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.

Community was able to come up with release notes for 202012 release and SAI version 1.7.1

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

Wishing all our community members yet another successful release ahead !

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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.

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.,

202012 release update & 202106 Plan

Port auto negotiation HLD

Next hop group split HLD

Fabric Port Support SONiC/BGP Setup

cpu queue stats

SONiC Yang Model and related libraries

Weighted ECMP HLD

MPLS HLD initial revision

Inband Mgmt via mgmt VRF

Rollback for SONiC

DHCP relay IPv6 support/Recycle port support