VyOS
DeveloperThe VyOS Project Community
OS familyLinux (Unix-like)
Working stateCurrent
Source modelOpen source
Initial release22 December 2013; 10 years ago (2013-12-22)
Latest release1.3.5[1] / 15 December 2023; 58 days ago (2023-12-15)
Repository
Marketing targetEnterprise software
Available inEnglish
Platformsamd64
Kernel typeMonolithic (Linux)
LicenseFree software licenses
(mainly GPL)
Official websitevyos.io

VyOS is an open source network operating system based on Debian.[2]

VyOS provides a free routing platform that competes directly with other commercially available solutions from well-known network providers. Because VyOS is run on standard amd64 systems, it can be used as a router and firewall platform for cloud deployments.[3][4]

History

After Brocade Communications stopped development of the Vyatta Core Edition of the Vyatta Routing software, a small group of enthusiasts in 2013 took the last Community Edition, and worked on building an Open Source fork to live on in place of the end of life VC.[5][6]

Features

Releases

VyOS version 1.0.0 (Hydrogen) was released on December 22, 2013.[8][9] On October 9, 2014, version 1.1.0 (Helium) was released.[10] All versions released thus far have been based on Debian 6.0 (Squeeze), and are available as a 32-bit images and 64-bit images for both physical and virtual machines.[9]

On January 28, 2019, version 1.2.0 (Crux) was released.[11] Version 1.2.0 is based on Debian 8 (Jessie).

While version 1.0 and 1.1 were named after elements, a new naming scheme based on constellations is used from version 1.2.[12]

Release History

Release Version Date
Hydrogen 1.0.0 December 22, 2013
1.0.1 January 17, 2014
1.0.2 February 3, 2014
1.0.3 May 9, 2014
1.0.4 June 16, 2014
1.0.5 September 26, 2014
Helium 1.1.0 October 9, 2014
1.1.1 December 8, 2014
1.1.2 January 22, 2015
1.1.3 January 28, 2015
1.1.4 March 9, 2015
1.1.5 March 25, 2015
1.1.6 August 17, 2015
1.1.7 February 17, 2016
1.1.8 November 13, 2017
Crux 1.2.0 January 28, 2019
1.2.1 April 16, 2019
1.2.2 July 15, 2019
1.2.3 September 5, 2019
1.2.4 January 1, 2020
1.2.5 April 14, 2020
1.2.6 September 18, 2020
1.2.6-S1 September 28, 2020
1.2.7 March 25, 2021
1.2.8 July 6, 2021
Equuleus 1.3.0 December 21, 2021
1.3.1 March 21, 2022
1.3.1-S1 March 30, 2022
1.3.2 September 7, 2022
1.3.3 June 22, 2023
1.3.4 October 17, 2023
1.3.5 December 15, 2023

VMware Support

The VyOS OVA image for VMware was released with the February 3, 2014 maintenance release. It allows a convenient setup of VyOS on a VMware platform and includes all of the VMware tools and paravirtual drivers. The OVA image can be downloaded from the standard download site[13]

Amazon EC2 Support

Starting with version 1.0.2, Amazon EC2 customers can select a VyOS AMI image.[14] (deprecated, will be removed in February 2018[15])

Starting with version 1.1.7, AWS customers should use new marketplace VyOS AMI[16]

Starting with version 1.2.0, AWS customers can deploy new marketplace AMI[17] This new offering now comes with support

Azure Support

Starting with version 1.2.0, Azure customers can use VyOS on Azure[18]

See also

References

  1. ^ "VyOS 1.3.5 security release". December 15, 2023. Retrieved December 22, 2023.
  2. ^ "VyOS home page". Retrieved November 9, 2014.
  3. ^ "VyOS on DistroWatch.com". Retrieved November 9, 2014.
  4. ^ Review: 6 slick open source routers | InfoWorld
  5. ^ "Vyatta now rehosted to github as VyOS : networking". reddit. October 11, 2013.
  6. ^ "[Release] VyOS 1.0.0 - (an enhanced fork, based from the old vyatta project) : networking". reddit. December 22, 2013.
  7. ^ "Products – VyOS". Retrieved April 11, 2021.
  8. ^ "Hydrogen". Archived from the original on December 8, 2015. Retrieved December 24, 2013.
  9. ^ a b "VyOS - 1.0.0 release". December 22, 2013. Archived from the original on December 8, 2015. Retrieved December 4, 2015.
  10. ^ "VyOS - 1.1.0 release". October 9, 2014. Archived from the original on December 8, 2015. Retrieved December 4, 2015.
  11. ^ "VyOS 1.2 (Crux) released". January 28, 2019. Retrieved January 30, 2019.
  12. ^ "VyOS development news in August and September". September 16, 2018. Retrieved January 30, 2019.
  13. ^ "VMWare - VyOS". Archived from the original on December 8, 2015. Retrieved February 1, 2018.
  14. ^ "Old VyOS image on AWS Marketplace". Retrieved November 9, 2014.
  15. ^ "VyOS cloud support platform strategy". Retrieved February 1, 2018.
  16. ^ "New VyOS image on AWS Marketplace". Retrieved February 1, 2018.
  17. ^ "VyOS 1.2 LTS image on AWS Marketplace". Retrieved February 26, 2018.
  18. ^ "VyOS on Azure". Retrieved February 1, 2019.

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