Features for Release VPP 18.01

This section lists those features that became available in VPP Release 18.01:

Features

Infrastructure

  • DPDK 17.11
  • TCP Checksum Offload
  • Arm64/Arm-v8 support
  • SUSE packaging
  • bihash_vec8_8 variant
  • PCI rework to support VFIO
  • chi-squared test calculator

SNAT / NAT

  • One armed NAT
  • Twice NAT44
  • NAT hairpinning rework
  • NAT64 multi-thread
  • NAT64 IPFIX
  • NAT64 Fragmentation
  • NAT: DS-Lite
  • Remove old SNAT API
  • ACL-based NAT

VNET

  • DNS name resolver
  • BIER
  • GENEVE Tunnel
  • IPSec Openssl 1.1.0 api support
  • FIB improvements
  • tap v2

API

  • VPP stats (Broadcast & Multicast support)
  • SR MPLS
  • VPP Object Model (VOM)

Host stack

  • VPP TCP Stack scale / congestion improvements
  • Refactor UDP
  • Namespace support
  • Session rules table
  • VPP Comms Library (VCL) improvements

ACL

  • ACL stats

Plugins

  • Kube-proxy
  • L2 Emulation
  • Memif

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: