Building VyOS images with custom packages just got simpler
While the new build scripts first introduced when we migrated the development branch to jessie made things much simpler for developers and for people who just w...
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Writing migration scripts (and manipulating VyOS config files outside VyOS) just got easier
Long story short VyOS 1.2.0-rolling (starting with the next nightly build) includes a library for parsing and manipulating config files without loading them int...
Things the new style configuration mode definitions intentionally do not support
I've made three important changes to the design of the configuration command definitions, and later I realized that I never wrote down a complete explanation of...
VyOS 1.2.0 status update
While VyOS 1.2.0 nightly builds have been fairly usable for a while already, there are still some things to be done because we can make a named release candidat...
Naming of the nightly builds
Historically, we used to use "999.$timestamp" version numbers for development builds, including nightly builds. In our build scripts termninology, a development...
VyOS builds now use the deb.debian.net load balanced mirror
If there are any good things about that packages server migration and restructuring is that it promoted a revamp of the associated part of the build scripts. Si...
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...
VyOS 1.2.0 repository re-structuring
In preparation for the new 1.2.0 (jessie-based) beta release, we are re-populating the package repositories. The old repositories are now archived, you still ca...
VyOS 2.0 development digest #9: socket communication functionality, complete parser, and open tasks
Socket communication A long-awaited (by me, anyway ;) milestone: VyConf is now capable of communicating with clients. This allows us to write a simple non-inter...
VyOS 2.0 development digest #8: vote for or against the new tag node syntax, and the protobuf schema
Tag node syntax The change in tag node format I introduced in the previous post turned out quite polarizing and started quite some discussion in the comments. I...
