BGP: Boron: Release Notes
- Manish Kumar Barnwal
Contents
Major Features
BGP:
BGP/MPLS IP VPNs
BGP MPLS-Based Ethernet VPN
Advertisement of Multiple Paths in BGP
Distribution of MPLS Traffic Engineering (TE) LSP State using BGP
Route Refresh Capability for BGP-4
BGP Model for Service Provider Networks
BGP High Availability (Cluster singleton service)
Target Environment
For Execution
Java Runtime Environment 8
For Development
JDK 8
Known Issues and Limitations
Particular known bugs and workarounds.
Limitations
BGP scaling with clustering - it is recommended to create a "bgp-rib" module-based shard without a replication, for more details see BGP user-guide
Testing methodology. How extensive was it? What should be expected to work? What hasn't been tested as much?
The BGP extensions (L3VPN, EVPN, Route Refresh, Add-Path) were tested manually with vendor's BGP router implementation or other software implementations (exaBGP, bagpipeBGP). Also, new features are covered by the unit tests and automated system tests.
Changes Since Previous Releases
The BGP, PCEP and BMP are no longer depending on TPCMD5 project. This library functionality was replaced with Netty's TCP MD5 implementation.
Bugs Fixed in this Release
At least 28 bugs was fixed.
Migration from Previous Releases
Features:
no changes
Yang Data Models:
BGP-FS, BGP-LU model's grouping changes - affects Java DTO users only - update Java imports
BGP OpenConfig top-level node is augmenting OpenConfig Network Instance model now - affecting target RESTCONF identifiers and namespaces
Compatibility with Previous Releases
No compatibility issues are expected.
Deprecated, End of Life, and/or Retired Features/APIs
Deprecated:
BGP CSS-based configuration
Distribution of MPLS Traffic Engineering (TE) LSP State using BGP
End of Life: