| Release notes for VPP 17.01 |
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| @note This release was for a while known as 16.12. |
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| Features |
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| - `Integrated November 2016 DPDK release <http://www.dpdk.org/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_16_11.html>`__ |
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| - Complete rework of Forwarding Information Base (FIB) |
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| - Performance Improvements |
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| - Improvements in DPDK input and output nodes |
| - Improvements in L2 path |
| - Improvmeents in IPv4 lookup node |
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| - Feature Arcs Improvements |
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| - Consolidation of the code |
| - New feature arcs |
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| - device-input |
| - interface-output |
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| - DPDK Cryptodev Support |
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| - Software and Hardware Crypto Support |
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| - DPDK HQoS support |
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| - Simple Port Analyzer (SPAN) |
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| - Bidirectional Forwarding Detection |
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| - Basic implementation |
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| - IPFIX Improvements |
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| - L2 GRE over IPSec tunnels |
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| - Link Layer Discovery Protocol (LLDP) |
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| - Vhost-user Improvements |
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| - Performance Improvements |
| - Multiqueue |
| - Reconnect |
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| - LISP Enhancements |
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| - Source/Dest control plane support |
| - L2 over LISP and GRE |
| - Map-Register/Map-Notify/RLOC-probing support |
| - L2 API improvements, overall code hardening |
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| - Plugins: |
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| - New: ACL |
| - New: Flow per Packet |
| - Improved: SNAT |
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| - Mutlithreading |
| - Flow export |
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| - Doxygen Enhancements |
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| - Luajit API bindings |
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| - API Refactoring |
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| - file split |
| - message signatures |
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| - Python and Scapy based unit testing infrastructure |
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| - Infrastructure |
| - Various tests |
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| - Packet Generator improvements |
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| - TUN/TAP jumbo frames support |
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| - Other various bug fixes and improvements |
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| Known issues |
| ------------ |
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| For the full list of issues please refer to fd.io |
| `JIRA <https://jira.fd.io>`__. |
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| Issues fixed |
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| For the full list of fixed issues please refer to: |
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| - fd.io `JIRA <https://jira.fd.io>`__ |
| - git `commit log <https://git.fd.io/vpp/log/?h=stable/1701>`__ |