Release Progress Tracking 202106

202106 Features Tracking

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Feature	HLD Review Date	Owner	Code Review Owner	Code Review Date	Code PR Status	SAI Change	Priority/Conf (High/Low)	Description
Telemetry for Multi-ASIC HLD PR - Merged		MSFT	Intel		77 - Merged	TBD	P0	Single telemetry sever to aggregate data from multiple Redis DB
Add FRR running configuration to tech support HLD PR - Merged	N/A(email update)	Nvidia	BRCM	ETA: 5/30/21	5067 - Closed , 1193	No	Done	Improve the FRR information in the tech support following the github issue 5067
App extension with warmboot awareness HLD PR - Merged	Included in #682	Nvidia	BRCM/ MSFT	4/30/21	6398 - Open		P0 - Community	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 HLD PR - Merged	1/19/2021	Nvidia	BRCM/ Dell/ Intel [Need platform vendor reviewers]	March/ 4/30/21	732; 6948, 1568 1714, 3376 - All Merged	SAI API is already part of 1.7	High	Add new CLIs to enable/disable auto negotiation per interface as well as setting the number of lanes per requested speed. Design doc and Yang model:Port auto negotiation HLD; Enhance the port yang model with new port fields: adv_speeds, interface_type and adv_interface_types CLI and SWSS change: CLI support for port auto negotiation Add port auto negotiation support to swss Regression test case: Add test cases for port auto negotiation feature
TPID config support SONiC TPID Configuration Support by gechiang · Pull Request #681	Oct-20	MSFT	Nvidia- tbd/ BRCM	5/21/2021	681, 7630, 1747, 1618 - All Merged	SAI proposal was adopted by SAI community: TPID SAI proposal by gechiang 1089-Merged BRCM has support for this (at port level but not a LAG level) in 4.1 SAI	Done	Allow us to covert our PTF fanout switches to run SONiC OS 2/24: Requires SAI changes Nvidia
Error handling (swss) HLD PR - Merged	3/19/2021	MSFT	Nvidia/ BRCM	5/15/2021	1596, 1815, 1768, 1786, 1665 - All Merged	No		Handle SAI failures in orchagent. [Ques: feature was discussed before, will we have new HLD or existing HLD?]
Testcase/Testbed Infrastructure	TBD	MSFT	Confirm with Test subgroup			No		New test cases and infrastructure improvement [Define scope ]
Inband mgmt VRF HLD PR - Merged	2/24/2021	DELL	MSFT		1726 - Merged		High	HLD pending for review (#638)
SONiC for MPLS Dataplane	3/2/2021	Juniper	Intel/ Metaswitch- tbd/ Confirm with MPLS WG	Need Info	1537 , 469 , 824 , 7195 & 1686 - All Merged	Yes, SAI discussion on going	High	SONiC support for MPLS dataplane.
IPv6 Link Local and BGP Unnumbered HLD PR - Merged	6/2/2020	BRCM	MSFT/ DELL	4/10/21	5584,1463&1159 - All Merged	No	High	Correct operation of manually and automatically generated IPv6 link-local addresses on routing interfaces, including routing operation across them. Includes support for RFC 5549, allowing IPv4 routes to be advertized through an IPv6 next hop.
MC-LAG (L2) HLD PR - Merged	5/5/2020	BRCM	Intel/ MSFT/ Innovium/ DELL	4/10/2021	Code PRs in review. MCLAG HLD 596, 1349, 1349, 405 & 59 , 4819 , 1331 , 1138 - All Merged, Mgmt-common 25 – Closed	No	High	Full L2 support. Also support for L3 protocols (e.g. BGP, BFD) across an MC-LAG. Dependency upon "L2 functional and performance enhancements" item. 202012 carry-over item
DHCP relay IPv6 support HLD PR - Merged *** Deferred from 202106 ***	March 30	Nvidia	BRCM	10 May	7772 , 6531 , 7789&3565 - Merged	No		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
RADIUS AAA HLD PR - Merged	10/29/2019	BRCM	Dell	4/10/21	4220 - Closed 1521 & 7284- Merged	No	Pri: High	Support Authentication services for SONiC, similar to those offered by TACACS+ today. Can also get the privilege level of an authenticated management user from the RADIUS server response. Can operate in the Mgmt VRF
PDK - Platform Development Environment HLD PR - Merged	7/9/2019	BRCM	MSFT	4/10/21	7510 , 28 - Merged 3778 & 107 - Closed	No	High	Optimizes platform driver and plugin development along with static platform configuration data testing. 202012 carry-over item; Code PRs are done and well-advanced, but remaining comment needs to be resolved
Broadcom silicon common config HLD PR - Merged	TBD	BRCM	DELL - tbd	4/10/21	693 & 7493 - Merged 5818 - Closed	No	High	Per-switching silicon Common config for Broadcom Supported Platforms - this is totally Broadcom specific
PCIe Monitoring HLD PR-Merged HLD PR-Merged	11/17/2020	MSFT/ Dell			5000, 60, 1169, 100, 144- All Merged		Conf: High	Deferred from 202012
Enhanced xcrvd SFP error flow HLD HLD PR - Merged		Nvidia			3648, 184, 194, 7605 & 1658 - All Merged
Entity sensor MIB extension HLD PR- Merged	Done	Nvidia	MSFT	Done	211 & 3357 - Merged	No		Extend the Entity sensor MIB to include more sensors. Currently, Entity sensor MIB only include the SFP DOM sensors, in this extension, will add below sensors: The PSU voltage, current, power, temp Chassis fan speed, PSU fan speed Thermal sensors available on the switch (ASIC, CPU, Ambt, etc.)

PR's in Open State

Feature	HLD Review Date	Owner	Code Review Owner	Code Review Date	Code PR Status	SAI Change	Priority/Conf (High/Low)	Description
App extension CLI generation tool	4/16/21	Nvidia	BRCM/ MSFT	ETA: 5/30/21	1644 & 1650 - Open	No	P0 - Community	2nd phase of the application extension: a CLI generation tool for application extension programs. An improvements following the current infra available
Better route scalability with multiple next-hops	1/26/2021	Metaswitch	BRCM	Need Info	475 - Open, 1702	No		Split next hop groups out of routing table (back-compatibly).
Dynamic port breakout		LinkedIn	Nvidia MSFT	2020	6660, 1492, 1310 & 1020 - Open		P0	Subgroup in progress.
Dynamic policy based hashing	04/13/2021	Nvidia/MSFT	MSFT/Aviz	5/15/21	7461&773 - Open	Yes	P0	Hash packets on custom fields. PR Add YANG model&Policy Based Hashing HLD
Debug dump utility		Nvidia		6/11/21	1666, 1667, 1668, 1669, 1670 - Open			A new infra for debug dump to allow correlation of entities in various DBs. On top of the infra we will provide at least for port and copp. HLD will be provided before the community meeting.
SRv6 support	04/12/2021 (Com: 5/11/2021)	Intel/ Alibaba	Juniper- tbd/ Cisco- tbd	5/25/2021		Yes 4/15 for SAI review	High	SONiC/SAI support for linux static route+SRV6 encapsulation. To be discussed in sonic-mpls-workgroup. Intel will contribute dataplane support; Alibaba will contribute control plane support