Component: bridge

7.21.3 Stable 2026-Feb-12 (2 weeks ago)

• fixed dhcp-snooping incorrectly disabling HW offloading on QCA8337, Atheros8327 switch chips (introduced in v7.20);

7.20.8 Long-term 2026-Jan-30 (1 month ago)

• fixed dynamic switch-cpu VLAN creation (introduced in v7.20.7);

7.21.1 Stable 2026-Jan-19 (1 month ago)

• fixed dynamic switch-cpu VLAN creation (introduced in v7.21);
• improved stability when using MVRP (introduced in v7.21);

7.21 Stable 2026-Jan-12 (1 month ago)

• expose more DHCP snooping warning logs;
• fixed dynamic switch-cpu VLAN creation (introduced in v7.20);
• fixed filter and NAT matching with "mac-protocol=length";
• fixed missing local MAC after changing protocol-mode setting;
• fixed multicast packet receiving on bridge as multicast-router when HW offloading is used;
• fixed possible DHCP packet drop caused by the add-dhcp-option82;
• fixed possible MVRP issues when STP topology changes;
• fixed static host and MDB entry updates on VLAN add/remove;
• improved DHCP Option 82 values (circuit-id:"interface-name:vid", remote-id:"bridge MAC address");
• improved stability after failed protocol-mode=mstp change;
• improved system stability when forwarding traffic with fast-path and bridged interface gets removed or disabled (introduced in v7.20);
• properly apply bridge MVRP settings on the fly;

7.20.7 Long-term 2026-Jan-08 (1 month ago)

• fixed dynamic switch-cpu VLAN creation (introduced in v7.20);
• improved system stability when forwarding traffic with fast-path and bridged interface gets removed or disabled (introduced in v7.20);

7.20.2 Stable 2025-Oct-21 (4 months ago)

• fixed incorrectly blocked ports by STP (introduced in v7.20);

7.20 Stable 2025-Sep-29 (5 months ago)

• added dynamic tagged entry named "switch-cpu" in scenarios where the same VLAN spans multiple switch chips or is used on both HW and SW ports;
• added verbose STP debug logging (rx/tx BPDU, edge-port and port-role transitions, FDB flush);
• added warning log when all MACs cannot be displayed under the host table;
• disable/enable HW offload on bonding slave disable/enable (fixes potential MAC learning issue);
• fixed MVRP leave indication;
• fixed port-id when adding a new port in non-primary MLAG;
• improved stability when disabling bridge with dynamic VLANs in MSTI;
• refactored host learning logic in MLAG setups in order to make it more robust and predictable;

7.19.6 Stable 2025-Sep-12 (5 months ago)

• improved system stability with IGMP snooping;

7.19.3 Stable 2025-Jul-03 (8 months ago)

• allow IPv6 FastPath when dhcp-snooping is enabled;

7.19 Stable 2025-May-22 (9 months ago)

• added new STP monitoring fields for bridge and ports (Tx/Rx BPDU, Tx/Rx TC, forward/discard transitions, last topology change, message-age, max-age, remaining-hops, bridge-id);
• fixed bridge port hang when using invalid port IDs;
• fixed dhcp-snooping in QinQ setups;
• fixed issue when local MACs were removed unnecessarily;
• fixed minor memory leak on link down;
• fixed multicast packet flow on hardware offloaded bridge which acts as "multicast-router";
• improved default bridge and port layout on console and GUI;
• improved stability in case of configuration error (introduced in v7.15);
• moved "TCHANGE" logs from bridge,stp to bridge,stp,debug;
• offload VXLAN only if another HW offloaded port exists in the bridge;
• properly flush bridge hosts when bonding is used as bridge port and loses hw-offloading status;
• rename "ports" to "interface" under MDB table for configuration consistency with other menus;
• renamed STP monitor fields (port-number to port-id, designated-port-number to designated-port-id, designated-bridge to designated-bridge-id);
• show designated-* monitor field for all port roles;
• show warning instead of causing error when using multicast MAC as admin-mac (introduced in v7.17);

7.18.1 Stable 2025-Feb-28 (1 year ago)

• improved stability in case of configuration error (introduced in v7.15);
• show warning instead of causing error when using multicast MAC as admin-mac (introduced in v7.17);

7.18 Stable 2025-Feb-24 (1 year ago)

• added MLAG heartbeat property;
• avoid duplicate VLAN entries with dynamic wifi VLANs;
• do not reset MLAG peer port on heartbeat timeout (log warning instead);
• fixed endless MAC update loop (introduced in v7.17);
• fixed missing S flag on interface configuration changes;
• improved stability when using MLAG with MSTP (introduced in v7.17);
• improvements to MLAG host table updates;
• process more DHCP message types (decline, NAK, inform);
• removed controller-bridge (CB) and port-extender (PE) support;
• show VXLAN remote-ip in host table;

7.17.1 Stable 2025-Jan-30 (1 year ago)

• fixed endless MAC update loop (introduced in v7.17);

7.17 Stable 2025-Jan-16 (1 year ago)

• add HW offload support for active-backup bonds on 98DXxxxx, 88E6393X, 88E6191X and88E6190 switches;
• added interface-list support for VLANs;
• added message for inactive port reason;
• added priority setting to manually elect primary MLAG peer;
• correctly display PPP interfaces in VLAN menu;
• disallow duplicate static VLAN entries;
• disallow multicast MAC address as admin-mac;
• enable faster HW offloading when detect-internet is disabled;
• fixed first host table response for SNMP;
• fixed incorrect HW offloaded port state in certain cases on MSTI add;
• fixed missing slave flag on port in certain cases;
• fixed MVRP registrar and applicant port options;
• fixed port monitor with interface-lists;
• fixed port move command;
• fixed setting bridge MTU to L2MTU value;
• fixed VLAN overlap check;
• ignore disabled interfaces when calculating bridge L2MTU;
• improved port handling;
• improved stability;
• prioritize MAC selection from Ethernet interfaces when using auto-mac feature;
• re-synchronize MLAG system-id when bridge MAC changes;
• removed support for master port config conversion (used before version 6.41);
• update dynamic MSTI priority value when changing configuration;

7.16 Stable 2024-Sep-20 (1 year ago)

• added dynamic tagged entry when VLAN interface is created on vlan-filtering bridge;
• added forward-reserved-addresses property which controls forwarding of MAC 01:80:C2:00:00:0x range (separated from "protocol-mode=none" functionality, disabled by default after upgrade);
• added L2 MDB support for IGMP snooping;
• added max-learned-entries property for bridge;
• added message about who created a dynamic VLAN entry;
• added MVRP support for VLANs assigned to bridge;
• do not allow duplicate ports;
• fixed BPDU address when using "ether-type=0x88a8" configuration;
• fixed MVRP leave;
• fixed port "point-to-point" status after first link change;
• fixed typo in filter and NAT error message;
• improved system stability when removing MLAG configuration;
• show invalid flag for ports that fails to be added to bridge (e.g. maximum port limit of 1024 is reached);

7.15 Stable 2024-May-29 (1 year ago)

• added error message if MLAG peer-port is configured with "mlag-id";
• added MLAG peer-port events to logs;
• added MVRP support;
• do not allow multiple bonds with same "mlag-id";
• improved protocol-mode STP, RSTP and MSTP stability;
• rename monitor property "path-cost" to "actual-path-cost";
• reworked dynamic VLAN creation;
• use default "edge=auto" for dynamically bridged interfaces (PPP, VPLS, WDS);

7.14.3 Stable 2024-Apr-17 (1 year ago)

• use default "edge=auto" for dynamically bridged interfaces (PPP, VPLS, WDS);

7.14 Stable 2024-Feb-29 (2 years ago)

• added MLAG support for MSTP bridges;
• avoid per-VLAN host flushing on HW offloaded bridge;
• fixed auto "path-cost" for bonding interfaces (introduced in v7.13);
• fixed MLAG connection after peer-link flap (introduced in v7.13);
• fixed packet forwarding after changing HW offloaded bridge interface settings in certain cases (introduced in v7.13);
• improved bridge VLAN configuration validation;
• improved configuration speed on large VLAN setups;
• improved protocol-mode MSTP functionality;
• improved protocol-mode STP and RSTP functionality;
• make "point-to-point=yes" default value for non-wireless bridge ports;
• removed "mst-config-digest" from MSTI menu;
• try to set wireless bridge ports as edge ports automatically;

7.13.5 Stable 2024-Feb-16 (2 years ago)

• fixed MLAG connection after peer-link flap (introduced in v7.13);
• fixed packet forwarding after changing HW offloaded bridge interface settings in certain cases (introduced in v7.13);

7.13.4 Stable 2024-Feb-07 (2 years ago)

• avoid per-VLAN host flushing on HW offloaded bridge (introduced in v7.13);

7.13.1 Stable 2024-Jan-05 (2 years ago)

• fixed auto "path-cost" for bonding interfaces (introduced in v7.13);

7.13 Stable 2023-Dec-14 (2 years ago)

• added automatic "path-cost" values depending on interface rate;
• added bridge interface property "port-cost-mode" with "short" and "long" arguments;
• fixed bogus VLAN entries from wifi when vlan-filtering is not enabled;
• improved HW offload enable;
• improved host flush when removing VLAN on HW offloaded bridge;

7.12 Stable 2023-Nov-09 (2 years ago)

• fixed fast-path forwarding with HW offloaded vlan-filtering (introduced in v7.11);
• fixed untagged VLAN entry disable;
• fixed vlan-filtering stability with HW and non-HW offloaded ports (introduced in v7.10);
• improved system stability;
• improved vlan-filtering bridge stability with CAPsMAN (introduced in v7.11);

7.11.1 Stable 2023-Aug-30 (2 years ago)

• fixed fast-path forwarding with HW offloaded vlan-filtering (introduced in v7.11);
• fixed untagged VLAN entry disable;
• fixed vlan-filtering stability with HW and non-HW offloaded ports (introduced in v7.10);
• improved system stability;
• improved vlan-filtering bridge stability with CAPsMAN (introduced in v7.11);

7.11 Stable 2023-Aug-15 (2 years ago)

• added more STP-related logging;
• added warning when VLAN interface list contains ports that are not bridged;
• fixed MAC learning on "switch-cpu" port with enabled FastPath;
• fixed MSTP BPDU aging;
• fixed MSTP synchronization after link down;
• prevent bridging the VLAN interface created on the same bridge;