We have released OpenBGPD 7.8, which will be arriving in the
OpenBGPD directory of your local OpenBSD mirror soon.

This release includes the following changes to the previous release:

  * Improved performance by optimising the output filters

  * Add Autonomous System Provider Authorization (ASPA) validaton based
    on draft-ietf-sidrops-aspa-verification-12

  * Introduce avs (ASPA validation state) filter and bgpctl filter argument

  * Add ASPA support for the RTR protocol based on
    draft-ietf-sidrops-8210bis-10

  * Improve open policy (RFC 9234) support and enable the capability
    automatically if a role is specified for the peer

  * Introduce a per neighbor 'role' configuration option to specify
    the session role used by ASPA verification and the open policy
    capability. The 'announce policy' statement was simplified at
    the same time.

  * Improve startup behaviour by introducing a small delay before
    opening the connection to a new peer

  * Support for aspa-set table config which can be provided by
    rpki-client

  * Make it possible to filter the RIB by invalid and leaked prefixes
    in bgpctl and bgplgd

  * Add OpenMetrics output to bgpctl for various BGP statistics and
    add /metrics endpoint to bgplgd

  * Support the pftable attribute set on FreeBSD systems

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.