Report: Fix fonts in release notes table
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@@ -6,31 +6,55 @@ Changes in |csit-release|
 
 #. VPP PERFORMANCE TESTS
 
-   - **Service density 2n-skx tests**: Network Function Virtualization (NFV)
-     service density tests focus on measuring total per server throughput at
-     varied NFV service *packing* densities with vswitch providing host
-     dataplane. The goal is to compare and contrast performance of a shared
-     vswitch for different network topologies and virtualization technologies,
-     and their impact on vswitch performance and efficiency in a range of NFV
-     service configurations.
-
-   - **Experimental Soak Tests**: Added performamce soak tests framework
-     code for extended time duration tests and throughput discovery
-     at given PLR and at give total test time e.g. minutes, hours,
-     days, weeks, months, years. See updated
-     :ref:`test_methodology` section for more details.
+   - **Service density 2n-skx tests**: Added higher NF density tests with
+     802.1q (vlan) and VXLAN encapsulation from Traffic Generator.
+
+   - **GBP tests**: Added GBP (Group Based Policy) routing test cases
+     with 802.1q (vlan) external traffic.
+
+   - **AVF IPv4 scale tests**: Increased coverage of AVF IPv4 base and
+     scale test cases (Fortville NICs only).
+
+   - **2n-skx tests**: Increased coverage of selected (COP, iACL,
+     Policer) test cases.
+
+   - **IPsec scale tests**: Added IPsec interface mode scale tests with
+     1, 40, 400, 1000, 5000, 10000, 20000, 40000, 60000 IPsec tunnels.
+     Removed DPDK backend dependency. Major IPsec test code
+     refactoring.
+
+   - **Hoststack TCP/IP tests**: Major refactor of Hoststack TCP
+     performance tests using WRK generator talking to the VPP HTTP
+     static server plugin measuring connections per second and
+     requests per second.
+
+   - **Changed methodology of dot1q tests in 2-Node testbeds**: dot1q
+     encapsulation is now used on both links of SUT. Previously dot1q
+     was used only on a single link with the other link carrying
+     untagged Ethernet frames. This change results in slightly lower
+     throughput in CSIT-1908 for all dot1q tests in all 2-Node
+     testbeds.
+
+   - **KVM VM vhost-user tests**: completed move to Kernel-VM for all
+     tests. In addition to running DPDK Testpmd as VM workload, new
+     tests created with VPP as VM workload. VPP in VM is the same
+     version as the DUT VPP (acting as vSwitch) and its configuration
+     depends on the test type. For all L2 Ethernet Switching tests
+     it's vpp-l2xc (L2 cross-connect), for all IPv4 Routing tests it's
+     vpp-ip4 (VPP IPv4 routing).
 
 #. TEST FRAMEWORK
 
-   - **Container code optimizations**: Optimized container library allows to
-     run containre_memif tests faster.
-
-   - **CSIT PAPI Support**: Continue converting existing VAT L1 keywords to
-     PAPI L1 KWs in CSIT using VPP Python bindings. Required for migrating away
-     from VAT.
+   - **CSIT PAPI Support**: Finished conversion of CSIT VAT L1 keywords
+     to PAPI L1 KWs in CSIT using VPP Python bindings (VPP PAPI).
+     Redesign of key components of PAPI Socket Executor and PAPI
+     history. Due to issues with PAPI performance, VAT is still used
+     in CSIT for all VPP scale tests. See known issues below.
 
    - **General Code Housekeeping**: Ongoing RF keywords optimizations,
-     removal of redundant RF keywords.
+     removal of redundant RF keywords and aligning of suite/test
+     setup/teardowns.
+
 
 #. PRESENTATION AND ANALYTICS LAYER
 
@@ -38,15 +62,6 @@ Changes in |csit-release|
      for better readibility and maintenance: test grouping, axis
      labels, descriptions, other informative decoration.
 
-#. MISCELLANEOUS
-
-   - **3n-dnv Tests (3rd Party)**: Published performance tests for 3n-
-     dnv (3-Node Atom Denverton) from 3rd party testbeds running FD.io
-     |csit-release| automated testing code.
-     Only graphs for Packet Throughput and Speedup Multi-core and not
-     for Packet Latency were published as there are no results for Packet
-     Latency available.
-
 .. raw:: latex
 
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@@ -58,27 +73,46 @@ Known Issues
 
 List of known issues in |csit-release| for VPP performance tests:
 
-+----+-----------------------------------------+---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
-| #  | JiraID                                  | Issue Description                                                                                                               |
-+====+=========================================+=================================================================================================================================+
-| 1  | `CSIT-570                               | Sporadic (1 in 200) NDR discovery test failures on x520. DPDK reporting rx-errors, indicating L1 issue.                         |
-|    | <https://jira.fd.io/browse/CSIT-570>`_  | Suspected issue with HW combination of X710-X520 in LF testbeds. Not observed outside of LF testbeds.                           |
-+----+-----------------------------------------+---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
-| 2  | `VPP-1562                               | Link bonding (mode LACP, transmit policy l34) test are failing due to VPP crashing producing core dump.                         |
-|    | <https://jira.fd.io/browse/VPP-1562>`_  |                                                                                                                                 |
-+----+-----------------------------------------+---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
-| 3  | `CSIT-1427                              | Scale HW IPsec are failing due to issue with selecting ipsec backend in VPP.                                                    |
-|    | <https://jira.fd.io/browse/CSIT-1427>`_ |                                                                                                                                 |
-+----+-----------------------------------------+---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
-| 4  | `VPP-1563                               | AVF L2patch tests are failing for all packet size and core combination. Reason: null-node blackholed packets in show error.     |
-|    | <https://jira.fd.io/browse/VPP-1563>`_  |                                                                                                                                 |
-+----+-----------------------------------------+---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
-| 5  | `CSIT-1234                              | VPP IPSecHW/IPSecsW scale interface mode, low NDR and PDR 64B throughput in 3n-hsw testbeds, in CSIT-19.01 vs. CSIT-18.10.      |
-|    | <https://jira.fd.io/browse/CSIT-1234>`_ |                                                                                                                                 |
-+----+-----------------------------------------+---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
-| 6  | `CSIT-1428                              | VM vhost tests with RXQ 2 and more are failing and reporting incorrect measurements due to RXQ configuration issue.             |
-|    | <https://jira.fd.io/browse/CSIT-1428>`_ |                                                                                                                                 |
-+----+-----------------------------------------+---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
-| 7  | `CSIT-1431                              | AVF 4 cores tests are sporadically failing.                                                                                     |
-|    | <https://jira.fd.io/browse/CSIT-1431>`_ |                                                                                                                                 |
-+----+-----------------------------------------+---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
++----+-----------------------------------------+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
+| #  | JiraID                                  | Issue Description                                                                                        |
++====+=========================================+==========================================================================================================+
+| 1  | `CSIT-570                               | Sporadic (1 in 200) NDR discovery test failures on x520. DPDK reporting rx-errors, indicating L1 issue.  |
+|    | <https://jira.fd.io/browse/CSIT-570>`_  | Suspected issue with HW combination of X710-X520 in LF testbeds. Not observed outside of LF testbeds.    |
++----+-----------------------------------------+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
+| 2  | `VPP-662                                | 9000B packets not supported by NICs VIC1227 and VIC1387.                                                 |
+|    | <https://jira.fd.io/browse/VPP-662>`_   |                                                                                                          |
++----+-----------------------------------------+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
+| 3  | `CSIT-1503                              | [`TRex-519 <https://trex-tgn.cisco.com/youtrack/issue/trex-519>`_] XL710/XXV710 with FW 6.0.1 will have  |
+|    | <https://jira.fd.io/browse/CSIT-1503>`_ | Rx drop rate of 27MPPS.                                                                                  |
++----+-----------------------------------------+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
+| 4  | `CSIT-1498                              | Memif tests are sporadically failing on initialization of memif connection.                              |
+|    | <https://jira.fd.io/browse/CSIT-1498>`_ |                                                                                                          |
++----+-----------------------------------------+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
+| 5  | `CSIT-1499                              | AVF tests are sporadically failing on initialization of AVF interface.                                   |
+|    | <https://jira.fd.io/browse/CSIT-1499>`_ |                                                                                                          |
++----+-----------------------------------------+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
+| 6  | `VPP-1676                               | 9000B ip4 memif errors - ip4-input: ip4 length > l2 length.                                              |
+|    | <https://jira.fd.io/browse/VPP-1676>`_  | IP4 jumbo frames (9000B) are dropped in case of tests with memif.                                        |
++----+-----------------------------------------+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
+| 7  | `VPP-1677                               | 9000B ip4 nat44: VPP crash + coredump.                                                                   |
+|    | <https://jira.fd.io/browse/VPP-1677>`_  | VPP crashes very often in case that NAT44 is configured and it has to process IP4 jumbo frames (9000B).  |
++----+-----------------------------------------+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
+| 8  | `CSIT-1591                              | All CSIT scale tests can not use PAPI due to much slower performance compared to VAT/CLI (it takes much  |
+|    | <https://jira.fd.io/browse/CSIT-1499>`_ | longer to program VPP). This needs to be addressed on the PAPI side.                                     |
+|    +-----------------------------------------+                                                                                                          |
+|    | `VPP-1763                               |                                                                                                          |
+|    | <https://jira.fd.io/browse/VPP-1763>`_  |                                                                                                          |
++----+-----------------------------------------+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
+| 9  | `CSIT-1592                              | VPP memif API does not enable memif zero-copy, resulting in different memif configuration vs. previously |
+|    | <https://jira.fd.io/browse/CSIT-1592>`_ | tested VAT/CLI where memif zero-copy was enabled by default. Needs to be fixed in VPP.                   |
+|    +-----------------------------------------+                                                                                                          |
+|    | `VPP-1764                               |                                                                                                          |
+|    | <https://jira.fd.io/browse/VPP-1764>`_  |                                                                                                          |
++----+-----------------------------------------+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
+| 10 | `VPP-1675                               | IPv4 IPSEC 9000B packet tests are failing as no packet is forwarded.                                     |
+|    | <https://jira.fd.io/browse/VPP-1675>`_  | Reason: chained buffers are not supported.                                                               |
++----+-----------------------------------------+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
+| 11 | `CSIT-1593                              | IPv4 AVF 9000B packet tests are failing on 3n-skx while passing on 2n-skx.                               |
+|    | <https://jira.fd.io/browse/CSIT-1593>`_ |                                                                                                          |
++----+-----------------------------------------+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
+