OpenBGPD 8.9 released

26 September, 2025 by claudio@openbsd.org
We have released OpenBGPD 8.9, which will be arriving in the
OpenBGPD directory of your local OpenBSD mirror soon.

This release includes the following changes to the previous release:

    * In verbose mode log the NOTIFICATION data for UPDATE errors.

    * Fix a busy loop error in the pfkey handling for OpenBSD and FreeBSD.

    * Introduce monotime - an internal time API using micorsecond
      resolution.

    * Fix accounting of the pending update counter

    * Use new ibufq interface instead of handrolling the same.

    * Large refactoring of internal APIs to make the code easier to share
      and cleaner.

OpenBGPD-portable is known to compile and run on FreeBSD and the
Linux distributions Alpine, Debian, Fedora, RHEL/CentOS and Ubuntu.
It is our hope that packagers take interest and help adapt OpenBGPD-portable
to more distributions.

We welcome feedback and improvements from the broader community.
Thanks to all of the contributors who helped make this release
possible.