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| Features for Release VPP 18.04 | |
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| This section lists those features that became available in VPP Release 18.04. There is a summary graphic that identifies what areas the features are associated with, followed by a list of all the features for this release: | |
| .. image:: /_images/Features1804.png | |
| Infrastructure | |
| +++++++++++++++ | |
| * DPDK 18.02.1 | |
| * ARM aarch64 integrated into CI | |
| VNET & Plugins | |
| +++++++++++++++ | |
| * ERSPAN | |
| * L3DSR load balancing support | |
| * VPC bonding / LACP | |
| * IPv4/IPv6 packet reassembly | |
| * IPv6 link-local support | |
| * Asymmetrical static NAT | |
| * 464XLAT for NAT44 | |
| * MAP-T CE support | |
| * Intel Adaptive Virtual Function native device driver plugin | |
| * Marvell device plugin | |
| * SRv6 static, dynamic and masquerading proxy plugins | |
| * MPLS Uniform mode | |
| * IGMP plugin | |
| * IPIP tunnel support (IPv4/IPv6 over IPv4/IPv6) | |
| * IPv6 Router Discovery mechanism | |
| VLIB | |
| +++++ | |
| * ARM-optimized library variations for key functions | |
| * Better handling of physmem on non-NUMA kernels | |
| Host stack | |
| +++++++++++ | |
| * TLS support via OpenSSL or mbedtls software engines | |
| * Session layer can utilize both shm and memfd (secure) FIFO segments | |
| * STCP | |
| * VCL logging / tracing | |
| API framework | |
| ++++++++++++++ | |
| * New API definition compiler (vppapigen) | |
| * Memory (shm) and socket APIs refactored | |
| * API handlers refactored to make them transport (shared memory or socket) agnostic | |
| * Improved support for bootstrapping of the shm API with memfd segments over the socket API | |
| Packaging | |
| ++++++++++ | |
| * SELinux for RPM builds | |
| * Debuginfo RPMs | |
| * ARM aarch64 for Ubuntu | |
| Known issues | |
| --------------- | |
| For the full list of issues please refer to fd.io `JIRA <https://jira.fd.io/>`_. | |
| Issues fixed | |
| -------------- | |
| For the full list of fixed issues please refer to: | |
| * fd.io `JIRA <https://jira.fd.io/>`_ | |
| * git `commit log <https://git.fd.io/vpp/log/?h=stable/1810>`_ | |