https://ze-software.github.io/ze/changes/ What shipped in Ze each week, in Zeledon's voice, mined from git history. en Thu, 25 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://ze-software.github.io/ze/changes/2026-06-25/ https://ze-software.github.io/ze/changes/2026-06-25/ Thu, 25 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Shipped across security, the appliance, routing, and observability this week. https://ze-software.github.io/ze/changes/2026-06-22/ https://ze-software.github.io/ze/changes/2026-06-22/ Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Focused on trimming attack surface and rounding out OSPF. https://ze-software.github.io/ze/changes/2026-06-15/ https://ze-software.github.io/ze/changes/2026-06-15/ Mon, 15 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Native IS-IS landed, MPLS gained fast reroute, and firewall rules can now pull straight from the IRR. https://ze-software.github.io/ze/changes/2026-06-08/ https://ze-software.github.io/ze/changes/2026-06-08/ Mon, 08 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 A week of operator-facing polish: a real Web Workbench UI, SR-Policy and IRR-based filtering in BGP, per-subscriber CoS, and a talk at LINX. https://ze-software.github.io/ze/changes/2026-06-01/ https://ze-software.github.io/ze/changes/2026-06-01/ Mon, 01 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 The CLI grammar rollout finished, MRT tooling arrived, and a handful of quiet-but-important reliability bugs got fixed. https://ze-software.github.io/ze/changes/2026-05-25/ https://ze-software.github.io/ze/changes/2026-05-25/ Mon, 25 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 MPLS grew a full label-switching stack, flow export and gNMI landed, and config commits became transactional. https://ze-software.github.io/ze/changes/2026-05-18/ https://ze-software.github.io/ze/changes/2026-05-18/ Mon, 18 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 A full native IPsec/IKEv2 VPN stack, a route server for IXPs, and a big allocation-hunting pass across the BGP hot path. https://ze-software.github.io/ze/changes/2026-05-11/ https://ze-software.github.io/ze/changes/2026-05-11/ Mon, 11 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 CPE features round out, interface config gets restructured, and RPKI gains ASPA path verification. https://ze-software.github.io/ze/changes/2026-05-04/ https://ze-software.github.io/ze/changes/2026-05-04/ Mon, 04 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Two major subsystems landed this week: a fleet management tool for appliances, and a PPPoE access concentrator alongside VPP-backed NAT and ACLs. https://ze-software.github.io/ze/changes/2026-04-27/ https://ze-software.github.io/ze/changes/2026-04-27/ Mon, 27 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Interface configuration now rolls back cleanly on failure, the web UI got a dedicated CLI page, and traffic-control state survives more edge cases. https://ze-software.github.io/ze/changes/2026-04-20/ https://ze-software.github.io/ze/changes/2026-04-20/ Mon, 20 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Security hardening, a new diagnostics subsystem, and a redesigned operator web UI headline this week. https://ze-software.github.io/ze/changes/2026-04-13/ https://ze-software.github.io/ze/changes/2026-04-13/ Mon, 13 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 A complete L2TP/PPP access stack, TACACS+ and pluggable AAA, a VPP dataplane, and new nftables/tc firewall backends. https://ze-software.github.io/ze/changes/2026-04-06/ https://ze-software.github.io/ze/changes/2026-04-06/ Mon, 06 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 A full BFD engine, BGP route reflection and policy filters, a real REST/gRPC config editor, WireGuard support, and a talk at Net Manchester. https://ze-software.github.io/ze/changes/2026-03-30/ https://ze-software.github.io/ze/changes/2026-03-30/ Mon, 30 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000 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. https://ze-software.github.io/ze/changes/2026-03-23/ https://ze-software.github.io/ze/changes/2026-03-23/ Mon, 23 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000 A full web interface, fleet management, redistribution filtering, and a stack of routing-protocol correctness work all landed together. https://ze-software.github.io/ze/changes/2026-03-16/ https://ze-software.github.io/ze/changes/2026-03-16/ Mon, 16 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000 RPKI route origin validation landed in full, alongside a wave of BGP RFC compliance work, CLI polish, and daemon security hardening. https://ze-software.github.io/ze/changes/2026-03-09/ https://ze-software.github.io/ze/changes/2026-03-09/ Mon, 09 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000 A big week for access, config safety, and BGP session security. https://ze-software.github.io/ze/changes/2026-03-02/ https://ze-software.github.io/ze/changes/2026-03-02/ Mon, 02 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Real best-path selection landed, along with outbound route tracking and a round of CLI/editor polish. https://ze-software.github.io/ze/changes/2026-02-23/ https://ze-software.github.io/ze/changes/2026-02-23/ Mon, 23 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000 A route-server-focused week: reliability fixes for BGP Route Server under load, a new external plugin protocol option, and systematic config validation. https://ze-software.github.io/ze/changes/2026-02-16/ https://ze-software.github.io/ze/changes/2026-02-16/ Mon, 16 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000 A hard round of route reflector hardening, a live web dashboard for the chaos tool, and a batch of BGP protocol and config improvements. https://ze-software.github.io/ze/changes/2026-02-09/ https://ze-software.github.io/ze/changes/2026-02-09/ Mon, 09 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000 A new chaos-testing tool, matured config reload, RFC 7606 enforcement, and a hot-path allocation cleanup. https://ze-software.github.io/ze/changes/2026-02-02/ https://ze-software.github.io/ze/changes/2026-02-02/ Mon, 02 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Mostly spent on the config editor, a new capability, and a round of decode/RIB bug fixes. https://ze-software.github.io/ze/changes/2026-01-26/ https://ze-software.github.io/ze/changes/2026-01-26/ Mon, 26 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Config work, the ExaBGP migration path, and correctness fixes across the wire. https://ze-software.github.io/ze/changes/2026-01-19/ https://ze-software.github.io/ze/changes/2026-01-19/ Mon, 19 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000 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. https://ze-software.github.io/ze/changes/2026-01-12/ https://ze-software.github.io/ze/changes/2026-01-12/ Mon, 12 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000 A week focused on Graceful Restart, ExaBGP migration tooling, and logging. https://ze-software.github.io/ze/changes/2026-01-05/ https://ze-software.github.io/ze/changes/2026-01-05/ Mon, 05 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000 This week rounded out route-refresh, ADD-PATH and VPN/labeled-unicast support in the plugin API, alongside a batch of BGP correctness fixes. https://ze-software.github.io/ze/changes/2025-12-29/ https://ze-software.github.io/ze/changes/2025-12-29/ Mon, 29 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000 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. https://ze-software.github.io/ze/changes/2025-12-22/ https://ze-software.github.io/ze/changes/2025-12-22/ Mon, 22 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000 Work on the BGP engine itself: route encoding correctness, session robustness, and a first real API surface for driving peers programmatically. https://ze-software.github.io/ze/changes/2025-12-15/ https://ze-software.github.io/ze/changes/2025-12-15/ Mon, 15 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000 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.