The primary focus of this release is a fix of a SEGV regression in ospfd, which was introduced in 0.99.19. It also features a series of minor improvements, including better RFC compliance in bgpd, better support of FreeBSD, and some enhancements to isisd.
This release provides security fixes which address assorted vulnerabilities in bgpd, ospfd, and ospf6d (CVE-2011-3323, CVE-2011-3324, CVE-2011-3325, CVE-2011-3326, and CVE-2011-3327).
This release mostly features bugfixes and cleanup work. Around 30 patches have been merged since the last release. This version is recommended for all users of the 0.99 branch.
This release fixes several bugs in the BGP and OSPF code. In particular, some notable regressions in ospfd and ospf6d were addressed. This release should be considered a 1.0.0 release candidate.