Istanbul Release Notes
This page provides the release notes for the ONAP Istanbul release. This includes details of software versions, known limitations, and outstanding trouble reports.
Release notes are cumulative for the release, meaning this release note will have an entry for each Major, Minor, and Maintenance release, if applicable.
Each component within the ONAP solution maintains their own component level release notes and links to those release notes are provided below. Details on the specific items delivered in each release by each component is maintained in the component specific release notes.
Istanbul Maintenance Release 9.0.1
Project |
Open Network Automation Platform (ONAP) |
Release name |
Istanbul |
Release version |
9.0.1 |
Release date |
February 17th, 2022 |
Features
ONAP Istanbul Maintenance Release 1:
Log4j vulnerabilities in direct dependencies were removed from A&AI, DMAAP, SDNC and VNFSDK.
Log4j vulnerabilities introduced by transitive dependencies are still in A&AI, CCSDK, DCAE, DMAAP, MULTICLOUD, SDNC, SO, VNFSDK.
Istanbul Major Release 9.0.0
Project |
Open Network Automation Platform (ONAP) |
Release name |
Istanbul |
Release version |
9.0.0 |
Release date |
November 15th, 2021 |
Features
ONAP Istanbul focusses on:
Intent based networking (IBN) simplifies interaction and network configuration by Control-Loop and Smart AI.
Alignment with O-RAN Strategy to enable new RAN use cases
Continued Cloud Native evolution with a rich feature set for CNF orchestration capabilities
Next level of functionality for 5G use cases including Network Slicing, Performance management, SON, and CCVPN
A second generation of control loop automation architecture
New Network Function lifecycle management features based on real-life use cases
New functionality for complex network configuration management
Flexibility in resource onboarding with choice of modeling including SDC AID, ETSI SOL001
Software quality and security improvements based on deployment experience
Functional Requirements
Increased Cloud Native Functionality
Information about created CNF resources in k8s cluster are now available. This information can be utilized later on i.e. in closed-loop context. CNF Healthcheck Workflow in SO will let to monitor the status of CNF deployed into k8s cluster and whether it is healthy or not. Further changes in k8splugin related to Helm specification support allow for the better and more reliable deployment of complex CNFs defined as a Helm package. ONAP now supports Helm 3.5 package specification.
E2E Network Slicing
Support for NSMF (Network Slice Management Function) based TN (Transport Network) slices in which NSMF is responsible for TN-FH (FrontHaul) and TN-MH (MidHaul) allocation
RAN NSSMF (Network Slice Subnet Management Function) integration with CPS (Configuration Persistence Service) and handled closed loop impacts
POC on A1-interface for closed loop updates
KPI Monitoring enhancements
Intent-based networking
The Intent Based Networking (IBN) use case includes the development of an intent framework that contains intent modeling, intent translation, intent execution and intent decision making. The intent UI is implemented in UUI and the components of the intent framework interact with many components of ONAP including SO, A&AI, Policy, DCAE, and CDS.
Control Loop evolutions
CLAMP functionality is merged into Policy Framework project
Control Loops can be defined and described in Metadata using TOSCA. Control loops can run on the fly on any component that implements a participant API. Control Loops can be commissioned into Policy/CLAMP, they can be parameterized, initiated on arbitrary participants, activated and monitored
Policy Handling Improvements: Support delta policies in PDPs
CLAMP Client Policy and TOSCA Handling
Policy Handling Improvements
System Attribute Improvements
Fault management
Updates in fault management reporting and fault handling to be in line with VES 7.2, 3GPP and smoother future alignment with O1 for OOF-SON
Performance Management data collection control provides 5G network operators with a dynamic and more efficient way to configure performance measurement collection on a selected subset of PNFs/VNFs in the network and complements the existing PM data collection and processing capabilities in ONAP/DCAE
Simplified deployment for DCAE services via Helm
Reduction on ONAP/DCAE footprint under transformation initiative by deprecating Cloudify based platform components and Consul
VES 7.2.1 integration for HV_VES enables ONAP, 3GPP, ORAN alignment
Enhancements for Network Slicing, Bulk PM, OOF-SON usecases
Extended O-RAN Integration
Improvements for managing A1 Policies and terminating the A1 interface for A1 Policies
A1 Adapter and A1 Policy Managements Enhancements
Controllers
SDN-C is based on OpenDaylight major release upgrade (Silicon)
Enhancements to CCVPN, Network Slicing, and ONAP A1 Interface
Service Design
SDC can be used for onboarding resources and designing services with models other than SDC AID
Inventory
Model updates as part of CCVPN Transport Slicing Feature
Model updates as part of Smart Intent Guarantee based on IBN Feature
Model updates as part of CNF Orchestration Feature
ONAP Operations Manager
IPv4 / IPv6 dual stack support in ONAP: support for Kubernetes 1.20+ DualStack networking properties in ONAP K8S Service spec properties. Upgraded EJBCA CMP v2 server to version 7.x
CMPv2 enhancements: certificate update implemented using Key Update Request (KUR) and Certificate Request (CR) CMPv2 messages
Non-Functional Requirements
The following ‘non-functional’ requirements are followed in the Istanbul Release:
Best Practice
ONAP shall use STDOUT for logs collection
IPv4/IPv6 dual stack support in ONAP
Containers must crash properly when a failure occurs
Containers must have no more than one main process
Application config should be fully prepared before starting the application container
No root (superuser) access to database from application container
Code Quality
Each ONAP project shall improve its CII Badging score by improving input validation and documenting it in their CII Badging site
Each ONAP project shall define code coverage improvements and achieve at least 55% code coverage
Security
Python language 3.8
Java language v11
All containers must run as non-root user
Continue hardcoded passwords removal
Flow management must be activated for ONAP
Each project will update the vulnerable direct dependencies in their code base
Documentation
Interactive architecture map including short description and link to detailed documentation for every architecture building block
Changes in the Sphinx configuration for all contributing projects
Guide to set up a documentation development environment with preview function
Tests
New E2E tests: basic_cnf
New tests: CPS healthcheck
Stability tests: basic_vm and basic_onboard
Important
Some non-functional requirements are not fully finalized. Please, check details on the Integration
Project Specific Release Notes
ONAP releases are specified by a list of project artifact versions in the project repositories and docker container image versions listed in the OOM Helm charts.
Each project provides detailed release notes and prepends to these if/when any updated versions the project team believes are compatible with a major release are made available.
Documentation
ONAP Istanbul Release provides a set selection of documents, see ONAP Documentation.
The developer wiki remains a good source of information on meeting plans and notes from committees, project teams and community events.
Security Notes
Details about discovered and mitigated vulnerabilities are in ONAP Security
ONAP has adopted the CII Best Practice Badge Program.
In the Istanbul release,
100% projects passed 90% of the CII badge
85% projects passed the CII badge
11% projects passed the CII Silver badge
Project specific details are in the release notes for each project.
ONAP Maturity Testing Notes
For the Istanbul release, ONAP continues to improve in multiple areas of Scalability, Security, Stability and Performance (S3P) metrics.
In Istanbul the Integration team focussed in
Automating ONAP Testing to improve the overall quality
Adding security and E2E tests
More details in ONAP Integration Project
Known Issues and Limitations
Known Issues and limitations are documented in each project Release Notes.