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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
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- 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)
API changes
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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.
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Message Name Result
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app_attach only in image
app_attach_reply only in image
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Found 2 api message signature differences
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>`__