Weekly updates

Changes.

What shipped in Ze, newest first: the weekly updates, mined from git history and posted to Discord's ze-news. Each week's chips are the areas it touched; click a category to show just the weeks that touched it, click again to show everything, or click a week for the full write-up. Ze is pre-release, so the configuration syntax can still change, and the roadmap tracks the path to a stable release. For the landmark features on a timeline, see Milestones.

Week of 2026-08-03

Ze is being checked against the RFCs it implements, one MUST at a time, and that is where most of this week's work came from. BGP took the largest share. IS-IS learned to answer a purge of its own LSP, gNMI stopped serving unauthenticated writes, and web and DNS listeners can now carry an operator's own certificate.

BGP IS-IS IPsec DDoS RADIUS L2TP Interfaces DNS gNMI MCP Looking Glass Web UI CLI Config Appliance Storage Diagnostics Telemetry Security RFC Compliance Interop Under the Hood Quality Improvement

Week of 2026-07-27

IPsec was the centre of the week. Ze ran against strongSwan and twenty defects came out. EAP-TLS worked with another implementation for the first time. The BGP announce path went from two encoders to one. OSPF, BMP, MRT and the MCP server each took correctness work.

IPsec Security Interop BGP Route Server Flowspec BMP MRT OSPF MCP CLI Web UI Plugins L2TP VPP Storage Diagnostics Performance DNS IS-IS RFC Compliance Under the Hood Quality Improvement

Week of 2026-07-20

Ze has left Codeberg for GitHub. Beyond the move: protocol correctness, a security triage over the code-scanning backlog, and build-time feature gates that let a deployment ship only the code it runs.

BGP Route Server Graceful Restart BMP OSPF L2TP IPsec Firewall DDoS CoS Security AAA Installer Interfaces Config CLI Feature Gates Plugins Storage RFC Compliance Under the Hood Quality Improvement

Week of 2026-07-13

A busy routing week brought VRRP, BGP multipath in the FIB, BMP Loc-RIB monitoring, tighter RPKI policy, and several management-plane security fixes.

BGP VRRP RPKI BMP CLI Looking Glass Security AAA IPsec L2TP Firewall Appliance RFC Compliance Performance Under the Hood

Week of 2026-07-06

A dense week across VPN, DNS, subscriber access, the VPP data plane, the web UI, and observability.

IPsec DNS L2TP PPPoE DDoS VPP Web UI RADIUS RBAC Looking Glass Telemetry MRT MCP Appliance Interop Under the Hood

Week of 2026-07-01

Work landed across DNS, traffic security, routing, and the CLI this week.

DNS Anomaly Detection BGP OSPF Redistribution MPLS CLI Security VPP Under the Hood

Week of 2026-06-25

Shipped across security, the appliance, routing, and observability this week.

BGP IS-IS OSPF DNS L2TP Control-Plane DDoS Appliance Feature Gates Installer Under the Hood

Week of 2026-06-22

Focused on trimming attack surface and rounding out OSPF.

Web UI BGP IS-IS OSPF Telemetry Feature Gates Installer Kernel

Week of 2026-06-15

Native IS-IS landed, MPLS gained fast reroute, and firewall rules can now pull straight from the IRR.

CLI BGP Flowspec IS-IS MPLS RSVP-TE Firewall Appliance Installer Interfaces

Week of 2026-06-08

A week of operator-facing polish: the Web Workbench UI, SR-Policy and IRR-based filtering in BGP, per-subscriber CoS, and a talk at LINX.

CLI Web UI BGP CoS Installer Under the Hood Presentation: LINX 126

Week of 2026-06-01

The CLI grammar rollout finished, MRT tooling arrived, and a handful of quiet-but-important reliability bugs got fixed.

CLI Config BGP RPKI L2TP MRT Appliance Installer Quality Improvement

Week of 2026-05-25

MPLS grew a full label-switching stack, flow export and gNMI landed, and config commits became transactional.

CLI Config BGP LDP MPLS RSVP-TE gNMI Flow Export Appliance Installer

Week of 2026-05-18

A full native IPsec/IKEv2 VPN stack, a route server for IXPs, and a big allocation-hunting pass across the BGP hot path.

CLI BGP Flowspec Route Server RPKI L2TP PPPoE Diagnostics IPsec Appliance Installer Performance

Week of 2026-05-11

CPE features round out, interface config gets restructured, and RPKI gains ASPA path verification.

Web UI BGP MPLS RPKI CPE DHCP PPPoE Telemetry Interfaces Under the Hood

Week of 2026-05-04

Two major subsystems landed this week: a fleet management tool for appliances, and a PPPoE access concentrator alongside VPP-backed NAT and ACLs.

BNG PPP PPPoE RADIUS Diagnostics Firewall Appliance Fleet Kernel VPP

Week of 2026-04-27

Interface configuration now rolls back cleanly on failure, the web UI got a dedicated CLI page, and traffic-control state survives more edge cases.

CLI Web UI BGP CoS L2TP API Telemetry Interfaces Under the Hood

Week of 2026-04-20

Security hardening, a new diagnostics subsystem, and a redesigned operator web UI headline this week.

Web UI BFD BGP MCP Diagnostics Telemetry Firewall Security Performance VPP

Week of 2026-04-13

A complete L2TP/PPP access stack, TACACS+ and pluggable AAA, a VPP dataplane, and new nftables/tc firewall backends.

CoS L2TP PPP AAA Firewall TACACS+ Interfaces Performance Under the Hood VPP

Week of 2026-04-06

A full BFD engine, BGP route reflection and policy filters, a REST/gRPC config editor, WireGuard support, and a talk at Net Manchester.

Config Editor BFD BGP DHCP API Appliance Interfaces Presentation: Net Manchester

Week of 2026-03-30

A full interface management subsystem, offline DNS/RIR resolution tooling, config-driven plugin loading, BGP healthcheck and long-lived graceful restart support, and a Looking Glass overhaul.

CLI Config BGP Graceful Restart DHCP DNS Plugins Looking Glass Interfaces Under the Hood

Week of 2026-03-23

A full web interface, fleet management, redistribution filtering, and a stack of routing-protocol correctness work all landed together.

Web UI BGP Redistribution DNS MCP Plugins Telemetry Security Fleet Performance

Week of 2026-03-16

RPKI route origin validation landed in full, alongside a wave of BGP RFC compliance work, CLI polish, and daemon security hardening.

CLI YANG BGP Graceful Restart RPKI Plugins Security Interop

Week of 2026-03-09

A big week for access, config safety, and BGP session security.

CLI Config Config Editor Graceful Restart Telemetry RBAC Security Storage

Week of 2026-03-02

Best-path selection landed, along with outbound route tracking and a round of CLI/editor polish.

CLI Config Editor BGP Graceful Restart Quality Improvement Under the Hood

Week of 2026-02-23

A route-server-focused week: reliability fixes for BGP Route Server under load, a new external plugin protocol option, and systematic config validation.

Config BGP Route Server Plugins Chaos Under the Hood

Week of 2026-02-16

A hard round of route reflector hardening, a live web dashboard for the chaos tool, and a batch of BGP protocol and config improvements.

Config BGP Plugins Chaos Under the Hood IETF Draft: ATTR_TOMBSTONE

Week of 2026-02-09

A new chaos-testing tool, matured config reload, RFC 7606 enforcement, and a hot-path allocation cleanup.

Config Config Editor BGP ExaBGP Migration Plugins Chaos Performance Quality Improvement

Week of 2026-02-02

Mostly spent on the config editor, a new capability, and a round of decode/RIB bug fixes.

Config Editor BGP ExaBGP Migration Plugins Quality Improvement

Week of 2026-01-26

Config work, the ExaBGP migration path, and correctness fixes across the wire.

CLI Config Config Editor BGP Flowspec ExaBGP Migration Plugins Quality Improvement Storage Under the Hood

Week of 2026-01-19

A big architecture week: Ze split into a hub process and a BGP child process, gained live config reload, and got a documented plugin SDK.

CLI Config Config Editor YANG BGP Plugins Quality Improvement Under the Hood

Week of 2026-01-12

A week focused on Graceful Restart, ExaBGP migration tooling, and logging.

Config BGP Graceful Restart API ExaBGP Migration Plugins Diagnostics

Week of 2026-01-05

This week rounded out route-refresh, ADD-PATH and VPN/labeled-unicast support in the plugin API, alongside a batch of BGP correctness fixes.

BGP Flowspec Graceful Restart MPLS API Plugins Quality Improvement

Week of 2025-12-29

Route-family coverage rounded out (labeled-unicast, MPLS VPN, MUP, route reflection), a batch of protocol-correctness fixes, and a security-relevant change to how Ze listens for BGP sessions.

CLI Config Config Editor BGP Flowspec MPLS Route Server Security Quality Improvement

Week of 2025-12-22

Work on the BGP engine itself: route encoding correctness, session robustness, and a first real API surface for driving peers programmatically.

BGP Flowspec API Plugins Quality Improvement

Week of 2025-12-15

The first tracked week of development on Ze. In seven days the BGP engine went from nothing to a config-driven daemon that speaks the wire protocol, holds a RIB, and tests itself against ExaBGP.

CLI Config Config Editor BGP Flowspec API ExaBGP Migration

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