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		MSFT	Intel		77 - Open	TBD	P0	Single telemetry sever to aggregate data from multiple Redis DB
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
DHCP relay IPv6 support	03/30/2021	Nvidia	BRCM	5/10/21	7772, 6531, 7789, 3565 - Open	No	P1	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 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
App extension with warmboot awareness	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
Add FRR running configuration to tech support	N/A(email update)	Nvidia	BRCM	ETA: 5/30/21	5067 -Open	No	Done	Improve the FRR information in the tech support following the github issue 5067
Enable/Disable auto negotiation and speed setting with number of lanes	1/19/2021	Nvidia	BRCM/ Dell/ Intel [Need platform vendor reviewers]	March/ 4/30/21	732; 6948, 1568 1714, 3376 - 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		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)	3/19/2021	MSFT	Nvidia/ BRCM	5/15/2021		No		Handle SAI failures in orchagent. [Ques: feature was discussed before, will we have new HLD or existing HLD?]
SONiC YANG model	On going	MSFT	MSFT/ YANG WG	Need new ETA		No		Build a full and complete YANG model for SONiC configDB New Working group: To be discussed in sonic-yang-subgroup@googlegroups.com, please join subgroup to learn more.
Testcase/Testbed Infrastructure	TBD	MSFT	Confirm with Test subgroup			No		New test cases and infrastructure improvement [Define scope ]
SONiC fanout support	TBD	MSFT		TBD		No		Change fanout switch o.s to SONiC.
Inband mgmt VRF	2/24/2021	DELL	MSFT		1726 - Open		High	HLD pending for review (#638)
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
SONiC for MPLS Dataplane	3/2/2021	Juniper	Intel/ Metaswitch- tbd/ Confirm with MPLS WG	Need Info	1686, 469 - Open, 824 - Open, 1537 - Open, 7195	Yes, SAI discussion on going	High	SONiC support for MPLS dataplane.
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).
IPv6 Link Local and BGP Unnumbered	6/2/2020	BRCM	MSFT/ DELL	4/10/21	5584,1463&1159 - Open	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)	5/5/2020	BRCM	Intel/ MSFT/ Innovium/ DELL	4/10/2021	Code PRs in review. MCLAG HLD 596 - Open, Iccpd 4819 - Review done, comments addressed, 1349 needs to go in first, Swss 1331 - Change Requested, Sonic-utilities (click CLI) 1138 - Open, Mclag-syncd 1349 - NotYetApproved & NeedsConflictResolutions, Swss-common 405 - Merged, Mgmt-framework 59 – Merge Pending, Mgmt-common 25 – FinalReviewAnd ApprovalPending.	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
Storm Control (BUM)	4/6/2021	BRCM	MSFT/ Innovium	4/10/21	1306 & 928 - Open 346 - Merged	No	Pri: Low	Independently rate limit ingress Broadcast, Multicast and Unknown Unicast traffic on a bits-per-second basis. IS-CLI configuration
RADIUS AAA	10/29/2019	BRCM	Dell	4/10/21	4220 - Closed 1521 - 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
STP/PVST	6/4/2019	BRCM	TBD	4/10/21	885, 529 - Open	No	Conf: High Pri: Low	Spanning tree; Pre-requisite for RPVST+,
L2 functional and performance enhancements	5/21/2019	BRCM	MSFT- tbd DELL - tbd (related to MC-LAG)	4/10/21	885, 529 - Open 114 - Merged	No	High	FDB flush, MAC move, FDB aging time configuration, Static FDB configuration and VLAN Range configuration
PDK - Platform Development Environment	7/9/2019	BRCM	MSFT	4/10/21	3778 & 7510 -Open 28 - Merged 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	TBD	BRCM	DELL - tbd	4/10/21	693-Open 5818 - Closed 7493 - Merged	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-Merged 60-Merged 1169- In Review 100- In Review 144- In Review		Conf: High	Deferred from 202012
Event-mgmt infra	Need ETA	DELL	Need Info	Need Info	7813, 48, 85, 490 - Open			A centralized framework for applications in SONiC network operating system to raise “events” and store them for NBIs to consume.
Klish CLI for show-tech support	4/6/2021	DELL	Need Info	Need Info	86, 49, 7816 - Open		High	Klish CLI for show-tech support using the new mgmt.-infra framework
Debug dump utility		Nvidia		6/11/21				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.
Enhanced xcrvd SFP error flow HLD		Nvidia
Entity sensor MIB extension	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.)