[pve-devel] [PATCH 1/4] frr: bump from 8.5.2 to 10.2.1

[Thomas Lamprecht]

Hi Alexandre,

On 11/03/2025 11:56, DERUMIER, Alexandre wrote:
> Personally, I would wait for major pve9 before bumping frr,
> 
> because from my experience, I had a lot of regression with frr, (really
> a lot ^_^)

Yeah, it's definitively a bigger jump, but having late PVE 8 and future
PVE 9 start out with the same FRR version would be nice and should make
backporting fixes easier; also PVE 9 should then start out more stable
w.r.t. FRR and SDN stack. And yes, we looked into backporting some patches
that Gabriel needs for the SDN Fabrics work to the FRR version we had,
but too much changed. Also, IIRC updating FRR to newer minor version
releases (e.g., from 8.5.2 to 8.5.7) often caused also some regressions,
so a bigger jump should make addressing those at least a bit more
worthwile; at least that's what I'm hoping ^^

FYI: I just uploaded the build to the pvetest repository, would move it
to no-subscription sometime next week, if nothing comes up until then.
I can naturally delay the move, or fasten it up, depending on your
feedback or if you would like to have some more time, I just would like
to move it to no-subscription no later than the 28th March, to ensure it
gets long enough time for broad exposure in no-subscription before the
next point releases.

> and this really need a lot of test with different setup to be sure
> everything is working fine with differents setup.
> 
> 
> I can begin to do test on my production with this version if it can
> help

That would be really appreciated, thanks.