We want to give details of the upcoming release schedule of the DANOS project. We expect to make our fifth release of DANOS (2105) in mid-June, with a sixth release later in the year.

The next release will contain many new features that have been developed since the 2012 release. These new features include:

• Upgrade to use FRR 7.5.1.

• IS-IS routing protocol now supports topology and MPLS-TE configuration options, and IS-IS can be applied to a VIF interface.

• Upgrade to use nDPI 3.4, which will introduce support for: anydesk, blookbert, capwap, discord, doh_dot, iec60870, microsoft365, nats, s7comm, soap, teams, websocket, zabbix.

• A new mechanism to configure how Syslog processes and modifies log messages.

• ARP table size and timeout configuration.

• The passwords on the DANOS user accounts can be set to expire, and old passwords can be prevented from being reused.

We know that there is a lot of interest in using DANOS for CGNAT. We have made good progress on developing ALG support for CGNAT, and this is targetting the release following DANOS 2105.

Please keep the questions and suggestions coming. We welcome all input, be it pull-requests, example configurations or just hearing how you are using DANOS.