Re: Could someone please spare some time for PR 289853 + 292055 (OpenBGPd update + new major version)

Hi!

> The PR 289853 regarding updating net/OpenBGPd8 to the last minor
> release of the branch has been stale for over 4 months now.

Sorry for the hold-up, committed.

> Version 9 has been released at 30-12-2025 and I created PR 292055 the
> same day, after verifying this version builds, installs and runs fine
> and is yet another smooth drop-in-upgrade.

Thanks, committed.

> Regarding the 'new port for each major release' practice:
> As I wrote in PR 292055, IIRC this stems from a major release that
> introduced breaking changes in the config syntax. Since the syntax has
> been considered stable for many versions now, we might want to drop
> that practice and move to a 'net/OpenBGPd' port that always holds the
> latest release - which is the only one supported by upstream anyways.
> At the very least we should deprecate/remove the ancient releases 5-7
> (ASAP).

5 and 6 are no longer in the ports.

> @Kurt Jaeger: I see that you are quite busy and involved in a lot of
> PRs. (Again: Thanks for all the work!)
> We are an active user of OpenBGPd (currently on 11 hosts in production;
> 6 FreeBSD + 5 OpenBSD) and I could spare some time @work to keep the
> port updated and test patches and new releases (I'm already doing that
> in our build environment anyways). So I'm open to taking maintainership
> for OpenBGPd if this is helpful.

Thanks, will change it (soonish).

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