News¶

The most recent project announcements and release updates. For the full history of changes, read the Release Notes and the ChangeLog.

2025¶

June 10 · Release 2.3.4. Fixes minor issues and improves the build process. Release Notes
March 30 · Release 2.3.3. Brings improvements, fixes reported issues and adds security provisions for the VRRP code. Thanks to the constructive work done with Orange Cyberdefense in Lyon, France. Release Notes

November 3 · Release 2.3.2. Improvements and fixes for reported issues. Release Notes
May 24 · Release 2.3.1. A short release that fixes a minor regression. Release Notes
May 21 · Release 2.3.0. Improvements and minor fixes. Release Notes

May 31 · Release 2.2.8. Improvements, fixes and new VRRP and BFD features. Release Notes

January 16 · Release 2.2.7. Many improvements and fixes, new VRRP features and even stronger stability. Release Notes

August 21 · Release 2.2.4. Fixes minor build issues and closes all open Coverity findings. Release Notes
August 14 · Release 2.2.3. New features and minor fixes. The genhash utility joins the mainline daemon. Release Notes
March 5 · Release 2.2.2. Fixes minor systemd integration issues and drops old kernel support. Release Notes
January 17 · Release 2.2.1. Fixes minor regressions from the previous release. Release Notes
January 9 · Release 2.2.0. A major milestone with a bunch of new features and extensions, focused on corner cases and resilient handling. Release Notes

June 13 · Release 2.1.0. A large effort revisiting the whole code to reach carrier grade quality. This release also moved the project to a Release Notes process. Release Notes
January 22 · Release 2.0.20. A very stable release after strong debugging iterations during the year.

July 26. Keepalived is now referenced by the Technical Reference Model of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.
May 26. Created the Keepalived account on X for release announcements and updates.
May 24. Created the Keepalived Users Group at Groups.io, which replaces the old SourceForge mailing lists.
May 16. A new logo for Keepalived.

2018-05-26 · Release 2.0.0. A major release after about two years of hard work, with many components reworked for high performance.
2012-07-12. Created the Keepalived GitHub repository, which became the official master git repository.
2011-11-23. Alexandre Simon presented Keepalived at JRES 2011, with a paper and slides.
2000-12-22 · Release 0.2.1. The first public release.