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History
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In the beginning...
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There was a network operating system based on Debian GNU/Linux, called
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Vyatta. [*]_ Introduced in 2006, it served as a great free-software alternative
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to proprietary products. Vyatta came in two editions: Vyatta Core
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(formerly known as Vyatta Community Edition), which was free software, and
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Vyatta Subscription Edition, which included proprietary features and was
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available only to paying customers.
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Brocade Communications Systems acquired Vyatta in 2012. Shortly after, Brocade
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renamed Vyatta Subscription Edition to Brocade vRouter, discontinued Vyatta
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Core, and shut down the community forum without notice. The bug tracker and Git
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repositories were closed the following year.
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By the time Brocade acquired Vyatta, the development of Vyatta Core had
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already stagnated. The focus had shifted to Vyatta Subscription Edition,
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where core components were replaced with proprietary software. As a result,
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Vyatta Core received fewer new features, and some of those added faced issues.
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In 2013, shortly after Vyatta Core was discontinued, the community forked its
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final version (6.6R1) to create the VyOS project. In 2014, the maintainers
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established a company to fund VyOS development through technical support,
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consulting services, and LTS release access subscriptions. The company was
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originally named Sentrium and was later reorganized under the VyOS brand.
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Major releases
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VyOS originally named its major versions after elements by atomic number.
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Beginning with version 1.2, this naming scheme was changed. It now uses the
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Latin names of constellations recognized by the International Astronomical
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Union (`IAU
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<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IAU_designated_constellations_by_area>`_),
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ordered by their solid angle area, beginning with the smallest.
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Hydrogen (1.0)
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Released just in time for the 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, released on 9 October 2014, marked the first anniversary of the
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VyOS Project. The release introduced an event handler, L2TPv3 support,
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802.1ad (QinQ), and IGMP proxy, as well as experimental support for VXLAN
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and DMVPN. Notably, DMVPN remained non-functional in Vyatta Core due to its
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reliance on a proprietary NHRP implementation.
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Crux (1.2)
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Crux (the Southern Cross) was released on 28 January 2019 and marked a
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departure from legacy Vyatta codebase and the start of the migration from
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Perl to Python as the primary language. The underlying base system was
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upgraded from Debian 6 (Squeeze) to Debian 8 (Jessie).
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Crux introduced many new features, some of the most noteworthy are:
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an mDNS repeater, a broadcast relay, a high-performance PPPoE server,
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an HFSC scheduler, and support for Wireguard, unicast VRRP, RPKI for BGP,
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and fully 802.1ad-compliant QinQ ethertype. The telnet server and support
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for P2P filtering were removed.
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Crux was the first VyOS release to feature a modular image build system.
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CLI definitions were written using an XML syntax automatically checked
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against a schema at build time. Python APIs were introduced for command
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scripting and configuration migration. New Perl code and old-style (non-XML)
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command definition were no longer accepted from that point.
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Crux reached the end of support in 2023.
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Equuleus (1.3)
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Equuleus (the Little Horse) was a long-term support version released
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on 21 December 2021, just in time for the winter holidays.
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Equuleus brought many long-awaited features, most notably an SSTP VPN
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server, an IPoE server, an OpenConnect VPN server, and a serial console
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server. It also introduced reworked support for WWAN interfaces, support
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for GENEVE and MACSec interfaces, VRF, IS-IS routing, and preliminary support
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for MPLS and LDP.
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Equuleus reached the end of support in 2025.
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Sagitta (1.4)
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Sagitta (the Arrow), released in 2024, is currently a supported LTS release.
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Circinus (1.5)
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Circinus (the Drawing Compass) is the codename for the upcoming development
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branch. VyOS 1.5 Circinus has not been released yet.
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A note on copyright
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Unlike Vyatta, VyOS has never had closed-source code and never will.
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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". [*]_
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Note that we do not provide support for images distributed by a third party.
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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 information.
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.. [*] From the Sanskrit adjective "Vyātta" (व्यात्त), meaning opened.
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.. [*] This is similar to how Linus Torvalds owns the Linux trademark.
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