SONiC Newsletter - June 2021
RECENT EVENTS SONiC COMMUNITY NEWS


SONiC Paves the Way for Open Networking!

OCP Webinar


As we slowly come out from the pandemic waves, the contribution towards the ongoing releases by the community members is very much appreciated !

Community as a whole is growing strong year on year with 600+ community members and with 4000+ contributions.

A new workgroup SAI IPSEC Subgroup has been created to have a focused specific community discussions and contributions on SAI support for IPSEC.

Wishing all our community members yet another successful release ahead !

More Community News:

Juniper’s Apstra 4.0 Adds Support for SONiC, Integrates With NSX-T 3.0

SONiC OS makes data center switches more reliable, Microsoft study finds

Keysight Technologies Organizes Virtual SONiC Plugfest to Demonstrate the Maturity of the Open Source Network Operating System

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

SONiC Continues to Build Momentum

SONiC RELEASE UPDATES

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 and the incomplete features shall catch the next train.

Features Planned - Telemetry for Multi-ASIC, Dynamic port breakout, Dynamic policy based hashing, DHCP relay IPv6 support, App extension CLI generation tool, App extension with warmboot awareness, Add FRR running configuration to tech support, Enable/Disable auto negotiation and speed setting with number of lanes, TPID config support, Error handling (swss), SONiC YANG model, Testcase/Testbed Infrastructure, SONiC fanout support, Inband mgmt VRF, SRv6 support, SONiC for MPLS Dataplane, Better route scalability with multiple next-hops, IPv6 Link Local and BGP Unnumbered, MC-LAG (L2), RADIUS AAA, PDK - Platform Development Environment, Broadcom silicon common config, PCIe Monitoring, Event-mgmt infra, Klish CLI for show-tech support, Debug dump utility, Enhanced xcrvd SFP error flow, Entity sensor MIB extension. etc.,

NEW PLATFORMS SONiC DESIGN DISCUSSIONS
  • Ragile - RA-B6510-48v8c
  • Ragile - B6510-48VS8CQ
  • Accton - AS9726-32D
  • Mellanox - SN4800
06 Apr 2021

SONiC BUM control support & SONiC Management Framework

13 Apr 2021

Policy Based Hashing HLD

20 Apr 2021

Event and Alarm Framework HLD

27 Apr 2021

Generalizing config.bcm support for BRCM silicons

11 May 2021,
25 May 2021

SRv6 HLD

18 May 2021

Debug dump utility HLD

01 Jun 2021

SAI Failure Handling

15 Jun 2021

202106 release updates

22 Jun 2021

202106 release updates