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+###############################
+Features for Release VPP 16.09
+###############################
+
+This section lists those features that became available in VPP Release 16.09:
+
+* Integrated July 2016 DPDK release
+   - 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)
+   - Binding for python
+* 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
+* Performance, characterize and document performance for this release (more information on CSIT page)
+   - 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)
+* Resolved all static analysis issues found by Coverity
+   - Beginning of 16.09 cycle: 505 issues
+   - Release: 0 outstanding issues
+
+
+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/1609>`_
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