VPP 19.04 Release Notes
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@page release_notes_1904 Release notes for VPP 19.04
-TBD
+More than 700 commits since the 19.01 release.
+
+## Features
+
+### Infrastructure
+- DPDK 19.02 integration
+- Buffer manager rework and improvements
+- Python3 migration (work in progress)
+ - vppapigen
+ - Python API wrappers
+ - Docs generation
+ - vpp_config
+ - "make test" python3 readiness and refactoring
+- Add "make test-gcov" target to main Makefile
+- Refactor multiarch code
+- vfctl script: bind VF to vfio-pci after VF is created
+- cmake cross-compilation support
+- CLI control of graph dispatch elogs
+- AppImage packaging (disabled by default)
+- Complete upstreaming of wireshark dissector
+- Remove JVPP which is now an FD.io project
+- Punt infra: manage dispatch of exception packets
+
+### VNET & Plugins
+- BVI Interface
+- Deprecate TAP cli
+- Experimental TAP interface TCP segmentation offload
+- Vmxnet3 driver plugin
+- LACP passive mode
+- ACL plugin refactoring
+- RDMA (ibverb) driver plugin - MLX5 with multiqueue
+- IPSEC
+ - Intel IPSEC-MB engine plugin
+ - Tunnel fragmentation
+ - CLI improvements
+ - Performance improvements
+ - API modernisation and improvements
+ - New Tests and test refactoring
+- Crypto
+ - Introduce crypto infra
+ - crypto_ia32 plugin
+ - Add support for AEAD and AES-GCM
+ - Implement rfc4231 test cases
+ - Implement crypto tests per RFC2202
+- Perfmon improvements
+ - Python to C parser for intel CPUs
+ - 2-way parallel stat collection
+ - Collect data on selected thread(s)
+
+### Host stack
+- Improve ldp/vls/vcl support for multi-process and multi-threaded applications
+- Major refactor/cleanup of session layer
+- Refactor cut-through sessions to use a custom transport
+- Baseline QUIC transport support
+
+## Known issues
+
+For the full list of issues please refer to fd.io [JIRA](https://jira.fd.io).
+
+## Issues fixed
+
+For the full list of fixed issues please refer to:
+- fd.io [JIRA](https://jira.fd.io)
+- git [commit log](https://git.fd.io/vpp/log/?h=stable/1904)
## API changes
