| Release notes for VPP 19.08.2 |
| ============================= |
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| The 19.08.2 is an LTS release. It contains numerous fixes, as well as |
| new features and API additions. |
| |
| Features |
| -------- |
| |
| - API trace tool |
| |
| - Add text output (c395ff143) |
| |
| - Binary API Libraries |
| |
| - Add API support for PP2 plugin to stable/1908 (1c3c9f039) |
| |
| - Build System |
| |
| - Pass ‘no-pci’ to autgenerated config (c0552134e) |
| - Add env variable to pass extra cmake args (116e05f57) |
| |
| - Infrastructure Library |
| |
| - Implement CLIB_PAUSE () for aarch64 platforms (a3c45242b) |
| - Create unformat function for data size parsing (cb19100c1) |
| |
| - Link Bonding |
| |
| - Fix interface deletion (1517d5e72) |
| - Add GSO support (a06f68556) |
| |
| - Physical Memory Allocator |
| |
| - Always lock pages (5b2eea6e0) |
| |
| - Plugins |
| |
| - AVF Device driver |
| |
| - Print queue id in packet trace (9e028d047) |
| |
| - DPDK |
| |
| - Ipsec tunnel support for ip6-in-ip4 (2dde5a478) |
| - QAT devices update, add c4xxx and xeon d15xx (f5d6c80ac) |
| - Add TSO support in DPDK plugin. (5564db853) |
| |
| - Group Based Policy (GBP) |
| |
| - Add extended SFC unit tests (30f7e4198) |
| |
| - Host Stack Applications |
| |
| - Make APP_OPTIONS_PREALLOC_FIFO_PAIRS configurable (47c6f36be) |
| |
| - Internet Key Exchange (IKEv2) Protocol |
| |
| - Add support for GCM cipher (2fa9f679c) |
| |
| - QUIC protocol |
| |
| - Add cli command for stats (88af6c3f4) |
| - Add Tx, Rx and packet drop counters (3a61a40dd) |
| - Create custom event logger (2f9ec5001) |
| - Make quic fifo size configurable via cli (7fc3d97b8) |
| |
| - RDMA (ibverb) driver |
| |
| - Add support for input feature arcs (cbae1e1c5) |
| - Add support for MAC changes (ffdfe308b) |
| |
| - Http_static |
| |
| - Add dynamic GET / POST method hooks (faf5195e3) |
| |
| - Python binding for the VPP API |
| |
| - Let async calls return context (e6b29a9df) |
| - Introduce read_blocking (1c45b85df) |
| |
| - SVM Library |
| |
| - Improve fifo segment verbose cli (d2bff0786) |
| |
| - Statistics Segment |
| |
| - Add /if/<n>/<n>/state for lacp interface state (d5e8ed7be) |
| |
| - Test Infrastructure |
| |
| - Support worker threads (51699e62c) |
| - Support setting random seed (fc000f0e1) |
| - Add cli_return_response to vpp_papi_provider (64d744350) |
| - Test tls case (87e1bcdd7) |
| |
| - VNET |
| |
| - Classifier |
| |
| - Use vector code even when data is not aligned (bebbd7f62) |
| - VPP packet tracer support (7c5a3536c) |
| |
| - IPSec |
| |
| - Add ‘detail’ option to ‘sh ipsec sa’ (56417fa94) |
| - Add insecure option for format of SA (591aa64e8) |
| - Support 4o6 and 6o4 for tunnel protect (2e6d73934) |
| |
| - IPv4 and IPv6 LPM |
| |
| - Allow addrs from the same prefix on intf (da900b25c) |
| - Punt rather than drop unkown IPv6 ICMP packets (fd2f6f89e) |
| |
| - Session Layer |
| |
| - Add explicit reset api (a267cba29) |
| - Improve cli (2ff21af39) |
| - Add session enable option in config file (b1ef5567b) |
| - Limit pacer bucket size (079895d95) |
| - Builtin app rx notifications regardless of state (8e4afc86d) |
| - Infra for transports to send buffers (57997c874) |
| - Reschedule asap when snd space constrained (89ab1762d) |
| |
| - TCP |
| |
| - Allow cc algos to set pacing rate (82df1eb90) |
| - Set cc_algo on connection alloc (7fe501a4b) |
| - Add option for always on event logging (e73bd8503) |
| - Track zero rwnd errors (a2c063712) |
| - Validate connections in output (ea584d137) |
| - Force zero window on full rx fifo (fbe948c81) |
| - Send rwnd update only if wnd is large enough (0ad8477ba) |
| - Enable gso in tcp hoststack (6f3621d77) |
| - Handle SACK reneging (9dba3dbf0) |
| - Use rate sample RTT in recovery if possible (6702641f5) |
| - Compute snd time for rate sample (69460ae11) |
| - Use sacks for timer based recovery (d4aa3d9f8) |
| - Custom checksum calculations for Ipv4/Ipv6 (3642782a2) |
| - Retry lost retransmits (7b135c639) |
| - Improve pacing after idle send periods (abdc7dfb5) |
| - Track lost rxt segments in byte tracker (6de46b40d) |
| - Validate the IP address while checking TCP connection |
| (6c1ce53b4) |
| - Improve lost rxt heuristic (04b4204d9) |
| |
| - VPP Comms Library |
| |
| - Allow non-blocking connects (4767cf24f) |
| - Add api to set lcl ip (2c55610e2) |
| |
| - Vector Library |
| |
| - Add flag to explicitelly mark nodes which can init per-node packet |
| trace (29dc11bde) |
| - Enhance the “show cli” debug CLI command (b5a0108ac) |
| |
| - Libmemif |
| |
| - Introduce ‘memif_per_thread\_’ namespace (2736fc7fc) |
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| API changes |
| ----------- |
| |
| Description of results: |
| |
| - *Definition changed*: indicates that the API file was modified |
| between releases. |
| - *Only in image*: indicates the API is new for this release. |
| - *Only in file*: indicates the API has been removed in this release. |
| |
| ================ ============= |
| Message Name Result |
| ================ ============= |
| app_attach only in image |
| app_attach_reply only in image |
| ================ ============= |
| |
| Found 2 api message signature differences |
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| Fixed issues |
| ------------ |
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| 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/1908>`__ |