Features List

CORE

• Improved failure detection for faster mastership election times

• Migration of all distributed primitives to Atomix

• Raft log compaction optimizations

• Offline backup/restore

ISSU Brigade

• ISSU architecture documentation

• ISSU protocol prototype

• Foundation for in-place rolling upgrades

• Offline backup/restore tooling

• Primitive state isolation

• Communication isolation

• Upgrade lifecycle management commands

• Upgrade failure detection

• Support for rolling back upgrades

• Application store upgrades

Dynamic Configuration Brigade

• Design/refactoring of the store to address deficiencies discovered from device sync work

• Device Synchronizer design - operational state to app missing, north to south in place

P4 Brigade

• Demo

• ONOS controlling a Tofino-based leaf-spine fabric via P4Runtime running Google’s tor.p4 Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BE_y-Sz0WnQ

• Support for P4 action profiles/groups (enables control of ECMP-like forwarding behaviours)

• Support for mastership arbitration

• P4Runtime driver support for ONOS multi-instance

• Added device driver for Barefoot Tofino

• PI framework refactoring

gRPC Brigade

• Added

• LinkService

• HostService

• MeterService

• ComponentConfigService

• RegionService

• ApplicationService

• Support gRPC service registration with static binding mechanism

GUI Brigade

• Application View filter

• Added Details Panel for Ports, Meters, and Groups views

LION Brigade

• Proof-of-concept translations for some core views: Spanish, French, Italian, Korean, Turkish, Simplified and Traditional Chinese. Plus Greek ongoing...

Network Virtualization Brigade

• Virtualization core - distributed virtual flow rule store added

• OFAgent handles PORT_MOD, FLOW_MOD, GROUP_MOD, METER_MOD messages

• Log filtering per OFAgent tenant capability is now available

• External Connectivity to allow communications between other networks (I.e., other virtual networks, Internet)

• STC tests for virtual networks added

Teaching Brigade

• ONOS Build tutorials

• ONOS Build videos being processed to provide easy to use session-based tutorials

Security and Performance Analysis Brigade

• First report has been published as ONF Informational Report
  https://www.opennetworking.org/software-defined-standards/informational/

• Working on the second report with tests update on latest release + NETCONF SBI tests

Packet Optical

• Additional device support by Equinix, Polatis, OpLink

• Support for PowerConfig API on Polatis device

• REST API to allow application outside ONOS to access PowerConfig API

• Ciena transponder supports more API/Behaviours & protocol options

New Use Cases

• Simple Fabric : Intents based leaf-spine fabric application for physical switches.

Jira Details

Release Notes - ONOS - Version 1.12.0

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