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: