Xorp 1.8.4 is released.

[Mikhail Tsatsenko]

On 21.09.2011 22:03, Ben Greear wrote:
> Hello BSD maintainers!
>
> If you have any patches to help make xorp 1.8.4 work
> better on bsd, please send them to me and I'll incorporate
> them into the upstream xorp code.
>
>
> I have uploaded binaries & source code to www.xorp.org.
>
> The downloads link points to xorp.org now instead of SourceForge,
> but I put the windows binary and source code snapshot on sourceforge
> and github as well, just in case someone prefers that.
>
> Generally, 1.8.4 is mostly a bug-fix release.
>
> Here's the release notes highlights:
>
> * Add async-XRL support, from Steven Simpson
>
> * Fix bug in deleting non-VLAN interface. Commit would fail
> because the code would attempt to remove the interface from
> the kernel and fail.
>
> * Fix BSD related crash when adding interface with same ifindex
> as a previous interface. OpenBSD has the nasty habit of re-using
> the ifindex when creating/deleting virtual interfaces.
>
> * Fix multicast bug that totally breaks XORP multicast on recent
> Linux kernels. The problem is that I chose the wrong default
> multicast routing table (254, instead of 253 as it should be).
> So, if users don't specify a routing table, it pokes routes into
> the wrong table. This wasn't caught in my testing because I always
> explicitly set the routing table ID.
>
> * Add some env variable controlled debugging to the libxorp and libxipc
> logic for better debugging of xrls and the event loop.
>
> Full release notes and change log are available here:
>
> http://www.xorp.org/releases/1.8.4/docs/RELEASE_NOTES
>
>
Hi, Ben!
Thanks for your work.
At the first look updating xorp port is relatively simple task. Right 
now a new version builds fine for me on 8.2. After some testing i'll 
sumbit a PR.

--
  Mikhail