FRRouting Release 8.5.3 [Download]

FRRouting Release 8.5.3 Available for Download

Sept 4, 2023

We are pleased to announce FRR 8.5.3

Debian Packages - https://deb.frrouting.org

RPM Packages - https://rpm.frrouting.org

Snaps - https://snapcraft.io/frr

Docker - quay.io/frrouting/frr:8.5.3

Release Overview

This release includes several bug fixes:

bgpd

• Add peers back to peer hash when peer_xfer_conn fails
• Do not explicitly print maxttl value for ebgp-multihop vty output
• Do not process nlris if the attribute length is zero
• Do not try to redistribute routes if we are shutting down
• Don’t read the first byte of orf header if we are ahead of stream
• Evpn code was not properly unlocking rd_dest
• Fix show bgp all rpki notfound
• Fix session reset issue caused by malformed core attributes
• Free bgp vpn policy
• Free previously dup’ed aspath attribute for aggregate routes
• Free temporary memory after using argv_concat()
• Intern attributes before putting into rib-out
• Make sure we have enough data to read two bytes when validating aigp
• Prevent use after free
• Rfapi memleak fixes, clean ce tables at exit
• Unlock dest if we return earlier for aggregate install
• Use treat-as-withdraw for tunnel encapsulation attribute

zebra

• Fix evpn nexthop config order
• Abstract dplane_ctx_route_init to init route without copying
• Fix crash when dplane_fpm_nl fails to process received routes
• Further handle route replace semantics
• Fix command ipv6 nht xxx

lib

• Allow unsetting walltime-warning and cpu-warning
• Skip route-map optimization if !af_inet(6)
• Use max_bitlen instead of magic number

ospf6d

• Fix crash because neighbor structure was freed
• Stop crash in ospf6_write

ospfd

• Check for nulls in vty code
• Prevent use after free( and crash of ospf ) when no router ospf

pbrd

• Fix crash with match command

pimd

• Prevent crash when receiving register message when the rp() is unknown
• When receiving a packet be more careful with length in pim_pim_packet

ripd, ripngd

• Revert “Cleanup memory allocations on shutdown”

tools

• Add what frr thinks as the fib routes for support_bundle

vtysh

• Print uniq lines when parsing no service ...

A full log of changes can be found by browsing the commit history of FRR 8.5.3 tag here