We have released OpenBGPD 9.0, which will be arriving in the
OpenBGPD directory of your local OpenBSD mirror soon.
This release includes the following changes to the previous release:
* Rewrite the Adj-RIB-Out handling to be more memory efficent
and faster. For large IXP route server deployments a reduction
in memory usage of more than 50% should be feasible.
* Process UPDATE messages in two phases: first update Adj-RIB-In,
Loc-RIB, and FIB, then process all the Adj-RIB-Out tables.
This significantly reduces the latency since updating all the
Adj-RIB-Out tables could take a fair amount of time.
* Introduce CH hash tables - a scalable hash map implementation
that boosts performance through improved cache locality.
* Introduce new metrics that track the amount of time spent in
various parts of the main event loop of the route decision engine.
* Fix various non-criticial things uncovered by Coverity scanner.
OpenBGPD-portable is known to compile and run on FreeBSD and the
Linux distributions Alpine, Debian, Fedora, RHEL/CentOS and Ubuntu.
It is our hope that packagers take interest and help adapt OpenBGPD-portable
to more distributions.
We welcome feedback and improvements from the broader community.
Thanks to all of the contributors who helped make this release
possible.
