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How we Rebuilt docs.vyos.io for the AI Era (MyST, Opus Reviewers, and Context7)

yuriy@sentrium.io (Yuriy Andamasov) — Thu, 14 May 2026 00:30:00 GMT

The VyOS documentation site has carried us a long way. Sphinx + reStructuredText served the project well for years — but the world around our documentation has changed faster than our toolchain. Contributors write in Markdown. LLM coding assistants pull docs into their context windows. Reviewers expect machine-assisted feedback. AI agents need a stable, machine-readable surface to reason about VyOS configuration.

VyOS Project April 2026 Update

daniil@sentrium.io (Daniil Baturin) — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 11:17:18 GMT

Hello, Community!

Now that VyOS 1.5.0 is out of the door, it's time to share the news about new developments in VyOS rolling release that happened in March and April that either weren't included in VyOS 1.5.0 and VyOS Stream 2026.03 or didn't get a prominent mention. They include support for BGP link-state address family, post-quantum pre-shared keys in IPsec, and more.

Power 5 Podcast: VyOS 1.5 LTS for Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization

g.yigit@vyos.io (Gizem Yigit) — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 05:30:00 GMT

Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization helps teams modernize how they run virtual machines, but production networking still needs to be deliberate. As VM environments grow, teams need stronger segmentation, clearer policy control, predictable performance, and an operating model they can trust.

In this episode of the VyOS Networks Power 5 podcast, Santiago Blanquet, Chief Revenue Officer at VyOS Networks, joins Gizem Yiğit, Marketing Product Manager, to discuss how VyOS 1.5 LTS strengthens Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization with enterprise-grade, high-performance networking built for production use.

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VyOS 1.5.0 GA release

daniil@sentrium.io (Daniil Baturin) — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 00:30:00 GMT

Hello, Community!

VyOS 1.5.0 LTS release is now finalized and its CLI is frozen for any non-compatible changes. Right now subscribers can already download the generic ISO and other on-premises flavors for x86-64 systems. If you are contributing to VyOS and want LTS release images for personal use, remember that we are happy to share them through contributor subscriptions.

Its development started in 2024 and followed the usual two-year LTS release cycle. In those two years we introduced multiple big features including a long-awaited accelerated dataplane and a huge amount of bug fixes.

Download the full release notes

VyOS Stream 2026.03 is available for download

daniil@sentrium.io (Daniil Baturin) — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 09:28:00 GMT

Hello, Community!

VyOS Stream 2026.03 is available for download now. It features multiple backports from the rolling release, including restored ability to directly upgrade from VyOS 1.3.x, a big rework of the VPP CLI, post-quantum pre-shared key support for IPsec, and multiple bug fixes.

MWC Barcelona 2026 Recap: Driving the Future of Open Networking

g.yigit@vyos.io (Gizem Yigit) — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 10:09:44 GMT

Another MWC Barcelona has come to an end, and what a strong week it was for VyOS Networks.

We were proud to be part of one of the most important global gatherings in telecom, cloud, and infrastructure, where we met with customers, partners, and industry leaders navigating familiar challenges: vendor lock-in, licensing complexity, fragmented tooling, and growing performance demands across cloud, edge, and on-prem environments.

That is exactly where VyOS continues to stand out.

VyOS Project March 2026 Update

daniil@sentrium.io (Daniil Baturin) — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 13:11:57 GMT

Hello, Community! The somewhat belated development update that covers changes in the VyOS rolling release in February is finally here. A lot of our attention in February went to VyOS Stream 2026.02, promoting VyOS at MWC Barcelona 2026, and the ongoing work on VyOS 1.5.0. However, there are quite a few updates in rolling that are worth a mention, including support for background operations in the HTTP API, multiple VPP CLI design improvements, and a whole bunch of bug fixes.

VyOS Stream 2026.02 is available for download

daniil@sentrium.io (Daniil Baturin) — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 12:32:59 GMT

Hello, Community!

VyOS Stream 2026.02 is available for download now. It features multiple backports from the rolling release, including TLS support for syslog, NAT66 source groups, IPFIX support in VPP, FRR and VPP updates, and over fifty bug fixes. It also makes the VPP configuration subsystem use DPDK as the default driver for NICs that support it and fall back to XDP automatically if needed — there is no need to and no option to configure the driver by hand anymore.

VyOS Project January 2026 Update

daniil@sentrium.io (Daniil Baturin) — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 09:00:00 GMT

Hello, Community! The belated development update for December 2025 and January 2026 is finally here.

We are getting closer to the 1.5 release but there's also quite a bit of work towards the future. In particular, there's good progress towards replacing the old configuration command completion mechanism with a VyConf-based equivalent, which will allow us to get rid of legacy command definition files eventually.

More immediate improvements include certificate-based authentication for OpenConnect, new operational commands for VPP, support for configuring watchdog timers, and multiple bug fixes.

VyOS 1.4.4 LTS Achieves Nutanix Ready Validation for AOS 7.3

yago.blanquet@vyos.io (Santiago Blanquet) — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 14:30:00 GMT

We’re excited to announce that VyOS 1.4.4 LTS has officially achieved Nutanix Ready validation for Nutanix Acropolis Operating System (AOS) 7.3 and AHV Hypervisor 10.3.

This milestone strengthens our collaboration with Nutanix and ensures full interoperability for customers deploying VyOS Universal Router within the Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure solution.

VyOS 1.4.4 released: syslog over TLS, AWS GLB support, and 50+ bug fixes

daniil@sentrium.io (Daniil Baturin) — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 09:22:24 GMT

Hello, Community!

Customers and holders of contributor subscriptions can now download VyOS 1.4.4 release images and the corresponding source tarball. This release adds TLS support for syslog, support for AWS gateway load balancer tunnel handler (on AWS only), an option to match BGP prefix origin validation extended communities in route maps, and more. It also fixes over fifty bugs. Additionally, there's now a proper validation to prevent manually assigned multicast addresses, which may break some old malformed configs, so pay attention to it. Last but not least, there's a deprecation warning for SSH DSA keys that will stop working in VyOS releases after 1.5 due to changes in OpenSSH, so make sure to update your user accounts to more secure algorithm keys while you still have the time.

VyOS Project November 2025 Update

daniil@sentrium.io (Daniil Baturin) — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 13:03:37 GMT

Hello, Community!

The update for November is here! There are two big features: TLS support for syslog and IPFIX support in VPP, good progress in replacing the old configuration backend, and multiple bug fixes.

VyOS SSO explained: how accounts, logins, and permissions work now

taras@vyos.io (Taras Pudiak) — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 15:03:07 GMT

After introducing Single Sign-On (SSO) for VyOS services, we received a number of questions about how it works in practice. This follow-up post explains what SSO is, how it relates to your existing VyOS accounts, and what to keep in mind when using it day to day. For rollout dates and migration details, please refer to our initial SSO announcement.

We're introducing single sign-on (SSO) for VyOS services

taras@vyos.io (Taras Pudiak) — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 16:48:58 GMT

Starting November 18, 2025, you can sign in to VyOS Support Portal, Community Forum, and Issue Tracker using a new, unified authentication method: Single Sign-On (SSO).

This change brings several benefits, and there are a few key things you’ll need to know — read on to ensure you’re prepared.

VyOS Stream 2025.11 is available for download

daniil@sentrium.io (Daniil Baturin) — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 11:24:27 GMT

Hello, Сommunity!

VyOS Stream 2025.11 and its corresponding source tarball are now available for download. You can find them at the end of this post. This is the third VyOS Stream release on the way to the upcoming 1.5/Circinus LTS release and includes many of its features for you to test — most notably, a VPP-based accelerated dataplane.

VyOS Project October 2025 Update

daniil@sentrium.io (Daniil Baturin) — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 13:04:52 GMT

Hello, Community! The October update is here and it's dominated by bug fixes — as we are preparing to release the next VyOS Stream image on the way to the future VyOS 1.5 and working on the new 1.4.4 maintenance release as well. However, there are a few useful features as well, including support for DHCP options 82 (relay agent information) and 26 (interface MTU), containers health checks, and more.

VyOS Project September 2025 Update

daniil@sentrium.io (Daniil Baturin) — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 15:15:52 GMT

Hello, Community! The holiday season in the Northern hemisphere is over and it's very visible in the commit log. There are lots of things that happened in VyOS in September — that includes a new, more performant kernel mode NetFlow sensor; the equally long-awaited support for using firewall groups in WAN load balancing rules; improvements that will hopefully make config corruption on power loss very unlikely; TLS support for syslog; and many more smaller features and fixes.

Buckle Up! VyOS with VPP Is Coming in 1.5

taras@vyos.io (Taras Pudiak) — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 14:30:52 GMT

Happy September to everyone!

We haven't published an expanded blog post about VPP for a while, so it’s a good time to fulfill your curiosity and share the latest updates.

Over the past few months, we’ve made important progress: VPP has been promoted to a core feature, packaging and updates are now aligned with the base OS, smoke tests help catch regressions, fail‑safes have been added, and we’ve defined our initial hardware targets. Here’s what that means for you and what comes next.

VyOS Project August 2025 Update

daniil@sentrium.io (Daniil Baturin) — Tue, 02 Sep 2025 10:15:05 GMT

Hello, Community!

We have some big news for you all in August — the count of changes that VyOS maintainers and community member made this month is small, but their impact makes up for the low number. They include VRF support for DHCP and DHCPv6 servers, steady progress in the legacy configuration backend replacement, multiple bug fixes, and an experimental privilege separation feature that allows limiting users to specific sets of operational commands.

VyOS Project July 2025 Update

daniil@sentrium.io (Daniil Baturin) — Wed, 06 Aug 2025 12:00:00 GMT

Hello, Community!

This month's update looks small — just a few small features and a bunch of bug fixes. One reason is the vacation season, of course. Some people (namely, I and Yuriy) went to DebConf 2025 rather than a vacation, where we heard a lot of interesting talks and had productive conversations with Debian developers — the biggest thing is that we will likely be able to contribute our improvements to live-build back to upstream which is great

The other reason is that there are lots of big developments in-progress that do not have visible effects yet, including an operational mode rework that will open up a pathway to operator-level user access controls; the ongoing work on rewriting the configuration backend; VPP support for VRRP, sFlow support for VPP, and BRAS protocols.

VyOS 1.4.3 release

daniil@sentrium.io (Daniil Baturin) — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 13:46:44 GMT

Hello, Community!

Customers and holders of contributor subscriptions can now download VyOS 1.4.3 release images and the corresponding source tarball.

This release includes fixes for CVE-2024-3596 (BlastRADIUS) — a vulnerability in the RADIUS PAM module that made it possible (even if not easy) for an attacker capable of active MitM to forge a server response and log in to a vulnerable system without valid credentials. It also fixes over seventy bugs and adds a few new features. Those features include container improvements such as options to add custom container image registries, set name servers for containers, and allow running containers in privileged mode; an option to import routes from a non-default table into the system RIB; an option to explicitly configure traffic selectors for VTI tunnels, and more.

VyOS Stream 1.5-2025-Q2 is available for download

daniil@sentrium.io (Daniil Baturin) — Fri, 11 Jul 2025 18:55:23 GMT

Hello, Community!

VyOS Stream 1.5-2025-Q2 and its corresponding source tarball are now available for download. This is the second VyOS Stream release on the way to the upcoming VyOS 1.5 LTS, and it includes multiple bug fixes and improvements, including the new implementation of WAN load balancing, a general mechanism for allowing conntrack-unfriendly protocols in transparent bridge firewalls, a fix for CVE-2025-30095 (active MitM in console server SSH connections) that was already delivered in VyOS 1.4.2, and more.

VyOS Ansible Collection 6.0.0 release

daniil@sentrium.io (Daniil Baturin) — Mon, 07 Jul 2025 09:41:55 GMT

We are happy to announce the next major 6.0.0 release of the VyOS Ansible Collection. It is now available from Ansible Galaxy and is also a certified collection for the Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform.

If you are an active Ansible user, you surely noticed that the Ansible collection for VyOS lost its momentum at some point and remained stagnant for quite some time. Earlier this year, we had the repositories transferred to our organization on GitHub, took over the development, and formed a small team of dedicated maintainers — thanks to Gaige Paulsen and Evgeny Molotkov who joined us and took up the hard work!

Now, after over two years of community work and our own improvements and fixes, a new release of the vyos.vyos Ansible collection is finally available to all users!

This release brings proper support for the current 1.4 LTS release and the upcoming VyOS 1.5.

It also still fully supports VyOS 1.3.x but will be the last release to officially support it since VyOS 1.3.x reached its end of life this year. This release may still work for VyOS 1.2.x and older, but if you run into problems, you should switch to version 5.0.0, since it was the last version to officially support those legacy versions.

VyOS Project June 2025 Update

daniil@sentrium.io (Daniil Baturin) — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 17:23:51 GMT

Hello, Community!

This month's update looks small but there are quite a few big things happening. Expect a few release posts in the coming weeks! But apart from that, there are big ongoing developments inside the rolling release. First, we are ironing out the remaining issues in the VPP-based accelerated dataplane and we welcome everyone to test them.

In other areas, we are making steady progress at replacing the old configuration backend. Currently the focus is on the commit algorithm, that will make commits much faster and enable long-awaited features such as commit dry run (T7427). The other big things is the operational mode command system rework that will allow us to reintroduce operator level users and improve operational command documentation. Read on for details!

VyOS Project May 2025 Update

daniil@sentrium.io (Daniil Baturin) — Thu, 29 May 2025 10:00:08 GMT

Hello, Community!

Quite a lot of things have happened since the last update we posted in April. In particular, we added the last bit of functionality that we considered a hard requirement for the VPP-based accelerated dataplane: support for VPP firewall. This marks the point when we consider the minimal viable product complete and we plan to ship it in a VyOS Stream release later this year, likely in Q3 — although you don't have to wait for it to play around with it, since it's already in the rolling release.

We are also making a very good progress towards replacing the legacy config backend — that work is still in the development phase and has no visible effects, and will take a while longer to complete, but it's underway.

When it comes to bugs, there are more than twenty recent fixes, including a fix for the nasty bug that led to routing protocol configuration loss if a protocol daemon crashed. Another important fix contributed by a community member makes VMware VMs suspend and resume correctly. Last but not least, the login prompt is no longer displayed in a bold font — that one took more time to track down than anyone hoped, and turned out to be caused by a truncated Systemd service name (ANSI control codes do not reset themselves on word boundaries, you know...).

There are multiple improvements in the base system as well. There's a new set ystem option reboot-on-upgrade-failure command that makes the system automatically reboot into the previous image if the configuration fails to load after upgrade. We hope it will help multiple people avoid unplanned trips to remove places — of course there should be out-of-band management everywhere for this case, but we all know that the real world is not perfect.

Other recently added features include support for IPv6 address in the datasets for firewall remote groups, BPDU guard and root guard supports for bridges, a new option to limit BRAS services (IPoE, PPPoE, and friends) to a specific number of CPU cores to avoid system overload, and more — read on for details!

VyOS Project April 2025 Update

daniil@sentrium.io (Daniil Baturin) — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 10:30:19 GMT

Hello, Community!

The April update is here — just at the end of April. We've been busy working on the VPP-based accelerated dataplane — you can watch that work in the repository and play with it in rolling release images. However, there are more features and bug fixes, and we are happy to see more active community contributors — there are quite a few community PRs that we merged lately, including DDNS update support for Kea, auto ignore prefixes for SLAAC, and more — read on for details!

VyOS 1.4.2 release

daniil@sentrium.io (Daniil Baturin) — Thu, 03 Apr 2025 16:28:13 GMT

Hello, Community! VyOS 1.4.2 release images and the corresponding source tarball are now available for download to customers and holders of contributor subscriptions.

This release includes a fix for a security issue that made console server users vulnerable to MitM attacks, over forty bug fixes, a few improvements in BRAS functionality, performance optimizations that can improve BGP convergence time by as much as 5-10 minutes in some scenarios, and other improvements. Additionally, FastNetMon is now deprecated and is scheduled to be removed in the future 1.5 release, and we are also finally phasing out legacy GnuPG signatures in favor of minisign. Read on for details!

VyOS Project March 2025 Update

daniil@sentrium.io (Daniil Baturin) — Thu, 27 Mar 2025 14:10:08 GMT

Hello, Community! It's spring in the northern hemisphere, and here's the March update. A lot of our effort is currently going into the development of the accelerated dataplane based on VPP: We added a prototype of IPsec, and we are actively working on support for NAT. But there are many other updates, including a fix for a vulnerability in service console-server, support for loading firewall groups from a URL, an option to set a custom container registry, and more. Read on for details!

VyOS 1.3 has reached End of Life

daniil@sentrium.io (Daniil Baturin) — Tue, 18 Mar 2025 17:15:42 GMT

VyOS 1.3.x series has reached End of Life and will no longer be maintained from now on. We encourage everyone who still uses it to upgrade to VyOS 1.4.x releases.

MWC Barcelona 2025 Recap: A Week of Innovation & Open-Source Networking

yago.blanquet@vyos.io (Santiago Blanquet) — Fri, 07 Mar 2025 11:28:26 GMT

Another MWC Barcelona has come to an end, and what a week it has been! VyOS Networks was proud to be part of one of the most important global gatherings in the tech industry, where we had the chance to engage with industry leaders, showcase our latest innovations, and discuss the future of secure networking, cloud, and edge computing.

VyOS Project Update February 2025

daniil@sentrium.io (Daniil Baturin) — Thu, 27 Feb 2025 00:00:00 GMT

Hello, Community! February was a busy month for us: we merged the initial implementation of an accelerated dataplane into the rolling release branch, added a rewritten implementation of WAN load balancing, revamped the syslog configuration, and fixed a whole bunch of bugs. Read on for details!

VyOS Stream 1.5-2025-Q1 is available for download

daniil@sentrium.io (Daniil Baturin) — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 10:26:44 GMT

Hello, Сommunity!

VyOS Stream 1.5-2025-Q1 and its corresponding source tarball are now available for download. You may remember our announcement a while ago, but let us reiterate what VyOS Stream is and how it benefits the project and its community.

VyOS Project January 2025 Update

daniil@sentrium.io (Daniil Baturin) — Thu, 30 Jan 2025 09:46:42 GMT

Hello, Community!

January is usually a quiet month, but there's quite a lot of important work that VyOS maintainers and community contributors have done already. Among them is migration of NHRP to FRR from the barely-maintained OpenNHRP; FQDN peer address support for WireGuard, unified sFlow, and quite a few bug fixes — read on for details!

VyOS Project December 2024 Update

daniil@sentrium.io (Daniil Baturin) — Mon, 30 Dec 2024 15:56:27 GMT

Hello, Community!

The December update is here! The biggest highlight of this month is the 1.4.1 release but there was lots of work in the rolling release as well, both from the maintainers team and from our contributor community. One of the biggest news in the rolling release is that we are ready to update FRR — our routing protocol stack — to the latest 10.2 release. That will allow us to get rid of the legacy OpenNHRP daemon that we use for DMVPN and use FRR's built-in NHRP implementation, among other things.

Apart from that, there are many more bug fixes and improvements made in November and December, especially in QoS, IPoE server, and other areas — read on for details!

VyOS 1.4.1 release

daniil@sentrium.io (Daniil Baturin) — Fri, 20 Dec 2024 16:55:59 GMT

Hello, Community!

VyOS 1.4.1 release is now available to customers and community members with contributor subscriptions. Its source code is available as a tarball upon request to everyone who legitimately received a binary image for us. Fixes for CVE-2023-32728 (Zabbix agent SMART plugin RCE) and CVE-2024-6387 (regreSSHion) that were already available as hotfixes are integrated in the image, and there is a fix for a potential DoS in the HTTP API caused by a vulnerability in the python-multipart library (CVE-2024-53981). This release also includes multiple bug fixes and a few improvements, including support for Base64-encoded IPsec secrets, VXLAN VNI to VLAN range mappings, reject routes, and more — read on for details!

VyOS Project November 2024 Update

daniil@sentrium.io (Daniil Baturin) — Fri, 29 Nov 2024 14:06:15 GMT

Hello, Community!

The November update is here. This post is short, but not all we've done lately: many internal changes in the configuration system will soon significantly improve commit speeds and open up a path to even more significant improvements. The 1.4.1 release is around the corner, together with the first VyOS Stream image — all built by the new CI system that produces tarballs with the corresponding source code for every image. But now, let's focus on the changes we made in the rolling release in October.

VyOS Project October 2024 Update

daniil@sentrium.io (Daniil Baturin) — Wed, 30 Oct 2024 12:41:52 GMT

Hello, Community!

The October update, which summarizes our work in September, is here. The maintainers and community contributors were busy: four new features, multiple small improvements, and a few bug fixes. Then, there is secure boot implementation, but that will get its blog post when the last bits fall into place!

Remote code execution in listening Zabbix agent (CVE-2023-32728)

daniil@sentrium.io (Daniil Baturin) — Thu, 24 Oct 2024 09:17:37 GMT

Hello, Community!

Our community member Fabian Riechsteiner brought to our attention that the version of the Zabbix agent present in VyOS 1.4.0 is susceptible to a remote code execution vulnerability — CVE-2023-32728. We made a hotfix available to subscribers, and the fix will be a part of the upcoming VyOS 1.4.1 release.

VyOS Universal Router on Azure and Accelerated Networking

f.maidana@vyos.io (Fernando Maidana) — Tue, 08 Oct 2024 13:42:52 GMT

Greetings, Community!

I'm back with an exciting topic:

Azure Accelerated Networking and its integration with VyOS Universal Router. In this discussion, we'll delve into how this powerful feature can be leveraged to create high-performance routers in the Azure cloud environment.

Our focus will be on:

Understanding Azure Accelerated Networking.
Steps to integrate this feature with VyOS.
Practical use cases for building efficient, high-speed routers on Azure.
Potential benefits and considerations.

VyOS for communities affected by hurricane Helene

yuriy@sentrium.io (Yuriy Andamasov) — Mon, 07 Oct 2024 15:41:37 GMT

Hello, Community!

Hurricane Helene caused enormous devastation and many deaths in North America. We keep getting updates, and it looks terrible. Now, Hurricane Milton is on the way.

None of our team was personally affected, but we all know someone who was, and naturally, we would like to help as we can.

VyOS Project September 2024 Update

daniil@sentrium.io (Daniil Baturin) — Sun, 22 Sep 2024 21:42:55 GMT

Hello, Community!

Summer is over now, and many people are returning to their routines. Check out what we've done in the last month of the summer: that includes a few small config syntax changes, multiple improvements in OpenVPN, an API endpoint for importing PKI objects, and a whole bunch of bug fixes!

VyOS Project August 2024 Update

daniil@sentrium.io (Daniil Baturin) — Tue, 27 Aug 2024 00:12:32 GMT

Hello, Community!

This month's development news includes many bug fixes and features, including remote access IPsec using VTI interfaces, support for WPA enterprise clients, and machine-readable tech support reports.

VyOS Project July 2024 Update

daniil@sentrium.io (Daniil Baturin) — Fri, 26 Jul 2024 20:26:12 GMT

Hello, Сommunity!

This summer is anything but a slow news season, but if you need a break from world events, here's a VyOS development update for you — a purely technical read. Our development efforts in June brought a reorganized (and much faster) config syntax migration subsystem, improvements in QoS and reverse proxy; support for raw firewall tables, and more.

CVE-2024-6387 (regreSSHion)

daniil@sentrium.io (Daniil Baturin) — Mon, 01 Jul 2024 10:24:00 GMT

Hello, Community!

Today Qualys's security team has disclosed a remotely exploitable vulnerability in OpenSSH server. It was assigned CVE-2024-6387 number and nicknamed "regreSSHion" because its cause is an accidental removal of code that fixed a much earlier vulnerability back in 2006. It affects OpenSSH versions older than 4.4p1 and versions between 8.5p1 and 9.8p1. VyOS 1.3.8 includes OpenSSH 7.9p1 and thus isn't vulnerable. VyOS 1.4.0 includes 9.2p1 and will need a patch to remain secure.

Introducing VyOS Stream — a next step in the VyOS project evolution

daniil@sentrium.io (Daniil Baturin) — Thu, 27 Jun 2024 18:29:02 GMT

Hello, Community!

Historically, we had two types of branches — rolling (current) and LTS branches. When we started working on a new LTS release, its branch would be branched off directly from the current one, but it wouldn’t be frozen for experimental changes until very late in the development process. Only when the upcoming LTS release came to a full freeze would any new features be limited to occasional, knowingly safe backports.
However, that approach created significant problems, both technical and social. Now, we are going to present our solution to both.

VyOS 1.3.8 maintenance release

daniil@sentrium.io (Daniil Baturin) — Tue, 25 Jun 2024 11:55:58 GMT

Hello, Сommunity!
VyOS 1.3.8 maintenance release is now available for download for subscribers and contributors.

This is a maintenance release with just a few bug fixes. However, it also includes package upgrades from Freexian extended LTS for Debian Buster that will allow us to support VyOS 1.3 with security fixes until 2029 (although we expect its demand to dwindle much sooner).

VyOS Project June 2024 Update

e.altunbas@vyos.io (Erkin Batu Altunbas) — Thu, 20 Jun 2024 18:56:22 GMT

Hello, Community!

Now that VyOS 1.4.0/Sagitta is officially available as a new LTS release, it's time to start looking into the future again — what will VyOS 1.5/Circinus be like? Rolling release images from June already include a big and long-awaited feature, thanks for a new contributor Maxime Thiebaut — support for Suricata IDS.

Another highlight is that the UPnP service was removed due to issues with its implementation and the prospect of maintainability. Multiple smaller improvements are also made in CGNAT, L2TP, bonding, and other areas—read on for details!

VyOS 1.4.0 GA release

daniil@sentrium.io (Daniil Baturin) — Tue, 04 Jun 2024 17:46:44 GMT

Hello, Community!

The VyOS 1.4.0 release has finally reached general availability. Its configuration syntax and API are frozen for any changes now— we can add new commands, but existing commands and functions will stay the same until it reaches EOL to make it friendly to automation tools. Let us review what is new in this release!

Hybrid Cloud Network Success Story: AWS Cloud WAN integration with VyOS

f.maidana@vyos.io (Fernando Maidana) — Mon, 03 Jun 2024 20:32:07 GMT

Hello, Community!

I'm Fernando from the network engineering team at VyOS Networks, and I'd like to introduce an insightful customer success story in our series on cloud networking use cases. I will only refer to the customer as "The Company" to preserve their confidentiality. Still, I'd like to tell you how they vastly improved their hybrid infrastructure using our VyOS routers integrated with the AWS Cloud WAN Tunnel-less Connect feature.

Background

The Company needed to streamline its operations across various global sites without the complexities of traditional VPN tunnels. The introduction of AWS Cloud WAN Tunnel-less Connect on VyOS looked like an optimal solution—connecting VyOS routers directly to AWS Cloud WAN. This integration not only simplified network setups but could also greatly improve the site-to-cloud connection speed since it could use AWS's global high-speed network directly.

The Challenge

"The Company" needed seamless connectivity across multiple data centers and regional offices and wanted to avoid the overhead of tunneling protocols because encapsulation can easily become a bottleneck in high-speed networks. They also wanted a solution to support on-demand operations. At the same time, connection security wasn't an immediate concern since it was implemented at the application protocol level and through site firewall policies.

VyOS VPP addon technology preview is available now

taras@vyos.io (Taras Pudiak) — Thu, 30 May 2024 05:38:26 GMT

Hello, Community!

We are excited to announce major updates on integrating the VPP data plane. Since our last update, significant efforts have been dedicated to testing and stabilization. While the list of improvements may seem modest, it includes crucial changes that enhance VPP's compatibility across multiple environments and configurations.