Features for Release VPP 18.04

This section lists those features that became available in VPP Release 18.04. There is a summary graphic that identifies what areas the features are associated with, followed by a list of all the features for this release:

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Infrastructure

  • DPDK 18.02.1
  • ARM aarch64 integrated into CI

VNET & Plugins

  • ERSPAN
  • L3DSR load balancing support
  • VPC bonding / LACP
  • IPv4/IPv6 packet reassembly
  • IPv6 link-local support
  • Asymmetrical static NAT
  • 464XLAT for NAT44
  • MAP-T CE support
  • Intel Adaptive Virtual Function native device driver plugin
  • Marvell device plugin
  • SRv6 static, dynamic and masquerading proxy plugins
  • MPLS Uniform mode
  • IGMP plugin
  • IPIP tunnel support (IPv4/IPv6 over IPv4/IPv6)
  • IPv6 Router Discovery mechanism

VLIB

  • ARM-optimized library variations for key functions
  • Better handling of physmem on non-NUMA kernels

Host stack

  • TLS support via OpenSSL or mbedtls software engines
  • Session layer can utilize both shm and memfd (secure) FIFO segments
  • STCP
  • VCL logging / tracing

API framework

  • New API definition compiler (vppapigen)
  • Memory (shm) and socket APIs refactored
  • API handlers refactored to make them transport (shared memory or socket) agnostic
  • Improved support for bootstrapping of the shm API with memfd segments over the socket API

Packaging

  • SELinux for RPM builds
  • Debuginfo RPMs
  • ARM aarch64 for Ubuntu

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: