Release Notes
=============

## 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