docs/aboutvpp/releasenotes/v16.09.rst

   1 Release notes for VPP 16.09
   2 ===========================
   3
   4 Features
   5 --------
   6
   7 -  `Integrated July 2016 DPDK release <http://www.dpdk.org/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_16_07.html>`__
   8
   9    -  DPDK-vhost is depreciated pending a complete rework of the
  10       original integration and addressing of rx performance deltas.
  11    -  Patches required for DPDK 16.07:
  12
  13       -  Correctly setting the Packet Type in the IGB, IXGBE and i40e
  14          drivers.
  15       -  Correctly setting checksum in the i40e driver.
  16       -  NXP DPAA2 PMD Driver.
  17       -  rte_delay (yield) functionality.
  18
  19 -  Add “in tree” plugins:
  20
  21    -  IPv6 ILA.
  22    -  iOAM.
  23    -  Load Balancer.
  24    -  SNAT.
  25
  26 -  High-performance (line-rate) “neutron like” L4 port-filtering.
  27
  28 -  API refactoring - addressing some of the issues around JVPP bindings.
  29
  30    -  Accommodating plugins
  31       `(e.g. NSH_SFC) <https://wiki.fd.io/view/NSH_SFC>`__
  32    -  Binding for `python <https://wiki.fd.io/view/VPP/Python_API>`__
  33
  34 -  LISP
  35
  36    -  L2 LISP overlays
  37    -  Multitenancy
  38    -  Multihoming
  39    -  RTR mode
  40    -  Map-resolver failover algorithm
  41
  42 -  Support 64-bit vector lengths, huge shared-memory segments.
  43
  44 -  Dynamic IP Feature ordering
  45
  46    -  IP Features can now specify features they appear before and after
  47
  48 -  16.09 Builds
  49
  50    -  Ubuntu 14.04 LTS - Trusty Tahr
  51    -  Ubuntu 16.04 LTS - Xenial Xerus
  52    -  CentOS 7
  53    -  More information on `VPP wiki <https://wiki.fd.io/view/VPP/Installing_VPP_binaries_from_packages>`__
  54
  55 -  Performance, characterize and document performance for this release
  56    `(more information on CSIT page) <https://wiki.fd.io/view/CSIT>`__
  57
  58    -  IPv4 and IPv6 Scale - performance tests.
  59
  60       -  Bidirectional 10k/100k/1M flows.
  61       -  64B,570B, 1518B,9000B packet sizes.
  62
  63    -  IPv6 iACL - performance
  64
  65       -  DUT1 and DUT2 are configured with IPv6 routing, two static IPv6
  66          /64 routes and IPv6 iAcl security whitelist ingress /64 filter
  67          entries applied on links.
  68       -  TG traffic profile contains two L3 flow-groups (flow-group per
  69          direction, 253 flows per flow-group) with all packets
  70          containing Ethernet header, IPv6 header and generated payload.
  71          MAC addresses are matching MAC addresses of the TG node
  72          interfaces.
  73
  74    -  L2XC VXLANoIPv4 - performance
  75
  76       -  DUT1 and DUT2 are configured with L2 cross-connect. VXLAN
  77          tunnels are configured between L2XCs on DUT1 and DUT2.
  78       -  TG traffic profile contains two L3 flow-groups (flow-group per
  79          direction, 253 flows per flow-group) with all packets
  80          containing Ethernet header, IPv4 header with IP protocol=61 and
  81          generated payload. MAC addresses are matching MAC addresses of
  82          the TG node interfaces.
  83
  84 -  Documentation
  85
  86    -  Autogenerated CLI documentation.
  87    -  Using doxygen to automate API/Node documentation.
  88    -  `(available online) <https://docs.fd.io/vpp/16.09/>`__
  89
  90 -  Resolved all static analysis issues found by Coverity
  91
  92    -  Beginning of 16.09 cycle: 505 issues.
  93    -  Release: 0 outstanding issues.
  94
  95 Known issues
  96 ------------
  97
  98 Issues in fd.io are tracked in `JIRA <https://jira.fd.io>`__.
  99
 100 +-----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+
 101 | Issue                             | Description                       |
 102 +===================================+===================================+
 103 | VPP-391                           | vpp debug version assert appeared |
 104 |                                   | in the process of start           |
 105 +-----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+
 106 | VPP-380                           | Mapping algorithm compute wrong   |
 107 |                                   | ea-bits when IPv4 prefix          |
 108 |                                   | 0.0.0.0/0                         |
 109 +-----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+
 110 | VPP-371                           | load_one_plugin:63: Loaded        |
 111 |                                   | plugin: message from vppctl       |
 112 +-----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+
 113 | VPP-367                           | vpp packages need to depend on    |
 114 |                                   | specific versions of each other   |
 115 +-----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+
 116 | VPP-312                           | IP6 FIB gets in indeterminate     |
 117 |                                   | state by duplicating commands     |
 118 +-----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+
 119 | VPP-224                           | Lookup-in-vrf can not be set      |
 120 |                                   | correctly                         |
 121 +-----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+
 122 | VPP-206                           | Fix classify table delete         |
 123 +-----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+
 124 | VPP-203                           | Fix binary API for reading vpp    |
 125 |                                   | node graph                        |
 126 +-----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+
 127 | VPP-147                           | Inconsistent behaviour when       |
 128 |                                   | adding L2 FIB filter entry        |
 129 +-----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+
 130 | VPP-99                            | VPP doesn’t discard DHCPOFFER     |
 131 |                                   | message with wrong XID            |
 132 +-----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+
 133
 134 Issues fixed
 135 ------------
 136
 137 Issues in fd.io are tracked in `JIRA <https://jira.fd.io>`__.
 138
 139 +-----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+
 140 | Issue                             | Description                       |
 141 +===================================+===================================+
 142 | VPP-396                           | Ubuntu systems Graphviz bug       |
 143 +-----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+
 144 | VPP-390                           | vpp-lib rpm fails to include      |
 145 |                                   | \*.so symlinks, causing linking   |
 146 |                                   | problems with out of tree builds  |
 147 +-----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+
 148 | VPP-388                           | IPSec output feature assumes      |
 149 |                                   | packets have been ethernet        |
 150 |                                   | rewritten                         |
 151 +-----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+
 152 | VPP-385                           | ARP for indirect adjacencies not  |
 153 |                                   | working correctly                 |
 154 +-----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+
 155 | VPP-361                           | Memory leak on delete of VXLAN    |
 156 |                                   | over IPv6 tunnel                  |
 157 +-----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+
 158 | VPP-357                           | VNI not set correctly when        |
 159 |                                   | removing LISP fwd entries         |
 160 +-----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+
 161 | VPP-349                           | sw_interface_vhost_user_dump not  |
 162 |                                   | working                           |
 163 +-----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+
 164 | VPP-345                           | net/enic: bad L4 checksum ptype   |
 165 |                                   | set on ICMP packets               |
 166 +-----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+
 167 | VPP-340                           | MAP-T wrong destination address   |
 168 +-----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+
 169 | VPP-330                           | Use fifo to store LISP pending    |
 170 |                                   | map-requests                      |
 171 +-----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+
 172 | VPP-326                           | map_add_domain VAT command:       |
 173 |                                   | unable to configure domain with   |
 174 |                                   | mtu parameter                     |
 175 +-----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+
 176 | VPP-318                           | The map_add_domain VAT command    |
 177 |                                   | accepts invalid arguments         |
 178 +-----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+
 179 | VPP-315                           | Fix “show vxlan-gpe” issue        |
 180 +-----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+
 181 | VPP-310                           | Mapping algorithm compute wrong   |
 182 |                                   | ea-bits                           |
 183 +-----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+
 184 | VPP-239                           | LISP IP forwarding does not tag   |
 185 |                                   | packets that hit negative mapping |
 186 |                                   | entries                           |
 187 +-----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+
 188 | VPP-235                           | Invalid help in VAT for           |
 189 |                                   | sw_interface_set_l2_bridge        |
 190 +-----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+
 191 | VPP-228                           | Mapping algorithm sends packet to |
 192 |                                   | wrong IPv6 address                |
 193 +-----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+
 194 | VPP-214                           | vpp-api-test:                     |
 195 |                                   | api_ipsec_sad_add_del_entry:      |
 196 |                                   | vector “ck” not initialized       |
 197 +-----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+
 198 | VPP-200                           | VPP - TAP port create problem     |
 199 +-----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+
 200 | VPP-189                           | Coverity Issues for 16.09         |
 201 +-----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+
 202 | VPP-184                           | u16 translating to char ,not      |
 203 |                                   | short                             |
 204 +-----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+
 205 | VPP-179                           | Adjacency share-count botch       |
 206 +-----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+
 207 | VPP-163                           | “show ip6 interface” ignores      |
 208 |                                   | non-global addresses              |
 209 +-----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+
 210 | VPP-155                           | Netmap: Inconsistency in          |
 211 |                                   | interface state between “show     |
 212 |                                   | hardware” and “show interface”    |
 213 +-----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+
 214 | VPP-145                           | Dynamically compute IP feature    |
 215 |                                   | ordering based on constraints     |
 216 +-----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+
 217 | VPP-137                           | VPP sends ARP with wrong          |
 218 |                                   | requested IP                      |
 219 +-----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+
 220 | VPP-118                           | JVpp: 0 length arrays not handled |
 221 |                                   | properly in VPP responses         |
 222 +-----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+
 223 | VPP-112                           | linux kernel info missing from    |
 224 |                                   | build log                         |
 225 +-----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+
 226 | VPP-110                           | vxlan encap node should never     |
 227 |                                   | touch a deleted tunnel            |
 228 +-----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+
 229 | VPP-107                           | RPM build broken in master        |
 230 +-----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+
 231 | VPP-92                            | segment routing is not properly   |
 232 |                                   | filling out the segment list      |
 233 +-----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+
 234 | VPP-91                            | segment routing add/del tunnel    |
 235 |                                   | lookup doesn’t work               |
 236 +-----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+
 237 | VPP-84                            | af_packet throws a fatal error on |
 238 |                                   | EAGAIN                            |
 239 +-----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+
 240 | VPP-74                            | Clang compile fails due to        |
 241 |                                   | warning in vlib/unix/cli.c        |
 242 +-----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+
 243 | VPP-64                            | Top level “make pkg-deb” fails if |
 244 |                                   | CDPATH is set in user env.        |
 245 +-----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+
 246 | VPP-48                            | Traceroute does not terminate     |
 247 |                                   | when VPP is the target            |
 248 +-----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+
 249 | VPP-23                            | CLI pager does not gracefully     |
 250 |                                   | handle lines longer than the      |
 251 |                                   | terminal width                    |
 252 +-----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+