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+###############################\r
+Features for Release VPP 16.09\r
+###############################\r
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+This section lists those features that became available in VPP Release 16.09:\r
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+* Integrated July 2016 DPDK release\r
+   - DPDK-vhost is depreciated pending a complete rework of the original integration and addressing of rx performance deltas\r
+   - Patches required for DPDK 16.07:\r
+      + Correctly setting the Packet Type in the IGB, IXGBE and i40e drivers\r
+      + Correctly setting checksum in the i40e driver\r
+      + NXP DPAA2 PMD Driver\r
+      + rte_delay (yield) functionality\r
+* Add “in tree” plugins:\r
+   - IPv6 ILA\r
+   - iOAM\r
+   - Load Balancer\r
+   - SNAT\r
+* High-performance (line-rate) “neutron like” L4 port-filtering\r
+* API refactoring - addressing some of the issues around JVPP bindings\r
+   - Accommodating plugins (e.g. NSH_SFC)\r
+   - Binding for python\r
+* LISP\r
+   - L2 LISP overlays\r
+   - Multitenancy\r
+   - Multihoming\r
+   - RTR mode\r
+   - Map-resolver failover algorithm\r
+* Support 64-bit vector lengths, huge shared-memory segments\r
+* Dynamic IP Feature ordering\r
+   - IP Features can now specify features they appear before and after\r
+* 16.09 Builds\r
+   - Ubuntu 14.04 LTS - Trusty Tahr\r
+   - Ubuntu 16.04 LTS - Xenial Xerus\r
+   - CentOS 7\r
+   - More information on VPP wiki\r
+* Performance, characterize and document performance for this release (more information on CSIT page)\r
+   - IPv4 and IPv6 Scale - performance tests\r
+      + Bidirectional 10k/100k/1M flows\r
+      + 64B,570B, 1518B,9000B packet sizes\r
+   - IPv6 iACL - performance\r
+      + 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\r
+      + 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\r
+      + MAC addresses are matching MAC addresses of the TG node interfaces\r
+   - L2XC VXLANoIPv4 - performance\r
+      + DUT1 and DUT2 are configured with L2 cross-connect. VXLAN tunnels are configured between L2XCs on DUT1 and DUT2\r
+      + 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\r
+      + MAC addresses are matching MAC addresses of the TG node interfaces\r
+* Documentation\r
+   - Autogenerated CLI documentation\r
+   - Using doxygen to automate API/Node documentation\r
+   - (available online)\r
+* Resolved all static analysis issues found by Coverity\r
+   - Beginning of 16.09 cycle: 505 issues\r
+   - Release: 0 outstanding issues\r
+\r
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+Known issues\r
+---------------\r
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+For the full list of issues please refer to fd.io `JIRA <https://jira.fd.io/>`_.\r
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+Issues fixed\r
+--------------\r
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+For the full list of fixed issues please refer to:\r
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+* fd.io `JIRA <https://jira.fd.io/>`_\r
+* git `commit log <https://git.fd.io/vpp/log/?h=stable/1609>`_
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