diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 5fc0ba6..752d2df 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
-wit-network-config (1.4) unstable; urgency=low
+wit-network-config (1.5) unstable; urgency=low
 
+  * adding support for frr 5.0
   * Initial release.
 
  -- Toby <toby@wit.com>  Wed, 25 Jul 2018 22:54:00 +0100
diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index bdf6603..e911149 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ Vcs-Git: https://git.wit.com/netops/wit-network-config
 
 Package: wit-network-config
 Architecture: all
-Depends: ${misc:Depends}, sed, tcpdump, mtr-tiny, iproute2, ifupdown, ipmitool, iptables, lldpd, strongswan, telnet, netcat, fping, curl, wget, ifstat, rsyslog, ncurses-term, net-tools, bridge-utils, vlan, gnupg, sudo, isc-dhcp-client, frr (>= 4.0-wit)
+Depends: ${misc:Depends}, sed, tcpdump, mtr-tiny, iproute2, ifupdown, ipmitool, iptables, lldpd, strongswan, telnet, netcat, fping, curl, wget, ifstat, rsyslog, ncurses-term, net-tools, bridge-utils, vlan, gnupg, sudo, isc-dhcp-client, frr (>= 5.0.1-wit), frr (<< 5.0.2-wit)
 Provides: ${diverted-files}
 Conflicts: ${diverted-files}, dhcpcd5
 Description: configure network for a standard wit compute and/or data node
diff --git a/files/frr.conf.wit b/files/frr.conf.wit
index 3a9984f..334b7c9 100644
--- a/files/frr.conf.wit
+++ b/files/frr.conf.wit
@@ -21,7 +21,6 @@ router bgp NODEASN
  bgp bestpath compare-routerid
  neighbor fabric peer-group
  neighbor fabric remote-as external
- neighbor fabric capability extended-nexthop
  neighbor feth1 interface peer-group fabric
  neighbor feth2 interface peer-group fabric
  !