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SONiC Newsletters

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2021 March Newsletter

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2020 December Newsletter

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2020 September Newsletter

2020 June Newsletter

2019 December Newsletter

2019 October Newsletter

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+ SONiC Newsletter - December 2020 +
+ RECENT EVENTS + SONiC COMMUNITY NEWS +
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+ Nov 9,10, & 12,13 - 2020

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OCP China Day 2020 +

+ Nov-13-2020

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It has been a new normal year 2020 for us ! Appreciate all the community members for the excellent achievement for making two releases in the year amidst the pandemic.
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Contributions from the community has doubled in the year 2020, when compared to 2019. 50+ new features have been added in the year 2020 against 27 new features in 2019. Similarly number of Pull Request increased from 2480 to 4000+ PRs from 250+ active contributors in the current year. 10 new platforms have been added in the year to the SONiC portfolio. 13 new partners have joined hands with the SONiC community in this year.

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Successfully participated in the OCP Virtual Submit, NetDev Virtual Conference, SONiC Eco-system Conference, OCP Tech Week and OCP China Day. Have demonstrated the SONiC capabilities to the world through an Industry Demo. +

Created 5 new workgroups to have a focused feature specific community discussions and contributions, recent being Kubernetes & MPLS Workgroup!

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Wishing all our community members a wonderful New year 2021 & looking forward for another successful year ahead ! +

More Community News: +

OCP China Day 2020 Drives Open Source Innovation in the Region! +

Meet SONiC, the new NOS (definitely not the same as the old NOS) +

Heavy Networking 551: An Insider Guide To The SONiC Network OS +

Broadcom Breaks New Ground with Trident SmartToR, Converging Switching, Routing, and L4-L7 Services +

IP Infusion Extends its Disaggregated Networking Portfolio + +

+ SONiC RELEASE UPDATES

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SONiC 202012 Release:

Community is currently occupied with the features planned in the Roadmap which is being tracked in Release Tracking. A branch will be pulled in couple of days with the completed features. +

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Features Planned - Consistent ECMP support(fine grain ECMP), Container warm restart (BGP/TeamD/SWSS/SyncD), CoPP Config/Management, Console support for SONiC(Hardware), Console support for SONiC(ssh forwarding), Dynamic headroom calculation,Enable synchronous SAI APIs for error handling, EVPN/VXLAN, SONiC entity MIB extensions, FRR BGP NBI, Gearbox, Kubernetes (docker to be controlled by Kubernetes), MACSec support in chassis, Management Framework (Phase 2), MC-LAG (L2), Merge common lib for C++ and python (SWSS common lib), Move from Python2->python3, Multi-ASIC 202006, Multi-DB enhancement-Part 2, ONIE FW tools(Incl. CPLD, BIOS, SSD, Firmware upgrade[Uniform Tool]), PDDF advance to SONiC Platform 2.0, BMC, PDK - Platform Development Environment, RADIUS AAA, SONiC app extension(w/o orchagent), Support hardware reboot/reload reason (Streaming Telemetry), System health and system LED, PCIe Monitoring, Distributed forwarding in a VOQ architecture, Distributed VOQ architecture HLD, Platform Monitoring for Chassis systems, Routing/BGP for Chassis, Fabric Port support for SONiC, LAG Support for Chassis, Chassis infrastructure, T2 topologies and sample Testcases converted, Inband port support for Chassis, Everflow Support etc.,
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+NEW PLATFORMS + SONiC DESIGN DISCUSSIONS +
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  • DellEMC - s5296F
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  • Arista - 7050CX3
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+ + SONiC TPID Configuration Support +

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13 Oct 2020 +

+ + SONiC Reproducible Build design +

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20 Oct 2020 +

+ + Release 202012 Discussion +

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27 Oct 2020 +

+ + MACSEC Design +

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03 Nov 2020 +

+ + SONiC Application Extension +

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17 Nov 2020 +

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24 Nov 2020 +

+ + SONiC Application Extension +

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08 Dec 2020 +

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15 Dec 2020 +

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+ SONiC Newsletter - June 2021 +
+ RECENT EVENTS + SONiC COMMUNITY NEWS +
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Edgecore SONiC for Open Networking in the Cloud - webinar +

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It has been a good start for the year 2021 to all of us ! Appreciate all the community members for their ongoing contribution towards the current release.
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Community was able to come up with release notes for 202012 release and SAI version 1.7.1

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Created SONiC Yang Subgroup to have a focused specific community discussions and contributions.

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Wishing all our community members yet another successful release ahead ! +

More Community News: +

SONiC Disruptions in the Data Center Network +

Three Disruptive Networking Technologies Coming to Your Data Center +

Is Microsoft’s SONiC Winning The War Of The NOSes? +

Innovium Transforms Networking with Open-source Software, Data Center & AI Optimized Switches and Disruptive TCO + + +

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SONiC 202106 Release:

Community is currently occupied with the features planned in the Roadmap which is being tracked in Release Tracking. A branch will be pulled by end of June 2021 with the completed features. +

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Features Planned - Telemetry for Multi-ASIC, Dynamic policy based hashing, DHCP IPv6 relay, App extension with Orchagent/SWSS,CLI generation tool & warmboot awareness, FRR running configuration to tech support, Enable/Disable auto negotiation & speed setting with number of lanes, TPID config support, Kubernetes enhancements, Deprecating Python2 platform daemons, MACSec support in Chassis, MACSEC enhancement: primary & fallback case, Error handling (swss), 100% SONiC YANG model, Debian11 branch, (Test) Upgrade to Python3 compliance, (Test) Ansible 2.10 upgrade, (Test) Testbed v2, Testcase/Testbed Infrastructure, SONiC fanout support, Link Training, Inband mgmt VRF, Sample Rate on mirror, Sflow with remote collector, V4/V6 L3 ACL optimization, SRv6 support, SONiC for MPLS Dataplane, Route scalability with multiple next-hops, IS-IS in the dataplane, Class-based forwarding, IPv6 Link Local and BGP Unnumbered, MC-LAG (L2), RPVST+, Storm Control , RADIUS AAA, Kernel programming performance enhancement, Static Anycast Gateway, BFD (SW - 100ms interval from FRR), STP/PVST, L2 functional and performance enhancements, Thresholds (statistics), PDK - Platform Development Environment, UI Content (UMF client), Broadcom silicon common config, DPB Reconcile, Dynamic CoPP reconcile, Mgmt FW Phase 3, Routed sub-interface reconcile, MultiDB reconcile, CPU Queues, ACL enhancements: Policing, DHCP/PCP remark, L2 ARP Refresh, Gearbox part 2, libebpf support & usage, PCIe Monitoring etc.,
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  • Quanta - IX7-BWDE-32X
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  • Quanta - IX8A-BWDE-56X
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  • Accton - AS4630-54TE
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+ + 202012 release update & 202106 Plan +

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19 Jan 2021 +

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02 Feb 2021 +

+ + Next hop group split HLD +

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09 Feb 2021 +

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16 Feb 2021 +

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23 Feb 2021 +

+ + SONiC Yang Model and related libraries +

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02 Mar 2021 +

+ + Weighted ECMP HLD +

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09 Mar 2021 +

+ + MPLS HLD initial revision +

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16 Mar 2021 +

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30 Mar 2021 +

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+ SONiC Newsletter - September 2020 +
+ UPCOMING EVENTS + SONiC COMMUNITY NEWS +
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OCP Tech Week
A Virtual Event

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Nov 9,10, & 12,13 - 2020

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Interesting SONiC topic awaiting !

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SONiC community has adapted very well to the new normal and working towards the 202012 release. Thanks to all the community members for completing the 202006 release and multiple design discussions for 202012 release.

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A successful online SONiC eco-system conference was held on 19th Sep 2020, members from China Telecom, H3, Chia Unicom, Baidu, Juniper, China Mobile, Alibaba, Tencent, Asterfusion, Intel, Nvidia, Zhijing Lab, Centec, Nanjin HuaZhiDa talked on open source SONiC ecosystem. +

Following are some of the news from our partners: +

Broadcom Samples Industry's Highest-Performing Routing Chip at 14.4 Terabits per Second +

Edgecore Networks Offers Commercial Support and Service for SONiC + +

  

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+RECENT EVENTS + SONiC RELEASE UPDATES
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NetDev Virtual Conference

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17th Aug, 2020

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+ About the Event +

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+ SONiC and Linux Slides +

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SONiC Eco-system Conference

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Sep 19th 2020

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+ About the Event +

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SONiC 202012 Release:
Community is currently occupied with the features planned in the Roadmap which is being tracked in Release Tracking. A branch will be pulled by end of December 2020 with the completed features. +

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Features Planned - AAA improvement,ACL enhancements: Policing, DHCP/PCP remark,BFD SW 100ms interval from FRR,Consistent ECMP support,Console Support for SONiC (Hardware,SSH forwarding),Container warm restart,CoPP Config/Management, Uniform Firmware upgrade Tool,Distributed VoQ Forwarding,Dynamic headroom calculation,Synchornous SAI APIs,Extending Entphysicaltable MIB table,Extend FW debug info in sysdump,EVPN/VXLAN,Flow-based Services,FRR BGP NBI,Gearbox,IPv6 Link Local and BGP Unnumbered,Kubernetes,L2 Dot1Q tunneling support,L2 functional and performance enhancements,MACSec support in Chassis,Management Framework (Phase 2),MC-LAG (L2),Media Enhancements,Python2->python3,Multi-ASIC,Multi-DB enhancement-Part 2,ONIE FW tools,PDDF advance to SONiC Platform 2.0, BMC,PDK - Platform Development Environment,PDK - Platform Driver Development Framework,RADIUS AAA,SONiC app extension,Support hardware reboot/reload reason (Streaming Telemetry),System health and system LED,Telemetry support for Multi-ASIC,VoQ Chassis Support in SONiC,VXLAN diff tool,VXLAN ping tool. etc.,
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SONiC 202006 Release:
Special thanks to all community members who contributed to the Previous Release 202006. +

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+NEW PLATFORMS + SONiC DESIGN DISCUSSIONS +
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  • Alpha Networks - snj60b0-320f

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  • Cameo - ESC601-32Q

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  • Delta - ag9032v2

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  • Ruijie - x86_64-Ruijie_b6510
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    + + 202006 Release update & 202012 Release planning +

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    14 Jul 2020 +

    + + 202006 CLI configuration guide updates +

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    21 Jul 2020 +

    + + Multi-ASIC HLD +

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    28 Jul 2020 +

    + + Code Coverage Rate HLD +

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    04 Aug 2020 +

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    11 Aug 2020 +

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    25 Aug 2020 +

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    + + SONiC-Console-Switch-High-Level-Design +

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    + + VoQ HLD +

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    22 Sep 2020 +

    + + Kubernetes-Support for SONiC +

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