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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 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 in 2023: multi-year subscriptions, future plans, and more

yuriy@sentrium.io (Yuriy Andamasov) — Sun, 05 Mar 2023 23:19:04 GMT

Hello, Community!

This mail contains essential information about subscriptions.

We are already two months into 2023 and expect this year to impact the VyOS project significantly!

Not only is the project passing ten years mark, and a 1.4 LTS release is planned for this year, but more crucial things are also happening in the background.

Since we made our first commercially-supported 1.2.0 LTS release in 2019, VyOS has steadily grown in all dimensions. We aren’t only talking about our revenue, customer count, and other business performance indicators — our team is growing, our open-source user and contributor community is also growing, and thus our responsibility is growing.

When we started, we aimed to have a network operating system that we could use and improve for our needs. A few years later, VyOS was adopted by companies that we thought would never look at it, in roles we never thought it would fulfill, from critical communication infrastructure to network engineer education and training.

That brings a new set of challenges — how to keep VyOS available, open-source, and sustainably funded; how to make it better suited to environments where it’s now taking hold; and how to ensure that its development direction reflects the best interests of our Community.

So here are a few things we have in the pipeline this year.