# Release Notes {#release_notes}
+* @subpage release_notes_1704
+* @subpage release_notes_17011
* @subpage release_notes_1701
* @subpage release_notes_1609
* @subpage release_notes_1606
+@page release_notes_1704 Release notes for VPP 17.04
+
+## API changes
+
+- Python API: To avoid conflicts between VPP API messages names and
+ the Python API binding function names, VPP API methods are put in a
+ separate proxy object.
+ https://gerrit.fd.io/r/#/c/5570/
+ The api methods are now referenced as:
+ vpp_handle = VPP(jsonfiles)
+ vpp_handle.connect(...)
+ vpp = vpp_handle.api
+ vpp.show_version()
+ vpp_handle.disconnect()
+
+ For backwards compatibility VPP API methods are left in the main
+ name space (VPP), but will be removed from 17.07.
+
+- create_loopback message to be replaced with create_loopback_instance
+ create_loopback will be removed from 17.07.
+ https://gerrit.fd.io/r/#/c/5572/
+
+@todo Release 17.04 needs release notes.
+
+
+@page release_notes_17011 Release notes for VPP 17.01.1
+
+This is bug fix release.
+
+For the full list of fixed issues please reffer to:
+- fd.io [JIRA](https://jira.fd.io)
+- git [commit log](https://git.fd.io/vpp/log/?h=stable/1701)
+
@page release_notes_1701 Release notes for VPP 17.01
@note This release was for a while known as 16.12.
-@todo Release 17.01 needs release notes.
## 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 reffer to fd.io [JIRA](https://jira.fd.io).
+
## Issues fixed
+For the full list of fixed issues please reffer to:
+- fd.io [JIRA](https://jira.fd.io)
+- git [commit log](https://git.fd.io/vpp/log/?h=stable/1701)
+
@page release_notes_1609 Release notes for VPP 16.09