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+title: "The Micro BGP Suite has been released!"
+mobile_menu_title: "µbgpsuite now released!"
+date: 2021-06-15T00:00:00+00:00
+tags:
+    - ubgpsuite
+    - C Language
+    - Networking
+    - BGP
+    - News
+---
+
+**We are happy to announce that the first version of the micro BGP suite has now been released!**
+
+## The Micro BGP Suite is now available
+
+I am thrilled to announce that the very first version of the
+DoubleFourteen inaugural project, the Micro BGP suite (*µbgpsuite* for short
+-- or *ubgpsuite* for differently Greek keyboards ☺), is now available!
+
+Source code for this project is available at:
+[https://git.doublefourteen.io/bgp/ubgpsuite](https://git.doublefourteen.io/bgp/ubgpsuite)
+
+The Micro BGP Suite is an evolution of *bgpscanner*, originally developed under the
+Institute of Informatics and Telematics of the Italian National Research Council,
+see the forever unknown
+[HISTORY](https://git.doublefourteen.io/bgp/ubgpsuite/src/branch/master/doc/HISTORY.md)
+file included with the project documentation for more obscurities of this
+project.
+
+The Micro BGP suite includes:
+- [lonetix](https://git.doublefourteen.io/bgp/ubgpsuite/src/branch/master/lonetix),
+  a performance oriented static library for BGP and MRT data encoding/decoding written in C.
+  I'd like to send a special thanks to my friend [Vernal Liu](https://covernal.github.io)
+  for coming up with a name for this library (though, it originally meant
+  *Lorenzo's Network library on Posix*), and for his saint-like patience in listening
+  my ramblings all the time.
+- [bgpgrep](https://git.doublefourteen.io/bgp/ubgpsuite/src/branch/master/tools/bgpgrep),
+  the very first utility using *lonetix*, an advanced replacement for *bgpscanner*,
+  an utility capable of lightning fast MRT dump decoding and filtering. This utility
+  is documented in its glorious `man` [page](https://git.doublefourteen.io/bgp/ubgpsuite/src/branch/master/tools/bgpgrep/bgpgrep.1.in).
+
+`bgpgrep` is the first utility taking advantage of `lonetix`, but more tools
+are underway to demonstrate the capabilities of its API.
+
+> **Hint** -- for a convenient PDF version of the manual page, you can run:
+> ```sh
+> $ sed s/@UTILITY@/bgpgrep/g tools/bgpgrep/bgpgrep.1.in | groffer
+> ```
+
+Stay tuned for more news on this project, as I'm currently working on an article
+describing the BGP filtering engine exposed by `lonetix`.
+
+Enjoy, and happy hacking,
+
+Lorenzo Cogotti