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authorOle Troan <ot@cisco.com>2017-04-20 08:57:47 +0200
committerOle Troan <ot@cisco.com>2017-05-16 09:09:31 +0200
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1704: Release notes. Cherry pick from 6288.
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@page release_notes_1704 Release notes for VPP 17.04
+More than 500 commits since the 1701 release.
+
+## Features
+- Infrastructure
+ - make test improvements
+ - vnet: add device-input threadplacement infra
+ - 64 bit per-thread counters
+ - process restart cli
+ - High performance timer wheels
+ - Plugin infrastructure improvements
+ - Support for .default_disabled, .version_required
+ - Added MAINTAINERS file
+
+- Host stack
+ - TCP stack (experimental)
+ - DHCPv4 / DHCPv6 relay multi-destination
+ - DHCPv4 option 82
+ - ND proxy
+ - Attached hosts
+ - Consolidated DHCPv4 and DHCPv6 implementation
+
+- Interfaces
+ - DPDK 17.02 (retire support for DPDK 16.07)
+ - Add memif - packet memory interface for intra-host communication
+ - vhost: support interrupt mode
+ - DPDK as plugin (retired vpp_lite)
+ - DPDPK input optimizations
+ - Loopback interface allocation scheme
+
+- Network features
+ - IP Multicast FIB
+
+ - Bridging
+ - Learning on local interfaces
+ - Flushing of MACs from the L2 FIB
+
+ - SNAT
+ - CGN (Deterministic and dynamic)
+ - CGN configurable port allocation algorithm
+ - ICMP support
+ - Tentant VRF id for SNAT outside addresses
+ - Session dump / User dump
+ - Port allocation per protocol
+
+ - Security groups
+ - Routed interface support
+ - L2+L3 unified processing node
+ - Improve fragment handling
+
+ - Segement routing v6
+ - SR policies with weighted SID lists
+ - Binding SID
+ - SR steering policies
+ - SR Local SIDs
+ - Framework to expand local SIDs w/plugins
+ - Documentation
+
+ - IOAM
+ - UDP Pinger w/path fault isolation
+ - IOAM as type 2 metadata in NSH
+ - IAOM raw IPFIX collector and analyzer
+ - Anycast active server selection
+ - Documentation
+ - SRv6 Local SID
+ - IP6 HBH header and SR header co-existence
+ - Active probe
+
+ - LISP
+ - Statistics collection
+ - Generalize encap for overlay transport (vxlan-gpe support)
+ - Improve data plane speed
+
+ - GPE
+ - CLI
+ - NSH added to encap/decap path
+ - Renamed LISP GPE API to GPE
+
+ - MPLS
+ - Performance improvements (quad loop)
+
+ - BFD
+ - Command line interface
+ - Echo function
+ - Remote demand mode
+ - SHA1 authentication
+
+ - IPsec
+ - IKEv2 initiator features
+
+ - VXLAN
+ - unify IP4/IP6 control plane handling
+
## API changes
- Python API: To avoid conflicts between VPP API messages names and
@@ -24,11 +116,29 @@
For backwards compatibility VPP API methods are left in the main
name space (VPP), but will be removed from 17.07.
+ - Python API: Change from cPython to CFFI.
+
- create_loopback message to be replaced with create_loopback_instance
create_loopback will be removed from 17.07.
https://gerrit.fd.io/r/#/c/5572/
-@todo Release 17.04 needs release notes.
+## Known issues
+
+For the full list of issues please reffer to fd.io [JIRA](https://jira.fd.io).
+
+## Issues fixed
+
+For the full list of fixed issues please reffer to:
+- fd.io [JIRA](https://jira.fd.io)
+- git [commit log](https://git.fd.io/vpp/log/?h=stable/1704)
+
+@page release_notes_17011 Release notes for VPP 17.01.1
+
+This is bug fix release.
+
+For the full list of fixed issues please reffer to:
+- fd.io [JIRA](https://jira.fd.io)
+- git [commit log](https://git.fd.io/vpp/log/?h=stable/1701)
@page release_notes_17011 Release notes for VPP 17.01.1
@@ -122,7 +232,6 @@ For the full list of fixed issues please reffer to:
- fd.io [JIRA](https://jira.fd.io)
- git [commit log](https://git.fd.io/vpp/log/?h=stable/1701)
-
@page release_notes_1609 Release notes for VPP 16.09
## Features