OpenBGPD 9.3 released

30 September, 2026 • by claudio@openbsd.org
We have released OpenBGPD 9.3, which will be arriving in the
OpenBGPD directory of your local OpenBSD mirror soon.

This release includes the following changes to the previous release:

    * Add shorthand for well-known "DOWNGRADE" BGP community.

    * Remove support old aspa-set table format that included per-provider AFI.
      Rpki-client stopped issuing those with the 8.5 release in July 2023.

    * Use getexecpath in the fork-and-execute privilege separation setup
      and implement portable shims for various other operating systems.

    * Various minor fixes:
       - Improve graceful restart timer handling for multi-AFI/SAFI sessions.
       - Clear the connected nexthop flag when nexthops and nexthops are
	 no longer connected.
       - Fix edge case where an ASPA table update was not applied because the
	 system erroneously thought the table did not change.

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.