1704: Release notes. Cherry pick from 6288.

Change-Id: Ia6146106a708d5ab247225dfe49eb6ef686ae3d3
Signed-off-by: Ole Troan <ot@cisco.com>

diff --git a/RELEASE.md b/RELEASE.md
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@@ -8,6 +8,98 @@
 
 @page release_notes_1704 Release notes for VPP 17.04
 
 
 @page release_notes_1704 Release notes for VPP 17.04
 

+More than 500 commits since the 1701 release.
+
+## Features
+- Infrastructure
+  - make test improvements
+  - vnet: add device-input threadplacement infra
+  - 64 bit per-thread counters
+  - process restart cli
+  - High performance timer wheels
+  - Plugin infrastructure improvements
+    - Support for .default_disabled, .version_required
+  - Added MAINTAINERS file
+
+- Host stack
+  - TCP stack (experimental)
+  - DHCPv4 / DHCPv6 relay multi-destination
+  - DHCPv4 option 82
+  - ND proxy
+  - Attached hosts
+  - Consolidated DHCPv4 and DHCPv6 implementation
+
+- Interfaces
+  - DPDK 17.02 (retire support for DPDK 16.07)
+  - Add memif - packet memory interface for intra-host communication
+  - vhost: support interrupt mode
+  - DPDK as plugin (retired vpp_lite)
+  - DPDPK input optimizations
+  - Loopback interface allocation scheme
+
+- Network features
+  - IP Multicast FIB
+
+  - Bridging
+    - Learning on local interfaces
+    - Flushing of MACs from the L2 FIB
+
+  - SNAT
+    - CGN (Deterministic and dynamic)
+    - CGN configurable port allocation algorithm
+    - ICMP support
+    - Tentant VRF id for SNAT outside addresses
+    - Session dump / User dump
+    - Port allocation per protocol
+
+  - Security groups
+    - Routed interface support
+    - L2+L3 unified processing node
+    - Improve fragment handling
+
+  - Segement routing v6
+    - SR policies with weighted SID lists
+    - Binding SID
+    - SR steering policies
+    - SR Local SIDs
+    - Framework to expand local SIDs w/plugins
+    - Documentation
+
+  - IOAM
+    - UDP Pinger w/path fault isolation
+    - IOAM as type 2 metadata in NSH
+    - IAOM raw IPFIX collector and analyzer
+    - Anycast active server selection
+    - Documentation
+    - SRv6 Local SID
+    - IP6 HBH header and SR header co-existence
+    - Active probe
+
+  - LISP
+    - Statistics collection
+    - Generalize encap for overlay transport (vxlan-gpe support)
+    - Improve data plane speed
+
+  - GPE
+    - CLI
+    - NSH added to encap/decap path
+    - Renamed LISP GPE API to GPE
+
+  - MPLS
+    - Performance improvements (quad loop)
+
+  - BFD
+    - Command line interface
+    - Echo function
+    - Remote demand mode
+    - SHA1 authentication
+
+  - IPsec
+    - IKEv2 initiator features
+
+  - VXLAN
+    - unify IP4/IP6 control plane handling
+

 ## API changes
 
 - Python API: To avoid conflicts between VPP API messages names and
 ## API changes
 
 - Python API: To avoid conflicts between VPP API messages names and


@@ -24,11 +116,29 @@
   For backwards compatibility VPP API methods are left in the main
   name space (VPP), but will be removed from 17.07.
 
   For backwards compatibility VPP API methods are left in the main
   name space (VPP), but will be removed from 17.07.
 

+  - Python API: Change from cPython to CFFI.
+

 - 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/
 
 - 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.
+## 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/1704)
+
+@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_17011 Release notes for VPP 17.01.1
 
 
 @page release_notes_17011 Release notes for VPP 17.01.1


@@ -122,7 +232,6 @@ 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)
 
 - 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
 
 ## Features
 @page release_notes_1609 Release notes for VPP 16.09
 
 ## Features