BalanceNG V7 Development Release (7.517) #

Incremental Release Notes #

Under the Hood #

• Several internal data structures have been reimplemented and are now skip-list based in combination with POSIX rwlocks and atomics for fastest concurrent access (during reads and updates). Technically, this requires the presence of libatomic.so and stdatomic.h (which excludes some of the older Linux distributions).
• BalanceNG now focuses solely on modern Linuxes and does no longer compile on other platforms (like Solaris and macOS).

New Modules and Functionality #

• The tap module now allows to collect IP packets to the instance specific SHM packet queue.
• The rnat module provides outbound connectivity with port based NAT for IPv4 and IPv6.

Removed Modules and Functionality #

• All former NAT functionality that is now provided by the rnat module has been removed (this includes the modules nat and tnat).
• The module llb has been removed.
• The modules switch, haswitch and the modules for now unnecessary benchmarking have been removed.
• Several undocumented modules and functionalities have been removed.

BalanceNG V7 Release History #

7.517 July 28, 2026 #

• initial public release