh command reported by: Bryan Schwerer
Fix: wrongly announcing connection issue with peer on the API reported by: Bryan Schwerer

Version 3.4.14

Change: This version does not exists
Change: we modified some pypi related code and failed at first
Change: pypi does not let you modify releases

Version 3.4.13

Fix: add semicolon in syslog entry so it can be parsed by tools
Fix: duplication of message following helper process death reported by: spakka
Fix: death of helper program would lead to BGP session drop reported by: spakka
Fix: mistakenly made a function private breaking some ASN4 code path reported by: Victor Sudakov
Feature: manual eor patch by: Charles Ng

Version 3.4.12

Fix: issue with unknown capabilities reported by: Sandy Breeze
Fix: notification messages were not passed to the API reported by: Florian Obser
Fix: transitivity on extended community patch by: Thomas Morin
Fix: bad reporting of VPLS information in JSON
Fix: wrong SAFI on MPLS routes reported by: Hideaki HAYASHI
Fix: bad route comparaison reported by: Alvaro Pereira
Fix: decoding of Update
Fix: Flow redirect to nexhop encoding reported by: Mickael Marchand (Thank you to Peng Xiao and Nicolas Fevrier for their help)
Fix/Improve: JSON for flow spec
Fix/Improve: redirect-to-nexthop reported by: Mickael Marchand

Version 3.4.11

Change: install healthcheck in bin
Fix: Do shutdown when waiting for a new connection to a peer
Fix: Bad ASN enconding when ASN4 is not negotiated reported by: Orangefish on github
Fix: Shutdown when waiting for a new outgoing connection to establish
Fix: JSON counter reported by:
Fix: JSON flow printing for source and destination
Fix: Do not always locate exabgp.env reported by: Florian Obser
Fix: Correctly drop root privileges reported by: Florian Obser
Fix: validation of flow routes
Fix: Python differences between Unix version breaking process forking
Fix: Allow = with flowspec singleton reported by: Pavel Odintsov
Fix: selfcheck feature
Fix: do not refuse to parse multiple MP attributes in an update
Fix: possible bug with attribute information due to caching
Feature: Allow single line flow route requested by: Pavel Odintsov
Feature: show route (extensive) can take a neighbor as parameter requested by: jtkdpu

Version 3.4.10

Fix: Fix parsing attributes with PARTIAL flag set patch by: Daniel Neiter
Fix: Fix -t exit with error code 1 when -t is used and the configuration is invalid reported by: Kevin Landreth
Fix: Using split option with large MP could lead to invalid update reported by: m4ccbr on github
Fix: MD5 support for incoming connection patch by: Sandy Breeze and David Overton
Fix: prevent multiple similar binding reported by: Sandy Breeze
Fix: allow different MD5 for the same binding reported by: Sandy Breeze
Fix: issue with ASN4 code reported by: Florian Obser (with a patch, thank you)
Fix: issue with --decode
Change: remove /usr/bin/healthcheck. People should use "python -m exabgp healthcheck" instead

Version 3.4.9

Fix: very bad bug where NLRI where not associated to the right AFI/SAFI pair ( #235 ) reported by: esequei
Feature: per peer listening option ( listen keyword with port number )
Feature: incoming connection MD5 support (incomplete: only work on localhost atm) requested by: Sandy Breeze

Version 3.4.8

Fix: bug with multiple configuration files
Fix: allow generic attribute not only in single line but also in multiple lines patch by: Eiichiro Watanabe (issue #214)
Fix: issue with parsing extended-community origin reported by: Tim Preston
Fix: handle numeric community parsing correctly reported by: Aaron Kalin
Fix: bug in AS_PATH with AS_SET handling patch by: Eiichiro Watanabe
Fix: off by one for the maximum message size generation reported by: Eiichiro Watanabe
Fix: issue with handling of some generic attributes reported by: Hiroshi Yokoi
Fix: restore old api syntax broken by mistake patch by: David Waring
Fix: issue with E-VPN NLRI patch by: Thomas Morin
Fix: bad iteration for JSON generation ( bug created during 3.4.8 dev ) patch by: Ian bobbitt
Fix: healthcheck.py: optionally match "alias" in ifconfig output patch by: Håvard Eidnes
Fix: healthcheck.py: make the ifconfig path work; regexp fix patch by: Håvard Eidnes
Change: moved the netlink library within exabgp
Feature: qa/bin/ip and qa/bin/route

Version 3.4.7

Package: be more pythonic and use enty points with pip installation
Package: automatically update debian's changelog on release
Fix: issue with aggregator generation reported by: Yan Filyurin

Version 3.4.6

Fix: a badly formated flow route would throw the parser in limbo reported by: NickGudov (issue #203)
Fix: allow multiple extended attribute (like flow rediction with a origin/target)
Fix: use ICMP Type and Code when printing flows (respectively using name and number)
Fix: do not use space printing redirect extended community
Fix: not parsing correctly multisession configurations
Fix: bug in ASPath parsing reported by: Terry Hardie (issue #205)
Feature: use ETC environment variable for configuration location if set
Feature: JSON now includes ASN (local,peer) and IP (local,IP) requested by: jtkdpu (issue #196) patch by: Ryan Tinianov (pull #199) for the IP
Feature: API support for sending eor requested by: spakka (issue #109)
Feature: allow routes to have a name (which can be used as comment) requested by: lazy404 (issue #167)
Feature: improve release code to prevent version mismatch (issue #202) reported by: Anand Buddhdev
Fix: systemd file is not installed anymore by default (issue #202) to add to the file installation list use "python setup.py install systemd" requested by: Anand Buddhdev
QA: moved all testing code (used by travis-ci) in the ./qa folder
QA: added nosetest, updating some of the old unittest code
QA: integrated travis-ci with coveralls.io to have real time code coverage
QA: ExaBGP can take more than one configuration file and on configuration reload rotate between them
QA: checking that broken flows do not break the parser
QA: checking that configuration routes are well added and removed on SIGUSR1
QA: checking that incoming notifications are handled correctly
QA: moved many sample configuration file from etc/exabgp to the new qa/conf

Version 3.4.5

Fix: improper distribution of events to process workers reported by: Tim Epkes

Version 3.4.4

Fix: bug with IPv4 / ipv6 handling
Fix: better peer isolation when parsing messages
Fix: IPv6 decoding when the routes includes link-local
Fix: missing text API paramter
Fix: no JSON for Aggregator
Fix: show route extensive patch by: Michal Grzedzicki, thank you
Fix: 4-Octet AS Specific BGP Extended Community (RFC 5668) patch by: Michal Grzedzicki
Fix: bug with label encoding patch by: Jesse Mather
Improvement: add support for add-path with family MPLS requested by: Tim Epkes
Fix: bug when process writes multiple lines reported by: Ilya Voronin
Feature: accept packet with confedation (RFC 3065) requested by: oriordan (with a patch, thank you)
Fix: do not bark if an unknown ASPath attribute is found
Fix: correctly accept connection on AF_INET6 socket patch by: John W. O'Brien
Fix: restore lost python2.6 compatibility reported by: Minsuk Song
Fix: IPv6 MD5 reported by: Dave J Knight
Add framework to debug SIGUSR1 related problems
Fix: do not drop session when receiving an unknown capability patch by: Peter van Dijk (PowerDNS)

Version 3.4.3

Fix: JSON message increment reported by: Daniel Neiter, with a patch, thank you.
Fix: JSON message format for operational reported by: Rob Barnes, with a patch, thank you.
Fix: JSON message for route-refresh
Fix: EOR unpack issue
Fix: ASPath encoding
Fix: possible bad notify call
Fix: Aggregator configuration issue
Fix: pycharm reported issues
- operational, using afi instead of safi
- bad function paramters
- missing return keyword
- many cleanups
Change: use RFC MULTISESSION capability and not CISCO variant anymore

Version 3.4.2

Feature: add more information in crash report
Fix: problem when trying to report exception errors
Fix: better handling of on PIPE errors reported by: Thomas Raabo
Fix: could not split MPLS routes reported by: Hideaki HAYASHI
Fix: not correctly handling NOTIFICATION message reported by: Hideaki HAYASHI
Fix: do not block on a peer should a socket become blocking reported by: Wouter Miltenburg
Fix: API JSON message id incrementation reported by: Wouter Miltenburg

Version 3.4.1

Fix: on bad JSON message patch by: Wouter Miltenburg
Fix: parsing of default route reported by: Wouter Miltenburg
Fix: remove legacy exabgp.tcp.timeout
Fix: forgot some processes options when printing neighbor
Fix: bad function call for API
Fix: correct JSON for OPEN
Fix: issues with bad naming of APIOption patch by: Wouter Miltenburg
Fix: do not try to be clever (and possibly get it wrong) and rely on keepalive timer to detect TCP faults
Fix: formating issue of extended community
Fix: issue with EOR
Fix: caching issue reported by: Wouter Miltenburg
Fix: make sure we do not call select with a negative time reported by: Wouter Miltenburg, Daniel Piekacz patch by: Wouter Miltenburg
Fix: handle AS4_PATH with PARTIAL bit set reported by: Daniel Piekacz
Fix: bug with generic attribute generation
Fix: bad Notification patch by: Wouter Miltenburg
Fix: bad Keepalive JSON message patch by: Wouter Miltenburg

Version 3.4.0

Feature: add support for extended-attribute for FlowSpec
Feature: more detailed JSON objects patch by: Wouter Miltenburg
Feature: support for L2VPN (experimental) patch by: Nikita V. Shirokov
Improvement: better handling of NOTIFICATION received during OPEN negotiation
Improvement: ExaBGP can restart failed helper process
Fix: Do not reconnect too fast when connection fails reported by: Robert Barnes
Fix: Invalid JSON object for route-refresh reported by: Robert Barnes
Fix: We were not reporting the NLRI of the route received when exabgp.log.routes was set
Fix: accept exabgp_tcp_port as configuration option and not only exabgp.tcp.port
Fix: duplicate line output
Fix: bad refactorisation which caused an bad ASN4 bug
Fix: change EOR from IPv4 multicast (mistake) to IPv4 unicast reported by: Mark Treacy
Fix: bad encoding of flow fragment encoding reported by: Andrei-Marius Radu
Fix: bad reporting of process open sending reported by: Mark Treacy (with patch, thank you)
Fix: Incorporating NETBSD compatibility patches
Fix: Generation of Generic Attributes
Fix: Faster reactor (should be able to process much more API/BGP messages)
Change: new commands for the configuration of the API
Change: JSON objects now include a unique neighbor identifier
Change: JSON objects now include a counter for unique message id
Change: JSON objects now include a "type" to now how to best parse them
Change: JSON new EOR object
Change: JSON new Flow format
Change: slight variation with the command line option names, now using docopt patch by: Michael Robert Watson
Change: the profile information is now exported in kcachegrind format
Compatibility: JSON re-introduced the family under the "announce" section ( removed by mistake )
Compatibility: restoring integer as default time, high resolution must be enabled to not break older installations
Change: JSON and Text shutdown object now shows the PID and PPID

Version 3.3.2

Fix: work toward working operational-01 patch by: David Freedman
Fix: do not use . notation in systemd but _ reported by: Apollon Oikonomopoulos

Version 3.3.1

Fix: typo using uid instead gid (could prevent dropping privileges !) reported by: Adrian Gämperli (with a merge request, thank you)
Fix: prevent ExaBGP to start if the log folder is not writeable by the user
Fix: configuration defaults for booleans ( and warns when group-updates is not enabled );
Fix: issue when removing some routes reported by: Adrian Gämperli (backb1 on github)
Fix: bad printing of route as-path
Fix: neighbor matching was too permissive reported by: Adrian Gämperli (with a merge request, thank you)
Fix: under load ExaBGP could miss some commands sent through the API reported by: Adrian Gämperli (with a merge request, thank you)
Change: performing KeepAlive handling as first action
Change: time is provided as an high resolution real number and not an integer
Debian package update by: Henry-Nicolas Tourneur

Version 3.3.0

Fix: typo causing issue when parsing multiple neighbor commands reported by: Pablo Camarillo Garvia
Fix: bad handling of EOR reported by: Petr Lapukhov
Fix: multiple bugs with multi neighbor commands
Feature: allow as-path [ asn asn, [ asn ] ]
Other: migrate the setup.py script to work with git (vs hg)
Change: TEXT API format changed and version updated to 3.3.0 (reflect the version when the last change was introduced)
Change: JSON API format changed and version updated to 3.3.0
Change: as-path now returns two JSON keys, 'as-path' and 'as-set'
Change: NLRI are now grouped by next-hop, next-hop removed from the NLRI
Change: raw message use the keyword "message" and not "update"
Change/Fix: JSON for announcement was missing next-hop
Change: on TEXT API, "announced route eor" becomes "announced eor"

Version 3.2.19

Fix: bug when displaying EOR
Fix: invalid check on next-hop for multi-line routes reported by: Pierre Aubry
Fix: badly parsing command line for run option reported by: Allan Feid solution by: Vincent Bernat
Fix: allow the creation of 'allow' flows reported by: Adrian Cepleanu
Fix: bad JSON encoding for EOR reported by: Robert Barnes
Fix: API message encoding patch by: Daniel Neiter
Feature: allow digit:digit in extended communities requested by: Pierre Aubry
Feature: healtcheck.py, python 2.6 and community support pulled from: Allan Feid

Version 3.2.18

Fix: add path for IPv6 was badly negotiated reported by: Robert Barnes

Version 3.2.17

Feature: make route auto-flush an option with an API call to flush routes on demand
Feature: make the reactor loop time an option (it allows for a faster flush of routes)
Feature: allow to disable the Adj-RIB-Out (can save lots of memory if you know what you are going to send) requested by: David Hauweele
Fix: Keep API routes between SIGUSR
Fix: Missing empty added nlri when the update only has withdrawn reported by Robert Barnes (and his co-workers) with a patch, thank you !
Fix: Single AS Path with AS Set were reported as empty AS Path and AS Set reported by: David Hauweele
Fix: possibly not sending withdrawal when it was required reported by: David Hauweele
Fix: typo in code causing crash when process went away reported by: Robert Barnes
Fix: RouterID MUST be an IPv4 reported by: Kristopher Beevers
Fix: JSON output on EBGP and IBGP session is not the same reported by: Robert Barnes
Fix: route representation with labels and route distinguisher
Fix: do not double remove the BGP header size reported by: Hideaki HAYASHI
Fix: parsing flow NLRI, withdrawal were reported as announcement
Fix: printing extended communities
Fix: retry when network is blocking (issue 60) reported by: Hideaki HAYASHI
Change: remove next-hop from attributes in JSON as it is given in the announce section
Change: cleanup in configuration parsing
Change: the path-information, labels and route distinguisher are now printed before the next-hop

Version 3.2.16

Fix: fix an issue with RIB cache handling
Fix: fix an issue with Flow generation introduced recently (mandatory attributes are mandatory even for Flow Routes) thanks to: Quentin Loos for reporting the issue and helping fixing it
Fix: on SIGUSR no route withdrawal update was performed reported by: Sascha Schumann
Fix: Do not oversend routes for route refresh reported by: Hideaki HAYASHI
Fix: Bug when route when trying to withdraw an absent route with the API reported by: Peter Bristow
Fix: Malformed JSON message reported by: Robert Barnes
Fix: validate the FLAG of the attribute received (following our own advise on IDR)
Change: major RIB code modification
Change: match attributes using the flag value as well

Version 3.2.15

Fix: a wrong fix introducing a bug in 3.2.14

Version 3.2.14

Fix: do not leak route between peers
Fix: restore group level static group for all peers thereafter
Fix: a bug in group-updates causing attributes to not be included in the update message
Fix: a bug when update large than 4096 could be generated with group-updates
Fix: an issue with JSON generation
Fix: MD5 support had been removed by error from 3.2
Feature: allow to use quote with --decode
Feature: implement draft-ietf-idr-aigp-10

Version 3.2.13

Fix: do not send enhanced route refresh BoRR and EoRR on reconnection
Fix: do not take all the CPU when connecting

Version 3.2.12

Fix: the signal for reload were wrong in the debian script reported by: Sascha Schumann
Fix: a critical bug introduce in 3.2.11 when route were not resent on reconnect reported by: Sascha Schumann

Version 3.2.11

Feature: the TCP server allows 'neighbor' commands patch by: Hideaki HAYASHI
Feature: initial Enhanced route refresh initial implementation thanks to: Hideaki HAYASHI for reporting an issue before the release (some border cases still exist)
Fix: bug in generating API string, missing space
Fix: bug in generating API string, withdrawn reported as invalid announced
Fix: bug in generating API string, withdawn was missing Path-Information
Fix: route refresh implementation issues
Fix: a bug with capability parsing introduced with operational reported by: M. Brent Busby
Fix: be more aggressive on reconnection (3.2 was slower than 3.1) reported by: Sascha Schumann

Version 3.2.10

Fix: was not announcing add-path for IPv6 unicast
Fix: we were not sending the Notification messages reported by: Hideaki HAYASHI
Feature: add support for route-refresh (RFC 2918)

Version 3.2.9

Fix: some json generation issue reported by: Peter Spikings
Fix: bad decoding of withdrawn routes with label ( checking 0x80000 and not 0x800000 )
Fix: only treat 0x800000 as special for route withdrawal
Fix: we could believe we were already connected when we were not
Fix: handle when ExaBGP daftly connects to iself
Fix: did not parse add-path capability correctly (only registered the last family sent) reported by: Ryan Steinmetz
Fix: ASM messages were sent as ADM
Feature: decode shows the JSON representation of updates
Feature: start of support for draft-ietf-idr-operational-message-00
Feature: allow operational advisory message using the API

Version 3.2.8

Fix: correctly re-send routes between restart

Version 3.2.7

Fix: do not try to read empty body, causing loop delay

Version 3.2.6

Fix: bug in collision detection
Fix: prevent re-announcement of identical routes

Version 3.2.5

Feature: FlowSpec decoding (ExaBGP can decode incoming FlowSpec)
Feature: detect invalid netmask on route parsing
Feature: "next-hop self" is supported via the API
Feature: can accept incoming connect and perform collision detection
Feature: add support for draft-ietf-idr-flowspec-redirect-ip-00.txt
Feature: add missing DCSP marking from RFC 5575 (flowspec)
Feature: add missing traffic-action from RFC 5575 (flowspec)
Feature: add support for draft-raszuk-idr-flow-spec-v6-03
Feature: complete RFC 5575 by providing support for flow-vpn
Fix: async connect issues reported by: Vincent Bernat (with very good advice for the patch)
Fix: bad function defintions patch by: Vincent Bernat
Fix/Compatibility: bad naming of flow capability
Compatibility: -c becomes -f (it should not be used by users anyway)

Version 3.2.4

Feature: new update code generation can really group NLRI in one update packet
Feature: massive code cleanup, much easier to read
Feature: new RIB code (inbound and outbound tables) much faster
Compatibility: JSON next-hop for the route is not in the attribute anymore but the NLRI

Version 3.2.3

Fix: an issue in the 3.2.x series when the socket return a non-fatal error reported by: Daniel Bradshaw
Fix: an issue when the code would not behave correctly on network error
Fix: some issues when encoding vpnv4 routes
Fix: change the behaviour of the main peer loop (should behave more like expected - no bug reported tho)
Fix: many small fixes
Fix: bad encoding of FlowSpec Fragments
Feature: implemented some defensive coding practice (enable with exabgp.debug.defensive)
Feature: IO code now fully non blocking on read and write
Feature: total rewrite of the watchdog feature now extremely scalable

Version 3.2.2

Feature: allow to generate NOTIFICATION messages through the API requested by: Parag Jain
Feature: new syntax for the multiple neighbor announcement created in 3.1.13 Allow to filter on more than the IP address requested by: Petr Lapukhov
Feature: better uid/euid/gid change check
Feature: allow to reload with restart of helper process with SIGUSR1 patch by: Vincent Bernat
Feature: --decode can now be passed multiple messages to decode
Feature: -v,--version returns ExaBGP's version
Feature: be more robust on ^C
Feature: totally rewrote the networking code, it now better deal with blocking write and not not need buffering
Feature: user controlled open wait timer
Feature: handle unknown transitive attributes
Feature: allow the generation of generic attributes
Feature: faster parsing of consecutive updates with the same attributes
Feature: more regression testing
Fix: potential issue with multisession collision detection
Fix: with multisession recent python would refuse to copy an route due to a lock in logger of the neighbor object
Fix: could not handle NOTICATION sent during the OPEN negotiation stage
Fix: extra spaces in the configuration could cause bad parsing reported by: Parag Jain (with a patch for the RD case - thank you) reported by: Vincent Bernat (with an alternate solution)
Fix: ExaBGP would not connect if the OS did not implement SO_REUSEPORT reported by: Vincent Bernat
Fix: the configuration would not handle run program with upper case or spaces reported by: Vincent Bernat
Fix: bug in the networking code patch by: Vincent Bernat
Fix: an issue with received timer expiring when it should not have reported by: Eric Cables
Fix: do not try to parse Flow Route when perforing self-check (ExaBGP regression suite)
Compatibility: supervisor was renamed reactor
Compatibility: the word inet4/inet6 are now replaced by ipv4/ipv6
Compatibility: the option exabgp.tcp.block was removed following the networking code change
Compatibility: reload the configuration with SIGUSR1, reload configuration and processes with SIGUSR2
Compatinility: using SIGHUP will now TERMINATE ExaBGP and not reload the configuration reported by: Daniel Bradshaw (issue 32)

Version 3.1.13 - 6th July 2013

Fix: only clear buffered routes on restart and not reload (bug never reported)
Fix: an issue when parsing EOR
Fix: bug with RD community genration reported by: Parag Jain
Feature: use less memory on route change calculation
Feature: more regression testing
Feature: allow to control which neighbor will get API notification requested by: Parag Jain
Feature: allow to control which neighbors will get API notification requested by: Petr Lapukhov
Feature: allow delayed connections requested by: David Freeman
Feature: block on busy socket for performance testing requested by: David Freeman
Fix/Feature: only announce routes for the negociated family on a connection requested by: Andrew Hoyos

Version 3.1.12 - 16th May 2013

Fix: could crash when a family safi was not defined in the peer family group instead of exiting with an error
Fix: a bug in the generation of extended community (target and origin)

Version 3.1.11 - 2nd of May 2013

Fix/Feature: prevent exabgp api command to block the main loop if very long (issue 29)
Feature: better sharing of available time between api and peers
Fix: a bug when trying to stop exabgp and a worker process is unstable
Feature: count how many time a worker crashed and stop the application it is unstable (5 restart in 64 seconds)

Version 3.1.10 - 2nd of May 2013

Change: the JSON format of ASPath

Version 3.1.10 - 8th of April 2013

Change: relax a rule and let MED propagate on IBGP

Version 3.1.9 - 27th of March 2013

Fix: bug in logging
Fix: typo in neighbor printing

Version 3.1.8 - 22nd of March 2013

Fix: bad encoding of extended community for FlowSpec redirect reported by: Ozgur Karaman
Feature: unsupported before the next configuration format 'next-hop self', the neighbor MUST be defined first requested by: Federic Gabut-Deloraine

Version 3.1.7 - 18th of March 2013

Fix: api only get bgp session negotiation messages if neighbor-changes is set reported by: Lorenzo Murillo
Fix: json quoted integer and long by mistake reported by: Lorenzo Murillo
Fix: json used comma with no data to separate reported by: Lorenzo Murillo

Version 3.1.6 - 8th of March 2013

Fix: unclear log entry when removing route using API reported by: Lorenzo Murillo
Fix: withdrawn routes were always prepended with add-path information
Fix: bad withdrawal of routes (issue 11)
Fix: more sanity checking when parsing flow routes
Change: split configuration code to not be exabgp only
Feature: add a very simple BMP deamon (version 1 of the draft)

Version 3.1.5 - 18th of Febuary 2013

Fix: function name broking some features (issue 23) reported by: Lorenzo Murillo

Version 3.1.4 - 18th of Febuary 2013

Fix: Learn to spell negotiated (issue 21) reported by: Ian Wells
Feature: option to only attempt one TCP connection per peer (required by unittesting code)
Fix: a bug in code in charge of parsing legacy API names
Fix: fix relative path from exabgp
Fix: bug in api code causing crash
Fix: did not cleanup routes from the api before tokenisation (issue 22) reported by: Lorenzo Murillo
Fix: did not split routes from the api (issue 22) reported by: Lorenzo Murillo
Fix: when the api program was sending message too fast, some were missed (issue 22) reported by: Lorenzo Murillo
Fix: make peer name more unique (adding asn, and router-id) to prevent to router configuration to merge
Feature: restart the API program if we lost its file descriptor

Version 3.1.3 - 4th of Febuary 2013

Fix: JSON bugs (encoding for cluster-list, withdrawn routes) patch by: Vincent Bernat

Version 3.1.2 - 10th of January 2013

Copyright: updated all copyright notice (welcome to 2013)
Change: tidy process command name (keeping compatibility)
Feature: pass raw update message to the API
Feature: better control of the API message passed
Feature: allow/make work a global process for multiples peers (partial compatibility kept)

Version 3.1.1 - 6th of January 2013

Complete Fix: watchdog feature (issue 13)
Feature: JSON API 1.0, flowspec untested (issue 17)
Feature: allow to remove routes by only providing the nlri and next hop (issue 16)

Version 3.1.0 - 2nd of January 2013

Partial Fix: watchdog feature reported by: Ryan Steinmetz
Fix: problem with SIGHUP when deleting peer patch by: Justin Azoff (thank you)
Fix: cluster-list attribute was not passed to api correctly
Feature: MD5 support on FreeBSD (issue 14) patch by: Ryan Steinmetz (thank you)
Feature: caching of Community and Next-Hop requested by: Justin Azoff (with benchmarking gains report,thank you)
Feature: Store routes in neighbor as set and not list, so removal are O(1) patch by: Justin Azoff (thank you)
Feature: (experimental) Limit the memory used for parsed route caching
Feature: (experimental) json encoding on the API (issue 17) not tested with flow routes or complex routes

Version 3.0.11 - 21st of November 2012

Fix: add support for IPv6 MD5SUM reported by: Eiichiro Watanabe (with a patch, thank you)
Fix: RFC compliance, supporting keepalive timer of zero
Fix: parsing an invalid community string could cause a program crash
Feature: add possibility to disable route attribute caching to reduce memory usage (over a few hundred Mb saved per full routing tables) requested by Daniel Piekacz

Version 3.0.10 - 6th of September 2012

Fix: not removing duplicate route correctly (same nlri different attributes) (issue 7) patch by: Reggie Yam (thank you)

Version 3.0.9 - 5th of September 2012

Fix: problem when parsing ASN which are not fitting in a Python integer reported by: Matthias Cramer

Version 3.0.8 - 28th of August 2012

Fix: empty as-path route printing
Fix: bug in printing neighbor objects
Fix: the first route of any MultiProtocol Update did not get its attributes set
Fix: safi on extensive route printing
Feature: change the packet dump format to be cisco like
Change: added configuration self-checking (-t, --test)
Feature: added parsing of raw update in command line (--decode)
Feature: add a capability to disable asn4 support (useful when decoding routes)

Version 3.0.7 - 19th of August 2012

Fix: parser had a bug with multiple flow routes reported by Dmitry Lisakov and Oleg Alekseenko

Version 3.0.6 - 5th of August 2012

Fix: ommission during a variable name change
Fix: the example supervise script
Fix: withdrawing routes via helper program (issue 5)

Version 3.0.5 - 22 of July 2012

Feature: suppor for systemd patch by: Sébastien Luttringer
Fix: some unexpected verbosity when use the exabgp shell script on some OSes patch by: Sébastien Luttringer
Fix: possible miss of connection loss
Fix: EOR code (again)
Fix: we were deleting the next-hop of MP routes !
Fix: follow correctly RFC 4760 (MP) for route generation (it was working, we were lucky)
Fix: exabgp.daemon was spelt exabgp.deamon for the PID location migration reported by: Tim Gebbett
CHANGE: Do not start if the PID file exists
CHANGE: helpers can now get new message for EORs like "announced eor 1/1 (IPv4 unicast)"
Debian package update by: Henry-Nicolas Tourneur
ArchLinux package by: by: Sébastien Luttringer

Version 3.0.4 - 19 of July 2012

Fix: FlowSpec API change update forgotten
Fix: Provide the right user to -fi when upgrading on Debian
Fix: split option now works with non ipv4 unicast route
Fix: log level parsing with -d
Fix: need to change gid before uid when dropping privileges
Fix: do not run our forked program as the caller but the suid user (fix bug when daemonizing too)
Fix: bug when daemonizing and not using syslog
Fix: handle gracefully ^C during configuration load/reload
Feature: prevent SIGINT to reach the forked programs
Feature: allow multiple configuration files, which forks multiple main loops
Feature: send a "shutdown" message before terminating the worker processes
Feature: group-updates option in neighbor which group routes with the same attributes in one update
Feature: announce to helpers the start and end of update

Version 3.0.3 - 17 of July 2012 (unreleased experimental version)

Fix: bug in ASN4 path reconstruction
Fix: on peer close, do not carry untransmitted routes through the next cycle
Fix: on peer reload make sure all the routes are re-announced
Fix: massive CPU saving - only check for new route to announce when we have some
Fix: route buffering when sending many routes over slow connection/to slow routers was broken reported by Simon Woodhead (thank you for the testbed to debug it)
Feature: in the way we store route in memory for the route delta on config change
Feature: better reporting of message buffering
CHANGE: The way the routes as-path is printed/parsed (final for the 3.x.x)

Version 3.0.2 - 16 of July 2012 (unreleased experimental version)

CHANGE: python2.4 may work but it not supported anymore
Fix: as-path decoding issue with as-set being eaten (full rewrite of ASPATH and ASN4 parsing) reported by Rishabh Goel
Fix: bug with profiling
Fix: withdrawal was broken when path-info was added
API CHANGE: as-path configuration syntax (as-sequence removed)
CHANGE: restructuration of file hierarchy

Version 3.0.1 - 14 of July 2012 (unreleased experimental version)

Feature: caching of parsed attributes of route received (saving memory and CPU)
Feature: do not generate complex string with packet data if not printed
Feature: all objects are storing data in the wire format when possible
Feature: add AGGREGATOR and AS4_AGGREGATOR support requested by: Rishabh Goel <rgoel@internap.com>
Feature: add ATOMIC_AGGREGATE support requested by Rishabh Goel
Feature: faster configuration parsing
Feature: bring compatibility mode for option with 2.0.x
Feature: support for RFC 4659 BGP-MPLS IP VPN Extension for IPv6 VPN
Fix: harmless bug in the EOR generation
Fix: missing family announcement in open when autogenerated with option "all"
Fix: silly bug in profiling
Fix: clusterid and originator_id were not added to generated routes
Fix: were not parsing extended-community in multi-line routes
Fix: flow-spec route creation (broken during the work for 3.0.0)
Fix: typo when generating route string with labels
Fix: problem when forking on BSD/Darwin
Change: to ASN4 code

Version 3.0.0 - 13 of July 2012 (unreleased experimental version)

Major version change due to incompatible CLI interface with version 1.x.x and 2.x.x
Major version change due to a change of API behaviour with the forked worker processes
Change : Many printed message have changed, including OPEN MultiProtocol
CLI Change: use new ini file and environment values for configuration
API Change: send "up" message to worker process when neighbour OPEN negotiation is complete (not on TCP up)
API Change: the format of the line sent to the worker changed, neighbor name include multi-session information
API Change: the down message sent to help programs now include a reason for the shutdown of the session
API Change: use the word withdrawn when the route was received, withdraw when it is an action, same for announce and announced
API Addition: send "connected" to worker when neighbour TCP session is established (replace previous 'up')
API Addition: requires peer-updates under 'process' to announce peer status changes
API Addition: show routes, show routes extensive, show neighbors
Fix: were not dropping root privileges correctly
Fix: reset counters correctly for number of routes seen (only affects the logs)
Fix: prevent 100% CPU usage/loop when trying to read on unreliable links
Fix: correctly process IPv6 routes with 32 bytes long next-hop reported by Daniel Piekacz (with patch, thank you)
Fix: problem on broken pipe with the helper program
Fix: correct sending of message to helper program (every worker was getting every peers messages)
Fix: if an helper program goes away, do not try to restart the peer (prevent surprises)
Fix: problem when writing too fast and causing EGAIN errno failure on the socket (mostly/only on Mac OSX) reported by Simon Helson (with patch, thank you)
Fix: a nasty bug when dynamic route announcement would not work when no routes were setup reported by Tim Gebbett
Fix: bad counting of routes parsed (not resetting in some case)
Fix: badly printed local-preference when generating route representation
Fix: bug when trying to daemonise ExaBGP, caused by unclosed FD reported by Ryan Lane (with a patch, thank you)
Fix: parse correctly routes with empty AS-SET or AS-SEQUENCE
Feature: hidden option to change BGP select timeout (use at your own risk - do not ask me where it is - it is hidden)
Feature: announce EOR even if Graceful-Restart was not negotiated but only MultiProtocol
Feature: implementation of draft-ietf-idr-bgp-multisession-06 use capability 131 (and not 68) for multisession to achieve interop with Cisco
Feature: following RFC 6608 new notification codes
Feature: to the logging code and message filtering
Feature: support RFC 3765 (NOPEER community)
Feature: support for draft-ietf-idr-add-paths-07 (even IPv6 even if it is not supported by anyone) requested by: Rishabh Goel (Thank you for giving me a BGP session to an XR)
Feature: support for RFC 4456 (BGP Route Reflection: An Alternative to Full Mesh Internal BGP (IBGP)) more exactly the generation and parsing of originator-id and cluster-list attributes requested by Rishabh Goel
Feature: add tcp timeout control for connection over very slow ebgp multihop (dangerous, use with care)
Feature: control of the MP families announced in the OPEN message
Feature: support for RFC 3107 and 4364 (Carrying Label Information in BGP-4)
Feature: selfcheck, allow to check if the routes we generate pass our own parser

Version 2.0.8 - 31 of March 2012 (stable version)

Fix: the update grouping could cause message up to "header size" bigger than allowed.
Fix: caller script path detection

Version 2.0.7 - 24 of March 2012

Fix: debian packaging issue
Note: Only released for debian (again :p)

Version 2.0.6 - 28 of Febuary 2012 (stable version)

Feature: update grouping up to 4096 bytes
Fix: debian packaging issue

Version 2.0.5 - 10 of Febuary 2012

Feature: allow named community
Fix: bad flowspec component size calculation for large flow routes
Fix: bad attribute generation for attributes bigger than 256 chars
Fix: allows to pass arguments to the helper programs
Contribution: route collector utilities from Daniel Piekacz

Version 2.0.4 - 1st of Febuary 2012

Fix: sending any signal stoped the program instead of reloading

Version 2.0.3 - 1st of Febuary 2012

Feature: now sending help "neighbor <ip> up" when a neighbor goes up
Fix: now sending correctly "neighbor <ip> down" when a neighbor goes down
Fix: a bug when parsing "split" configuration
Fix: sending routes faster than a router can accept does not cause the BGP session to go down problem found by Eric Nghia Nguyen Duy (thank you for giving me access to his lab to fix the issue)
Feature: Buffering message we can not send if sockets return a transient failure
Feature: Limiting how long and how deep the buffer are kept before we kill the session
Fix: under load we could receive partial messages, read until we have it all
Fix: we were not always sending the 'down' message to handlers
Fix: handle signal during select
Internal Change: how we read from socket
User Change: new DEBUG_CORE option (alias for DEBUG_SUPERVISOR, DEBUG_DAEMON, DEBUG_PROCESS, DEBUG_MESSAGE, DEBUG_TIMER, DEBUG_ROUTE)
User Change: DEBUG_ROUTES is deprecated please use DEBUG_ROUTE (2.0.x release with have both values)
Feature: Parsing AS4_PATH message and merging AS_PATH when required
Fix: possible problem with session establishment
Feature: extendeded community are available in the configuration file
Feature: printed routes now include extended community information
Fix: bad route generation for OLD BGP speakers, previously not including 2 bytes ASN in the AS4_PATH

Version 2.0.2 - 1st of January 2012

Fix : would not daemonise correctly
Fix: we were mistakenly not displaying Notify sent on errors
Fix: some debian packaging issues
Fix: bug when parsing unknown open capability
Fix: forgotten to allow some route option on multiline
User Change: implemented RFC 6286 BGP Identifier released restrictions
Improvment: recognise multisession capability (draft-ietf-idr-bgp-multisession-06)
Improvment: allow the configuration of route which will not be announced on configuration reload (to work in conjunction with watchdog) requested by Marco d'Itri

Version 2.0.1 - 8th of December 2011

Fix : Regression on FlowSpec
Fix : interpreter not found on some Linux version (issue 3) reported by Sebastien Luttringer

Version 2.0.0 - 3rd of December 2011 (experimental version)

Feature: can set flowspec communities requested by Yiming Gong
Feature: incoming route parsing for processing by an external application requested by Daniel Piekacz (and others)
Improvment: Add profiling features to find bottlenecks
Improvment: Code speedup following profiling
Internal Change : lots of folder restructuration
Internal Change : all includes now under exabpg and not bgp
User Change : move the program from bin to sbin, and renamed it from bgpd to exabgp
User Change : configuration folder now called exabgp to match debian package
User Change : move all external processes in the exabgp configuration folder

Version 1.3.4 - 21th of September 2011 (stable version)

Feature: added support for asdot/asdot+ requested by jonlooney (with a patch - thank you)
Fix: when the pid file could not be written, the daemon was crashing on exit

Version 1.3.3 - 25th of June 2011

Feature: massive speed improvement when reloading with many routes (60 to 2 seconds with 10k routes) reported by Martin Baum (with proof of concept patch)

Version 1.3.2 - 23rd of June 2011

Fix bug where we would not wait long enough for OPEN/KEEPALIVE messages on startup reported by: Yann Berthier

Version 1.3.1 - 3rd of May 2011

Fix bug in configuration parsing introduce just before 1.3.0
Feature: make tcp-server implement all the internal API available

Version 1.3.0 - 2nd of May 2011

Feature: reduce likelyness of route update recalculation causing us to not send keepalive in time
Fix: introduced a bug in neighbor printing
Fix: we were trying to send a KEEPALIVE after the initial routes, but it was not going
Fix: a work around a python bug with TCP was not implemented everywhere
Feature: adding a 'ttl-security' to allow to explicit setup of TCP TTL
Feature: better handling of BGP timer for keepalive
Feature: refuse to run as root, try to run as nobody automatically, uid/gid set to the user defined by env USER otherwise
Removed: the old wiki documentation
Feature: Debian Packaging (author and maintainer: Henry-Nicolas Tourneur - thank you)
Change: renamed env variable DAEMON to DAEMONIZE (to prevent name clash with Debian)
Feature: added env variable PDB if set the program will call pdb, the python debugger, on program fault
Feature: it is now possible to get some routes withdrawn from an external process (see watchdog example conf.) warning: this code is not yet considered production ready, expect some bugs for complex configurations
Feature: it is now possible to modify the configuration without reload from external proccess (see process example conf.) warning: this code is not yet considered production ready, expect some bugs for complex configurations
Fix: make sure we can setup a session even if no route (ie: AFI/SAFI families for Mulitprotocol) are in the configuration
Fix: many small bug fixes, simple code refactorisation, ...

Version 1.2.0 - 25th of January 2011

Feature: Allow to break route in more specific (ie define a /22 and get 4x /24 announced) This is useful when blackholing traffic to make sure no routes more specific are received from your network peer/transit requested by : Renaud Chaput
Feature: Save the program PID into a file (set the PID= environment value with the file path) requested by : Renaud Chaput
Feature: Add syslog support (env SYSLOG= nothing for local syslog, a file name (auto-rotate) or host:<host> for remote syslog) requested by : Josh Ward
Feature: Can now daemonise (env DAEMON= detach and send the program in the background) requested by : Josh Ward
Feature: Selection of what subsystems to log, more readable logs (well, less unreadeable to be exact)
Feature: Create a new "group" in the configuration to share routes and configuration options between neighbors requested by : Multiple people
Fix: non detection of MD5 change on configuration reload
Feature: support distutil with a setup.py file for easy installation

Version 1.1.0 - 10th of January 2011

Feature: Tested and completed TCP MD5 signature contribution: MD5 TCP code by David Farrar

Version 1.0.4 - 8th of January 2011

Feature: can now toggle debuging using environment values (DEBUG_CONFIGURATION, DEBUG_SUPERVISOR, DEBUG_WIRE)
Fix: some change to the AS_PATH generation code (some routers did not accept empty AS_PATH as it was encoded before) reported by: R.P. Aditya
Fix: some interoperability issue with openbgpd (could not parse their OPEN message) (issue 1) reported by Manuel Guesdon
Experimental: Some MD5 for Linux (untested - surely not working)

Version 1.0.3 - 6th of January 2011

Fix: missing default localpref on IBGP session if not specified on the route
Feature: more verbose messages in case of OPEN negociation issue
Fix: typo preventing 4 Bytes ASN to work

Version 1.0.2 - 22nd of October 2010

Feature: only try to generate UPDATE messages if the configuration was changed (save quite some CPU as the algorithm is really naive)
Fix : a neighbor configuration change could have been undetected on SIGHUP/SIGALRM reported by: Yann Berthier
Fix : reloading the configuration did not detect the removed routes reported by Renaud Chaput
Fix : a bug in the format of the UPDATE for route withdrawal causing Cisco (and not Quagga) to tear the session reported by Renaud Chaput

Version 1.0.1 - 7th of September 2010

Fixes an issue with some python versions (at least 2.5.2) when sending a large number of routes (several hundred). Some messages could be sent in multiple parts, causing the parser at the other end to barf (Thank you to Renaud Chaput for the bug report)

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