SONiC Newsletter December 2021

[KVS, Kannan]

	SONiC Newsletter - December 2021
RECENT EVENTS	SONiC COMMUNITY NEWS
OCP Global Summit - Nov 9,10 - 2021 About the Event    Full Event Schedule SONiC 2021 Update and Beyond-Video Large Scale Deployments Made Easy -Video Deploying SONiC in the Enterprise - Video	It has been a wonderful year 2021 for the SONiC community with more and more features and contributions ! Appreciate all the community members for the excellent achievement for making two releases in the year amidst the abnormal routines. 50+ new features have been added with increase in number of Pull Requests from 650+ active contributors in the year 2021. 10+ new platforms have been added to the SONiC portfolio & 13 new partners have joined hands with the SONiC community. Number of test cases have doubled in sonic-mgmt repo with increased stability and predictability in test out-comes. Community members have also participated in various webinars and demonstrated the SONiC capabilities to the world. 3 new workgroups have been created for focused feature specific community discussions and contributions ! Wishing all our community members a wonderful New year 2022 & looking forward for another successful year ahead ! More Community News: SONiC opens more opportunities for network innovation Broadcom Strengthens its Commitment to Open Compute Project Showcasing Leading-Edge and Wide Range of Initiatives at this Year Global Summit SONiC + Asterfusion An Article let you know about Our enterprise SONiC distribution AsterNOS Open networking agility and control for a new era of connectivity More Videos from OCP Summit: Migration to SONiC from 3-tiered legacy network An Auto generated test framework for improving SAI interoperability FBOSS Experience of Migrating Massive Scale Networking Systems to SAI SAI Challenger The SONiC-Based Framework for SAI Testing and Integration SAI pipeline enhancements with Pre-Ingress ACL and MyMAC Station Stages SAI For DPU
	SONiC RELEASE UPDATES
	SONiC 202111 Release: Thanks to all the contributors in making one more successful release 202111. A branch has been created with the completed features given below. ACL orch redesign, App extension CLI generation tool, Automatic tech support & core dump creation, Better route scalability with multiple next-hops, Class-Based Forwarding, CLI level authorization, DHCP support IPv6, Dynamic Policy Based Hashing, Dynamic port breakout, EXP to TC QoS maps, EVPN VXLAN for platforms using P2MP tunnel, Handle port config change on fly, Host interface trap counter, L2 functional & performance enhancements, Debian11, Debug dump utility, Overlay ECMP, PDK - Platform Development Environment, PINS (P4 Integrated Network Stack), Reclaim reserved buffer for unused ports, Routed sub-interface naming convention, SONiC for MPLS Dataplane, SRv6 support (Cntd), Support for passing IS-IS, LDP & MicroBFD packets to CPU, Upgrade SONiC init flow & VXLAN src port configuration. The list of features and the related pull requests are tracked in the Release Tracking page. SONiC 202205 Release: Roadmap page contains the list of features that are planned for the 202205 release. Welcoming more and more contributors for design meetings and for reviewing the design and code for yet another successful release !
NEW PLATFORMS	SONiC DESIGN DISCUSSIONS
Alpha networks SNJ60D0-320F Mellanox SN2201 Accton AS4630-54NPE Cisco - 8000 Dell S5212F Dell S5224F Dell N3248PXE Dell N3248TE
	13 July	SONiC 202111 Roadmap Discussion
	20 July	DHCPv6 Relay agent
	27 July	SONiC 202111 feature Discussion
	03 Aug	Class Based Forwarding HLD
	10 Aug	SONiC_SFP_refactoring HLD
	17 Aug	PINS HLD
	24 Aug	SAG - Static Anycast Gateway
	31 Aug	Show Running Command Enhancement
	07 Sep	Handle port config change on fly in xcvrd & Reclaim reserved buffer for unused ports
	14 Sep	ECMP Overlay BFD support
	21 Sep	SONiC TACACS per command authorization and accounting & MPLS EXP to TC maps
	28 Sep	Host Interface counters & Guidelines for reference proprietary code
	05 Oct	CMIS Diagnostics & System Ready Enhancements
	12 Oct	NVGRE & Dynamic Policy Based Hashing
	19 Oct	202111 Release Tracking
	26 Oct	202111 Release Tracking
	02 Nov	The SONiC-Based Framework for SAI Testing and Integration
	16 Nov	202111 Release Tracking1
	29 Nov	202111 Release Tracking2