Release Progress Tracking 202106

202106 Features Tracking

Feature	HLD Review Date	Owner	Code Review Owner	Code Review Date	Code PR Status
Telemetry for Multi-ASIC		MSFT
IPv6 Link Local/ BGP Unnumbered		BRCM			Deferred from 202012 release
Radius AAA		BRCM			Deferred from 202012 release
ACL enhancements		BRCM
QoS enhancements		BRCM
DHCP relay enhancements		BRCM			Ben to share details on the feature
IP Helper		BRCM
BUM storm control		BRCM
IGMP Snooping		BRCM
PVST/RPVST+		BRCM
Port Channel enhancements		BRCM
MC-LAG enhancements		BRCM
UDLD		BRCM
DHCP relay IPv6 support		Nvidia			Currently DHCP relay supports only IPv4. The idea is to extend the support to IPv6 and it should work for both as the same time. Also, currently DHCP relay is enabled only based on the Type in the METADATA and it must be ‘ToRRouter’. We will remove this restriction and will integrate it with copp manager so user can decide if to have DHCP relay or not regardless of the device type
App extension with Orchagent/SWSS		Nvidia			2nd phase of the application extension: dynamically adds logic to swss/orchagent so additional use applications can be developers developed based on SONiC application extension infrastructure. For example: dynamic policy based hashing
App extension CLI generation tool		Nvidia			2nd phase of the application extension: a CLI generation tool for application extension programs. An improvements following the current infra available
App extension with warmboot awareness		Nvidia			2nd phase of the application extension: warmboot awareness and integration of an application extension that requires warmboot support
Enable/Disable auto negotiation and speed setting with number of lanes		Nvidia			Add new CLIs to enable/disable auto negotiation per interface as well as setting the number of lanes per requested speed.
(Test) Upgrade to Python3 compliance for SONiC mgmt repo Ansible 2.10 upgrade Testbed v2		MSFT
Dynamic Policy Based Hashing		Nvidia
Add FRR running configuration to techsupport		Nvidia			Improve the FRR information in the tech support following the below github issue 5067
TPID config support		MSFT			Deferred from 202012 release SAI 1.6.x supports this; Vendor support required
Kubernetes enhancements		MSFT
(Test) Deprecating Python2 platform daemons		MSFT
MACSEC enhancement: primary & fallback case		MSFT
Error handling (swss)		MSFT
100% SONiC YANG model		MSFT			New Working group: To be discussed in sonic-yang-subgroup@googlegroups.com, please join subgroup to learn more.
Testcase/Testbed Infrastructure		MSFT
New branch creation for Debian11		MSFT
SONiC fanout support		MSFT
Inband mgmt VRF		DELL			HLD pending for review (#638)
Sample Rate on mirror		Innovium			Ability to sample on a mirror. i.e, instead of mirroring all the packets, just send 1 out of n packets. This involves adding SONiC support for Mirror session attribute SAI_MIRROR_SESSION_ATTR_SAMPLE_RATE.
Sflow with remote collector		Innovium			Currently, SONiC supports sending sFlow samples to local CPU. Add support to send the samples to a remote collector using a mirror session of type (SAI_SAMPLEPACKET_TYPE_MIRROR_SESSION).
V4/V6 L3 ACL optimization		Innovium			Currently SONiC uses separate ACL tables for L3 and L3v6 RACLs. In some ASICs, if a user wants both v4 and v6 rules, they would end up using two hardware ACL tables instead of one. The proposal is to give the platform the ability to mention if they want to support L3 and L3V6 ACLs in the same hardware ACL Table. This approach has been taken in the community for Mirror ACL tables but not for L3 ACLs. We are extending this to L3 ACLs as well.
SONiC for MPLS Dataplane		Juniper			New Working group: To be discussed in sonic-mpls-workgroup@googlegroups.com. Please join the subgroup to learn more and contributions.
6to4 NAT		Intel			Will be in 202112 (Remove from list)
MPLS SRv6		Intel			SONiC/SAI support for linux static route+SRV6 encapsulation;To be discussed in sonic-mpls-workgroup
Better route scalability with multiple next-hops		Metaswitch			Split next hop groups out of routing table (back-compatibly). To be discussed in sonic-mpls-workgroup
Enabling IS-IS in the dataplane		Metaswitch			Getting IS-IS PDUs to the control plane. To be discussed in sonic-mpls-workgroup
Class-based forwarding		Metaswitch			Policy-based tunnel selection. To be discussed in sonic-mpls-workgroup