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diff --git a/docs/aboutvpp/releasenotes/v16.09.rst b/docs/aboutvpp/releasenotes/v16.09.rst new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..00179bc67c8 --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/aboutvpp/releasenotes/v16.09.rst @@ -0,0 +1,252 @@ +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 | ++-----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+ |