Honolulu Release Notes

This page provides the release notes for the ONAP Honolulu 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.

Honolulu Releases

The following releases are available for Honolulu:

Honolulu Maintenance Release 8.0.1

Project

Open Network Automation Platform (ONAP)

Release name

Honolulu Maintenance Release

Release version

8.0.1

Release date

September 30th 2021

New Features

Honolulu Maintenance Release 8.0.1 delivered a number of fixes and updates across the following projects:

  • SO - bugfixes and support for transport slicing usecase

  • CDS - fix BluePrint* classes renaming

  • MULTICLOUD - update of k8s plugin to support Helm3

  • OOM - fixes for common Helm chart templates and product charts

  • POLICY - new versions of Policy Framework components

  • DCAE - new version of the policy-handler and dashboard

  • OOF - use new AAI schema version (v21)

  • CCSDK - fix fault and pnf-registration event losses

Details on the specific Jira tickets addressed by each project can be found in the component specific Release Notes: release notes

Honolulu Major Release 8.0.0

Project

Open Network Automation Platform (ONAP)

Release name

Honolulu

Release version

8.0.0

Release date

May 11th 2021

Honolulu Features

ONAP Honolulu focusses on:

  • Cloud Native Function (CNF) support with with seamless configuration of Helm based CNFs and K8s resources

  • End-to-end 5G network slicing with three network slicing components for RAN, core, and transport

  • Introducing a new component: Configuration Persistence Service (CPS) to store persistent configuation data

  • Modularity to pick and choose the components needed for specific use case

  • Improving integration with many SDOs

Functional Requirements

Increased Cloud Native Functionality

The Honolulu release has important updates to support cloud native network functions (CNF). The functionality includes configuration of Helm based CNFs and seamless day 1, 2 operations. The Configuration API allows a user to create, modify and delete Kubernetes (K8s) resource templates and their base parameters and the Profile API allows for sophisticated day 0 configuration. The Query API gathers filtered status of the CNF and the HealthCheck API executes dedicated health check jobs to verify the status of a CNF. This new functionality is implemented in the Controller Design Studio (CDS) component using dedicated templates called Controller Blueprint Archives (CBA). In addition, there is Swagger documentation for the API of the K8s plugin component in the MutliCloud project.

Deeper 5G Support

There is a significant set of new functionality around end-to-end 5G network slicing in the Honolulu release. This release includes three internal Network Slice Subnet Management Function (NSSMF) components for RAN, core, and transport domains. External NSSMFs continue to be supported for RAN and core. Next, slice optimization continues to be an area of ongoing effort with closed loop automation and intelligent slicing testing. There are also enhancements in NST, NSI, and NSSI selection in the OOF project and A&AI includes schema changes to accommodate network and transport slicing.

In addition, the ExtAPI project now included Enhanced Service Ordering for additional service types and the UUI graphical user interface has improved slicing support. The VID graphical user has support for PNF plug-and-play allowing operators to interact with PNFs via VID. In addition, there is better compliance to standards such as 3GPP TS28.540/541 5G NRM driven xNF models in ONAP. Finally the OOF SON functionality supports offline trained ML-models providing additional inputs for Physical Cell Identity (PCI) optimization. DCAE includes a new KPI microservice.

Configuration Persistence Service

Another key 5G related initiative is the new Configuration Persistence Service (CPS) module that allows ONAP projects to store persistent state defined by YANG models, deploy YANG models at runtime, and share access to configuration management data.

Further O-RAN Integration

A key enhancement in the Honolulu release was increased support for the O-RAN A1 standard that is implemented in the CCSDK and SDN-C projects. The O-RAN A1 interface provides a flexible way for RAN operators to manage wide area RAN network optimization reducing capex investment needs. Both the enhanced A1 interface controller and A1 policy capabilities are now usable in ONAP with a Near-Real-Time Radio Intelligent Controller (nRTRIC). This functionality is also used downstream in O-RAN-Source Community (OSC) Non-RealTime RIC (NONRTRIC) project, strengthening alignment between ONAP & OSC. In addition, the DCAE project includes VES 7.2 integration that improves integration with both O-RAN and 3GPP. Finally, there is a new CPS interface to query RAN configuration data.

Expanded Modularity

Modularity has been an important topic in ONAP to allow users to pick and choose the components they need for their specific use case and Honolulu continues to advance modularity. DCAE now simplifies microservice deployment via Helm charts.

Service Design

  • Includes increased support for ETSI standards such as SOL001, SOL004, and SOL007 and allows users to choose unlicensed or externally licensed xNFs.

  • Vendor License Model is now optional

  • SDC distribution status report enhanced

Inventory

  • A&AI includes support for multi tenancy.

  • Model updates for CCVPN Transport Slicing and Network Slicing

  • GraphGraph POC enhanced for schema visualization and visual model generation

  • Sparky UI updates including Browse, Specialized Search, BYOQ, and BYOQ Builder Views

ONAP Operations Manager

  • Portal-Cassandra image updated to Bitnami, supporting IPv4/IPv6 Dual Stack

  • CMPv2 external issuer implemented which extends Cert-Manager with ability to enroll X.509 certificates from CMPv2 servers

  • New version for MariaDB Galera using Bitnami image, supporting IPv4/IPv6 Dual Stack

  • Support of Helm v3.4 and Helm v3.5

Non-Functional Requirements

The following ‘non-functional’ requirements are followed in the Honolulu 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

Tests

  • New E2E tests

  • New IPv4/Ipv6 daily CI chain

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 Honolulu 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 Honolulu 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 Honolulu release, ONAP continues to improve in multiple areas of Scalability, Security, Stability and Performance (S3P) metrics.

In Honolulu 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.