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RECENT EVENTS SONiC COMMUNITY NEWS

SONiC Together

SONiC - Reliability, Manageability and Extensibility

   

SONiC Ansible Test Automation

   

Enabling PIM card hot swapping in SONiC for Minipack

   


SONiC at Comcast Datacenters

   

SONiC is expanding outside Cloud - Comcast is deploying SONiC in their datacenter and building an AI based network monitoring on top of SONiC with Augtera Networks !!!    
Mellanox Announces Support Solutions for SONiC Open Source Network Operating System.  
SONiC test sub-group has been formed with the mission of building a sophisticated test suite.

SONiC RELEASE UPDATES

SONiC community is working hard on 201910 release, which will reach code complete in November.
The community has been focusing on multiple major changes in the recent months and happy to share the status.
1. HLD reviews for all the features planned for 201910 are completed.
2. Code Pull Request Progress - Approximately 50% merged, 20% under review and 30% in progress.
3. Code freeze is planned by end of November 2019.
4. Joint test is planned by multiple contributors in the month of November.

SAI community has released SAI 1.5 in September 2019 that includes the new features like NAT, TAM2.0, sflow, SAI counters and debug counters. This SAI 1.5 is included in this SONiC 201910 release.   
SAI community is happy to announce that community is working on gearbox and MACsec API standardization.
Next release : Planning started to build the backlog.

UPCOMING EVENTS SONiC DESIGN DISCUSSIONS

4-5 March, 2020

San Jose Convention Center


30 Sep - 1 Oct, 2020

Prague, Czech Republic



03 SEP

   Changes in BGP error handling   

03 SEP

  Error handling framework    

10 SEP

       Configurable Drop Counters in SONiC  

17 SEP

  High Level Design for fwutil  

24 SEP

  Dynamic port breakout    

15 OCT

  Tech support data export & core file manager 

22 OCT

  VRRP HLD      

29 OCT

  RADIUS Management User Authentication HLD 

NEW PLATFORMS

Accton

AS5812-54T

Arista

7280CR3-C40

Celestica

DX010-C32, DX010-D48C8, midstone-200i

DellEMC

S5248f

Delta

ET-C032if

Inventec

D7332

Mellanox

SN3800