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+Release notes for VPP 16.09
+===========================
+
+Features
+--------
+
+-  `Integrated July 2016 DPDK release <http://www.dpdk.org/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_16_07.html>`__
+
+   -  DPDK-vhost is depreciated pending a complete rework of the
+      original integration and addressing of rx performance deltas.
+   -  Patches required for DPDK 16.07:
+
+      -  Correctly setting the Packet Type in the IGB, IXGBE and i40e
+         drivers.
+      -  Correctly setting checksum in the i40e driver.
+      -  NXP DPAA2 PMD Driver.
+      -  rte_delay (yield) functionality.
+
+-  Add “in tree” plugins:
+
+   -  IPv6 ILA.
+   -  iOAM.
+   -  Load Balancer.
+   -  SNAT.
+
+-  High-performance (line-rate) “neutron like” L4 port-filtering.
+
+-  API refactoring - addressing some of the issues around JVPP bindings.
+
+   -  Accommodating plugins
+      `(e.g. NSH_SFC) <https://wiki.fd.io/view/NSH_SFC>`__
+   -  Binding for `python <https://wiki.fd.io/view/VPP/Python_API>`__
+
+-  LISP
+
+   -  L2 LISP overlays
+   -  Multitenancy
+   -  Multihoming
+   -  RTR mode
+   -  Map-resolver failover algorithm
+
+-  Support 64-bit vector lengths, huge shared-memory segments.
+
+-  Dynamic IP Feature ordering
+
+   -  IP Features can now specify features they appear before and after
+
+-  16.09 Builds
+
+   -  Ubuntu 14.04 LTS - Trusty Tahr
+   -  Ubuntu 16.04 LTS - Xenial Xerus
+   -  CentOS 7
+   -  More information on `VPP wiki <https://wiki.fd.io/view/VPP/Installing_VPP_binaries_from_packages>`__
+
+-  Performance, characterize and document performance for this release
+   `(more information on CSIT page) <https://wiki.fd.io/view/CSIT>`__
+
+   -  IPv4 and IPv6 Scale - performance tests.
+
+      -  Bidirectional 10k/100k/1M flows.
+      -  64B,570B, 1518B,9000B packet sizes.
+
+   -  IPv6 iACL - performance
+
+      -  DUT1 and DUT2 are configured with IPv6 routing, two static IPv6
+         /64 routes and IPv6 iAcl security whitelist ingress /64 filter
+         entries applied on links.
+      -  TG traffic profile contains two L3 flow-groups (flow-group per
+         direction, 253 flows per flow-group) with all packets
+         containing Ethernet header, IPv6 header and generated payload.
+         MAC addresses are matching MAC addresses of the TG node
+         interfaces.
+
+   -  L2XC VXLANoIPv4 - performance
+
+      -  DUT1 and DUT2 are configured with L2 cross-connect. VXLAN
+         tunnels are configured between L2XCs on DUT1 and DUT2.
+      -  TG traffic profile contains two L3 flow-groups (flow-group per
+         direction, 253 flows per flow-group) with all packets
+         containing Ethernet header, IPv4 header with IP protocol=61 and
+         generated payload. MAC addresses are matching MAC addresses of
+         the TG node interfaces.
+
+-  Documentation
+
+   -  Autogenerated CLI documentation.
+   -  Using doxygen to automate API/Node documentation.
+   -  `(available online) <https://docs.fd.io/vpp/16.09/>`__
+
+-  Resolved all static analysis issues found by Coverity
+
+   -  Beginning of 16.09 cycle: 505 issues.
+   -  Release: 0 outstanding issues.
+
+Known issues
+------------
+
+Issues in fd.io are tracked in `JIRA <https://jira.fd.io>`__.
+
++-----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+
+| Issue                             | Description                       |
++===================================+===================================+
+| VPP-391                           | vpp debug version assert appeared |
+|                                   | in the process of start           |
++-----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+
+| VPP-380                           | Mapping algorithm compute wrong   |
+|                                   | ea-bits when IPv4 prefix          |
+|                                   | 0.0.0.0/0                         |
++-----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+
+| VPP-371                           | load_one_plugin:63: Loaded        |
+|                                   | plugin: message from vppctl       |
++-----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+
+| VPP-367                           | vpp packages need to depend on    |
+|                                   | specific versions of each other   |
++-----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+
+| VPP-312                           | IP6 FIB gets in indeterminate     |
+|                                   | state by duplicating commands     |
++-----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+
+| VPP-224                           | Lookup-in-vrf can not be set      |
+|                                   | correctly                         |
++-----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+
+| VPP-206                           | Fix classify table delete         |
++-----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+
+| VPP-203                           | Fix binary API for reading vpp    |
+|                                   | node graph                        |
++-----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+
+| VPP-147                           | Inconsistent behaviour when       |
+|                                   | adding L2 FIB filter entry        |
++-----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+
+| VPP-99                            | VPP doesn’t discard DHCPOFFER     |
+|                                   | message with wrong XID            |
++-----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+
+
+Issues fixed
+------------
+
+Issues in fd.io are tracked in `JIRA <https://jira.fd.io>`__.
+
++-----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+
+| Issue                             | Description                       |
++===================================+===================================+
+| VPP-396                           | Ubuntu systems Graphviz bug       |
++-----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+
+| VPP-390                           | vpp-lib rpm fails to include      |
+|                                   | \*.so symlinks, causing linking   |
+|                                   | problems with out of tree builds  |
++-----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+
+| VPP-388                           | IPSec output feature assumes      |
+|                                   | packets have been ethernet        |
+|                                   | rewritten                         |
++-----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+
+| VPP-385                           | ARP for indirect adjacencies not  |
+|                                   | working correctly                 |
++-----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+
+| VPP-361                           | Memory leak on delete of VXLAN    |
+|                                   | over IPv6 tunnel                  |
++-----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+
+| VPP-357                           | VNI not set correctly when        |
+|                                   | removing LISP fwd entries         |
++-----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+
+| VPP-349                           | sw_interface_vhost_user_dump not  |
+|                                   | working                           |
++-----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+
+| VPP-345                           | net/enic: bad L4 checksum ptype   |
+|                                   | set on ICMP packets               |
++-----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+
+| VPP-340                           | MAP-T wrong destination address   |
++-----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+
+| VPP-330                           | Use fifo to store LISP pending    |
+|                                   | map-requests                      |
++-----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+
+| VPP-326                           | map_add_domain VAT command:       |
+|                                   | unable to configure domain with   |
+|                                   | mtu parameter                     |
++-----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+
+| VPP-318                           | The map_add_domain VAT command    |
+|                                   | accepts invalid arguments         |
++-----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+
+| VPP-315                           | Fix “show vxlan-gpe” issue        |
++-----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+
+| VPP-310                           | Mapping algorithm compute wrong   |
+|                                   | ea-bits                           |
++-----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+
+| VPP-239                           | LISP IP forwarding does not tag   |
+|                                   | packets that hit negative mapping |
+|                                   | entries                           |
++-----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+
+| VPP-235                           | Invalid help in VAT for           |
+|                                   | sw_interface_set_l2_bridge        |
++-----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+
+| VPP-228                           | Mapping algorithm sends packet to |
+|                                   | wrong IPv6 address                |
++-----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+
+| VPP-214                           | vpp-api-test:                     |
+|                                   | api_ipsec_sad_add_del_entry:      |
+|                                   | vector “ck” not initialized       |
++-----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+
+| VPP-200                           | VPP - TAP port create problem     |
++-----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+
+| VPP-189                           | Coverity Issues for 16.09         |
++-----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+
+| VPP-184                           | u16 translating to char ,not      |
+|                                   | short                             |
++-----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+
+| VPP-179                           | Adjacency share-count botch       |
++-----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+
+| VPP-163                           | “show ip6 interface” ignores      |
+|                                   | non-global addresses              |
++-----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+
+| VPP-155                           | Netmap: Inconsistency in          |
+|                                   | interface state between “show     |
+|                                   | hardware” and “show interface”    |
++-----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+
+| VPP-145                           | Dynamically compute IP feature    |
+|                                   | ordering based on constraints     |
++-----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+
+| VPP-137                           | VPP sends ARP with wrong          |
+|                                   | requested IP                      |
++-----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+
+| VPP-118                           | JVpp: 0 length arrays not handled |
+|                                   | properly in VPP responses         |
++-----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+
+| VPP-112                           | linux kernel info missing from    |
+|                                   | build log                         |
++-----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+
+| VPP-110                           | vxlan encap node should never     |
+|                                   | touch a deleted tunnel            |
++-----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+
+| VPP-107                           | RPM build broken in master        |
++-----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+
+| VPP-92                            | segment routing is not properly   |
+|                                   | filling out the segment list      |
++-----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+
+| VPP-91                            | segment routing add/del tunnel    |
+|                                   | lookup doesn’t work               |
++-----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+
+| VPP-84                            | af_packet throws a fatal error on |
+|                                   | EAGAIN                            |
++-----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+
+| VPP-74                            | Clang compile fails due to        |
+|                                   | warning in vlib/unix/cli.c        |
++-----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+
+| VPP-64                            | Top level “make pkg-deb” fails if |
+|                                   | CDPATH is set in user env.        |
++-----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+
+| VPP-48                            | Traceroute does not terminate     |
+|                                   | when VPP is the target            |
++-----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+
+| VPP-23                            | CLI pager does not gracefully     |
+|                                   | handle lines longer than the      |
+|                                   | terminal width                    |
++-----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+