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 the Python API binding function names, VPP API methods are put in a separate proxy object. https://gerrit.fd.io/r/#/c/5570/ The api methods are now referenced as: vpp_handle = VPP(jsonfiles) vpp_handle.connect(…) vpp = vpp_handle.api vpp.show_version() vpp_handle.disconnect()
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/
Known issues
For the full list of issues please refer to fd.io JIRA.
Issues fixed
For the full list of fixed issues please refer to:
fd.io JIRA
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