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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>`__