Vector Packet Processing
========================
-## Introduction.
+## Introduction
The VPP platform is an extensible framework that provides out-of-the-box
production quality switch/router functionality. It is the open source version
[What is VPP?](https://wiki.fd.io/view/VPP/What_is_VPP%3F) pages.
-## Directory layout.
+## Changes
+
+Details of the changes leading up to this version of VPP can be found under
+@ref release_notes.
+
+
+## Directory layout
Directory name | Description
---------------------- | -------------------------------------------
doxygen | Documentation generator configuration
dpdk | DPDK patches and build infrastructure
g2 | Event log visualization tool
- gmod | perf related?
perftool | Performance tool
@ref plugins | VPP bundled plugins directory
@ref svm | Shared virtual memory allocation library
ignore any @@ref labels in the above table.)
-## Getting started.
+## Getting started
In general anyone interested in building, developing or running VPP should
consult the [VPP wiki](https://wiki.fd.io/view/VPP) for more complete
For the impatient, some salient information is distilled below.
-### Quick-start: On an existing Linux host.
+### Quick-start: On an existing Linux host
To install system dependencies, build VPP and then install it, simply run the
build script. This should be performed a non-privileged user with `sudo`
make
-### Quick-start: Vagrant.
+### Quick-start: Vagrant
The directory `build-root/vagrant` contains a `VagrantFile` and supporting
scripts to bootstrap a working VPP inside a Vagrant-managed Virtual Machine.
(https://wiki.fd.io/view/DEV/Setting_Up_Vagrant).
-## More information.
+## More information
Several modules provide documentation, see @subpage user_doc for more
information.
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+# Release Notes {#release_notes}
+
+* @subpage release_notes_1701
+* @subpage release_notes_1609
+* @subpage release_notes_1606
+
+@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
+
+## Known issues
+
+## Issues fixed
+
+
+@page release_notes_1609 Release notes for VPP 16.09
+
+## Features
+
+- [Integrated July 2016 DPDK release](http://www.dpdk.org/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_16_07.html)
+ - DPDK-vhost is depreciated pending a complete rework of the original integration and
+ addressing of rx performance deltas.
+ - Patches required for DPDK 16.07:
+ - Correctly setting the Packet Type in the IGB, IXGBE and i40e drivers.
+ - Correctly setting checksum in the i40e driver.
+ - NXP DPAA2 PMD Driver.
+ - rte_delay (yield) functionality.
+
+- Add “in tree” plugins:
+ - IPv6 ILA.
+ - iOAM.
+ - Load Balancer.
+ - SNAT.
+
+- High-performance (line-rate) “neutron like” L4 port-filtering.
+
+- API refactoring - addressing some of the issues around JVPP bindings.
+ - Accommodating plugins [(e.g. NSH_SFC)](https://wiki.fd.io/view/NSH_SFC)
+ - Binding for [python](https://wiki.fd.io/view/VPP/Python_API)
+
+- LISP
+ - L2 LISP overlays
+ - Multitenancy
+ - Multihoming
+ - RTR mode
+ - Map-resolver failover algorithm
+
+- Support 64-bit vector lengths, huge shared-memory segments.
+
+- Dynamic IP Feature ordering
+ - IP Features can now specify features they appear before and after
+
+- 16.09 Builds
+ - Ubuntu 14.04 LTS - Trusty Tahr
+ - Ubuntu 16.04 LTS - Xenial Xerus
+ - CentOS 7
+ - More information on [VPP wiki](https://wiki.fd.io/view/VPP/Installing_VPP_binaries_from_packages)
+
+- Performance, characterize and document performance for this release
+ [(more information on CSIT page)](https://wiki.fd.io/view/CSIT)
+
+ - IPv4 and IPv6 Scale - performance tests.
+ - Bidirectional 10k/100k/1M flows.
+ - 64B,570B, 1518B,9000B packet sizes.
+ - IPv6 iACL - performance
+ - 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.
+ - 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.
+ MAC addresses are matching MAC addresses of the TG node interfaces.
+
+ - L2XC VXLANoIPv4 - performance
+ - DUT1 and DUT2 are configured with L2 cross-connect. VXLAN tunnels are configured between
+ L2XCs on DUT1 and DUT2.
+ - 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. MAC addresses are matching MAC addresses of the TG node interfaces.
+
+- Documentation
+ - Autogenerated CLI documentation.
+ - Using doxygen to automate API/Node documentation.
+ - [(available online)](https://docs.fd.io/vpp/16.09/)
+
+- Resolved all static analysis issues found by Coverity
+ - Beginning of 16.09 cycle: 505 issues.
+ - Release: 0 outstanding issues.
+
+
+## Known issues
+
+Issues in fd.io are tracked in [JIRA](https://jira.fd.io).
+
+Issue | Description
+--- | ---
+VPP-391 | vpp debug version assert appeared in the process of start
+VPP-380 | Mapping algorithm compute wrong ea-bits when IPv4 prefix 0.0.0.0/0
+VPP-371 | load_one_plugin:63: Loaded plugin: message from vppctl
+VPP-367 | vpp packages need to depend on specific versions of each other
+VPP-312 | IP6 FIB gets in indeterminate state by duplicating commands
+VPP-224 | Lookup-in-vrf can not be set correctly
+VPP-206 | Fix classify table delete
+VPP-203 | Fix binary API for reading vpp node graph
+VPP-147 | Inconsistent behaviour when adding L2 FIB filter entry
+VPP-99 | VPP doesn't discard DHCPOFFER message with wrong XID
+
+
+## Issues fixed
+
+Issues in fd.io are tracked in [JIRA](https://jira.fd.io).
+
+Issue | Description
+--- | ---
+VPP-396 | Ubuntu systems Graphviz bug
+VPP-390 | vpp-lib rpm fails to include *.so symlinks, causing linking problems with out of tree builds
+VPP-388 | IPSec output feature assumes packets have been ethernet rewritten
+VPP-385 | ARP for indirect adjacencies not working correctly
+VPP-361 | Memory leak on delete of VXLAN over IPv6 tunnel
+VPP-357 | VNI not set correctly when removing LISP fwd entries
+VPP-349 | sw_interface_vhost_user_dump not working
+VPP-345 | net/enic: bad L4 checksum ptype set on ICMP packets
+VPP-340 | MAP-T wrong destination address
+VPP-330 | Use fifo to store LISP pending map-requests
+VPP-326 | map_add_domain VAT command: unable to configure domain with mtu parameter
+VPP-318 | The map_add_domain VAT command accepts invalid arguments
+VPP-315 | Fix "show vxlan-gpe" issue
+VPP-310 | Mapping algorithm compute wrong ea-bits
+VPP-239 | LISP IP forwarding does not tag packets that hit negative mapping entries
+VPP-235 | Invalid help in VAT for sw_interface_set_l2_bridge
+VPP-228 | Mapping algorithm sends packet to wrong IPv6 address
+VPP-214 | vpp-api-test: api_ipsec_sad_add_del_entry: vector "ck" not initialized
+VPP-200 | VPP - TAP port create problem
+VPP-189 | Coverity Issues for 16.09
+VPP-184 | u16 translating to char ,not short
+VPP-179 | Adjacency share-count botch
+VPP-163 | "show ip6 interface" ignores non-global addresses
+VPP-155 | Netmap: Inconsistency in interface state between "show hardware" and "show interface"
+VPP-145 | Dynamically compute IP feature ordering based on constraints
+VPP-137 | VPP sends ARP with wrong requested IP
+VPP-118 | JVpp: 0 length arrays not handled properly in VPP responses
+VPP-112 | linux kernel info missing from build log
+VPP-110 | vxlan encap node should never touch a deleted tunnel
+VPP-107 | RPM build broken in master
+VPP-92 | segment routing is not properly filling out the segment list
+VPP-91 | segment routing add/del tunnel lookup doesn't work
+VPP-84 | af_packet throws a fatal error on EAGAIN
+VPP-74 | Clang compile fails due to warning in vlib/unix/cli.c
+VPP-64 | Top level "make pkg-deb" fails if CDPATH is set in user env.
+VPP-48 | Traceroute does not terminate when VPP is the target
+VPP-23 | CLI pager does not gracefully handle lines longer than the terminal width
+
+
+@page release_notes_1606 Release notes for VPP 16.06
+
+
+The FD.io Project, relentlessly focused on data IO speed and efficiency
+supporting the creation of high performance, flexible, and scalable software
+defined infrastructures, announces the availability of the community’s first
+software release (16.06).
+
+In the four months since launching, FD.io has brought together more than 75
+developers from 11 different companies including network operators, solution
+providers chip vendors, and network equipment vendors who are collaborating to
+enhance and innovate around the Vector Packet Processing (VPP) technology. The
+FD.io community has quickly formed to grow the number of projects from the
+initial VPP project to an additional 6 projects addressing a diverse set of
+requirements and usability across a variety of deployment environments.
+
+The 16.06 release brings unprecedented performance: 480Gbps/200mpps with 8
+million routes and 2k whitelist entries on standard high volume x86 servers.
+
+
+## Features
+
+In addition to the existing full suite of vswitch/vrouter features, the new
+16.06 release adds:
+
+* Enhanced Switching and Routing:
+ * IPv6 Segment Routing multicast support.
+ * LISP xTR support.
+ * VXLAN over IPv6 underlay.
+ * Per interface whitelists.
+ * Shared adjacencies in FIB.
+
+* New and improved interface support:
+ * Jumbo frame support for vhost-user.
+ * Netmap interface support.
+ * AF_Packet interface support.
+
+* Expanded and improved programmability:
+ * Python API bindings.
+ * Enhanced JVPP Java API bindings.
+ * Debugging CLI.
+
+* Expanded Hardware and Software Support:
+ * Support for ARM 32 targets including Rasberry Pi single-board computer.
+ * Support for DPDK 16.04.
+
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