VyOS 1.2.0-rc5 is available for download

by Daniil Baturin

As the tradition dictates, the new weekly release candidate is available for download 

Package updates

The following packages have been updated:

  1. Linux kernel to 4.14.75
  2. Mellanox network drivers to 4.4

Bug fixes

SNMP integration with routing protocols

The last bit configuration that is required for it to work is in now, and it should work as expected again. If it doesn't work for you, let us know!

VRRP not working in unicast mode when the RFC-compatible mode is selected

In T933 it was reported that if you configure VRRP in unicast mode and choose to use virtual MACs (RFC compatible mode), both nodes become masters. Now the config option required for this to work is inserted into keepalived config.

DHCP relay now handles the port option correctly

As reported in T938, DHCP relay would not handle the port option correctly. Now it does.

Tag nodes with whitespace

As reported in T253, it was possible to create a tag node with whitespace in its name (e.g. "set system login user "foo bar" authentication..."), but such configs would not be parsed correctly if you try to load them back.

In most cases attempts to create such nodes should be blocked at the syntax validation level, but since old configs with such nodes may exist, and it is impossible to disallow doing that completely at the set command level, we've added support for quoting such nodes properly in the code responsible for displaying and saving configs. Now such configs will load at least partially and produce more descriptive errors when disallowed by individual command syntax.

Commit archive problem with edit levels

As reported in T570, changing the edit level caused the commit archive feature to save only the config at that level to the remote server, for example, if you did "edit interfaces", the archived config would contain nothing but the interfaces subtree.
It was caused by erroneous omission of the option that makes cli-shell-api output the entire config regardless of the edit level and should be fixed now.

The "run monitor traffic interface ... filter" commands now has full support for tcpdump filters

As reported in T931, commands like "run monitor traffic interface eth0 filter ''src 192.0.2.1 or dst 203.0.113.10" would fail. Now the simple mistake that caused it is fixed and such commands should work again.

Compatibility notes

Username restrictions

Related to the whitespace issue, some commands had overly permissive syntax. The "system login user" username format has been restricted to the POSIX portable characters and length below 100 now (that's alphanumeric characters, underscores, hyphens, and dots). If usernames do not conform to the undeniably portable format (alphanumeric and underscores/hyphens only), you will receive a warning.

There may be old configs with unusual usernames, and they now may fail to load. If you run into issues with that restrictions, let us know.

The "inspect" action in firewall rules no longer exists

The "inspect" action was once used for the IPS/IDS functionality, but the IDS (it was Snort) was removed long before VyOS was forked from Vyatta. The now useless action, however, persisted.

Now we have removed it. We think the chance to see it in a real config is very low, and this should have no impact, but if you run into problems, leave a note in T59, and we'll make a migration script.

In other news

The 1.2.0/Crux repositories are now fully separated from the "current" branch repositories, in preparation for the LTS release. This reopens the "current" branch for experimental and potentially unsafe changes so that we can start working on new big rewrites, migration to newer Debian and other things required for the future 1.3.0 release.