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Change-Id: Icf0e01d1dec69d48664ed633205248359b653f4d Signed-off-by: jdenisco <jdenisco@cisco.com>
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68 lines
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## Features for Release VPP 19.01
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### Infrastructure
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- NUMA-aware, growable physical memory allocator (pmalloc)
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- FIB: sticky load-balance
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- C11 safe string handling: provide and use "safe" C string handling functions
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- vlib: allocate buffers on local numa, not on numa 1
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- vppinfra: autodetect default hugepage size
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- Move RPC traffic off the shared-memory API queue
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- IPv6: Make link-local configurable per-interface
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- IGMP: improve CLI debug output
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- IPSec: split ipsec nodes into ip4/ip6 nodes
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- IPSec: infra for selecting backends
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- vhost-user: cleanup and performance optimizations
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- ethernet-input, memif improvements and optimizations
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- DPDK: bump to DPDK 18.11
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- reassembly: harden reassembly code
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- stats: Deprecate old (event-based) stats framework
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- vlib: support Hyper-V/Azure VMBus
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- binary api clients: wait for vpp to start
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- graph dispatch trace: capture packet data and buffer metadata, output in pcap format
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- improve feature arc order constraint specification
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### VNET & Plugins
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- pktgen: correctly replay a mix of single and multi-buffer packets
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- add wireshark dissector to extras
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- avf: optimizations
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- acl-plugin: use L2 feature arc instead of L2 classifier
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- acl-plugin: performance enhancement
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- dpdk: allow interface name to be specified from startup.conf
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- dpdk: blacklist PCI devices by type
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- dpdk: switch to in-memory mode, deprecate use of socket-mem
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- vnet: store hw interface speed in kbps instead of using flags
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- vmxnet3: enable promiscuous mode & cli enhancements
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- gbp: Add support for flow hash profile & l3-out subnets
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- map: Add API support for setting parameters.
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- map: Convert from DPO to input feature
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- nat: improve expired sessions reuse in NAT44
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- nat: syslog - sessions logging
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- nsim: add packet loss simulation, docs
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- perfmon: x86_64 perf counter plugin
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- vnet: L2 feature arc infrastructure
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### Host stack
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- TCP congestion control improvements
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- TCP Cubic congestion control algorithm
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- TCP fast path optimizations
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- Transport tx connection pacer. TCP uses it by default
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- Basic support for session flushing and TCP PSH segments
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- TCP/session api support for configuring custom local src ip/port
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- VCL/LDP basic support for multi-process applications
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- Overall code hardening, cleanup and bugfixing for tcp, session, vcl and ldp
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### PAPI & Test framework
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- add specific API types for IP addresses, MAC address, interface index etc.
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- add timeout support for socket transport
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- add support for format/unformat functions
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- generic API types format/unformat support for VAT and custom dump
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- python3 test adjustments
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- make test: create virtualenv under /test/
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- make test: print TEST= values for failed tests
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- add human-friendly annotations to log messages
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### VOM
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- Add support for redirect contracts in gbp
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- deprecate TAP add ip-punt redirect dump
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- vxlan-gbp support
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