No new features in Perl and shell and no old style templates since May 2018
Now that the Python library for accessing the running config and the generator of old style templates from new style XML command definitions are known to be fun...
Author: Daniil Baturin
Migration and restructuring of the (dev).packages.vyos.net hosts
The original host where the packages.vyos.net and dev.packages.vyos.net web servers used to live has kept having serious I/O performance issues ever since a RAI...
Why IPsec behind 1:1 NAT is so problematic and what you can do about it
Not so long ago the only scenario when the issues with IPsec and NAT could arise was a remote access setup, while routers invariably had real public addresses a...
The meltdown and spectre vulnerabilities
Everyone is talking about the meltdown and the spectre vulnerabilities now. If you are late to the party, read https://meltdownattack.com/ Of course we are awar...
VyOS mission statement
Past year the VyOS project has turned four. Perhaps it's time to update the mission statement I've made back in 2013. This one doesn't exactly contradict it, bu...
Possible re-appearance of the AWS public key loading bug and what to do if you see it
There were some reports of re-appearence of the infamous bug with SSH public key loading in Amazon EC2. None of those were confirmed so far and one of them was ...
Jenkins maintenance
We'll be migrating the CI server (https://ci.vyos.net) to a different host this weekend. It means over this weekend there will be no automatic package or image ...
VyOS cloud support platform strategy
Recently we have merged the old VyOS product on Amazon (which was free as in price) with the new one listed by Sentrium (reminder: the company setup by VyOS mai...
1.1.8 followup
LLDP bug James Brown reported on phabricator that LLDP is not working in 1.1.8. Quite a mess up on our side: the reason it's not working is that it's built agai...
1.1.8 release is available for download
1.1.8, the major minor release, is available for download from https://downloads.vyos.io/?dir=release/1.1.8 (mirrors are syncing up). It breaks the semantic ver...
