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Front Haul Interface Library Release Notes
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Version ORAN-seedcode_v1.3, May 2020
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* Third version released to ORAN in support of Release B
* Add scripts to run refPHY in Docker* containers, Kubernetes* clusters, Multus*, and Data Plane
  Development Kit-Single-Root Input/Output Visualization (DPDK-SRIOV) plugin.
* Integration and optimization of block floating point compression and decompression.
* Category B support
* Add support for alpha and beta value when calculating SFN based on GPS time.
* Support End to End integration with commercial UE with xRAN/ORAN RRU for both mmWave and
  sub-6 scenarios

Version ORAN-seedcode_v1.2, 1 Nov 2019
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* Second version released to ORAN in support of Release A
* Incorporates support for 5G NR sub 6 and mmWave
* Support for Application fragementation under Transport features was added
* This release has been designed and implemented to support the following numerologies defined in the 3GPP |br|
  specification 
*	Numerology 0 with bandwidth 5/10/20 MHz with up to 12 cells
*	Numerology 1 with bandwidth 100MHz with up to 1 cell
*	Numerology 3 with bandwidth 100MHz with up to 1 cell
* The feature set of xRAN protocol should be aligned with Radio Unit (O-RU) implementation
* Inter-operability testing (IOT) is required to confirm correctness of functionality on both sides
* The following mandatory features of the ORAN FH interface are not yet supported in this release
* RU Category  Support of CAT-B RU (i.e. precoding in RU)
* Beamforming Beam Index Based and Real Time BF weights
* Transport Features QoS over FrontHaul


Version ORAN-seedcode_v1.1, 25 Jul 2019
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* This first version supports only mmWave per 5G NR and it is not yet
* optimized
* It is a first draft prior to the November 2019 Release A
* The following mandatory features of the ORAN FH interface are not yet
* supported in this initial release
* RU Category  Support of CAT-B RU (i.e. precoding in RU)
* Beamforming Beam Index Based and Real Time BF weights
* Transport Features QoS over FrontHaul and Application Fragmentation