VPP Release_Plans Release_Plan_18.01

Contents

• 1 Introduction
• 2 Release Deliverables
• 3 Release Milestones
• 4 Once we've pulled the 18.01 release throttle
  • 4.1 Features to be added in 18.01
• 5 Expected Dependencies on Other Projects

Introduction

This page tracks release information for 18.01.

Release Deliverables

Name	Description
Infra	DPDK 17.11 integration IP Reassembly TCP Checksum Offload
VNET	TBD
SNAT / NAT	One armed NAT NAT64: multi thread Twice NAT Fragmentation / Reassembly DS-Lite Removed old SNAT API Delete session API/CLI NAT64 to use IPv4 address from interface Performance improvement Port restricted NAT44 for MAP-E CE NAT44 identity mapping
API	VPP stats (Broadcast & Multicast support)
Host stack	VPP TCP stack - scale / congestion VPP Comms Library (VCL)
ACL	ACL stats
Kube-proxy Data Plane	Support ingress load balancing and DNAT Support egress SNAT Support three service types.

Release Milestones

Milestone	Date	Deliverables
F0	2017-12-20	APIs frozen. Only low-risk changes accepted on main branch.
RC1	2018-01-03 (F0+14)	Code complete, pull first release throttle branch, only bug fixes accepted on throttle train. After pull: main branch reopens for new feature / risky commits. First artifacts posted.
RC2	2018-01-10 (RC1+7)	Second artifacts posted.
Formal Release	2018-01-24 (RC2+14)	18.01 artifacts available

NOTE: Dates chosen based on:

• mid-month release
• milestone + days
• day after VPP community meeting, for discussion, go/no-go

Once we've pulled the 18.01 release throttle

We need to be disciplined with respect to bugfix commits. Here are a few common-sense suggestions:

• All bug fixes must be double-committed to the release throttle as well as to the master branch
  • Commit first to the release throttle, then "git cherry-pick" into master
  • Manual merges may be required, depending on the degree of divergence between throttle and master
• All bug fixes need to have a Jira ticket
  • Please put Jira IDs into the commit messages.
  • Please use the same Jira ID for commits into the stable branch and master.

Features to be added in 18.01

NEED JIRA/CONFLUENCE IMPORT HERE

Expected Dependencies on Other Projects