misc: 19.08.2 Release Notes

Change-Id: I78f9edf9c15e9f4a2451be084c04c6318fbb978d
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Signed-off-by: Andrew Yourtchenko <ayourtch@gmail.com>
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 * @subpage release_notes_2005
 * @subpage release_notes_2001
+* @subpage release_notes_19082
 * @subpage release_notes_19081
 * @subpage release_notes_1908
 * @subpage release_notes_19043
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 | [a47a5f20a](https://gerrit.fd.io/r/gitweb?p=vpp.git;a=commit;h=a47a5f20a) | api papi: add alias for timestamp(datetime)/timedelta |
 | [3cf9e67f5](https://gerrit.fd.io/r/gitweb?p=vpp.git;a=commit;h=3cf9e67f5) | api: add vl_api_version_t type |
 
+@page release_notes_19082 Release notes for VPP 19.08.2
+
+The 19.08.2 is an LTS release. It contains numerous fixes,
+as well as new features and API additions.
+
+## Features
+
+- API trace tool
+  - Add text output (c395ff143)
+- Binary API Libraries
+  - Add API support for PP2 plugin to stable/1908 (1c3c9f039)
+- Build System
+  - Pass 'no-pci' to autgenerated config (c0552134e)
+  - Add env variable to pass extra cmake args (116e05f57)
+- Infrastructure Library
+  - Implement CLIB\_PAUSE () for aarch64 platforms (a3c45242b)
+  - Create unformat function for data size parsing (cb19100c1)
+- Link Bonding
+  - Fix interface deletion (1517d5e72)
+  - Add GSO support (a06f68556)
+- Physical Memory Allocator
+  - Always lock pages (5b2eea6e0)
+- Plugins
+  - AVF Device driver
+    - Print queue id in packet trace (9e028d047)
+  - DPDK
+    - Ipsec tunnel support for ip6-in-ip4 (2dde5a478)
+    - QAT devices update, add c4xxx and xeon d15xx (f5d6c80ac)
+    - Add TSO support in DPDK plugin. (5564db853)
+  - Group Based Policy (GBP)
+    - Add extended SFC unit tests (30f7e4198)
+  - Host Stack Applications
+    - Make APP\_OPTIONS\_PREALLOC\_FIFO\_PAIRS configurable (47c6f36be)
+  - Internet Key Exchange (IKEv2) Protocol
+    - Add support for GCM cipher (2fa9f679c)
+  - QUIC protocol
+    - Add cli command for stats (88af6c3f4)
+    - Add Tx, Rx and packet drop counters (3a61a40dd)
+    - Create custom event logger (2f9ec5001)
+    - Make quic fifo size configurable via cli (7fc3d97b8)
+  - RDMA (ibverb) driver
+    - Add support for input feature arcs (cbae1e1c5)
+    - Add support for MAC changes (ffdfe308b)
+  - Http\_static
+    - Add dynamic GET / POST method hooks (faf5195e3)
+- Python binding for the VPP API
+  - Let async calls return context (e6b29a9df)
+  - Introduce read\_blocking (1c45b85df)
+- SVM Library
+  - Improve fifo segment verbose cli (d2bff0786)
+- Statistics Segment
+  - Add /if/\<n\>/\<n\>/state for lacp interface state (d5e8ed7be)
+- Test Infrastructure
+  - Support worker threads (51699e62c)
+  - Support setting random seed (fc000f0e1)
+  - Add cli\_return\_response to vpp\_papi\_provider (64d744350)
+  - Test tls case (87e1bcdd7)
+- VNET
+  - Classifier
+    - Use vector code even when data is not aligned (bebbd7f62)
+    - VPP packet tracer support (7c5a3536c)
+  - IPSec
+    - Add 'detail' option to 'sh ipsec sa' (56417fa94)
+    - Add insecure option for format of SA (591aa64e8)
+    - Support 4o6 and 6o4 for tunnel protect (2e6d73934)
+  - IPv4 and IPv6 LPM
+    - Allow addrs from the same prefix on intf (da900b25c)
+    - Punt rather than drop unkown IPv6 ICMP packets (fd2f6f89e)
+  - Session Layer
+    - Add explicit reset api (a267cba29)
+    - Improve cli (2ff21af39)
+    - Add session enable option in config file (b1ef5567b)
+    - Limit pacer bucket size (079895d95)
+    - Builtin app rx notifications regardless of state (8e4afc86d)
+    - Infra for transports to send buffers (57997c874)
+    - Reschedule asap when snd space constrained (89ab1762d)
+  - TCP
+    - Allow cc algos to set pacing rate (82df1eb90)
+    - Set cc\_algo on connection alloc (7fe501a4b)
+    - Add option for always on event logging (e73bd8503)
+    - Track zero rwnd errors (a2c063712)
+    - Validate connections in output (ea584d137)
+    - Force zero window on full rx fifo (fbe948c81)
+    - Send rwnd update only if wnd is large enough (0ad8477ba)
+    - Enable gso in tcp hoststack (6f3621d77)
+    - Handle SACK reneging (9dba3dbf0)
+    - Use rate sample RTT in recovery if possible (6702641f5)
+    - Compute snd time for rate sample (69460ae11)
+    - Use sacks for timer based recovery (d4aa3d9f8)
+    - Custom checksum calculations for Ipv4/Ipv6 (3642782a2)
+    - Retry lost retransmits (7b135c639)
+    - Improve pacing after idle send periods (abdc7dfb5)
+    - Track lost rxt segments in byte tracker (6de46b40d)
+    - Validate the IP address while checking TCP connection (6c1ce53b4)
+    - Improve lost rxt heuristic (04b4204d9)
+- VPP Comms Library
+  - Allow non-blocking connects (4767cf24f)
+  - Add api to set lcl ip (2c55610e2)
+- Vector Library
+  - Add flag to explicitelly mark nodes which can init per-node packet trace (29dc11bde)
+  - Enhance the "show cli" debug CLI command (b5a0108ac)
+- Libmemif
+  - Introduce 'memif\_per\_thread\_' namespace (2736fc7fc)
+
+## API changes
+
+Description of results:
+
+* _Definition changed_: indicates that the API file was modified between releases.
+* _Only in image_: indicates the API is new for this release.
+* _Only in file_: indicates the API has been removed in this release.
+
+Message Name                                                 | Result
+-------------------------------------------------------------|------------------
+app_attach                                                   | only in image
+app_attach_reply                                             | only in image
+
+Found 2 api message signature differences
+
+## Fixed issues
+
+For the full list of fixed issues please refer to:
+- fd.io [JIRA](https://jira.fd.io)
+- git [commit log](https://git.fd.io/vpp/log/?h=stable/1908)
+
 @page release_notes_19081 Release notes for VPP 19.08.1
 
 Exceptionally, this release has an API-changing fix introduced via