1 # Release Notes {#release_notes}
3 * @subpage release_notes_1704
4 * @subpage release_notes_17011
5 * @subpage release_notes_1701
6 * @subpage release_notes_1609
7 * @subpage release_notes_1606
9 @page release_notes_1704 Release notes for VPP 17.04
11 More than 500 commits since the 1701 release.
15 - make test improvements
16 - vnet: add device-input threadplacement infra
17 - 64 bit per-thread counters
19 - High performance timer wheels
20 - Plugin infrastructure improvements
21 - Support for .default_disabled, .version_required
22 - Added MAINTAINERS file
25 - TCP stack (experimental)
26 - DHCPv4 / DHCPv6 relay multi-destination
30 - Consolidated DHCPv4 and DHCPv6 implementation
33 - DPDK 17.02 (retire support for DPDK 16.07)
34 - Add memif - packet memory interface for intra-host communication
35 - vhost: support interrupt mode
36 - DPDK as plugin (retired vpp_lite)
37 - DPDPK input optimizations
38 - Loopback interface allocation scheme
44 - Learning on local interfaces
45 - Flushing of MACs from the L2 FIB
48 - CGN (Deterministic and dynamic)
49 - CGN configurable port allocation algorithm
51 - Tentant VRF id for SNAT outside addresses
52 - Session dump / User dump
53 - Port allocation per protocol
56 - Routed interface support
57 - L2+L3 unified processing node
58 - Improve fragment handling
61 - SR policies with weighted SID lists
63 - SR steering policies
65 - Framework to expand local SIDs w/plugins
69 - UDP Pinger w/path fault isolation
70 - IOAM as type 2 metadata in NSH
71 - IAOM raw IPFIX collector and analyzer
72 - Anycast active server selection
75 - IP6 HBH header and SR header co-existence
79 - Statistics collection
80 - Generalize encap for overlay transport (vxlan-gpe support)
81 - Improve data plane speed
85 - NSH added to encap/decap path
86 - Renamed LISP GPE API to GPE
89 - Performance improvements (quad loop)
92 - Command line interface
98 - IKEv2 initiator features
101 - unify IP4/IP6 control plane handling
105 - Python API: To avoid conflicts between VPP API messages names and
106 the Python API binding function names, VPP API methods are put in a
107 separate proxy object.
108 https://gerrit.fd.io/r/#/c/5570/
109 The api methods are now referenced as:
110 vpp_handle = VPP(jsonfiles)
111 vpp_handle.connect(...)
114 vpp_handle.disconnect()
116 For backwards compatibility VPP API methods are left in the main
117 name space (VPP), but will be removed from 17.07.
119 - Python API: Change from cPython to CFFI.
121 - create_loopback message to be replaced with create_loopback_instance
122 create_loopback will be removed from 17.07.
123 https://gerrit.fd.io/r/#/c/5572/
127 For the full list of issues please reffer to fd.io [JIRA](https://jira.fd.io).
131 For the full list of fixed issues please reffer to:
132 - fd.io [JIRA](https://jira.fd.io)
133 - git [commit log](https://git.fd.io/vpp/log/?h=stable/1704)
135 @page release_notes_17011 Release notes for VPP 17.01.1
137 This is bug fix release.
139 For the full list of fixed issues please reffer to:
140 - fd.io [JIRA](https://jira.fd.io)
141 - git [commit log](https://git.fd.io/vpp/log/?h=stable/1701)
144 @page release_notes_17011 Release notes for VPP 17.01.1
146 This is bug fix release.
148 For the full list of fixed issues please reffer to:
149 - fd.io [JIRA](https://jira.fd.io)
150 - git [commit log](https://git.fd.io/vpp/log/?h=stable/1701)
152 @page release_notes_1701 Release notes for VPP 17.01
154 @note This release was for a while known as 16.12.
158 - [Integrated November 2016 DPDK release](http://www.dpdk.org/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_16_11.html)
160 - Complete rework of Forwarding Information Base (FIB)
162 - Performance Improvements
163 - Improvements in DPDK input and output nodes
164 - Improvements in L2 path
165 - Improvmeents in IPv4 lookup node
167 - Feature Arcs Improvements
168 - Consolidation of the code
173 - DPDK Cryptodev Support
174 - Software and Hardware Crypto Support
178 - Simple Port Analyzer (SPAN)
180 - Bidirectional Forwarding Detection
181 - Basic implementation
185 - L2 GRE over IPSec tunnels
187 - Link Layer Discovery Protocol (LLDP)
189 - Vhost-user Improvements
190 - Performance Improvements
195 - Source/Dest control plane support
196 - L2 over LISP and GRE
197 - Map-Register/Map-Notify/RLOC-probing support
198 - L2 API improvements, overall code hardening
202 - New: Flow per Packet
207 - Doxygen Enhancements
209 - Luajit API bindings
215 - Python and Scapy based unit testing infrastructure
219 - Packet Generator improvements
221 - TUN/TAP jumbo frames support
223 - Other various bug fixes and improvements
227 For the full list of issues please reffer to fd.io [JIRA](https://jira.fd.io).
231 For the full list of fixed issues please reffer to:
232 - fd.io [JIRA](https://jira.fd.io)
233 - git [commit log](https://git.fd.io/vpp/log/?h=stable/1701)
235 @page release_notes_1609 Release notes for VPP 16.09
239 - [Integrated July 2016 DPDK release](http://www.dpdk.org/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_16_07.html)
240 - DPDK-vhost is depreciated pending a complete rework of the original integration and
241 addressing of rx performance deltas.
242 - Patches required for DPDK 16.07:
243 - Correctly setting the Packet Type in the IGB, IXGBE and i40e drivers.
244 - Correctly setting checksum in the i40e driver.
245 - NXP DPAA2 PMD Driver.
246 - rte_delay (yield) functionality.
248 - Add “in tree” plugins:
254 - High-performance (line-rate) “neutron like” L4 port-filtering.
256 - API refactoring - addressing some of the issues around JVPP bindings.
257 - Accommodating plugins [(e.g. NSH_SFC)](https://wiki.fd.io/view/NSH_SFC)
258 - Binding for [python](https://wiki.fd.io/view/VPP/Python_API)
265 - Map-resolver failover algorithm
267 - Support 64-bit vector lengths, huge shared-memory segments.
269 - Dynamic IP Feature ordering
270 - IP Features can now specify features they appear before and after
273 - Ubuntu 14.04 LTS - Trusty Tahr
274 - Ubuntu 16.04 LTS - Xenial Xerus
276 - More information on [VPP wiki](https://wiki.fd.io/view/VPP/Installing_VPP_binaries_from_packages)
278 - Performance, characterize and document performance for this release
279 [(more information on CSIT page)](https://wiki.fd.io/view/CSIT)
281 - IPv4 and IPv6 Scale - performance tests.
282 - Bidirectional 10k/100k/1M flows.
283 - 64B,570B, 1518B,9000B packet sizes.
284 - IPv6 iACL - performance
285 - DUT1 and DUT2 are configured with IPv6 routing, two static IPv6 /64 routes and IPv6 iAcl
286 security whitelist ingress /64 filter entries applied on links.
287 - TG traffic profile contains two L3 flow-groups (flow-group per direction, 253 flows per
288 flow-group) with all packets containing Ethernet header, IPv6 header and generated payload.
289 MAC addresses are matching MAC addresses of the TG node interfaces.
291 - L2XC VXLANoIPv4 - performance
292 - DUT1 and DUT2 are configured with L2 cross-connect. VXLAN tunnels are configured between
293 L2XCs on DUT1 and DUT2.
294 - TG traffic profile contains two L3 flow-groups (flow-group per direction, 253 flows per
295 flow-group) with all packets containing Ethernet header, IPv4 header with IP protocol=61
296 and generated payload. MAC addresses are matching MAC addresses of the TG node interfaces.
299 - Autogenerated CLI documentation.
300 - Using doxygen to automate API/Node documentation.
301 - [(available online)](https://docs.fd.io/vpp/16.09/)
303 - Resolved all static analysis issues found by Coverity
304 - Beginning of 16.09 cycle: 505 issues.
305 - Release: 0 outstanding issues.
310 Issues in fd.io are tracked in [JIRA](https://jira.fd.io).
314 VPP-391 | vpp debug version assert appeared in the process of start
315 VPP-380 | Mapping algorithm compute wrong ea-bits when IPv4 prefix 0.0.0.0/0
316 VPP-371 | load_one_plugin:63: Loaded plugin: message from vppctl
317 VPP-367 | vpp packages need to depend on specific versions of each other
318 VPP-312 | IP6 FIB gets in indeterminate state by duplicating commands
319 VPP-224 | Lookup-in-vrf can not be set correctly
320 VPP-206 | Fix classify table delete
321 VPP-203 | Fix binary API for reading vpp node graph
322 VPP-147 | Inconsistent behaviour when adding L2 FIB filter entry
323 VPP-99 | VPP doesn't discard DHCPOFFER message with wrong XID
328 Issues in fd.io are tracked in [JIRA](https://jira.fd.io).
332 VPP-396 | Ubuntu systems Graphviz bug
333 VPP-390 | vpp-lib rpm fails to include *.so symlinks, causing linking problems with out of tree builds
334 VPP-388 | IPSec output feature assumes packets have been ethernet rewritten
335 VPP-385 | ARP for indirect adjacencies not working correctly
336 VPP-361 | Memory leak on delete of VXLAN over IPv6 tunnel
337 VPP-357 | VNI not set correctly when removing LISP fwd entries
338 VPP-349 | sw_interface_vhost_user_dump not working
339 VPP-345 | net/enic: bad L4 checksum ptype set on ICMP packets
340 VPP-340 | MAP-T wrong destination address
341 VPP-330 | Use fifo to store LISP pending map-requests
342 VPP-326 | map_add_domain VAT command: unable to configure domain with mtu parameter
343 VPP-318 | The map_add_domain VAT command accepts invalid arguments
344 VPP-315 | Fix "show vxlan-gpe" issue
345 VPP-310 | Mapping algorithm compute wrong ea-bits
346 VPP-239 | LISP IP forwarding does not tag packets that hit negative mapping entries
347 VPP-235 | Invalid help in VAT for sw_interface_set_l2_bridge
348 VPP-228 | Mapping algorithm sends packet to wrong IPv6 address
349 VPP-214 | vpp-api-test: api_ipsec_sad_add_del_entry: vector "ck" not initialized
350 VPP-200 | VPP - TAP port create problem
351 VPP-189 | Coverity Issues for 16.09
352 VPP-184 | u16 translating to char ,not short
353 VPP-179 | Adjacency share-count botch
354 VPP-163 | "show ip6 interface" ignores non-global addresses
355 VPP-155 | Netmap: Inconsistency in interface state between "show hardware" and "show interface"
356 VPP-145 | Dynamically compute IP feature ordering based on constraints
357 VPP-137 | VPP sends ARP with wrong requested IP
358 VPP-118 | JVpp: 0 length arrays not handled properly in VPP responses
359 VPP-112 | linux kernel info missing from build log
360 VPP-110 | vxlan encap node should never touch a deleted tunnel
361 VPP-107 | RPM build broken in master
362 VPP-92 | segment routing is not properly filling out the segment list
363 VPP-91 | segment routing add/del tunnel lookup doesn't work
364 VPP-84 | af_packet throws a fatal error on EAGAIN
365 VPP-74 | Clang compile fails due to warning in vlib/unix/cli.c
366 VPP-64 | Top level "make pkg-deb" fails if CDPATH is set in user env.
367 VPP-48 | Traceroute does not terminate when VPP is the target
368 VPP-23 | CLI pager does not gracefully handle lines longer than the terminal width
371 @page release_notes_1606 Release notes for VPP 16.06
374 The FD.io Project, relentlessly focused on data IO speed and efficiency
375 supporting the creation of high performance, flexible, and scalable software
376 defined infrastructures, announces the availability of the community’s first
377 software release (16.06).
379 In the four months since launching, FD.io has brought together more than 75
380 developers from 11 different companies including network operators, solution
381 providers chip vendors, and network equipment vendors who are collaborating to
382 enhance and innovate around the Vector Packet Processing (VPP) technology. The
383 FD.io community has quickly formed to grow the number of projects from the
384 initial VPP project to an additional 6 projects addressing a diverse set of
385 requirements and usability across a variety of deployment environments.
387 The 16.06 release brings unprecedented performance: 480Gbps/200mpps with 8
388 million routes and 2k whitelist entries on standard high volume x86 servers.
393 In addition to the existing full suite of vswitch/vrouter features, the new
396 * Enhanced Switching and Routing:
397 * IPv6 Segment Routing multicast support.
399 * VXLAN over IPv6 underlay.
400 * Per interface whitelists.
401 * Shared adjacencies in FIB.
403 * New and improved interface support:
404 * Jumbo frame support for vhost-user.
405 * Netmap interface support.
406 * AF_Packet interface support.
408 * Expanded and improved programmability:
409 * Python API bindings.
410 * Enhanced JVPP Java API bindings.
413 * Expanded Hardware and Software Support:
414 * Support for ARM 32 targets including Rasberry Pi single-board computer.
415 * Support for DPDK 16.04.