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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 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 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!

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.

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 Project May 2024 Update

e.altunbas@vyos.io (Erkin Batu Altunbas) — Tue, 21 May 2024 10:24:24 GMT

Hello, Community!

Lately, we have all been busy preparing the 1.4.0-epa3 release that will transition to GA status in two weeks if no serious issues are found, and its configuration syntax and APIs will be completely frozen for all incompatible changes or require migration scripts.

Since the current branch (future Circinus/1.5.0 release) and Sagitta/1.4 codebases are so similar at the moment, most changes we made in the current branch, already backported to Sagitta and available in 1.4.0-epa3, such as the ability to run SSH server in multiple VRFs, DHCP server active-active high availability mode, and reverse proxy server health check. However, we are already making experimental changes that will stay in 1.5 for quite a while before we can decide if they are ready for backporting to an LTS branch, such as an initial implementation of CGNAT.

VyOS Project April 2024 Update

e.altunbas@vyos.io (Erkin Batu Altunbas) — Thu, 11 Apr 2024 19:40:48 GMT

Hello, Сommunity!

In March, we made many minor improvements to existing features. Still, there are some significant features: many new services are available for configuration sync, drive encryption via LUKS with TPM support, and a new command to trigger commit archive manually.

VyOS Project March 2024 Update

e.altunbas@vyos.io (Erkin Batu Altunbas) — Fri, 22 Mar 2024 17:08:46 GMT

Hello, Community!
While VyOS 1.4/Sagitta has taken its final shape, and we are working to smoothen any remaining sharp edges (especially in migration scripts), the upcoming 1.5/Circinus branch is the new frontier where we can go wild and experiment freely. Safe features from the current branch are still backported to 1.4/Sagitta.

Still, we already have non-back portable features — such as improvements to the new DHCP server implementation based on Kea rather than the now-obsolete ISC DHCP server.
In the last month, there were quite a few improvements, including the ability to set multiple peer addresses for unicast VRRP (a feature by our new core team member Natalia Solomko), segment routing support for static IPv6 routes, support for SSH public keys in the PKI subsystem, 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 Project January 2024 Update

e.altunbas@vyos.io (Erkin Batu Altunbas) — Thu, 11 Jan 2024 21:26:57 GMT

Hello, Community!

The new monthly development update is here. Quite a few of these changes were already mentioned in the 1.4.0-rc1 release candidate post, but quite a few are exclusive to the rolling release — at least for now until they are well-tested. Among them is a migration of the DHCP server from ISC DHCPD to Kea, a new NAT64 implementation based on Jool, and configuration rollback without reboot — read on for details!

VyOS Project December 2023 update

e.altunbas@vyos.io (Erkin Batu Altunbas) — Thu, 30 Nov 2023 23:43:38 GMT

Hello, community! While we are now mostly busy with stabilizing the future 1.4.0 LTS release and also working on the new 1.3.5 maintenance release, there's still news to share about the current developments. During the last month, we've added Git support for commit archive, VNI filtering for VXLAN, and made a bunch of other improvements — read on for details!

VyOS Project November 2023 update

e.altunbas@vyos.io (Erkin Batu Altunbas) — Wed, 08 Nov 2023 05:15:02 GMT

Hello, Community!

Curious what we've been up to lately?

Here's the update for November: it includes the removal of the long de-facto deprecated cluster feature (all cluster configs will be migrated to VRRP) and multiple additions, such as interface group support in NAT rules, operational mode commands to display SSH key fingerprints, MRU settings for PPPoE, loop-free alternative support for IS-IS, EVPN ESI multihoming, and more.

VyOS Project October 2023 Update

e.altunbas@vyos.io (Erkin Batu Altunbas) — Thu, 05 Oct 2023 19:06:16 GMT

Hello, Community!

September was quite the hectic month for us, not only because of the upcoming release of VyOS 1.4 Sagitta (you may have noticed the new branch in the Git repository), but also because development on the trunk is continuing at full throttle, as you can tell from the list below.

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 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 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.

VyOS Project June 2022 Update

daniil@sentrium.io (Daniil Baturin) — Fri, 29 Jul 2022 14:13:05 GMT

Hello, community!

It's been a while since our last update, so it is time for the progress update for June. Our schedule was definitely disrupted, but we never stopped working on improving VyOS, and we are getting back to posting development updated every month. Thank you for your patience!

In June we added a few new options for firewall, brought back the event handler — a feature we all missed, and thanks to the VyOS community, found and fixed some bugs. 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!

The future of VyOS, part 2: the local GUI and the controller

yuriy@sentrium.io (Yuriy Andamasov) — Sun, 13 Jun 2021 21:17:33 GMT

Hello Community!

The future of VyOS is bright! And we are happy to see more participants!

In the previous post, we talked about the release schedule, and in this post about our plans for UIs, we will talk in detail about the local GUI and the controller software.

VyOS Project April 2021 Update

e.altunbas@vyos.io (Erkin Batu Altunbas) — Sun, 16 May 2021 21:48:23 GMT

Hello again!

Another month has passed, and now it's time for the April update. The most important news of the past month includes a VyOS 1.3.0-rc4 release candidate and multiple improvements in the 1.4/Sagitta branch, including support for running containers on VyOS (via Podman). Correction: A previous version of this blogpost was marked "May 2021" instead of "April 2021".

VyOS Project January 2021 Update

daniil@sentrium.io (Daniil Baturin) — Tue, 02 Feb 2021 20:45:00 GMT

The winter break is over and the first month of the new year has passed. As usual, we’ve been busy with improving VyOS and its infrastructure. The main highlights of this month include a new website specially for community members and contributors available at vyos.net, introduction of monthly snapshots (finally!), and quite a few development updates.

VyOS Project October/November 2020 Update

daniil@sentrium.io (Daniil Baturin) — Mon, 07 Dec 2020 15:34:24 GMT

Hi everyone,

This may be our most delayed update in history, but as they say, "better late than never".

Early in November, United States elections have been a focus of attention, especially for our American colleagues and customers, so we decided to postpone posting this update. Then came the time of season-appropriate "black Friday" and "cyber Monday" posts and the usual stream of distractions that comes when everyone is trying to get things done before the year ends. Still, there's lots of news to share, and the time to do it has come—read on!

VyOS Project July 2020 Update

daniil@sentrium.io (Daniil Baturin) — Mon, 10 Aug 2020 22:03:03 GMT

More than a half of this year has passed. The year started busy for us and there’s no slowing down. We are glad to be helping people and companies stay connected and cut connectivity costs, now that connectivity is a hard necessity, and we are also grateful to all companies that choose our services and to all contributors who send us code, documentation, and bug reports.

It’s supposed to be a slow news season now, but we have two important updates and quite some progress with 1.3 release development to share, as well as some new partnership and sponsorships announcements.

VyOS Project June 2020 Update

daniil@sentrium.io (Daniil Baturin) — Thu, 16 Jul 2020 00:39:47 GMT

As usual, we've been quite busy. First of all, sorry for the nonsensical "VyOS News Digest". The webmasters we hired to help us look after the social media accounts posted things they shouldn't have posted. It's an unfortunate incident and we regret failing to prevent such a drop in signal to noise ratio of this blog. We promise that won't happen again.

Now to the real VyOS news: let's see what we've been working on and done in June...

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.

VyOS Foundation Announcement

yuriy@sentrium.io (Yuriy Andamasov) — Sun, 10 May 2020 20:30:00 GMT

As you may already know, the VyOS project was started as a response to the cancellation of Vyatta Core, an open-source version of Vyatta that we used and loved. We have succeeded in this and seven years later we have a truly open-source network OS that people rely on. VyOS team is grateful to our customers and contributors who work together with us, and of course to all maintainers of open source software that VyOS is built upon.

VyOS Project March 2020 Update

daniil@sentrium.io (Daniil Baturin) — Mon, 23 Mar 2020 04:45:45 GMT

As usual, we’ve been busy working on the 1.2.x LTS release and on the future 1.3.0 version. One important update is that VyOS 1.2.5-epa2 (early production access) image is now available to subscribers, and everyone can build it from the Crux branch. It includes latest stable release of the FreeRangeRouting protocol stack and multiple bug fixes. We are running that image on our own routers, and if no more serious issues are discovered, we’ll make the final 1.2.5 release and keep working on 1.2.6.

VyOS Project 2020 February Update

yuriy@sentrium.io (Yuriy Andamasov) — Thu, 20 Feb 2020 20:37:36 GMT

We skipped January update as we were busy, but time flies fast so here it is.

February update, first in 2020 and with bunch updates!

VyOS Project 2019 December Update

daniil@sentrium.io (Daniil Baturin) — Tue, 24 Dec 2019 12:51:00 GMT

It's almost winter holidays time already! It's been a great year for VyOS, with many big improvements in the code, and more community contributions to the code and the documentation than ever.

There are some big changes coming too, including:

Rolling release builds based on Debian Buster
New, clearer subscription structure and pricing for corporate users.
New ways for community members to support the project on Patreon and buymeacoffee.com and get access to LTS images and a community support forum in exchange.
An official list of compatible devices to make it easier to choose hardware to run VyOS on.

For details, read on.

VyOS Project 2019 November Update

daniil@sentrium.io (Daniil Baturin) — Mon, 25 Nov 2019 15:15:00 GMT

Welcome to the monthly round of VyOS project updates. What do we have in store for you?

VyOS Project 2019 October update

yuriy@sentrium.io (Yuriy Andamasov) — Tue, 29 Oct 2019 09:33:24 GMT

Everyone is probably aware that VyOS was built upon a codebase that hasn't aged well. VyOS 1.2.0 was all about a (sometimes painful) base system and codebase refresh, but the good thing is that as we get rid of the old code and replace it with modern, redesigned alternatives, new things become possible.

VyOS project news in September

yuriy@sentrium.io (Yuriy Andamasov) — Mon, 23 Sep 2019 20:47:41 GMT

VyOS Project 2019 August update

daniil@sentrium.io (Daniil Baturin) — Mon, 05 Aug 2019 19:06:46 GMT

With cloud support, a simplified installation process, and a potentially much faster VPN, we can proudly say we’ve had a busy month.

What can you expect from the updates and the VyOS 1.2.3 release?

HTTP API configuration interface and future plans

For a while, the HTTP API server could only be configured and started by hand. Now everyone who wants to try it out can setup it easily:

VyOS Project 2019 - June update

daniil@sentrium.io (Daniil Baturin) — Mon, 17 Jun 2019 15:40:12 GMT

The summer is often a slow news season, but we’ve got quite a few things to share. We’ve been slacking off on posting development news and keeping the community updated, so it’s time to fix it.