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Stories from the IXP Manager Community
Barry O'Donovan, June 1, 2026
At INEX, we’re incredibly proud of the role IXP Manager plays as an open-source platform supporting IXPs globally. Every community has faced unique challenges, found creative solutions, and built something meaningful for local networks and users. And now, we’d love to hear your story.
IXP Manager v7.2.0 Released
Barry O'Donovan, May 12, 2026
INEX is pleased to announce the immediate availability of IXP Manager v7.2.0. This is primarily a security release following an independent security audit by ENISA and follow-up internal hardening. This release also includes some bug fixes, improvements, and new features. In particular, we are delighted to introduce our new combined peer-to-peer graph functionality.
Welcome to our new developer to the IXP Manager community
Barry O'Donovan, May 11, 2026
We are delighted to introduce and welcome Thomas Kerin to the IXP Manager project as a full-time senior PHP developer.
IXP Manager v7.1.0 Released
Barry O'Donovan, February 21, 2026
We are pleased to announce the immediate availability of IXP Manager v7.1.0. This is primarily a security update that enables IXP administrators to protect access to administrative functions at the web server level, thereby reducing the potential URL attack surface by more than 72%.
IXP Manager v7.0.0 Released
Barry O'Donovan, August 25, 2025
We are pleased to announce the immediate availability of IXP Manager v7.0.0. Thanks to many of you for your patience to date - we know this release was some time in the making. V7.0.0 includes significant framework updates, new features and improvements to our continuous integration pipeline.
IXP Manager v6.4.2 Released - Sunsetting v6
Barry O'Donovan, November 22, 2024
IXP Manager v6 is now in a sunset state. The underlying technologies (PHP 8.0 and Laravel v9) have also reached end-of-life. We will continue to release updates to address any security issues until at least v7 is released and announced as stable. We plan to release IXP Manager v7 before the end of 2024.
IXP Manager at the 41st Euro-IX Forum
Barry O'Donovan, November 19, 2024
In our latest presentation at Euro-IX, we review the current 'state of the nation' for IXP Manager, briefly mention highlights from the v6 release, and then introduce v7 in detail.
Introducing IXP Manager v7 at RIPE 89
Barry O'Donovan, October 31, 2024
INEX will shortly make our first new major release of IXP Manager in over three years. Barry discusses what triggers a 'major' new release and some new features, including member diagnostics, a new configuration UI, and peer-to-peer graph ordering.
IXP Manager v6.4.1 Released -Polishing v6.4.0
Barry O'Donovan, June 9, 2024
Ten IXPs have upgraded since we released v6.4.0 just over two weeks ago. Thanks to all of them for their feedback and bug reports - especially Ed, Moritz and Nishal. v6.4.1 reflects their contributions and can be considered a polished, stable, production-ready release.
IXP Manager v6.4.0 Released - Route Server Resilience
Barry O'Donovan, May 24, 2024
This release provides significant new features for route server resilience, UI-based community filtering, and many smaller improvements and bug fixes.
