It has been a wonderful year 2021 for the SONiC community with more and more features and contributions ! Appreciate all the community members for the excellent achievement for making two releases in the year amidst the abnormal routines.

50+ new features have been added with increase in number of Pull Requests from 650+ active contributors in the year 2021. 10+ new platforms have been added to the SONiC portfolio & 13 new partners have joined hands with the SONiC community. Number of test cases have doubled in sonic-mgmt repo with increased stability and predictablity in test outcomes.Community members have also participated in various webinars and demonstrated the SONiC capabilities to the world.

3 new workgroups have been created for focused feature specific community discussions and contributions !

Wishing all our community members a wonderful New year 2022 & looking forward for another successful year ahead !

More Community News:

SONiC opens more opportunities for network innovation

Broadcom Strengthens its Commitment to Open Compute Project Showcasing Leading-Edge and Wide Range of Initiatives at this Year Global Summit

SONiC + Asterfusion An Article let you know about Our enterprise SONiC distribution AsterNOS

Open networking agility and control for a new era of connectivity

More Videos from OCP Summit:

Migration to SONiC from 3-tiered legacy network

An Auto generated test framework for improving SAI interoperability

FBOSS Experience of Migrating Massive Scale Networking Systems to SAI

SAI Challenger The SONiC-Based Framework for SAI Testing and Integration

SAI pipeline enhancements with Pre-Ingress ACL and MyMAC Station Stages

SAI For DPU

SONiC 202111 Release:
Thanks to all the contributors in making one more successful release 202111. A branch has been created with the completed features given below.
ACL orch redesign, App extension CLI generation tool, Automatic tech support & core dump creation, Better route scalability with multiple next-hops, Class-Based Forwarding, CLI level authorization, DHCP support IPv6, Dynamic Policy Based Hashing, Dynamic port breakout, EXP to TC QoS maps, EVPN VXLAN for platforms using P2MP tunnel, Handle port config change on fly, Host interface trap counter, L2 functional & performance enhancements, Debian11, Debug dump utility, Overlay ECMP, PDK - Platform Development Environment, PINS (P4 Integrated Network Stack), Reclaim reserved buffer for unused ports, Routed sub-interface naming convention, SONiC for MPLS Dataplane, SRv6 support (Cntd), Support for passing IS-IS, LDP & MicroBFD packets to CPU, Upgrade SONiC init flow & VXLAN src port configuration. The list of features and the related pull requests are tracked in the Release Tracking page.

SONiC 202205 Release:
Roadmap page contains the list of features that are planned for the 202205 release. Welcoming more and more contributors for design meetings and for reviewing the design and code for yet another sucessful release !

SONiC 202111 Roadmap Discussion

DHCPv6 Relay agent

SONiC 202111 feature Discussion

Class Based Forwarding HLD

SONiC_SFP_refactoring HLD

PINS HLD

SAG - Static Anycast Gateway

Show Running Command Enhancement

Handle port config change on fly in xcvrd & Reclaim reserved buffer for unused ports

ECMP Overlay BFD support

SONiC TACACS per command authorization and accounting & MPLS EXP to TC maps

Host Interface counters & Guidelines for reference proprietary code

CMIS Diagnostics & System Ready Enhancements

NVGRE & Dynamic Policy Based Hashing

202111 Release Tracking

202111 Release Tracking

The SONiC-Based Framework for SAI Testing and Integration

202111 Release Tracking

202111 Release Tracking