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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.

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 1.3.7 release

daniil@sentrium.io (Daniil Baturin) — Mon, 13 May 2024 17:18:36 GMT

Hello, Community!

VyOS 1.3.7/Equuleus maintenance release is available now. It fixes the buffer overflow vulnerability recently discovered in GNU libc (CVE-2024-2961). It also adds a few useful options, such as startup resync in conntrack-sync and multiple peers for unicast VRRP; improves PPPoE server syntax to allow PADO delay of zero and client pools with arbitrary subnet masks; and fixes a bunch of bugs, including a bug that prevented BGP RPKI from loading correctly. Read on for details!

VyOS 1.3.6 maintenance release

daniil@sentrium.io (Daniil Baturin) — Wed, 14 Feb 2024 07:06:16 GMT

Hello, community!
VyOS 1.3.6 LTS release is here — with many bug fixes and security updates. The most important are fixes for denial of service vulnerabilities in the HTTPS API server and web proxy and more

VyOS Project February 2024 Update

e.altunbas@vyos.io (Erkin Batu Altunbas) — Thu, 08 Feb 2024 07:21:23 GMT

Hello, community!
Curious what we've been up to in January? Our main focus is the final stabilization of the 1.4.0/Sagitta branch, and we will soon make the first EPA (Early Production Access) release — after that point, config syntax and behavior will not change in the 1.4 LTS release lifetime, and all radical changes will go to the upcoming 1.5/Circinus branch. Quite a lot of things are happening in the development branch, and many of those improvements are also backported to 1.4, including support for Let's Encrypt (or any other ACME provider) in PKI, multiple BGP improvements, and an option to disable Spectre/Meltdown mitigations from the CLI.

VyOS 1.3.5 security release

daniil@sentrium.io (Daniil Baturin) — Fri, 15 Dec 2023 19:37:19 GMT

Hello, Сommunity!

VyOS 1.3.5/Equuleus LTS release is now officially available for download for customers and contributors. It includes fixes for two security vulnerabilities and a few bugs. One vulnerability is related to the HTTPS API, and the other is in the BGP daemon. Even though they require specific configurations and conditions to exploit, we encourage everyone to update. Images for on-premises deployment and for upgrade are already available, and cloud marketplace listing updates are in progress.

VyOS LTS Support Policy

yuriy@sentrium.io (Yuriy Andamasov) — Wed, 15 Nov 2023 05:20:54 GMT

Hello, Community!

Now that the 1.3.4 LTS release is over and the upcoming 1.4.0 release is on its path to the first early production access release, we'd like to clarify the support policy for our LTS releases to help support customers plan their updates. In short, the three latest minor versions in each LTS release line are supported unconditionally, but if your version is older, we will likely ask you to upgrade before we can take further steps to help you with your issues.

VyOS 1.3.4 LTS release

daniil@sentrium.io (Daniil Baturin) — Tue, 17 Oct 2023 18:20:44 GMT

Hello, Community!

VyOS 1.3.4/Equuleus release is now officially available for download for customers and contributors. It includes a number of small features and bug fixes, as well as fixes for recent vulnerabilities in cURL and mitigations for speculative execution security issues that affect AMD CPUs. Read on for details!

VyOS Project September 2023 Update

e.altunbas@vyos.io (Erkin Batu Altunbas) — Thu, 14 Sep 2023 18:43:26 GMT

Hello, community!

We're back with an end-of-summer update. We've been quite busy cleaning up legacy code, fixing bugs, and adding remaining features planned for the future 1.4.0 (Sagitta) LTS release that we hope to finish by 2024. Soon, we'll create a sagitta branch in our git repositories to stabilize the codebase that will become the new 1.4.0 LTS release. Rolling release development will continue in the current branch, and the future 1.5 LTS release will be "Circinus". Meanwhile, the minor release 1.3.4 of the Equuleus branch is in its final stages, and we'll soon build and release its images. Here's what's happened in August.

VyOS Project August 2023 Update

e.altunbas@vyos.io (Erkin Batu Altunbas) — Thu, 10 Aug 2023 12:00:00 GMT

Hello, Сommunity!
Summer may be supposed to be a quiet season, but there's quite some work that VyOS maintainers and contributors managed to do in July, nonetheless. There are many valuable features in the rolling release now, including the kernel-mode OpenVPN DCO offload support that can make tunnels multiple times faster, OSPF graceful restart parameters, mirror mode support for the DDoS protection services, and more.

VyOS Project July 2023 Update

daniil@sentrium.io (Daniil Baturin) — Fri, 14 Jul 2023 12:48:28 GMT

Hello, Сommunity!

We hope you enjoy your summer!

In June, there was a lot of work done on VyOS. Why is this update so short, then?

One reason is that VyOS 1.4 is now on the way to becoming the new LTS release, and there's a lot of work on smoke tests and refactoring that is required to stabilize it.

However, a few long-awaited features also landed in the rolling release in June, including TACACS+, config sync, and initial support for accelerated networking with VPP. Let's review the user-visible changes in the 1.3 LTS branch and the rolling release.

VyOS 1.3.3 LTS release

daniil@sentrium.io (Daniil Baturin) — Thu, 22 Jun 2023 16:33:28 GMT

Hello, Community!

VyOS 1.3.3 (Equuleus) LTS release is now available for download to subscribers and contributors. The interval between 1.3.2 (released in the past September) and 1.3.3 was unusually long. Still, it's finally out, with significant feature backports, multiple minor improvements, and of course, bug fixes — read on for details!

VyOS project June 2023 update

e.altunbas@vyos.io (Erkin Batu Altunbas) — Mon, 05 Jun 2023 23:45:32 GMT

Hello, community!

We constantly develop VyOS, even if we don't always share updates. Currently, we're focused on the 1.3.3 LTS release, which should be out these days

In the meantime, here's a summary of what's been happening in the project lately.

VyOS project April 2023 update

e.altunbas@vyos.io (Erkin Batu Altunbas) — Thu, 27 Apr 2023 15:19:59 GMT

Hello, Community!
We haven't posted development updates lately, but that's just because there were lots of things to do, not because development has slowed down. There have been lots of improvements. Let's summarize what happened in March.

VyOS 1.3.2 LTS release

daniil@sentrium.io (Daniil Baturin) — Wed, 07 Sep 2022 15:34:23 GMT

Hello, community!

VyOS 1.3.2 LTS release is now available for subscribers to download and for everyone to build. It features over a dozen improvements and about fifty fixes for bugs and other issues. Among them is a command to remove DHCP leases, IP pools and multiplier options in BRAS features, and more. Read on for details!

VyOS 1.3.1 release

daniil@sentrium.io (Daniil Baturin) — Mon, 21 Mar 2022 19:48:22 GMT

Hello, Community

VyOS 1.3.1 release is now available:

subscribers (customers and contributors) can download binary images from the support portal, and everyone can build it from the source.

The driving force for this release is CVE-2022-0778, but it features a whole bunch of bug fixes and a few new features in addition to it.

VyOS 1.3.0 LTS release

daniil@sentrium.io (Daniil Baturin) — Tue, 21 Dec 2021 16:02:42 GMT

VyOS 1.3.0 (Equuleus) is now GA, and images are available to our customers and contributors.

After three years in development and an extended-release candidate/early production access period that lasted almost a year, it's finally time to call it the new LTS release.

VyOS 1.3.0-epa3 release

daniil@sentrium.io (Daniil Baturin) — Fri, 05 Nov 2021 21:26:08 GMT

Hello!

VyOS 1.3.0-epa3 release is available now. The generic ISO image is available publicly, while subscribers can access additional flavors through the support portal. This release fixes a number of bugs found in earlier versions. If no serious bugs are found, it will also become the last "early production access" release and the next image will be the first official 1.3.0 LTS release.

VyOS 1.3.0-epa2 release

daniil@sentrium.io (Daniil Baturin) — Mon, 18 Oct 2021 17:04:46 GMT

Hello Community!

VyOS 1.3.0-epa2 release is available now. The generic ISO image is available publicly, while subscribers can access additional flavors through the support portal. This is mainly a bugfix release that corrects a number of issues found in the earlier 1.3.0-epa1 release. However, in addition to bug fixes, it includes a few features and updates, including DNS forwarding support for reverse zones and Linux kernel 5.4.154. It also will not be the last EPA (early production access) release—there are a few work-in-progress bug fixes now, so stay tuned for updates.

VyOS 1.3.0-epa1 release

daniil@sentrium.io (Daniil Baturin) — Thu, 30 Sep 2021 15:31:38 GMT

Hello, Community!

VyOS 1.3.0-epa1 images are now available for download. The “epa” suffix stands for “early production access”—the finish line of the new LTS release stabilization. The generic ISO is available publicly, while all other flavors are now reserved for subscribers—they will be available in the support portal within a couple of days. We recommend trying this release on lab VMs and upgrading non-critical production routers first since this release makes a log of big changes and some corner case issues may still exist.

VyOS 1.3.0-rc6, the last release candidate

daniil@sentrium.io (Daniil Baturin) — Tue, 24 Aug 2021 15:46:46 GMT

Hello Community!

VyOS 1.3.0-rc6 release candidate image is now available for download. Quite some time passed between 1.3.0-rc5 and this release, mostly due to an IPsec bug that prevented certain configs from being either loaded or deleted, but it's fixed now. This is also the last release candidate before we enter the "early production access" phase—the finish line of the LTS release stabilization process.

Read on for details!

VyOS Project July 2021 Update

e.altunbas@vyos.io (Erkin Batu Altunbas) — Sun, 08 Aug 2021 16:55:57 GMT

Hi again!

It's time for the progress update for the month of July. We are still on the road to the 1.3.0-epa1 release that will mark the transition of the 1.3/Equuleus branch from experimental to stable and will serve as a platform for ironing out the last bugs.

Past 1.3.0-epa1 there will not be any big CLI changes (only extensions), so we are making the last such changes now. The work on the future 1.4 branch hasn't stopped either. Interested in details?

Read on!

VyOS Project May/June 2021 Update

e.altunbas@vyos.io (Erkin Batu Altunbas) — Thu, 22 Jul 2021 15:48:10 GMT

Hello everyone,

it's time for the progress update for the months of May and June.

We've been a bit too busy with working on the code that we forgot to post a progress update in June—time to fix it! In short: the 1.3 release is on track to become the new LTS in the late summer or early autumn, 1.2.x maintenance continues, and the 1.4 release is gaining new cool features that we can later backport to 1.3.

The future of VyOS, part 1: release schedule

daniil@sentrium.io (Daniil Baturin) — Sun, 06 Jun 2021 21:27:55 GMT

Hello Community!

The future of VyOS is bright!

And in this post series, we will talk about our plans for the VyOS Project. This first post focuses on the most immediately important part: the release schedule and support timeline of VyOS 1.2.x and 1.3.x.

VyOS 1.2.7-epa1 and 1.3.0-rc1 images are available

daniil@sentrium.io (Daniil Baturin) — Fri, 26 Feb 2021 11:56:06 GMT

VyOS 1.2.7-epa1

First, VyOS 1.2.7-epa1 is now available to subscribers, and everyone can build an equivalent image from our repositories. It's a rather big release, with multiple bug fixes and some backports from the 1.3/equuleus branch. We don’t expect any major issues with it, but we encourage everyone to test it on non-critical routers first. If no issues are found within a week or so, we will call if a 1.2.7 release.

Telemetry poll results and their implications

daniil@sentrium.io (Daniil Baturin) — Sun, 14 Jun 2020 20:23:00 GMT

Our previous post regarding the prospect of introducing telemetry ended up pretty divisive. Apart from the sensitive nature of the topic itself, there were some poor wording and poll design mistakes that made it look more evil than we ever planned it to be. Still, we were able to collect feedback. Thanks to all who participated! Now let’s discuss the results and what it means for the telemetry module design.

Anonymous stats collection from VyOS routers: we need your opinions!

daniil@sentrium.io (Daniil Baturin) — Fri, 29 May 2020 16:30:15 GMT

The T-word. Telemetry. Everyone hates it, not least because the most widely known implementations are unambiguously evil. We hate collection and sale of personal information as much as you do, so before we dive deeper into the subject, let’s set it straight: we will never collect any personally identifiable information from VyOS devices without explicit consent, ever.

However, not collecting anything at all does limit our ability to correctly prioritize issues. Now we are thinking of including anonymous stats collection into VyOS images (rolling and LTS alike) by default, and it needs a broad and serious discussion with the community. Our preliminary plan is to enable collection of basic usage stats by default, and provide CLI options to enable more detailed reporting. For that we need to know what people wouldn't hesitate to share by default, so we included a poll in this post.

VyOS Project May 2020 Update

yuriy@sentrium.io (Yuriy Andamasov) — Tue, 26 May 2020 15:17:32 GMT

As usual, May was a busy month for VyOS. Originally we’ve planned a soft freeze of the 1.3 branches for early May, but it didn’t work as planned—in reality May brought us a lot of new features from both community contributors and maintainers. However, it also brought us a lot of fixes, refactoring, and polish, so we are actually closer to the stable 1.3 release than before.

Is VyOS CLI fast yet?

daniil@sentrium.io (Daniil Baturin) — Fri, 08 May 2020 21:13:47 GMT

Many people have noticed that in rolling release builds, everything was getting slower.

Boot time, commit time, and even the time it takes to enter set commands got uncomfortably slow, and for a time it was only getting worse.

We are neither blissfully unaware of it, nor we intentionally ignored that problem. We knew it, and we hated it as much as you did. In fact we considered it a blocker for the 1.3 branch freeze.

The good thing is that the worst of it is over: we’ve found a way to make everything almost as fast as in 1.2.x. If you download a rolling release image built after May the 8th, the worst performance problems should be gone, for most configs. If your boot time is as bad as before, let us know! And if your config broke from this change, let us know too.

If you are interested in the details, read on