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+Release notes for VPP 17.01
+===========================
+
+@note This release was for a while known as 16.12.
+
+Features
+--------
+
+- `Integrated November 2016 DPDK release <http://www.dpdk.org/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_16_11.html>`__
+
+- Complete rework of Forwarding Information Base (FIB)
+
+- Performance Improvements
+
+ - Improvements in DPDK input and output nodes
+ - Improvements in L2 path
+ - Improvmeents in IPv4 lookup node
+
+- Feature Arcs Improvements
+
+ - Consolidation of the code
+ - New feature arcs
+
+ - device-input
+ - interface-output
+
+- DPDK Cryptodev Support
+
+ - Software and Hardware Crypto Support
+
+- DPDK HQoS support
+
+- Simple Port Analyzer (SPAN)
+
+- Bidirectional Forwarding Detection
+
+ - Basic implementation
+
+- IPFIX Improvements
+
+- L2 GRE over IPSec tunnels
+
+- Link Layer Discovery Protocol (LLDP)
+
+- Vhost-user Improvements
+
+ - Performance Improvements
+ - Multiqueue
+ - Reconnect
+
+- LISP Enhancements
+
+ - Source/Dest control plane support
+ - L2 over LISP and GRE
+ - Map-Register/Map-Notify/RLOC-probing support
+ - L2 API improvements, overall code hardening
+
+- Plugins:
+
+ - New: ACL
+ - New: Flow per Packet
+ - Improved: SNAT
+
+ - Mutlithreading
+ - Flow export
+
+- Doxygen Enhancements
+
+- Luajit API bindings
+
+- API Refactoring
+
+ - file split
+ - message signatures
+
+- Python and Scapy based unit testing infrastructure
+
+ - Infrastructure
+ - Various tests
+
+- Packet Generator improvements
+
+- TUN/TAP jumbo frames support
+
+- Other various bug fixes and improvements
+
+Known issues
+------------
+
+For the full list of issues please refer to fd.io
+`JIRA <https://jira.fd.io>`__.
+
+Issues fixed
+------------
+
+For the full list of fixed issues please refer to:
+
+- fd.io `JIRA <https://jira.fd.io>`__
+- git `commit log <https://git.fd.io/vpp/log/?h=stable/1701>`__