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+###############################

+Features for Release VPP 18.01

+###############################

+

+This section lists those features that became available in VPP Release 18.01:

+

+Features

+----------

+

+Infrastructure

++++++++++++++++

+

+* DPDK 17.11

+* TCP Checksum Offload

+* Arm64/Arm-v8 support

+* SUSE packaging

+* bihash_vec8_8 variant

+* PCI rework to support VFIO

+* chi-squared test calculator

+

+SNAT / NAT

+++++++++++++

+

+* One armed NAT

+* Twice NAT44

+* NAT hairpinning rework

+* NAT64 multi-thread

+* NAT64 IPFIX

+* NAT64 Fragmentation

+* NAT: DS-Lite

+* Remove old SNAT API

+* ACL-based NAT

+

+VNET 

++++++++

+    

+* DNS name resolver

+* BIER

+* GENEVE Tunnel

+* IPSec Openssl 1.1.0 api support

+* FIB improvements

+* tap v2

+

+API

++++++++

+

+* VPP stats (Broadcast & Multicast support)

+* SR MPLS

+* VPP Object Model (VOM)

+

+Host stack

++++++++++++

+

+* VPP TCP Stack scale / congestion improvements

+* Refactor UDP

+* Namespace support

+* Session rules table

+* VPP Comms Library (VCL) improvements

+

+

+ACL

++++++

+

+* ACL stats

+

+Plugins

+++++++++++

+

+* Kube-proxy

+* L2 Emulation

+* Memif

+

+Known issues

+---------------

+

+For the full list of issues please refer to fd.io `JIRA <https://jira.fd.io/>`_.

+

+Issues fixed

+--------------

+

+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/1801>`_

+

+