Copy the 16.09 release notes to master

- Copy the 16.09 release notes to master
- Add some notes for 16.06 (from the press release)
- Add some structure around notes for each release
- Add skeleton for next release

Change-Id: Id5a5d8bf02fce1bbaed303e6c6e4f8908c7e7d75
Signed-off-by: Chris Luke <chrisy@flirble.org>

3 files changed, 213 insertions, 7 deletions

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index bf26c9debc6..cf43a4df8a5 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 Vector Packet Processing
 ========================
 
-## Introduction.
+## Introduction
 
 The VPP platform is an extensible framework that provides out-of-the-box
 production quality switch/router functionality. It is the open source version
@@ -16,7 +16,13 @@ For more information on VPP and its features please visit the
 [What is VPP?](https://wiki.fd.io/view/VPP/What_is_VPP%3F) pages.
 
 
-## Directory layout.
+## Changes
+
+Details of the changes leading up to this version of VPP can be found under
+@ref release_notes.
+
+
+## Directory layout
 
 Directory name         | Description
 ---------------------- | -------------------------------------------
@@ -25,7 +31,6 @@ Directory name         | Description
      doxygen           | Documentation generator configuration
      dpdk              | DPDK patches and build infrastructure
      g2                | Event log visualization tool
-     gmod              | perf related?
      perftool          | Performance tool
 @ref plugins           | VPP bundled plugins directory
 @ref svm               | Shared virtual memory allocation library
@@ -43,7 +48,7 @@ Directory name         | Description
 ignore any @@ref labels in the above table.)
 
 
-## Getting started.
+## Getting started
 
 In general anyone interested in building, developing or running VPP should
 consult the [VPP wiki](https://wiki.fd.io/view/VPP) for more complete
@@ -57,7 +62,7 @@ coverage of the topic.
 For the impatient, some salient information is distilled below.
 
 
-### Quick-start: On an existing Linux host.
+### Quick-start: On an existing Linux host
 
 To install system dependencies, build VPP and then install it, simply run the
 build script. This should be performed a non-privileged user with `sudo`
@@ -73,7 +78,7 @@ interest. To see the available targets run:
     make
 
 
-### Quick-start: Vagrant.
+### Quick-start: Vagrant
 
 The directory `build-root/vagrant` contains a `VagrantFile` and supporting
 scripts to bootstrap a working VPP inside a Vagrant-managed Virtual Machine.
@@ -88,7 +93,7 @@ for this can be found [on the Setting up Vagrant wiki page]
 (https://wiki.fd.io/view/DEV/Setting_Up_Vagrant).
 
 
-## More information.
+## More information
 
 Several modules provide documentation, see @subpage user_doc for more
 information.
diff --git a/RELEASE.md b/RELEASE.md
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..3ed72d06ffa
--- /dev/null
+++ b/RELEASE.md
@@ -0,0 +1,200 @@
+# Release Notes    {#release_notes}
+
+* @subpage release_notes_1701
+* @subpage release_notes_1609
+* @subpage release_notes_1606
+
+@page release_notes_1701 Release notes for VPP 17.01
+
+@note This release was for a while known as 16.12.
+@todo Release 17.01 needs release notes.
+
+## Features
+
+## Known issues
+
+## Issues fixed
+
+
+@page release_notes_1609 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
+
+
+@page release_notes_1606 Release notes for VPP 16.06
+
+
+The FD.io Project, relentlessly focused on data IO speed and efficiency
+supporting the creation of high performance, flexible, and scalable software
+defined infrastructures, announces the availability of the community’s first
+software release (16.06).
+
+In the four months since launching, FD.io has brought together more than 75
+developers from 11 different companies including network operators, solution
+providers chip vendors, and network equipment vendors who are collaborating to
+enhance and innovate around the Vector Packet Processing (VPP) technology. The
+FD.io community has quickly formed to grow the number of projects from the
+initial VPP project to an additional 6 projects addressing a diverse set of
+requirements and usability across a variety of deployment environments.
+
+The 16.06 release brings unprecedented performance: 480Gbps/200mpps with 8
+million routes and 2k whitelist entries on standard high volume x86 servers.
+
+
+## Features
+
+In addition to the existing full suite of vswitch/vrouter features, the new
+16.06 release adds:
+
+* Enhanced Switching and Routing:
+  * IPv6 Segment Routing multicast support.
+  * LISP xTR support.
+  * VXLAN over IPv6 underlay.
+  * Per interface whitelists.
+  * Shared adjacencies in FIB.
+
+* New and improved interface support:
+  * Jumbo frame support for vhost-user.
+  * Netmap interface support.
+  * AF_Packet interface support.
+
+* Expanded and improved programmability:
+  * Python API bindings.
+  * Enhanced JVPP Java API bindings.
+  * Debugging CLI.
+
+* Expanded Hardware and Software Support:
+  * Support for ARM 32 targets including Rasberry Pi single-board computer.
+  * Support for DPDK 16.04.
+
diff --git a/doxygen/user_doc.md b/doxygen/user_doc.md
index b08ac86a74e..48a9fff3e9b 100644
--- a/doxygen/user_doc.md
+++ b/doxygen/user_doc.md
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ User Configuration Examples    {#user_doc}
 
 Several modules provide operational documentation.
 
+- [GUI guided user demo](https://wiki.fd.io/view/VPP_Sandbox/vpp-userdemo)
 - @subpage ipsec_gre_doc
 - @subpage map_doc
 - @subpage lldp_doc