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4Features for Release VPP 16.09
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7This section lists those features that became available in VPP Release 16.09:
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9* Integrated July 2016 DPDK release
10 - DPDK-vhost is depreciated pending a complete rework of the original integration and addressing of rx performance deltas
11 - Patches required for DPDK 16.07:
12 + Correctly setting the Packet Type in the IGB, IXGBE and i40e drivers
13 + Correctly setting checksum in the i40e driver
14 + NXP DPAA2 PMD Driver
15 + rte_delay (yield) functionality
16* Add in tree plugins:
17 - IPv6 ILA
18 - iOAM
19 - Load Balancer
20 - SNAT
21* High-performance (line-rate) neutron like L4 port-filtering
22* API refactoring - addressing some of the issues around JVPP bindings
23 - Accommodating plugins (e.g. NSH_SFC)
24 - Binding for python
25* LISP
26 - L2 LISP overlays
27 - Multitenancy
28 - Multihoming
29 - RTR mode
30 - Map-resolver failover algorithm
31* Support 64-bit vector lengths, huge shared-memory segments
32* Dynamic IP Feature ordering
33 - IP Features can now specify features they appear before and after
34* 16.09 Builds
35 - Ubuntu 14.04 LTS - Trusty Tahr
36 - Ubuntu 16.04 LTS - Xenial Xerus
37 - CentOS 7
38 - More information on VPP wiki
39* Performance, characterize and document performance for this release (more information on CSIT page)
40 - IPv4 and IPv6 Scale - performance tests
41 + Bidirectional 10k/100k/1M flows
42 + 64B,570B, 1518B,9000B packet sizes
43 - IPv6 iACL - performance
44 + 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
45 + 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
46 + MAC addresses are matching MAC addresses of the TG node interfaces
47 - L2XC VXLANoIPv4 - performance
48 + DUT1 and DUT2 are configured with L2 cross-connect. VXLAN tunnels are configured between L2XCs on DUT1 and DUT2
49 + 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
50 + MAC addresses are matching MAC addresses of the TG node interfaces
51* Documentation
52 - Autogenerated CLI documentation
53 - Using doxygen to automate API/Node documentation
54 - (available online)
55* Resolved all static analysis issues found by Coverity
56 - Beginning of 16.09 cycle: 505 issues
57 - Release: 0 outstanding issues
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59
60Known issues
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63For the full list of issues please refer to fd.io `JIRA <https://jira.fd.io/>`_.
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65Issues fixed
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67
68For the full list of fixed issues please refer to:
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70* fd.io `JIRA <https://jira.fd.io/>`_
71* git `commit log <https://git.fd.io/vpp/log/?h=stable/1609>`_