SDNC Release Notes

Abstract

This document provides the release notes for the Istanbul release of the Software Defined Network Controller (SDNC)

Summary

The Istanbul release of SDNC includes enhancements network slicing as well as a major OpenDaylight release upgrade (to Silicon).

The Istanbul release of SDNC also includes substantial improvements in automated test coverage integrated into the project’s CI/CD framework. In this release, each time a new SDNC is built, a regression suite is run and the docker is only saved if it passes this regression suite.

Release Data

Project

SDNC

Docker images

See Docker Containers section below

Release designation

Istanbul Maintenance Release 1

New features

The SDNC Istanbul release includes the following features, most of which are inherited from CCSDK:

  • Enhance CSIT testing for SDNC (Jira SDNC-1544 <https://jira.onap.org/browse/SDNC-1544>)

  • Upgrade to OpenDaylight Silicon Release (Jira CCSDK-3390)

  • A1 Adapter and A1 Policy Management Extensions in Istanbul Release - CCSDK (Jira CCSDK-3229)

  • Support of O-RAN-SC D-Release (Jira CCSDK-3158)

  • CCSDK impacts for Network slicing in Istanbul Release (Jira CCSDK-3297)

For the complete list of SDNC Istanbul release epics and SDNC Honolulu release user stories , please see the ONAP Jira.

Bug fixes

The SDNC Istanbul Maintenance Release 1 addresses a critical vulnerability discovered in log4j by upgrading to version 2.17.1 of the log4j-core package. It also removes the ‘data-migrator’ package, which was an old Proof of Concept that is no longer maintained and which was using a vulnerable version of log4j. These changes are described further in Jira SDNC-1655 <https://jira.onap.org/browse/SDNC-1655>

The full list of bugs fixed in the SDNC Istanbul release is maintained on the ONAP Jira.

Known Issues

The full list of known issues in SDNC is maintained on the ONAP Jira.

Deliverables

Software Deliverables

Docker Containers

The following table lists the docker containers comprising the SDNC Honolulu release along with the current stable Honolulu version/tag. Each of these is available on the ONAP nexus3 site (https://nexus3.onap.org) and can be downloaded with the following command:

docker pull nexus3.onap.org:10001/{image-name}:{version}

Documentation Deliverables

Known Limitations, Issues and Workarounds

System Limitations

No system limitations noted.

Known Vulnerabilities

Any known vulnerabilities for ONAP are tracked in the ONAP Jira in the OJSI project. Any outstanding OJSI issues that pertain to SDNC are listed in the secissues section below.

Workarounds

Not applicable.

Security Notes

Known Security Issues

There are no known outstanding security issues related to SDNC Istanbul.

Test Results

Not applicable

References

For more information on the ONAP Istanbul release, please see:

  1. ONAP Home Page

  2. ONAP Documentation

  3. ONAP Release Downloads

  4. ONAP Wiki Page