Release Progress Tracking 202211

202211 Features Tracking

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Feature	HLD Review Date	Test Plan Ready for Review ETA	Owner	Code Review Owner	Code Review Date	Test PR Ready for Review ETA	Design/ Code Master PR	SAI Change	Priority/Conf (High/Low)	Description
Add syslog message rate limit configuration per container HLD	Done		Nvidia	Google			1049; 22; 2454; 12488; 12490; 12489 & 6627	No
Auto Neg Enhancement HLD			BRCM	Nvidia, Dell			924 - Merged, 1038; 2359; 2124; 614	NO		Autonegotiation is a signaling mechanism and procedure used by Ethernet over twisted pair or optical media by which two connected devices choose common transmission parameters, such as speed, duplex mode, and flow control. In the case of SONiC, this feature supports two different types of AutoNeg 1. QSFP(DD) CR/KR modules: This feature provides autonegotiation support for speed, FEC and TX_FIR, the LinkTraining will always be activated when autonegotiation is enabled, and users could enable standalone-link-training to activate the clause 72/93 when autonegotiation is disabled. 2. Native RJ45 ports of non-Gearbox design: This feature provides autonegotiation support for speed and duplex to the native RJ45 coppers if they're manageable by the SAI without external PHY drivers on the Gearbox. As of now, this is only applicable to the Broadcom HX5 platforms in the SONiC. (e.g. Accton AS4630, Dell N3248TE)
BRCM KNET sflow psample API compliance upgrade	NA	NA	BRCM	MSFT	NA	NA	11709; 10	No		Update BRCM KNET sflow psample to use new psample definitions. Cleanup psample module from platform/broadcom
Bulk counters HLD	Done	Done	Nvidia	MSFT, Intel	Done	7/15/22	1009	Implementation of the SAI API: Get_Bulk_Stats 1352		Native support for 400G (8x50G PAM-4)
Bullseye Docker Migration - FRR, PDE, BRCM Platform, ICCPD	NA		BRCM	MSFT	NA		10864; 10836; 30; 11777; 12097	No		Bullseye docker upgrade for FRR, PDE, BRCM platform
Build Time Improvement HLD			BRCM	MSFT			942 - Merged, 10352; 12000; 12001; 12005			Combining build time improvement with build reproduceabilty and determinism, collectively as build time improvement HLD (local caching of debian pkg, python pkg, go pkg, docker image, git clone to avoid external download). Combine 20-25% time saving for full compilation
General config CLI validation by YANG model HLD		9/16/2022	MSFT				1072
gNMI interface for config HLD	3/15/2022		MSFT	Google, BRCM, Dell			996, 7, 58, 59, 60, 1, 10948 & 12750	No
Incremental port configuration update HLD	Done	NA	Nvidia	MSFT	Done	NA	985	No		a) Remove the logic to handle PORT configuration in portsyncd b) Implement incremental configuration update in portmgrd
Link Training HLD	7/19/2022		BRCM	Nvidia, Dell			925 - Merged; 1434; 1038; 2359; 10025; 2071 & 614	No		Link Training is a process by which the transmitter and receiver on a high-speed serial link communicate with each other in order to tune their equalization settings. In theory, link training enables automatic tuning of the finite impulse response (FIR) filter for each channel in ASIC to achieve the desired bit error rate (BER). In the SONiC system, the ODM vendors rarely provide pre-calibrated pre-emphasis for QSFP(DD) CR/KR modules, which could result in the link reliability issues. With this feature, both IEEE clause 72 and 93 will be activated to dynamically tune the transmitted signal to improve the link quality over the copper cables. This feature could be activated with or without AutoNeg.
Make syslog log level configuration persistent HLD	Done	NA	Nvidia	MSFT	Done	NA	1041	No
NPU MDIO Access Support and gbsyncd Enhancement HLD			BRCM	MSFT			1045; 11303; 1507; 1080	Yes		Improve gbsyncd to support various PAI lib and different external PHY mdio access methods
OSFP Transceiver monitoring	NA	NA	Nvidia	MSFT	NA	NA	10317	No		Native support for 400G (8x50G PAM-4)
PDDF QSFPs Low Power Mode Support	NA	NA	BRCM	MSFT	NA	NA	11786	No		Add low power mode get/set support for QSFP28 and QSFP+
PINS Generic SAI Extensions HLD			Intel	MSFT/ Google			1088; 704; 17 & 2506	Yes		SAI Extensions will provide infrastructure in SONiC to dynamically add new match action table in the underlying SAI pipeline
PINS Runtime Configuration HLD			Google				826 , 10499	No		Enable P4Runtime container in the build and add appropriate schema in Config DB to enable/disable PINS
RJ-45	NA	NA	Nvidia	MSFT, Dell	NA	NA	1030 ; 10299; 2112; 2111; 2110 & 247	No		Native support for RJ-45. Support will be reflected in multiple repos: sonic-buildimage, sonic-utilities, sonic-snmpagent
Setting RIF loopback action to drop HLD	Done	Done	Nvidia	MSFT, Intel	Done	5/31/22	1006			Add configuration field to RIF schema (Port, Vlan, and PortChannel) to set a packet loopback action.
Security California Law HLD			Nvidia				1077; 12678 & 6863			On first boot of the system – prompt the user to change the initial password in the switch; or Each device will ship with its own unique password
Security Secure boot HLD			Nvidia	Aviz/ MSFT			1028; 12692; 298 & 2532			Verify SW component from HW root of trust up to OS kernel modules - We will add ability to sign and verify – Shim, Grub, Kernel and Kernel modules Each SONiC adoption will require to sign with its own key- Will be added as a build option
S3IP sysfs HLD	Aug-22		Tencent	BRCM	Sep-22		1068	No		S3IP sysfs introduces a design guide of white-box switch platform software.
SONiC ECMP calculator HLD			Nvidia				1163, 12482, 12840, 2538, 13051, 13493 & 13814
SONIC YANG - VxLAN, SNMP HLD	NA		BRCM	MSFT	NA		7294; 10828	No		Added SONIC-YANG table definition and testcases for SNMP and VxLAN
SRv6 uSID support in SONiC dataplane - uN, uA HLD			Intel	Cisco / Alibaba			1034	No
Structured message by streaming telemetry HLD	6/7/2022		MSFT				954
Systemd bootchart integration HLD	Done	NA	Nvidia	MSFT	Done	NA	1001			systemd bootchart tool is a sampling based system profiler that is used to analyze boot up performance but not limited to and can be used to collect samples after the system is booted.
Syslog Source IP configuration HLD	Done	Done	Nvidia	MSFT	Done	Done	1002	No		Introduce capability to set the Source IP address. An extension to the available set Destination IP

Deferred Features

Feature	HLD Review Date	Test Plan Ready for Review ETA	Owner	Code Review Owner	Code Review Date	Test PR Ready for Review ETA	Design/ Code Master PR	SAI Change	Priority/Conf (High/Low)	Description
BGP config incremental update	9/15/2022		MSFT
BGP Unnumbered config_db knobs	9/13/2022		Nvidia	Intel/ BRCM						Modification to j2 templates to enable BGP Unnumbered configurations from config_db.json
Default value from SONiC YANG for configuration			MSFT
DHCPv4 refactoring			MSFT
Dynamic Load Balancing (DLB)	Aug-22		Tencent	Intel, Nvidia	Sep-22			Yes		The Dynamic Load Balancing (DLB) provides better performance than hash-based balancing.
ConfigDB 100% YANG model			MSFT	Dell						Tables in ConfigDB have YANG model defined
ECMP and LAG hashing and IP fields			Nvidia					No		Extend ECMP and LAG hashing IP fields configuration
Extended TeamD expire timer			MSFT	BRCM			1073
Firmware upgrade infra			MSFT
IPSec on vSwitch			MSFT
MMU incremental config update			MSFT	Nvidia
Neighbor Enhancement - Nbrmgrd ARP refresh for router port			BRCM				1043	No		Current neighbor table entries in kernel may prematurely ageout while data forwarding happens in the Network Processor. nbrmgrd neighbor enhancement is to send periodic ARP request to reset MAC ageout and ARP aging in kernel to prevent premature state transition. Phase 1 adds capabilities to nbrmgrd, support ARP refresh for router ports
Platform Integration Test, aka. PIT HLD	5/31/2022		Alibaba	Dell			1014			Platform Integration Test, aka. PIT. PIT system concentrates on standardize and automate white-box switch hardware functionalities verification, along with their driver and firmware.
PINS GE Netlink HLD	6/14/2022		Intel	MSFT, Google			978	No		User space library for accessing GE Netlink sockets for interfaces
Port-security			BRCM							Port-security is an L2 protection feature that allows you to control the maximum number of MAC addresses the switch learns on an interface. This is an important feature for Internet Exchange Points (IXP), commonly only one MAC address is allowed per interface or per interfance&vlan. The default behavior in case of a violation is to shut down that port. Alternatively, in case of a violation, the port could enter into a Protected mode, in that case, the packets or frames from the additional MAC address(es) are dropped.
Port bulk support HLD			Nvidia				2564 & 1171			In order to reduce the boot time SONiC should align with a new bulk sai_bulk_object_create_fn
Python 3.0 upgrade for testbed			MSFT
Reproducible SONiC web server population script HLD			Nvidia	MSFT			976	No		The file Server population script is a complementary utility for “SONiC reproducible build” and suppose to ease the process of downloading the web packages from an external file storage and uploading them to trusted file storage.
Security Secure upgrade HLD			Nvidia	Aviz/ MSFT			1024; 11862 & 2337			Each SONiC adoption will require to sign with its own key. Add ability to verify image before install it on the switch. Will be added as a build option
Static LAG Support HLD			Celestica				1039
StateDB on YANG model			MSFT	Dell						Define YANG model for StateDB tables
Switch Port Modes and VLAN CLI Enhancement HLD			xFlow Research Inc				912			L2 DOT1Q (802.1Q) is an IEEE standard for tunnel encapsulation to support transport of different VLAN frames on the tunnel link.
Teamd warm-restart	Aug-22		Tencent		Sep-22		1095	No		Support ISSU for Teamd docker with LACP in fast/slow mode.
Testbed v2 scale out			MSFT