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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>`__