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  • Could someone please spare some time for PR 289853 + 292055 (OpenBGPd update + new major version)

    From Sebastian Oswald@sko@rostwald.de to muc.lists.freebsd.ports on Wed Feb 4 09:48:10 2026
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    Hello,

    First off, I really don't want to step on anyones toes - I know all
    committers are quite busy and doing their best to keep up. Thanks for
    all your work!

    The PR 289853 regarding updating net/OpenBGPd8 to the last minor
    release of the branch has been stale for over 4 months now.
    Version 9 has been released at 30-12-2025 and I created PR 292055 the
    same day, after verifying this version builds, installs and runs fine
    and is yet another smooth drop-in-upgrade.

    Sadly I haven't gotten any comment on both PRs. From the issues/PRs
    on the upstream github project, I know there are at least some other
    active users of OpenBGPd on FreeBSD, so it would be nice to have the
    port up-to-date. Especially since upstream makes sure it builds and
    runs on FreeBSD.

    Regarding the 'new port for each major release' practice:
    As I wrote in PR 292055, IIRC this stems from a major release that
    introduced breaking changes in the config syntax. Since the syntax has
    been considered stable for many versions now, we might want to drop
    that practice and move to a 'net/OpenBGPd' port that always holds the
    latest release - which is the only one supported by upstream anyways.
    At the very least we should deprecate/remove the ancient releases 5-7
    (ASAP).


    @Kurt Jaeger: I see that you are quite busy and involved in a lot of
    PRs. (Again: Thanks for all the work!)
    We are an active user of OpenBGPd (currently on 11 hosts in production;
    6 FreeBSD + 5 OpenBSD) and I could spare some time @work to keep the
    port updated and test patches and new releases (I'm already doing that
    in our build environment anyways). So I'm open to taking maintainership
    for OpenBGPd if this is helpful.


    Regards,
    sko

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  • From Kurt Jaeger@pi@freebsd.org to muc.lists.freebsd.ports on Wed Feb 4 13:53:26 2026
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    Hi!

    The PR 289853 regarding updating net/OpenBGPd8 to the last minor
    release of the branch has been stale for over 4 months now.

    Sorry for the hold-up, committed.

    Version 9 has been released at 30-12-2025 and I created PR 292055 the
    same day, after verifying this version builds, installs and runs fine
    and is yet another smooth drop-in-upgrade.

    Thanks, committed.

    Regarding the 'new port for each major release' practice:
    As I wrote in PR 292055, IIRC this stems from a major release that
    introduced breaking changes in the config syntax. Since the syntax has
    been considered stable for many versions now, we might want to drop
    that practice and move to a 'net/OpenBGPd' port that always holds the
    latest release - which is the only one supported by upstream anyways.
    At the very least we should deprecate/remove the ancient releases 5-7
    (ASAP).

    5 and 6 are no longer in the ports.

    @Kurt Jaeger: I see that you are quite busy and involved in a lot of
    PRs. (Again: Thanks for all the work!)
    We are an active user of OpenBGPd (currently on 11 hosts in production;
    6 FreeBSD + 5 OpenBSD) and I could spare some time @work to keep the
    port updated and test patches and new releases (I'm already doing that
    in our build environment anyways). So I'm open to taking maintainership
    for OpenBGPd if this is helpful.

    Thanks, will change it (soonish).
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