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History
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In the beginning...
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There once was a network operating system based on Debian GNU/Linux,
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called Vyatta. [*]_ 2006 onwards, it was a great free software
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alternative to Cisco IOS and Jupiter JUNOS. It came in two editions:
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Vyatta Core (previously Vyatta Community Edition) that was completely
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free software, and Vyatta Subscription Edition that had proprietary
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features and was only available to paying customers. [*]_
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Vyatta was acquired by Brocade Communication Systems in 2012. Shortly
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after, Brocade renamed Vyatta Subscription Edition to Brocade vRouter,
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discontinued Vyatta Core and shut down the community forum without a
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notice. The bug tracker and Git repositories followed next year.
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It's worth noting that by the time Brocade acquired Vyatta,
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development of Vyatta Core was already stagnated. Vyatta Subscription
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Edition (and thus, Vyatta development as a whole) had been replacing
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core components with proprietary software, meaning few features made
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it to Vyatta Core, and those that did were bug-ridden and hamstrung.
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In 2013, soon after Vyatta Core was abandoned, the community forked
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the last Vyatta Core version (6.6R1) and VyOS Project came into being.
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`Sentrium SL <https://blog.vyos.io/sentrium-what-sentrium>`_ was
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established by VyOS maintainers in 2014 to fund VyOS development by
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selling support, consulting services and prebuilt long-term support
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images.
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Brocade was acquired by Broadcom in 2016 and sold what remains of
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erstwhile Vyatta to AT&T in 2017, who in turn sold it to Ciena in 2021.
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Major releases
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VyOS major versions used to be named after elements in order of atomic
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numbers. With 1.2, this naming scheme was replaced with the much
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cooler scheme of Latin names of IAU designated constellations by solid
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angle area, starting from the smallest.
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Hydrogen (1.0)
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Released just in time for holidays on 22 December 2013, Hydrogen was
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the first major VyOS release. It fixed features that were broken in
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Vyatta Core 6.6 (such as IPv4 BGP peer groups and DHCPv6 relay) and
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introduced command scripting, a task scheduler and web proxy LDAP
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authentication.
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Helium (1.1)
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Helium was released on 9 October 2014, exactly on the day VyOS Project
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first came into being in the previous year. Helium came with a lot of
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new features, including an event handler and support for L2TPv3,
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802.1ad QinQ and IGMP proxy, as well as experimental support for VXLAN
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and DMVPN (the latter of which was also broken in Vyatta Core due to
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its reliance on a proprietary NHRP implementation).
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Crux (1.2)
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Crux (the Southern Cross) came out on 28 January 2019 and was the
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first major release of VyOS as we know it today. The underlying
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Debian base was upgraded from Squeeze (6) to Jessie (8).
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Although Crux came with too many new features to mention here, some
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noteworthy ones are: an mDNS repeater, a broadcast relay,
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a high-performance PPPoE server, an HFSC scheduler, as well as support
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for Wireguard, unicast VRRP, RPKI for BGP and fully 802.1ad-compliant
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QinQ ethertype. The telnet server and support for P2P filtering were
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removed.
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Crux is the first version to feature the modular image build system.
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CLI definitions began to be written in the modern, verifiable XML
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templates. Python APIs were introduced for command scripting and
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configuration migration. Introduction of new Perl and shell code was
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proscribed and the rewriting of legacy Perl code in pure Python began
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with Crux.
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As of 2022, Crux is still supported and maintained.
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Equuleus (1.3)
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The current long-term support version of VyOS, Equuleus (the Pony)
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came out on 21 December 2021, once again in time for the winter
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holidays.
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Equuleus brought many long-desired features with it, most notably
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an SSTP VPN server, an IPoE server, an OpenConnect VPN server and
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a serial console server, in addition to reworked support for WWAN
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interfaces, support for GENEVE and MACSec interfaces, VRF, IS-IS
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routing, preliminary support for MPLS and LDP, and many other
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initialisms.
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As of 2022, Equuleus is in the stable.
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Sagitta (1.4)
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Sagitta (the Arrow) is the codename of the current development
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branch, so there's no VyOS 1.4 yet.
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A note on copyright
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Unlike Vyatta, VyOS never had (nor will ever have) proprietary code.
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The only proprietary material in VyOS is non-code assets, such as
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graphics and the trademark "VyOS". [*]_ This means you can build your
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own long-term support images (as the entire toolchain we use is free
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software) and even distribute them, given you rename it and remove
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such assets before building. Although note that we do not provide
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support for images distributed by a third-party. See the
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`artwork license <https://github.com/vyos/vyos-build/blob/current/LICENSE.artwork>`_
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and the end-user license agreement at ``/usr/share/vyos/EULA`` in
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any pre-built image for more precise information.
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.. [*] From the Sanskrit adjective "Vyātta" (व्यात्त), meaning opened.
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.. [*] A business model comparable to that of Redis, rather than that
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of VyOS today.
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.. [*] This is not unlike how Linus Torvalds owns the trademark "Linux".
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