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Features for Release VPP 17.01
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This section lists those features that became available in VPP Release 17.01:
Features
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* Integrated November 2016 DPDK release
* Complete rework of Forwarding Information Base (FIB)
* Performance Improvements
- Improvements in DPDK input and output nodes
- Improvements in L2 path
- Improvements in IPv4 lookup node
* Feature Arcs Improvements
- Consolidation of the code
- New feature arcs
+ device-input
+ interface-output
* DPDK Cryptodev Support
- Software and Hardware Crypto Support
* DPDK HQoS support
* Simple Port Analyzer (SPAN)
* Bidirectional Forwarding Detection
- Basic implementation
* IPFIX Improvements
* L2 GRE over IPSec tunnels
* Link Layer Discovery Protocol (LLDP)
* Vhost-user Improvements
- Performance Improvements
- Multiqueue
- Reconnect
* LISP Enhancements
- Source/Dest control plane support
- L2 over LISP and GRE
- Map-Register/Map-Notify/RLOC-probing support
- L2 API improvements, overall code hardening
* Plugins:
- New: ACL
- New: Flow per Packet
- Improved: SNAT
+ Mutlithreading
+ Flow export
* Doxygen Enhancements
* Luajit API bindings
* API Refactoring
- file split
- message signatures
* Python and Scapy based unit testing infrastructure
- Infrastructure
- Various tests
* Packet Generator improvements
* TUN/TAP jumbo frames support
* Other various bug fixes and improvements
Known issues
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For the full list of issues please refer to fd.io `JIRA <https://jira.fd.io/>`_.
Issues fixed
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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/1701>`_