New VRRP CLI is here (with IPv6 support)
Ever since I started with Vyatta, I've had a problem with commands for features unrelated to interfaces being defined inside interfaces. I'm sure the person who...
Category: VyOS Platform Blog | development (2)
Making first boot scripts just got easier (but building vyos-1x got a bit harder)
As you probably know already, we are working on integrating cloud-init into VyOS, which will allow us to support multiple cloud platforms, and get rid of the cu...
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...
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...
