| Release notes for VPP 17.04 |
| =========================== |
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| More than 500 commits since the 1701 release. |
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| Features |
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| - Infrastructure |
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| - make test improvements |
| - vnet: add device-input threadplacement infra |
| - 64 bit per-thread counters |
| - process restart cli |
| - High performance timer wheels |
| - Plugin infrastructure improvements |
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| - Support for .default_disabled, .version_required |
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| - Added MAINTAINERS file |
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| - Host stack |
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| - TCP stack (experimental) |
| - DHCPv4 / DHCPv6 relay multi-destination |
| - DHCPv4 option 82 |
| - ND proxy |
| - Attached hosts |
| - Consolidated DHCPv4 and DHCPv6 implementation |
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| - Interfaces |
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| - DPDK 17.02 (retire support for DPDK 16.07) |
| - Add memif - packet memory interface for intra-host communication |
| - vhost: support interrupt mode |
| - DPDK as plugin (retired vpp_lite) |
| - DPDPK input optimizations |
| - Loopback interface allocation scheme |
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| - Network features |
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| - IP Multicast FIB |
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| - Bridging |
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| - Learning on local interfaces |
| - Flushing of MACs from the L2 FIB |
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| - SNAT |
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| - CGN (Deterministic and dynamic) |
| - CGN configurable port allocation algorithm |
| - ICMP support |
| - Tentant VRF id for SNAT outside addresses |
| - Session dump / User dump |
| - Port allocation per protocol |
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| - Security groups |
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| - Routed interface support |
| - L2+L3 unified processing node |
| - Improve fragment handling |
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| - Segement routing v6 |
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| - SR policies with weighted SID lists |
| - Binding SID |
| - SR steering policies |
| - SR Local SIDs |
| - Framework to expand local SIDs w/plugins |
| - Documentation |
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| - IOAM |
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| - UDP Pinger w/path fault isolation |
| - IOAM as type 2 metadata in NSH |
| - IAOM raw IPFIX collector and analyzer |
| - Anycast active server selection |
| - Documentation |
| - SRv6 Local SID |
| - IP6 HBH header and SR header co-existence |
| - Active probe |
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| - LISP |
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| - Statistics collection |
| - Generalize encap for overlay transport (vxlan-gpe support) |
| - Improve data plane speed |
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| - GPE |
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| - CLI |
| - NSH added to encap/decap path |
| - Renamed LISP GPE API to GPE |
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| - MPLS |
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| - Performance improvements (quad loop) |
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| - BFD |
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| - Command line interface |
| - Echo function |
| - Remote demand mode |
| - SHA1 authentication |
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| - IPsec |
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| - IKEv2 initiator features |
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| - VXLAN |
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| - unify IP4/IP6 control plane handling |
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| API changes |
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| - Python API: To avoid conflicts between VPP API messages names and the |
| Python API binding function names, VPP API methods are put in a |
| separate proxy object. https://gerrit.fd.io/r/#/c/5570/ The api |
| methods are now referenced as: vpp_handle = VPP(jsonfiles) |
| vpp_handle.connect(…) vpp = vpp_handle.api vpp.show_version() |
| vpp_handle.disconnect() |
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| For backwards compatibility VPP API methods are left in the main name |
| space (VPP), but will be removed from 17.07. |
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| - Python API: Change from cPython to CFFI. |
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| - create_loopback message to be replaced with create_loopback_instance |
| create_loopback will be removed from 17.07. |
| https://gerrit.fd.io/r/#/c/5572/ |
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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/1704>`__ |