Release notes for release 17.01

Change-Id: I99c0898bb0cb99e1b2a28463245031e74afd401b
Signed-off-by: Damjan Marion <damarion@cisco.com>

RELEASE.md

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 @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
 
+- [Integrated November 2016 DPDK release](http://www.dpdk.org/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_16_11.html)
+
+- Complete rework of Forwarding Information Base (FIB)
+
+- Performance Improvements
+  - Improvements in DPDK input and output nodes
+  - Improvements in L2 path
+  - Improvmeents in IPv4 lookup node
+
+- Feature Arcs Improvements
+  - Consolidation of the code
+  - New feature arcs
+    - device-input
+    - interface-output
+
+- DPDK Cryptodev Support
+  - Software and Hardware Crypto Support
+
+- DPDK HQoS support
+
+- Simple Port Analyzer (SPAN)
+
+- Bidirectional Forwarding Detection
+  - Basic implementation
+
+- IPFIX Improvements
+
+- L2 GRE over IPSec tunnels
+
+- Link Layer Discovery Protocol (LLDP)
+
+- Vhost-user Improvements
+  - Performance Improvements
+  - Multiqueue
+  - Reconnect
+
+- LISP Enhancements
+  - Source/Dest control plane support
+  - L2 over LISP and GRE
+  - Map-Register/Map-Notify/RLOC-probing support
+  - L2 API improvements, overall code hardening
+
+- Plugins:
+  - New: ACL
+  - New: Flow per Packet
+  - Improved: SNAT
+    - Mutlithreading
+    - Flow export
+
+- Doxygen Enhancements
+
+- Luajit API bindings
+
+- API Refactoring
+  - file split
+  - message signatures
+
+- Python and Scapy based unit testing infrastructure
+  - Infrastructure
+  - Various tests
+
+- Packet Generator improvements
+
+- TUN/TAP jumbo frames support
+
+- Other various bug fixes and improvements
+
 ## 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/1701)
 
 @page release_notes_1609 Release notes for VPP 16.09